About the Creators

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Barbara Burns-Dore is a mixed media artist, using primarily cut paper and recycled materials in her work. She is also an avid letter writer, mail art enthusiast and hand letterer. She has lived in Newburyport, Massachusetts for almost 50 years and spent much of her life as a clinical social worker. She retired from fulltime work during the pandemic and has been focusing on her art since then. 

Barbara has always believed in the therapeutic value of making art and viewing art and has taken professional workshops in art therapy.  

Her formal art instruction took place at Massachusetts College of Art, Salem State College and Northern Essex Community College in addition to many internationally based online programs.

She has been featured in What Women Create Magazine, Uppercase Magazine, Contemporary Collage Magazine, Calligraphy Crush online publication and Newburyport Magazine.

Her art has been exhibited and sold from local galleries in the area and she has taught and continues to offer workshops in local art centers, some generously funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

See more of Barbara’s work: 

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Anika Babb

Anika Babb is a sophomore at Endicott College where she is studying psychology with a minor in creative writing. She has always loved the arts, as she was involved with the Ipswich theater department during her time at the middle and high school. She really fell in love with writing at the start of her freshman year of high school and carried on taking numerous classes that focused on creative and screen writing through high school, and now during college. She draws a lot from her personal life and expresses it via her works, whether it’s a poem or a story.