Michael Gormley

Michael is editorial director for American Artist, Drawing, Watercolor and Studios magazines. He is a former Dean of the New York Academy of Art and most recently was the Vice President of Education at the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. He is a practicing artist and has shown his work extensively, and is pursuing a PhD from the Institute of Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.

Brian Riley

Brian is the managing editor of American Artist, Drawing and Watercolor magazines. American Artist has offered him the opportunity to reinvigorate his early passion and continue his education. He first became interested in art as a child, specifically drawing, but drifted away from the visual arts as he grew older, gravitating towards writing while in college. His position on staff has offered him the opportunity to reconnect with his artistic past.

Austin Williams

Austin is the associate editor of American Artist, Drawing and Watercolor  magazines. He is a lover of art, literature, and movies.  His favorite artist is Cezanne, his favorite book about art is Michael Frayn's Headlong, and his favorite movie about art is Orson Welles' F for Fake.

Allison Malafronte

Allison Malafronte is the senior editor of American Artist Plein Air Painting and Workshop With the Masters magazines. She is also the creative manager of the Weekend With the Masters Workshop & Conference, which was launched in 2009 and is now in its third year. She is author of the Art for Thought column in American Artist (also on the Artist Daily site under The Artist's Life blog) and the 2008-2010 Plein Air blogs. 

Naomi Ekperigin

Naomi Ekperigin is an associate editor of American Artist, Drawing, and Watercolor magazines. She loves art in all its forms, but after years of painting as a child, found that her skills flourished when she put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). Her work at American Artist not only allows her to learn from modern-day masters but also inspires her in her own creative endeavors.

Courtney Jordan

Courtney is the editor of Artist Daily. For her, art is one of life’s essentials and a career mainstay. She’s pursued academic studies of the Old Masters of Spain and Italy as well as museum curatorial experience, writing and reporting on arts and culture as a magazine staffer, and acquiring and editing lifestyle, craft, and cultural history books. She hopes to recommit herself to more studio time, too, working in mixed media.

Jennifer King

Jennifer is a contributing blogger to Artist Daily. She has had long career in the art-instruction business—as editor of several leading artists' magazines and art-instruction books with such noted artists as Tom Lynch, Dan McCaw, and Ramon Kelley. She has a love for landscape painting, which for her, acts as a visual metaphor for human emotion. Constable, Corot, Pissarro, Inness, and Diebenkorn are among her artistic heroes. Jennifer paints primarily outdoors, but also in her home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio.

John Hulsey & Ann Trusty

John and Ann are contributors to the Plein Air blog on Artist Daily. They are both accomplished painters—John's work has been exhibited throughout the world, is in the collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and has graced the cover of Time magazine. Ann has shown her work at countless museums and galleries, and has had her paintings favorably reviewed in The New York Times. They are both dedicated plein air painters and their website is The Artist's Road.

Patricia Watwood

Patricia Watwood is an Artist Daily contributing blogger and a professional artist. Watwood paints nudes, figures, and portraits. She draws on allegorical, mythological, spiritual, and narrative themes. She studied at the Water Street Atelier under Jacob Collins, and at Ted Seth Jacobs’ atelier in France. She earned her MFA with honors from New York Academy of Art. Her work is represented by John Pence Gallery in San Francisco. Watwood also does portrait commissions, and is represented by Portraits, Inc. She lives and paints in Brooklyn, NY.

Judith St. Ledger-Roty

Judith practiced law in the high tech world before committing herself to the arts. She has studied with the likes of Robert Liberace, Camille Prezwodek, and Natasha Mokina, and taken courses at the Corcoran School of Art and the Art League of Alexandria, Virginia. Most recently, she has embarked on a course of intense training under the tutelage of Nelson and Leona Shanks at the Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia. In addition to the visual arts, she also writes poetry and historical fiction. 

Daniel Maidman

Daniel Maidman is largely self-taught as an artist. He has trained by attending two to three life drawing workshops per week for the past 13 years. He spent two years in gross anatomy, drawing his own anatomical atlas. He has been painting in oil in a serious sort of a way since 2004. His work has been shown in New York and throughout the United States, and is in private collections in the United States and Canada.

Jeffrey Smith

Kate Sikorski

Kate is a contributor to the Drawing blog. She grew up in Tustin, CA, where her first mural jobs were in a library (age 11) and in a furniture store (age 18). She attended the University of CA, Santa Barbara and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. She's lived and farmed on a commune and worked for GreenPeace Currently she is completing her MFA in drawing and painting from CA State University, Long Beach. And you’ll find her surfing nearly daily somewhere between Bolsa Chica and Newport Beach. Visit Kate's website for more info.

Mitchell Albala