Mission and Overview Wild Apples Inc. seeks to educate the public through the arts about ways to live sustainably on the earth. In pursuit of that goal, our primary activity is the publication of a 48-page, full-color, soft cover arts magazine called Wild Apples: a journal of nature, art, and inquiry. Taking its name and inspiration from Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Wild Apples," the journal brings together the work of artists, writers, and photographers who are connected by the common threads of care for the environment, engagement in social concerns, and commitment to the arts and the way they shape our world. We also engage in outreach activities, which have included art and poetry workshops and presentations at schools, libraries, prisons, museums, and other community venues, and we occasionally publish products of these activities.
Linda Hoffman, Editor
Linda Hoffman is a nationally recognized sculptor with an extensive history of exhibits, commissions, grants, and awards. Her work is in the collections of the Boston Public Library, Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, and the Hechinger Tool Collection in Washington, D.C. Hoffman teaches courses in creative writing and emotional awareness to inmates at the Shirley Massachusetts Correctional Facility. She currently serves as an Overseer at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA where she catalyzed contemporary art at the museum with a first exhibit, A Circus Comes to Fruitlands, her series of thirty-two circus sculptures made from old agricultural tools. In recent years, she has devoted more time to bringing back an abandoned apple orchard. In the fall, visitors to Old Frog Pond Farm, can pick over twenty varieties of organic apples and raspberries. . |
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Kathryn Liebowitz, Editor
Kathryn Liebowitz is an award-winning freelance writer whose work has appeared in Harvard Review, Boston Review, Art New England, the Boston Globe, Poetry Porch, and others. She writes for educational, arts, and humanitarian organizations, coaches seasoned and aspiring writers of all ages, and runs writing workshops. Liebowitz acts as a developmental manuscript editor to authors of fiction and nonfiction, as well as teaching a course with Hoffman at the Shirley Medium Correctional Facility. She also has her own flower design business, Flourish, in her home studio in Groton, MA. |
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Susan Edwards Richmond, Editor
Susan Edwards Richmond teaches at Clark University and recently taught for several years at the Shirley Medium Correctional Facility. She is a founding member of The Concord Poetry Center, where she hosts a reading series, and was 2007 poet-in-residence at the Fruitlands Museum. She has many years of experience developing project-based multi-disciplinary curricula, most recently for the nonprofit, Education Development Center, Inc. Her poetry collections are Purgatory Chasm and Boto (Adastra Press), Birding in Winter (Finishing Line Press), and Increase, coming out in 2010 (FootHills Publishing). Richmond’s poems have appeared in Blueline, Green Mountains Review, The Iowa Review, Perihelion, Poetry East, and Sanctuary. |
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Alicia Dwyer, Art Editor
Alicia Dwyer is an artist who formerly lived in Cambridge, teaching art at the Museum of Fine Arts, DeCordova, public schools, and homeless shelters. She now lives with her family on an organic farm in Still River, Massachusetts and supplies vegetables and flowers to a local food pantry. Dwyer's artwork references the body - she paints eyes, and other fragments of the body on glass windows and sheet metal. She exhibits her paintings in the Boston area as well as creating installations for the Old Frog Pond Farm artwalk in Harvard every fall. As an artist and farmer, Dwyer measures her life with the seasons, milking goats in spring, working the land, preparing bee hives for winter, and working in her studio. |
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Lynn Horsky, Production
Lynn Horsky owns and operates Process, a creative production management firm, consulting for design studios, institutions and corporate marketing groups to produce print, packaging and environmental graphics in Boxborough, MA. Lynn specializes in limited edition and small publications for artists. She designs for non-profit organizations, paints, and makes collage and found object sculpture. |
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Caryl Buhler, Designer
Caryl Buhler is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator with over twenty years of national and international experience ranging from print to cyberspace. Her greatest creation is her two children, Nikki and Max.
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Michele Laura, Accounting
Michele Laura is a former Certified Public Accountant. Her business, Life Management Consulting, offers personal and small business financial support to a small client base. Michele is also the founder of Joyful Movement, an umbrella organization that supports culture, diversity and celebration through all types of dance. She is a Certified Yoga Teacher, dance teacher, and African drummer.
For more, visit her website. |
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Maud Ayson serves on the boards of Freedom's Way National Heritage Corridor and The Bulfinch Fund. She brings over 25 years of experience leading diverse museum, cultural tourism, brand development, strategic planning, capacity building, and evaluation projects. Museum Positions: Executive Director, Fruitlands Museum; Associate Director, Education & Programs, Norman Rockwell Museum; Head of Education, Museum of the City of New York; Assistant Director Museum |
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Dillon Bustin is a folkorist, essayist, playwright, and songwriter who serves as a program consultant for non-profit organizations. A specialist in nineteenth-century African American history and culture, he is developing a musical play for Freedom's Way National Heritage Area depicting popular resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850’s Massachusetts. In a separate project he is helping the Vineyard Museum create a new website on the whaling trade by recommending examples of indigenous music a crew may have encountered on a voyage from New England to Alaska by way of Tierra del Fuego during the 1860’s. Presently he is also acting as director of the Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall in Dudley Square, Boston, MA.
For more, visit his website. |
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Pam Cochrane is the Co- Founder and Curator of Community Exhibitions of For Arts Sake- Harvard, a non-profit community art association in Harvard, MA. Pam brings more than 25 years of experience in the arts, as Gallery Director, Curator, Educator and Owner of Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA , to her current passion for fostering creative expression in communities. |
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Doreen Manning is an art enthusiast who has established a career in helping creative groups and individuals receive the attention they deserve. Former publisher of The Beat, a monthly arts and entertainment publication serving Middlesex County, she is currently A&E Editor of Worcester Magazine – an alternative weekly. |
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Gary Metras has published poetry in such journals as Poetry, Poetry East, and Wild Earth. His most recent poetry collection is Francis d’Assisi (Finishing Line Press), and his reviews have appeared in The Boston Review of Books, English Journal, and Small Press Review. He is the editor, publisher, and letterpress printer of Adastra Press. He fly fishes the streams and rivers of western Massachusetts as often as possible, frequently with flies he ties himself. |
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John Hanson Mitchell is the author of nine books of nonfiction, including Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile, 1984, Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place, Perseus Books, 1995, and Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land, Perseus Books,
1998. Along with his nonfiction work, John Hanson Mitchell is editor of the award winning magazine, Sanctuary, published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Thoreau Society, the Monadnock Center, and the Independent Broadcasting Association.
For more, visit his website. |
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Margot Stage After several decades as a host and producer at WGBH Radio, Margot Stage is now fully engaged as a visual artist and writer. Working primarily with fiber, she has a studio at Western Avenue in Lowell, a city with a rich textiles history. In addition to working with Wild Apples, she’s a member of The Artist’s Valentine Committee, and volunteers with the Parish Center for the Arts in her hometown of Westford.
For more, visit her website. |
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Sophie Wadsworth, one of the founding editors of Wild Apples, is the author of a book of poems, Letters from Siberia. She works for The Nature Connection, a therapeutic environmental education program in Concord, and teaches writing in the Boston area. |
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