Maggy Cuesta was born in Cuba, and grew up in Texas. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Graphic Design. After graduation Maggy moved to Houston, Texas where she worked as a graphic designer. In 1985, she received her Masters Degree in Graphic Design from California Institute of the Arts. After receiving her degree Ms Cuesta moved to Miami where she worked for local design firms before establishing a partnership in The Image Designers Group. She worked both professionally and as an Associate Professor Senior at New World School of the Arts until 2005 when she was named Dean of Visual Arts for New World School of the Arts. Ms Cuesta has served on the board and as President of the American Institute of Graphic Arts [AIGA]-Miami Chapter and in 2004, she was given the AIGA Fellows Award. Ms. Cuesta has been very involved in the AIGA both locally and nationally on collaborative exhibitions such as ¡propaganda! Cuban Political and Film Posters, Power of Typography, and Sharing Dreams of Peace with the AIGA Cross Cultural Committee. Her work has been published in Communication Arts, Print, Print Casebooks, AIGA, Graphis and Hot Graphics USA.

Susan Banks is a native of South Florida and has been working in Ceramics for over 25 years. Her sculpture has been exhibited nationally and she is the recipient of two Florida State Artist Fellowships. Her work is included in many private and Museum collections. She completed her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Miami and her BFA from Florida International University. Included in Professor Banks’ professional development are many years of extensive training with nationally recognized teachers throughout the country. Professor Banks’ other achievements include several site specific collaborative environmental Art projects in the Miami area such as Brittle Star Park, Downtown Miami, Windscape, Noguchi Park /Bayfront Park and Sculpture in the Landscape, University of Miami. Other site specific work includes a ceramic tile mural for Ruth K. Broad Elementary School “Growing with Technology and the American Cancer Society “Michael Garden” both as successful donor walls. Professor Banks’ is an active member in the National Council for the Education of the Ceramic Arts, Florida Craftsmen, Inc. and the Florida Art Education Association.

Rosario Martinez-Cañas was born in Havana, Cuba, raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and attended Loyola University in New Orleans. She has worked in the graphic design field for many years and is the founding partner of The Image Designers Group, an award-winning graphic design studio. The studio's designs have been featured in several books among them Hot Graphics USA. Professor Martinez-Cañas served on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Graphic Arts Miami Chapter for six years.

Aramis O'Reilly received his MFA in painting from Florida International University and attended both the University of Connecticut and Florida International University for his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. His work has been shown in various national and international exhibitions and is included in numerous private and public collections. Besides his studio work he has been involved in several large scale public art projects. Professor O'Reilly is also a recipient of the Cintas Fellowship Award.

Alisa Pitchenik is a Senior Associate Professor of Visual Arts and the Director of the Electronic Intermedia College BFA Program at New World School of the Arts where she has taught since 1998. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City where she focused on multi-media performance and installation. Professor Pitchenik is an alumni of the University of Miami with a BFA in Painting and Art History where she taught briefly, as well. Currently she is a multi-media interdisciplinary artist, curator and collaborator. She has exhibited or curated/juried for museums, galleries, film festivals, television, internet and alternative spaces in New York, California, Miami, and Italy. She won an Honorable Mention for cinematography and editing a short film shown at The AMC Theatres and The Miami Film Festival. She taught the “Animated Macro Portrait” in the initial exchange to the Universidad de San Luis Potosi in Mexico. She was instrumental in the initial exchange to Italy and developed “Electronic Intermedia: Italian Study Project” in Seravezza, Italy culminating in the exhibition she co-curated Esplorazioni Visive/ Visual Explorations for the Palazzo Mediceo. She collaborated on “Miami Calls” at The Moore Space. She co-curated ‘Frenzy” an intercollegiate exhibition in Wynwwod. She worked on the documentary Cybersight: Giving Eyes to the Blind, as well as, “They’re Rich, You’re Dead an anti-smoking web-site. Professor Pitchenik participating in “Hands Across the Ocean: The Lost Chord” an Internet 2 project which won the Inaugural Peoria Prize for Creativity in the Arts and Sciences. She developed curriculum for Machine Sculpture to be exhibited for Art Basel 2005 entitled “To Trip the Light Fantastic”. For fun she explores TV and film roles from a pilot reality show Tomb Raider: Search and Record” on MTV to an extra on the film Miami Vice. The playfulness informs her personal work. Professor Pitchenik is a member, attends and participates in Siggraph-a global organization dedicated to representing the most current information on technology in the arts, education, animation, film and science. She is currently chartering the first Siggraph chapter in Miami.

