Barbara Andrus, sculptor

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Andrus makes 3-D drawings in space with wood. Andrus investigates different scale linear components from tree trunks to branches and twigs, down to monofilament. She makes selections in the woods for the kind of line quality considering flexibility and strength. Her drawing tools have included chisels, ban saw, chain saw, needle and thread.

Adam Gustavson

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Adam Gustavson, full-time artist and educator, is a graduate of Rowan University, The Illustration   Academy, and The School of Visual Arts MFA program in New York. He has illustrated numerous books for children including Where the Big Fish Are by Jonathan London; Bad Dog Dodger by Barbara Abercrombie; and The A+ Custodian by Louise Borden . He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

Lyn Havesall

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Program director of the George B Dorr Natural History Museum of College of the Atlantic.

Nan Lincoln

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Author Nan Lincoln, feature writer and arts editor for the Bar Harbor Times, has recast her first book into a children's book, Cecily's Summer, about nurturing a baby harbor seal separated from it's mother by a speeding pleasure craft.

Peter Lord, Astronomer

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Peter Lord is president of the Island Astronomy Institute, a non-profit organization with a mission to “promote astronomy as a stimulating educational and cultural activity for people of all ages.” Located in Bernard, the Institute is affiliated with NASA’s Maine Space Grant Consortium and collaborates with a diverse array of community organizations including LandEscapes.
 
Peter and his wife Linda operate a guest cottage and dark sky observatory on their land in Tremont. A veteran aerospace engineer, Peter holds four patents for spacecraft antenna designs and was the lead system mechanical engineer for the Sirius Satellite Radio constellation. A passionate observer, writer, and lecturer for over a decade, Peter received his master’s degree in Liberal Arts from Stanford University in 2002. His thesis “Dante’s Guiding Light: The Astronomy of the Divine Comedy” reintegrates the act of observing the universe within the origins of the classical humanities.

Dr. Joseph Silvio

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Dr. Joseph Silvio is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Bethesda, MD.  He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services Medical School and on the teaching faculty of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  He is also Secretary of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.  He has had a long standing interest in early childhood trauma and has written a number of articles on the effects of early trauma on famous playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw, Tennessee Williams, and Federico Garcia Lorca.  In his non-professional life, he struggles, usually unsuccessfully, with juggling the multiple personalities of compulsive saltwater fly fisherman, sea kayaker, and digital photographer.