Leanne Goebel (“Democratizing Culture”) is a freelance writer specializing in the visual arts. She writes from the rural Southwest and believes artists are valuable and important members of society who transform individual lives through their aesthetic expression. Goebel is a 2007 recipient of the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers’ Grant and a member of the International Association of Art Critics. She writes for major magazines and newspapers, and she blogs about art at leannegoebel.blogspot.com.

Zane Fischer (“Back to the Future”) is a freelance writer, columnist, and self-described “delusional” founder of disCOARSE.com, the Santa Fe blog he began to generate “active, lively discourse about the state of arts and culture, the uses and abuses of public policy and
planning, the importance and impact of architecture and design, and the evolution and value of community.”

Keiko Ohnuma (Business Profiles) recently escaped from more than a decade of “Polynesian paralysis” in Honolulu, where she worked variously as newspaper copy editor, columnist, art critic, and food writer while taking “forever” to finish graduate degrees in ceramics and cultural studies. She writes for publications including New Mexico and Albuquerque Arts. Ohnuma and her husband live in Corrales, New Mexico, which lacks nothing on Hawaii, she says, except decent waves.

Gussie Fauntleroy (Living Green — and Yellow and Blue and Red) began her writing career in 1986, covering the cow town of Magdalena for a newspaper in south-central New Mexico. Since then she has written about hundreds of artists for magazines both local and national, among other subjects. Fauntleroy is also the author of three books on visual artists. She has lived in Santa Fe for about 25 years.

Sara Stathas (Business Profiles) says, “Making portraits is like collecting moments of life. I see myself as a cultural anthropologist when I approach an assignment, and my job is a hugely addictive challenge every time.” Stathas was recently selected to be part of the Aurora international photo agency and continues to work for many editorial clients. In her free time she enjoys cake decorating, bass fishing, and tumbleweed tossing.

Kate Russell (“Living Green—and Yellow and Blue and Red”) specializes in fine art, editorial, and commercial photography and enjoys blurring the lines between them all. Kate’s work will be featured in David Naylor’s book Old World Interiors: A Modern Interpretation. While Kate’s photography takes her around the globe (Burma, Turkey, and beyond), her continual involvement with Wise Fool and the circus world keeps her feet in the air.

www.katerussellphotography.com

Soledad Santiago (Desert Edge & The Design Road) used to be on staff at the Santa Fe New Mexican’s arts weekly, Pasatiempo. Previously based in New York City and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, this Santa Fean believes that even in the high desert, culture is as fluid as water. Most recently, Santiago’s work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Australian design magazine Pol Oxygen. She is the author of several novels published by Doubleday and Dutton.

Kathryn M Davis (FLASH, ARTIST AT WORK—Ambrose Jewelry & Michael Stearns—and editorial consultant) is an art historian, writer, editor, educator, and independent curator. She is owner and president of ArtBeat Associates, an organization for cultural tourism in northern New Mexico. Davis also writes art criticism for local and national publications, including THE magazine and ARTnews, and hosts a radio spot, ArtBeat, on Blu 102.9 FM. She holds an MA in modern and contemporary art of the Americas from the University of New Mexico. In the past 15-plus years of her 23 years in Santa Fe, Davis has paid her community dues by working
in too many galleries, museums, and local nonprofit arts organizations to list.

Ben Malley (Living Urban) is an educator, artist, and writer.  He enjoys interviewing and writing about deep thinkers who are taking positive action everyday to transform separateness into unity.  Malley’s book Handbook for a Revolution hasn’t been published, but is being lived instead. He and his wife moved to Santa Fe in 2001, after living overseas in New Zealand and Australia for ten years.