Georgette Ballance  is a visiting lecturer at several universities and the curator of numerous exhibitions, including A Paul Rand Retrospective, the Art of Ethiopia, and Leo Lionni Spoon River Anthology.  She has taught in Zambia and Ethiopia and worked at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa and the Museum of African Art in Washingtron D.C. Before starting her own business as a design consultant, she was design director at Pace Editions in New York City.  She taught design history as well as interdisciplinary collaborative seminars at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and was director of The Herb Lubalin Study Center for Design and Typography. Co-editor of Graphic Design History and Paul Rand:  A Designer's Words, Ms. Ballance earned her MA in art history from American University and her MFA in graphic design from Yale University. 

Luisa Maria Basnuevo was born in Cuba and came to the United States via Spain in 1972. Received a B.F.A from Florida International University and an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art in 1991.
Her paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad, including the Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the Musée de Luxembourg in Paris, France. Her work is included in public and corporate collections throughout Florida, including those of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland and Miami Art Museum. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts/Southeastern Arts Federation, South Florida Consortium, Visual Artist Fellowship and the Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Department of State.

Carol K. Brown has exhibited both nationally and internationally in more than 30 solo exhibitions.  Her work has been shown at the Beijing Biennial; the National Museum for Women in the Arts; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.  The numerous museums and public collections which own her work include:  The Denver Art Museum; the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; the Frost Art Museum at FIU; The Miami Art Museum; The University of Colorado, Boulder; The Tampa Art Museum; The Jacksonsivlle Art Museum; The University of Florida, Gainesville; The Polk Museum of Art; The Memphis Brooks Art Museum; The Arkansas Art Center Museum of Art; The City of Orlando; and both the State of Florida and Miami-Dade County's Art in Public Places programs.  Ms. Brown has been the recipient of several state and national grants.  She has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for an individual artist.  While initially known as a sculptor and metal worker, Ms. Brown has lately been combining newer technologies and more traditional ones, and has incorporated both painting and computer generated images in her work.  She divides her time between studios in Miami and New  York.  Her work can be seen at www.carolkbrown.com

Gregory Davis works mainly in photography, using both contemporary digital techniques and traditional film-based technology. Mr. Davis originally majored in piano performance, but graduated from the university of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2002, emphasizing photography and a Master of Fine Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006.

Antonio Fernandez (Photography) received his PhD at Michigan State University, his M.A.T. at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, his M.S. at the Institute of Design, Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He combines careers as an artist whose medium is photography and as an educator who trains teachers. In addition to teaching photography at New World School of the Arts, he is a Professor of Education at St. Thomas University.

Carlos E. Gallostra was born and raised in Miami, Florida and is a local artist. He is a graduate alumnus of the New World School of the Arts, where he earned a Bachelor of fine Arts degree in Electronic Media with Honors.  Thereafter,  he worked extensively as a broadcast animator and graphic designer for local Fox affiliate, WSVN 7.  He is also a graduate of the Pratt Institute of New York and holds two masters degrees, one in Fine Arts and the other in history of Art and Design.  His expertise in history of art lies within his research work regarding Cuban Vanguardia, as well as, relations between North American and Cuban graphic Illustration during the early 20th century.  Moreover, primarily as a painter, Mr. Gallostra has strived to bring to play a vast range of aspects into his work in recent years, which includes 17th century Dutch and Spanish Baroque influences, anamorphic studies, and new form media in conjunction with traditional and non-traditional methodologies.  Mr. Gallostra currently teaches electronic media, fine art studio, and history of art courses.

Maria Martinez-Cañas was born in Havana, Cuba. She received a B.F.A. in Photography from the Philadelphia College of Art and an M.F.A. from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. An artist who works with innovative, non-traditional photographic media, she has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of a Cintas Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts award; and a Fulbright-Hays Grant, among others. Her works are included in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; among others.

Over the past 2 decades its national and international client diversities include leaders in professional sports, consumer goods, technology and telecommunications, toys, medical, travel and tourism, finance, non-profit and the entertainment industry. The fresh sensibility and marketing sense is reflected from identity systems, collateral, advertising, packaging, new product, merchandising & new media format. The studio measure of success is the performance of hard work, perseverance, adaptability with creative forward-thinking solutions. The studio style is varied, as are its projects, but its way of thinking is logical. Its creative solutions attain tangible results through taking calculated risks to create something new. With this conceptual framework AMPdzine resolves design problems that is present in the images of individuals, companies, institutions and products from regional, national and international markets.

