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FIONA WILSON
I am often frustrated by communication as it leads to being misunderstood by others. No one wants to listen to me rant for hours about the cool things that I think about, whether they be emotional introspections, fantasy world-building, or the weird other bits that float around in my mind. My art is a way for people to look at those internal ideas and maybe understand it better without me talking their ears off.

I pull from my intangible internal realities. My art comes from the things about my life and world that are vivid and real to me, but unseeable to others. The internal struggle to communicate what’s inside that overwhelms me is what I manifest onto the page. This includes feelings and emotions, things that could be, or cool ideas that are easier shown than told. I could spend hours trying to explain each and every piece of my mind and I have. Verbal language, however, is often too limited for me. With visual media, I hope to communicate better.

These days I work mostly in 2D, but on occasion I can be found creating more sculptural works.
Most other info can be found on my website: http://fwaliceart.weebly.com
The Eye People
This series of work attempts to communicate the inner horrors and emotional turmoil of my neurodivergent brain. I am often plagued with emotions that are too loud for society’s comfort. It is difficult to explain these emotions in words. So I’ve made these feelings into a visual medium that can be better understood. The series is made of colored pencil sketches with a gouache background. The Eye People are silent and unable to speak yet they want to be heard. The Mouths yell and shout with sound and fury signifying nothing. Their purpose is to conform and control; they do not seek connection.
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LIBIA GONCALVES
Flowers, Color and Love
“Talent and Excellence are achievable; we must keep seeking them” Libia A.  
I am a Colombian American Artist.  My mission is to share my knowledge. I have been teaching art lessons to children in my home-based studio in Milford, Ma since 2012.  When I see their sense of achievement, the proudness and the happiness in my student’s faces, it fulfills my heart, it gives me a sense of belonging, I know that I am not just making those little minds stronger and smarter but I am passing down my knowledge, that is when I understand  the real meaning of the saying: “There is joy in giving”.
I am attracted to energy in all its manifestations, but the light and its color expression is the one that attracts me the most. I keep my eyes attentive, and my mind open, trying, always trying.  I know, I have lots of things to learn yet, but as of now, I am happy with my level of progress, and the talent I am unfolding. 
Painting used to be a hobby, now it is my passion, my obsession, a necessity. In 1984, I started to paint with watercolors, later, I started to explore Oils, Acrylics and whatever craft comes my way; each media has its own charm, its own challenge, but all of them have two things in common: “Light, expressed in glorious color and my unique approach to dealing with them”. 
To have a bachelor’s degree in art was a dream caressed since I graduated from high school, two years ago, became a commitment, today it is my reality.
This project is a culmination of my work at Worcester State University, and I chose to work with flowers, because they are the main reason I wanted to paint at first instance. At least for me, flowers display those jewel-tone radiant colors that make them the most beautiful thing in the whole world.  Flowers can be elegant, charming, cheerful, delicate, exotic like roses, or humble like African violets or forget-me-nots. The translucent, silky smooth petals, and the color galore, captivated me so long ago, this attraction has long been documented in my paintings, my poems and my relationships.
My favorite flowers are pink roses, they were the first beautiful thing I remembered I admired. Growing up at my paternal grandma’s house, every morning, I woke up and ran to the patio to witness something magical, a fantastic display of light and color: the sun romancing the roses grandma had planted.
I was there, so little, mesmerized, unable to move, witnessing this majestic choreography.  The sun took pleasure dancing among the roses. It went by kissing petal after petal, shining over the deep dark green leaves, playing hide and seek among its shadows, getting lost among the intricate maze of stems and leaves, and suddenly, in a deliriant, orgasmic ecstasy, bounced back, immersing itself in the roses’ essence, passing throughout the thousand delicate, almost transparent petals, all at once, to shine even brighter all over the thousand roses. 
Then, an eternity after, Grandma Maria came out from behind the rose bush, a rose among the roses, and just then…  the spell was broken, I was able to move again, and I run toward her arms, and we become one, entangle in a sublime hug, the roses perfume percolating every single pore in our skin, we became One, part of the pink rose essence, bathed by the same rays of sunlight. I have never been able to translate that love into words, but my painting does it.
I have made it my personal challenge to catch the flower’s essence in my paintings. I have painted them with oils, acrylics, and crafts, but for me, watercolor is the medium that portrays translucence the best.
Growing up in Colombia, the second country in the world with most flowering plants, with over 1.400 species, I couldn’t help but try to replicate them; I have tons of unfinished projects because when I see the light striking somewhere else, I want to catch it, and right there, I start a new project. 
​ It has been a long journey and a tenacious fight to get clean colors and achieve the handcrafting level I am looking for, but since I have the time, and there will always be flowers around, there always will be an unwavering motivating force for me: flowers, color, and love.
​www.dcolorex.com 
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THOMAS DELAPORTA
I find it difficult to consider myself an artist. Is what I make something that could be considered art? Well sure, but that's not the point.
I create things not because I wish to make art, but because the thoughts in my head demand to be brought to life. It is for this reason my preferred medium is in game design. It isn't just about designing and modeling something in digital software; it's about being able to give it life with movement, sound, and purpose.
Additionally, thanks to virtual reality technology I'm now able to enjoy my creations as if I am there in person. Nothing comes close to the joy I feel when I put on the VR headset and step into a world of my design for the first time. What was once a thought in my head becomes a real place that not only can I go to, but so can people from all over the world.

​IT'S A GAME ABOUT SOMETHING
My game was inspired by a time I found myself in a parking lot late at night with a full moon in a starless sky. I felt very alone in that moment, as if I were the last person alive orbiting the last source of light in the whole universe. It made me think about what it would be like to experience the end of the time, knowing that once that light goes out there will only be darkness for the rest of eternity.
I wanted to explore that feeling more, so I'm making it into a game that you, the audience, can play to experience that feeling too. The goal is to explore and help as many people as you can before the end of the universe. What meaning can you find meaning in such a short life? There will never be enough time to do everything so you'll have to spend your limited time wisely.
I created my game by modeling in Blender, grabbing textures from public domain sources, photo editing in Gimp, and piecing it all together in Unity.
VIEW THE TRAILER AT https://thomasdelaporta.weebly.com/​