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Safeguarding American Values for Everyone (SAVE) is a grassroots nonprofit political advocacy organization located in Miami, Florida. Founded in 1993, the organization's stated mission is to "promote, protect and defend equality for people in South Florida who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender."

Dorothy Simpson Krause is an American mixed-media artist who explores connections between digital imaging and printing with traditional art materials. She was a Professor of Computer Graphics at Massachusetts College of Art from 1974 to 2000, but her experience with computers started in the late 60s. Back then, she already combined traditional and digital media, producing artistic representations from photographs of different people and places from around the world. She is also a prolific writer, conference speaker, and consultant for manufacturers and distributors of art supplies of fine arts. Her works have been published in a variety of journals and magazines. Krause’s works were also frequently exhibited in international museums and galleries. She was an artist-in-residence in important institutions, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art, in 1997, and, more recently, at Florida Atlantic University’s Jaffe Center for Book Arts in Boca Raton, FL, in 2012.

During the late 90s she decided to switch from the digital to paper medium while collecting traveling memories through a paper travel journal. That prompted her to explore the hand work involved in the art of handcrafting books, and she completed more than 150 individually-themed journals that embody different visual narratives of her travel experiences. Though her initial academic training concentrated on traditional painting, her work has been a vast collection of mixed-media collages, computer-assisted images, hand-made books and journals where texture plays an important role. She likes to incorporates significantly distinct materials: plaster, metal, wax, paper, digital prints just to name a few. Krause also applies a similar technique of experimentation and flexibility in order to produce digital art, making use of sophisticated hardware and software to create large digital collages and lenticular prints, through which she is able to bring movement in addition to color and depth.

Collaborative art work is another of Krause’s passions. During her period at the Smithsonian, she organized the project "Digital Atelier: A printmaking studio for the 21st century" alongside artists Bonny Lhotka, and Karin Schminke, which earned them Smithsonian/Computerworld Technology in the Arts Award. Krause, Lhotka, and Schminke later published together, in 2004, Digital Art Studio: Techniques for combining inkjet printing with traditional art materials.

Dorothy is the recipient of numerous internationally-renowned awards, including the Swedish Digital Hall of Fame, FX Art and Design, the Kodak Innovator Awards, the 2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of The 20th Century, from IBC (Melrose Press Ltd), and the SoHo Photo Gallery. She currently lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

–Vanessa Rodrigues Barcelos da Silva
Graduate Student Assistant for Manuscripts and Archives Management, Summer 2024

Sources:

(1) Interview with Dorothy https://canvasrebel.com/meet-dorothy-krause/

(2) Bio and CV: https://www.571projects.com/artists/27-dorothy-simpson-krause/biography/

(3) Krause’s official webpage: https://dotkrause.com/

Born in 1926, Charles (Chuck) Reed Jr was a Florida architect who worked primarily in the modernist tradition. After serving in World War II, Reed enrolled in the University of Miami School of Architecture. He graduated in the second class of the newly founded school, and went on to practicing architecture. He worked for Igor Polevitzky, a South Florida architect who he greatly admired. His time with Polevitzky became the basis for his architectural foundations, as he learned more in depth about how the design buildings that respond uniquely to the sub-tropical South Florida climate. He began his own practice in the mid-1950's in Hollywood, Florida. While he did not classify his work as belonging to any category or style, his work is classified as mid-century, although he called his work organic and a reinterpretation of residential homes. He explored creative ways to address the South Florida climate and environment with whimsy, as well as being sensitive to the particulars of the landscape. He was always cognizant of hurricane design and was one of the first South Florida architects to implement reinforced masonry construction. He retried in 1997 where he relocated to North Carolina, and he passed in his home in 2022. He left behind a variety of work in South Florida, primarily in Hollywood, Florida.

Henry Melich was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924. He lived in London for a number of years where he was classically trained before relocating to the Bahamas in 1954 where he began his extensive work around the archipelago. While based in the Bahamas for the remainder of his life, his work extended to Jamaica, the United States, and England. The book "Island Follies" by Alaistar Gordon highlights Melich's residential work in the Bahamas. His work is a celebration of Bahamian architecture, as well as embracing a neo-historical hybrid of architectural styles. Many of the homes he designed were luxury vacation homes for the elite, notably for Prince and Princess Azamat Guirey. Melich completed over 50 projects before his death in 1999.