Nina Buxenbaum was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA degree in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in drawing and printmaking. Buxenbaum has participated in residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, the Skowhegan School of Painting, and at The Artists Alliance in New York. Her work has been included in several exhibitions including the Studio Museum of Harlem (NYC, NY), Samson Projects (Boston, MA), the Kentler International Drawing Space (Brooklyn, NY), the Ingalls Gallery (Miami, FL), and Rush Arts (NYC, NY). Her work is represented by the Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans, LA. She is currently an Associate Professor of painting at York College in Jamaica, NY, and the Coordinator of Fine Arts Discipline in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts.

Eric Metcalf (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is a rhetorician who has taught public speaking and writing courses at York College and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Before teaching at the City University of New York he worked in Silver Springs, Maryland for the Discovery television networks, building and maintaining their online archive of digital photography.

I am a producer and editor of short non-fiction pieces that emphasize an oral narrative. I often need to listen to many hours of raw interview dialogue, and then excerpt sound bites to find the clearest and most compelling way to present a character’s message. My ability to find focus in a character’s narrative is a particular strength. Also I have been a photographer and designer of print and web materials for a number of years. My photography has been featured on the cover of two magazines and a feature photographer for one of the same magazines.

My emphasis in on the life, though, and work of C. S. Lewis but extends to the other “Inklings” as well as to Christian apologetics generally. The dynamics of interpersonal communication in all settings, and the interaction  of culture and public communication, including the history of American oratory, the rhetorical criticism of communication, and guidance in performance. Cultural axioms emerging from race, region, history, languages, and mores influence the social and political morphologies and their expression variously.  Special emphasis on the pivotal figure Fernando Belaunde Terry and the pivotal election of 1990.

As a conceptual public performance sculptor since 1968, he has enacted site-specific commissioned installations across the country at venues in San Francisco, Bremen, Wash., Saint Louis, Albany, Lake Placid, NY “as an official performance sculptural installation on frozen Mirror Lake during the 1980 XIII Winter Olympics,” Boston, West Virginia, Maryland, Philadelphia, Lewiston, NY at Art Park as well as in numerous unique exhibitions of his conceptual and enacted projects.