
Pediatrician Kelley White has worked in inner-city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA. Her recent books are "Toxic Environment" (Boston Poet Press) and "Two Birds in Flame" (Beech River Books). She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.
Mario Loprete is a graduate of Accademia of Belle Arti, Catanzaro, Italy. Painting is his first love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with which he aims to transmit his message as the foundation of his paintings. For his concrete sculptures, he uses personal clothing. Through his artistic process, he uses plaster, resin and cement to transform these articles of clothing into artworks to hang. The intended effect is his DNA and memory remain inside the concrete, so those who look at his sculptures are transformed into postmodern archeologists studying his work as urban artifacts.