Joe Ziolkowski (Jacksonville, FL, United States) received a Masters of Science in Education, Concentration: Art Education from Nazareth College of Rochester. A Master of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has taught at Rochester Institute of Technology, Monroe Community College, SUNY, Center for Creative Studies (Detroit), Barat College (Lake Forest, Illinois), and in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College, and the American Academy of Art. His work has been widely exhibited, nationally and internationally and he is the author of two monographs, Walking the Line (1992) and Pressure (1997). The work submitted for this benefit auction is part of a new solo show titled “a•new•found•land” which will be on view from May 15 - October 15, 2012. Ryan Premises and Castle Hill National Historic Sites of Canada, P.O. Box 1451, Bonavista, NL A0C 1B0 http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/ryan/index.aspx