Iris Goldstein is a Chicago-based artist who has worked in various sculpture formats. Her work with plaster and other hardware-store materials allows her a freedom of expression that belies the humdrum nature of her sculptural tools.

Through the Shadows of Home explores the Pamela Hobbs' powerful feelings of separation and loss after selling the family home. A fine-art photographer whose work explores feminine identity and the passage of time, Hobbs creates a surreal and enigmatic sensibility.

Bulgarian artists, Ralitza M. Vladimirova and Antonia Duende have lived and worked artistically internationally. Bulgaria, a unique place, is at the crossroads of east and west, north and south. Located here are two of the most powerful energy centers on Earth. Each artist has been investigating and developing art-based research to explore and penetrate the sacred and mysterious symbolism of the of the Glagolitic alphabet and the Bogomilstvo, a spiritual movement born in 927. Could the endless possibilities of the creative process decode the spiritual? Into the Sacred invites us to explore that possibility.

A turn of line, the journey of a mark, abstract shapes both geometric and biomorphic, bundled and twisted - all these converse with each other both within and bouncing off of canvas boundaries. These are the relationships and dialogues that Cynthia Vaicunas explores in her New Work, and these conversations continue between individual paintings when they are hung together.

In Italian, semenza means "a sown field", as in a field of wheat or other similar crop. It also refers to the batch of seeds used to sow a field, and, more abstractly, the "cause, reason, subject, spring or root." *

Children's Voices, curated by Kina Bagovska, is an introduction and a way to make possible the dreams of the children as well as their vision about the safety of our planet. The exhibition presents more than fifty works accompanied by written messages explaining these young artists' thoughts and concerns about the future of our civilization.