Warren Lehreris a writer and artist/designer known internationally as a pioneer in the fields of visual literature and design authorship. His work explores the vagaries and luminescence of character, the relationships between social structures and the individual, and the pathos and absurdity of life. His books, acclaimed for capturing the shape of thought and reuniting the traditions of storytelling with the printed page, include: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a New America (W.W. Norton) with Judith Sloan, The Portrait Series: a quartet of men (four book series - Bay Press); GRRRHHHHH: a study of social patterns (Center for Editions); FRENCH FRIES with Dennis Bernstein (Visual Studies Workshop); i mean you know (Visual Studies Workshop), and versations (EarSay). He has received many awards for his books and projects, including the 2004 Brendan Gill Prize, the 2003 Innovative Use of Archives Award, a Media That Matters Award, three American Institute for Graphic Arts Book awards, two Type Director’s Club awards, The International Book Design Award, a Best of the Best Award from the New York Book Show, and a Prix Arts Electronica award. He’s received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council and Foundation for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Furthermore Foundation, and others. His work has been exhibited widely and is in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art, L.A. County Art Museum, The Getty Museum, Georges Pompidou Centre, and Tate Gallery. The Crossing the BLVD exhibition (co-produced with Sloan) has been to nine locations and continues to travel the country. Lehrer is also a performer and has co-written four plays, one opera, co-composed two audio CDs, and co-produces public radio documentaries and audio works with his wife Judith Sloan. Lehrer is a frequent lecturer and presenter at universities, art and literary centers, and theaters throughout the United States and internationally. Lehrer has been written about in scores of books and in many feature articles and reviews in print and broadcast media. (See What The Critics Say.) His essays on design authorship and visual literature have been widely reproduced. Lehrer is the 'Leff Distinguished Professor' in the School of Art+Design at Purchase College, SUNY. He is a founding faculty member of the Designer As Author graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He received his BA from Queens College, CUNY, and an MFA from Yale University. Together with Sloan, Lehrer founded EarSay, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to uncovering and portraying the lives of the uncelebrated in print, on stage, on radio, in exhibitions, electronic media, and through educational programs in public schools, prisons, and community centers. Lehrer is currently working on an illuminated novel which contains 101 books within it, entitled The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley: a life in books.

Judith Sloanis an actress, oral historian, writer, radio producer and audio artist whose work combines humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. Along with Warren Lehrer she is co-artistic director of EarSay, a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting interdisciplinary works on voices often ignored by the mass media. Her commentaries, plays, poetry and documentaries have aired on National Public Radio, New York Public Radio, WBEZ Chicago, and listener sponsored stations throughout the U.S. Her work has been produced in theatres and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad including: LaMama E.T.C, The Public Theatre, The Theatre Workshop (Scotland), The Smithsonian Institution, the Knitting Factory, the Jewish Museum (NY) etc. Awards include: First Place, 2008 Missouri Review Audio Competition, Narrative Essay; 2005 BAXten Artist Award; 2005 Special Merit Award for her Crossin the BLVD audio pieces from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters; 2004 Brendan Gill Prize, Municipal Arts Society for with Warren Lehrer; grants from Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Franklin Furnace, New York State Council on the Arts among others. Collaborators in theatre, audio, books, exhibitions include Frank London, Warren Lehrer, Elise Knudson, Teresa Kochis, Michael Dinwiddie, Laura Sydell, and Taylor Rivelli. Her solo performances include: Denial of the Fittest, (nominated for best comedy performance at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival) Responding to Chaos, Peace is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Kill and A Tattle Tale: eyewitness in Mississippi. Her articles and editorials have been published in the New York Times, the Forward, Movement Research Journal. Sloan has produced and co-produced several documentaries (video and audio) including: Reclaiming A Past about her work with older European Jews and Holocaust survivors; a documentary featuring excerpts from the play A Tattle Tale, broadcast on National Public Radio. She has appeared on Comedy Central and PBS and is is a member of the faculty at Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU where she teaches Character Acting, Theatre, Oral History, Interdisciplinary Arts, and advises students on projects that cross the boundaries between artist and scholar. Sloan has been a guest performer and lecturer at Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Yale University, SUNY Purchase, University of Hawaii, University of Massachusetts, among others. Sloan has been a guest performer and lecturer at Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Yale University, SUNY Purchase, University of Hawaii, University of Massachusetts, etc. She conducts workshops for teachers on immigration and diversity, in using theatre arts with young people, (in the classroom and on stage) and performs and teaches from time to time in New York City schools, youth correctional facilities and jails. She is the director of Cross-Cultural Dialogue Through the Arts , an arts mentorhsip and training program creating collaborations between disparate communities. She is currently consulting with several organizations including Facing History and Ourselves and the American Academy of Physician Assistants to train teachers and caregivers about interviewing refugees and people at risk. She lives in Queens with her husband Warren and 150 characters.