Perino Heydemann, who is the son of a former politicaly active father who has also been engaged in envirionmental contexts all his life, knows about the conext between environment and people. Being a Buddhist, he has also been interested in life as such and the world we live in. If you are interested in his comments about art and environment, please read here ...

Juergen Trittin (Germany) is a member of the German Green Party, a member of the German Bundestag and secretary (minister) in the Federal Department of Nature, Environment and Reactor Safety in Berlin. He is a member of the ruling administration in the political coalition under German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, specifically fighting for more legal instruments to secure safety in environmental contexts. He is also very interested in art and well aware about the context of chemicals and exposures, as his greeting word to the Artists with MCS and Moon McNeill reveals. If you want to read the supportive letter Mister Trittin sent, please click here.

Beverly Naidus (USA) is a painter and author with MCS. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Various books and articles in magazines and newsletters discussed her art. Beverly received a MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (1978) and a BA cum laude with Distinction in Studio Art, from Carleton College (1975). She has taught at various museums, regularly lectures on activist art and her own work, and currently has begun work with the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program of the University of Washington, Tacoma, to co-create an interdisciplinary arts program. The curriculum she is creating will focus on art for social change and healing. Her greeting words to all artists with MCS can be read here.

Monona Rossol (USA) M.S., M.F.A., is an industrial hygienist and a painter herself. Her book "Artists Complete Health and Safety Guide" should be a bible for every artist who is concerned about safety in art. Monona Rossol is president of ACTS (Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.) in New York and Safety Officer, United Scenic Artist's, Local 829. In these functions she offers coaching in safety matters in all known artistic contexts and has also successfully coached a thousand artists with MCS. Her letter to Moon McNeill and the artists with MCS can be read here.

Moon McNeill (Germany), now is an independent minded freelance painter and author, a courageous speaker for MCS-issues in Germany and the founder and first president of this network. Originally working as a book shop floor manager, she has always been involved in art of all kinds. As a painter she is self-tought, but her grandfather was a well-known painter in Eastern Germany. Moons comments on the MCS-problem and this network can be read here.

Holly Mae Pendergast (USA) is a painter with MCS, originally from North Carolina and now living in Utah. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1992 and was also educated at the Vermont Studio Centre and the Scottsdale Artists School. While working for well-known companies as a conceptual designer in the Los Angeles film industry during the nineties, much of her spare time was dedicated to painting. until in 1998 she committed herself to painting on a professional level. Starting in 2000, many group, juried and solo exhibitions in different states exhibited her paintings. In 2004, she had a solo show in Salt Lake City. It is one of her interests to inform the visitors of exhibitions about MCS. You can read her greeting words here.