Andrea Preston grew up on the Gulf Coast. Born in Houston, Texas she came of age between suburban Miami and the banks of Dog River in Mobile, Alabama. Her widespread roots continue to speak to the breadth of her interests and influences today. Nurtured from an early age, she cultivated a talent for drawing and painting that lead her to New World School of the Arts High School. She then attended The School of Visual Arts in New York City on a scholarship where she earned her Bachelor's degree in Illustration. During her four years of study she specialized in both Figurative Painting and Graphic Design, including intensive training in French Academic Realism with Marvin Mattleson and Graphic Design with Richard Wilde. Since returning to Miami, Andrea has established a presence in the community, teaching art and directing volunteer mural projects for United Way, Hands on Miami, Temple Beth Sholom, and Miami-Dade Public Schools. She maintains a private studio focused on figurative painting.

Karen Rifas received her MFA from the University of Miami and presently teaches at Miami-Dade College and New World School of the Arts. Recent awards include the 2005 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship and Florida Visual Arts Fellowship. 2004-5 one-person shows include Polk Museum of Art, Edison College and Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. Recent installations were exhibited at the Lowe Museum and the Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale. Her upcoming one-person show will be at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in April, 2006.

Louise Romeo was born in Enna, Italy and holds two masters degrees, one in Curriculum and Instruction and the other in Fine Arts. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute in New York. Professor Romeo, former Dean of Visual Arts at New World School of the Arts, holds the distinction as one of the original founding faculty at NWSA. As an administrator/artist/educator, she has been recognized throughout her career for her dedication and commitment to education and the enhancement of the arts. She was the recipient of the Frances Louise Wolfson Endowed chair for artistic excellence. She was selected by the national Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts as the NFAA, Distinguished Professor in the Arts, and received the "Arts" Professor Certificate of Excellence from the White House in Washington, D.C. ,honored by Pratt Institute. She also received the Arts Educator recognition Awards, the FAEA Higher Art Educator Recognition Awards, the FAEA Higher Art Educator Award and was selected as the "Outstanding Faculty of the Year" by Miami-Dade College. Professor Romeo has exhibited on a national and international level.

Richard Romeo is a nationally known illustrator who has art directed, illustrated and designed in major corporations as well as in his own illustration and design studio. His interviews and award winning works have been published nationally and abroad. He has mastered and taught both traditional and digital media. Mr. Romeo holds two degrees, one in Fine Art and one in Communications Design and he is a graduate of Pratt Institute, New York. His works may be viewed at RomeoStudio.Com.

Fred Snitzer earned his MFA from Pennsylvania State University and his BFA from Philadelphia College of Art. As the Director of the Frederic Snitzer Gallery, he has set the standard for presenting cutting edge art to the Miami Art Scene. In addition, he has lectured extensively, curate numerous exhibitions, and is on the selection committee for Art Basel. Mr. Snitzer is the recipient of New Forms Florida: Grants for Artists Project and has received extensive media attention for his trendsetting exhibitions.

Wanda Texon is an arts professional with over 25 years experience in many facets of the visual arts: as a museum curator, gallery director, art dealer and professor of art history. Currently she is overseeing the opening of the new campus gallery at Miami Dade North and consulting on projects at the Bass Museum of Art where she served as curator for over 14 years. In addition Ms Texon is a professor of art history and humanities at various colleges in Miami including the New World School of the Arts, College Division, where she teaches the survey classes, Early and Late 20th century Art and Art Criticism. Ms. Texon lived in Europe after graduating from Florida State University where she received a certificate of specialization in Museum Studies in Restoration and Renaissance Art from the Universita Internazionale dell’Arte in Florence. She received her M.A. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU) in New York City.

Lina Weiss was born in Cuba and grew up in Miami. She received her MFA from Florida Atlantic University where her field of concentration was based on visual poetics. She attained her BFA in Graphic Design with the highest of accolades from NWSA. She has worked in the Graphic Arts industry professionally for more than 15 years as an educator and as a designer. Her works have been exhibited at Harvard’s Dudley House and have been selected for various curated shows locally. She is a member of AIGA and of the Golden Key.