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Lysha Smith is a Senior Assistant Teacher and the Administrator at the Vipassana Meditation Center in Shelburne Falls, MA.  Lysha also has a background in Sound Art and Design, and teaches Music Technology at Greenfield (MA) Community College.  While Lysha centers and anchors his life around his meditation practice and Dhamma service to others, teaching and engaging with sound and music practice remains an integral balancing force in his life.

Aidan Hart was born in England in 1957 and grew up in New Zealand.  He has been a professional liturgical artist for over forty years, with commissioned works in over twenty-five countries.  From 1988 to 2000 he tested his vocation as a monk, including spending a total of two years on Mount Athos and six as a hermit in Shropshire, UK.  This life dedicated to prayer has had a profound impact on his work.

Joe Holtz is the general manager of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, NY.  After helping to start the coop in 1973, he became the first staff member in 1975.  Joe has announced he will retire in 2025 after 50 years at the PSFC.   

Paul Lee (b. 1974, London) is a sculptor, collagist, and video artist who creates assemblages by manipulating found domestic and everyday objects, including dyed terry cloth towels, tambourines, and empty soda cans. Lee’s evolving visual language exploits universally understood relationships between use and form. By transforming familiar materials into colorful abstractions, Lee subverts their function and draws out their implicit connection to the human body.

Former monk (bhikkhu) Santi trained in the Thai forest tradition, a meditation-centered branch of Theravada Buddhism. He disrobed after eight years, and now teaches and writes on Buddhist, post-Buddhist, and other spiritual and practice-related themes. His website is findingsanti.org.

Peter Shear is an artist who lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana.  His small-scale paintings can be found someplace between abstraction and representation.  He is represented by BLUM.