Marion Cajori was an independent filmmaker who founded the non-profit Art Kaleidoscope Foundation in 1990 to produce in-depth cinematic portraits of individual creators and their art. Her film, JOAN MITCHEL: PORTRAIT OF AN ABSTRACT PAINTER won the prestigious 1993 Pratt-Whitney Grand Prize at the International Film Festival for Films on Art in Montreal. In 1998, PBS/WNET broadcasted her Emmy-nominated special, CHUCK CLOSE: PORTRAIT IN PROGRESS, which would later open at Film Forum in New York. A few weeks before her death in August 2006, Cajori completed a full-length feature about CLOSE and the community of artists he is associated with. Amei Wallach is an art critic, commentator and curator. She was for many years chief art critic for New York Newsday and on-air arts commentator for the “MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour.” Her articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Smithsonian, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Art in America and ArtNews. She has written or contributed to 11 books.