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Charles J. Mintz (www.chuckmintz.com): Photography is Chuck’s third career – the result of a passion acquired in Maine many years ago. Most of his work is done on film. The monochrome is printed in the traditional darkroom, the color scanned and printed on inkjet printers. Although an accomplished Cibachrome® printer, he no longer prints color in the darkroom. The experience in color and con- trast management strongly affects how he prints digitally.Since turning to photography full-time in 2008, Chuck has participated in group and juried shows at the Silver Eye Center in Pittsburgh, PA, APW Gallery in Long Island City, NY, Artists Archive of the Western Reserve, The Erie Art Museum, Naomi Silva Gallery in Atlanta, FAVA Gallery in Oberlin, OH, Cleveland Public Art, HOST Gallery in Lon- don, England, The Butler Art Center in Butler, PA and at 1point618 Gallery.Chuck studied photography at Maine Photographic Workshop, Parsons School of Design, International Cen- ter for Photography, Lakeland Community College and Cuyahoga Community College.He is President of the Board of Directors of the Intermu- seum Conservation Association (ICA) in Cleveland, OH. His interest in preservation and conservation is reflected in his service to the ICA and in careful attention to producing work that lasts. Chuck is on the board of the Cleveland Museum of Art – Friends of Photography, is Secretary of WireNet and has recently been nominated to be a life di- rector of Jewish Family Services of Cleveland. Chuck is an avid cyclist to help offset the fact that he is an avid eater. He lives with his wife Pat in the Detroit Shoreway neigh- borhood of Cleveland Ohio. In addition to Isaac, they have a daughter, Laura.Douglas Max Utter (www.douglasutter.com ) is a painter and writer based in Cleveland, Ohio. Over the past twen- ty years he has written several hundred critical reviews and essays about the arts for regional and national pub- lications, including the Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland Scene Magazine, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Art Papers (Atlanta), Sculpture (Washington DC), New Art Examiner (Chicago), and others. He is the recipient of three Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in the areas of Painting and Criti- cism. His paintings have been displayed in solo shows in New York, Cleveland, Augsburg (Germany), and Phoenix.Qian Li is an artist working with video, interactive instal- lation and digital print. She was born and raised in China,where she was educated at the Central Academy of Art and Design (now the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsin- ghua University) in Beijing, China. She earned her MFA in 2003 at UMass Dartmouth. Her video work was recently shown at MOCA Cleveland, the Boston Cyber Art Festi- val, Festival Miden in Greece, the 12th International Video Festival Videomedeja in Serbia, Transhift08 in Tennessee, SIGGRAPH, Kinetic Image in Virginia, the International Video Festival in Indonesia, the Electronic Language Inter- national Festival in Brazil and the International Symposium of Interactive Media Design in Turkey. Awards include the Individual Excellence Award and Grant from the Ohio Art Council in 2008 and Best in Show from the “Eighth Annual Image Ohio” in Columbus, OH.ARTIST BIOSIsaac E. Mintz was born in Ann Arbor Michigan in 1975. At the age of three, he was diagnosed as hyperlexic – es- sentially he had taught himself to read without any com- prehension. His first school experience was at Princeton Child Development Institute, a school for autistic and au- tistic-like students in Princeton NJ. At that time, he had never received a formal diagnosis of autism. It was, how- ever, clear that he was very much like the other students in the school. In 1982 he transferred to the Mayfield Pub- lic Schools in suburban Cleveland. After graduation from high school, he obtained a job as a page at The Cleveland Law Library Association – a job he holds to this day. In 1999 he moved into Ruach House – a home put together by his parents and three other families to house and pro- vide support for him and his housemates. In 1984 he be- gan music therapy and has been going with his dad to the Music Settlement for music ever since.Isaac really likes chocolate.