Smereka’s media include; installation, printmaking, photography, video, bookmaking and collaborations. Originally from Toronto, she has been a Vermont resident since 1989 and currently lives in Burlington. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group shows throughout the region: solo exhibition of monoprints and paintings at the AVA Gallery, Lebonon, NH; installations and groups shows at the Flynndog, Burlington, VT; solo show of paintings at Rhombus Gallery, Burlington, VT; paintings at the Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT.

Alexandra Noble Heller, born in New Haven, Conn., in 1932.  Growing up in Groton, Massachusetts, where her father taught school, she attended high schools in Mass.