Ellen Anthony (b. 1947)

Ellen Anthony began making Bunraku puppets and wacky contraptions midlife that became Quirky Circus, a silent one-woman puppet show that ran from 2000 to 2012. After a shoulder injury in 2018, she picked up a paint brush and began moving colors around. In 2021 she began making constructions from discarded junk: wood, wire, wax, electrical cable, cotton, and sinew. Her work emerges from inner explorations. She exhibits on Cape Cod. Instagram @ellenquirky

Phyllis Famiglietti (b. 1952)

Phyllis Famiglietti finds magic in found objects…"they contain a certain type of energy from a previous life". Wires, springs, hinges, switches, homeless pieces that once belonged to something or someone, somewhere at sometime, have filled many of her drawers and cabinets for years. With both pathos and humor, she combines and assembles these objects to create small 3D pieces. Her work speaks to aging, decay and abandonment, but at the same time reveals an optimism and an ulterior beauty. An award winning video editor, filmmaker and collagist, Phyllis has exhibited in numerous galleries in New York and New England. After forty years in NYC, she now lives and works in Boston. www.phyllisfamiglietti.com

Cynthia Sparrenberger (b. 1954)

Cynthia Sparrenberger is an American mixed media artist working within formats that range from books, to film, to works on paper, whose subject matter deals with the illusory, transitory and transcendent. Specific within this range of unique imaginary worlds, she expansively depicts the broad-ranging vulnerabilities of the human condition with all of its imperfections, alienation and childhood existential angst, always tempered with humor. Her childlike images, executed with collage, acrylic paints, oil stick, and graphite convey complex emotional states through the simple, ironic, and heartfelt imagery.