About the Artist and Poet

Peggy McClure lives in Framingham, Massachusetts, where she has a studio in the old mill buildings
 on the Sudbury River.  She teaches at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Massachusetts,
and shows her work primarily in the Boston and Metrowest area. Nature and human interaction
 with the environment are frequent subjects for her artwork.  She creates mixed media art
(paint, pencil, charcoal, dry pigment) with her photographs in non-traditional ways.  She previously
 collaborated with Raffael de Gruttola on a printed portfolio, the rattle of bamboo windchimes,
and a number of individual haiga.

Raffael de Gruttola is from Natick, MA. His first book of haiku, Recycle, a haiku sequence,
was published in 1989.  He was a founding member of the Boston Haiku Society in 1987. 
He served as both President and Treasurer of the Haiku Society of America and was the
Society's first Northeast Regional Coordinator.  He has collaborated with Wilfred Croteau
on the haiga portfolio, Echoes in Sand (featured on Reeds online) and with Peggy McClure on
the haiga portfolio, the rattle of bamboo windchimes, (portions of which may be seen in the online
Reeds Haiga Gallery).  Additionally, he has collaborated with Robert Castagna on a photographic haiga
 which also may be seen in the online Reeds Haiga Gallery.  Raffael is presently a Review Editor
for the Canadian tanka magazine, Gusts, and one of the haiga editors of Modern Haiga.  He's also collaborated
on a renku performance piece with Karen Klein and Judson Evans called sculling blackbirds,
and two concrete renku works with Carlos Colón, Circling Bats, and Wall Street Park.
He recently did the layout and editing along with Messieurs Klein and Evans on the fourth chapbook
of the Kaji Aso Studio, wind flow.

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