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Paul Gordon Schalow, Lived briefly at the Piano Factory while working on the first complete English translation of Ihara Saikaku's Great Mirror of Male Love, a 17th-century work (Stanford University Press, 1990). Translated in part in 1928, its publication was a result of the tremendous interest of turn-of-the-century Europe in the Japanese tradition of male love. Motivated by efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in England and Germany, the first translators saw Japan, like Classical Greece, as a model of social tolerance. The German translators were later killed in the Holocaust. Mr Schalow is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Rutgers. He is working on a second book. His wife, Kiri Lee is Assistant Professor of Japanese at Lehigh University. They have two children, Eric, and Emlyn Mio.

Carol Schweigert, Illustrator, graphic designer, mechanical artist, and archeological site planner. Clients include CIO Magazine, Earthwatch, Newsday, The Boston Globe, Filene's, Brigham & Women's Hospital and NYNEX. She writes, "Living in the Piano Factory was a great help making the transition from staff production artist to freelance illustrator, offering me financial stability and the longest single address and phone number of my life." I miss [its] supportive artistic community."

Chris Scovel, Architect.

Julia Seltz, Photographer, writer. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she has been working on feature films, television and commercials. She still photographs for magazines. She has published some of her short stories and says "Hollywood is fulla lies, excitement, and bad manners. The Piano Factory was a good place to meet people and generate ideas."

Rolf Semprebon, Writer, painter, electronic musician, in the process of publishing a suspense novel, Taxi Exit. Many of the Artists in the Piano Factory remember him as the accountant who de-mystified their complicated tax returns. He writes, "I have not been anywhere near as productive with my art since moving from the Piano Factory. I do miss the inspiration [it] created."

Caroline Shaw, Woodworker. Ms Shaw is also a practicing attorney. She is the daughter of Owen Shaw.

P> Sidney Smith, Also known as Sid the Kid, Mr Smith received a master's degree in film scoring from the Berklee College of Music. Locally he plays in The House of Blues, Harper's Ferry, and very locally at Wally's. He has toured with Luther "Guitar" Junior Johnson and Larry Coryell, and appeared in the play about the late jazzman Louis Jordan, Five Guys Named Moe at the Wilbur Theater. He has just released his second CD, Tears of a Lion on his own label, Solo Records.

Mary Shaw, Dressmaker. She was the wife of Owen Shaw.

Owen Shaw, Archival Musical Instrument Maker. He made violins, viols da gamba, and guitars in the piano factory before it became the Piano Factory. Instrument makers like Mr Shaw helped establish Boston's world-wide reputation as an Early Music Center. He died of a stroke.

Lawrence Siegel, Composer, performer, teacher and scholar, Mr Siegel is founder and director of Culture in Community, a residency program which addresses community issues via the performing arts. He has received grants from the Lila Wallace and the Bergen Foundations; fellowships from Tanglewood, the MacDowell Colony and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. He was composer-in-residence at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and is co-editor of a forthcoming book of essays on the discipline of music, to be published by the University of Virginia Press.

Robert Silverman, Master Carpenter, furniture-maker, painter. Mr Silverman ran off to New York City to become an actor.

Pat Sinclair, Potter. Living and working in Lawrence Kansas.

Danny Sloan, Founder of the Danny Sloan Dance Company, Mr Sloan was a longtime resident of The Piano Factory. An active performer and choreographer, he studied at the Joffrey School and the School of the Pennsylvania Ballet and taught at the Joy of Movement Center, the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio and the Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts. He died of leukemia. His spirit lives on in The Piano Factory, as the building's Community Room now bears his name.

David Small, Painter.

Aaron Smith, Percussionist. Moved to California.

Constance Smith, Painter, Mosa‹cist. She lives with her 3 daughters, Zoe, Coco, and Eva, all of whom were born in the Piano Factory.

Georgia Kohm Smith, Sculptor/Installation. A self-described seamstress, she uses material found in the textile trades: fabric, zippers, thread and pin cushions. With these she fashions objects that literally deconstruct the concepts of labor and women's work. This post-feminist artist wields girlish, homey materials like Lysistratesque weapons in the ongoing gender war of modern life. Her skirt made entirely of zippers suggests a flippant armor, not to mention the implied threat of all those teeth. She now lives and works in the Bay Area. She has been highly praised by the press and is the recipient of several awards.

Ted Spagna, Photographer and film-maker, Mr Spagna linked art and science in his sleep portraits of animals and people. His multi-image sequential photographs have appeared in National Geographic, the Sunday Magazine of the New York Times, People magazine, as well as in standard text books, scientific journals and pharmaceutical ads. His art/science fusion became a multi-media installation known as Dreamstage, which was presented at The Museum of Science in Boston, among other venues. Mr Spagna, who died of AIDS in 1989, was eulogized in both People and Art in America.

Gary Stearly, Artist working in oils (often on birch and similar woods) who moved not far from Boston (Arlington.) Still exhibiting in the Gallery at the Piano Factory, with a show that closed in March 1998. Very busy with several shows scheduled in NYC for 1998. He writes, in August, 2001: Good morning. I saw my name on a site for the Piano Factory... I am living in Arlington, MA and painting and exhibiting in Boston, New York ... You can view some of my current work at garystearly.com. I hope this is of some assistance. Also my email stearly@mediaone.net

Vincent Stringer, Bass-baritone Vincent Stringer is a graduate of Eastern Nazarene College and the New England Conservatory. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New England Youth Ensemble Orchestra; at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. He has toured throughout Europe, China, the Middle East and South Africa. He is artistic director of the New England Steering Committee of the American Negro Spiritual Research Foundation and the New England Spiritual Ensemble.

Dennis Sturzin, Artist, mixed media.

Mary Sweet (Fiandaca), Fashion designer, photographer.

Phil Salkind, Composer and guitarist, Mr Salkind has performed with his own band extensively. He also composes music for television and video productions, and teaches in many area schools. He has worked tirelessly on behalf of the Artists at The Piano Factory. He is part of the "Great Move-out of 1999."

Kevin Scorgie, Mr Scorgie has been a painter since 1969. He has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts School (Staff Exhibition), the Massachusetts College of Art, and the Gallery at the Piano Factory. He has also shown work at the Art Lick Gallery in San Francisco, California. He is part of the "Great Move-out of 1999."

Wayne Strattman, Founder of Strattman Design, he is a self-taught artist who works in glass and light. His neon signs are seen throughout Boston. His works, anrt/science fusion, are exhibited worldwide. He also teaches at the Boston and Cambridge Centers for Adult Education and writes a column on neon for Signs of the Times, a trade magazine for sign makers. His neon art work is seen on the set of the Star Trek motion picture First Contact, and the television series Voyager. He is part of the "Great Move-out of 1999."

Tom Stankowicz, Photographer and artist, Mr Stankowicz owned and operated NightSparks Studio. His pictures have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, and The Guardian (London), and his postcards are seen on countless refrigerators across the country. His exhibitions, Cartooning, Vinny Criss Has No Teeth, and Five have delighted masses in Greater Boston. Monographs include Without a Passport, Sandwich, and The Famous and Near. He was Artist-in-Residence at the Hale Middle School, and Instructor of Photography at the Boston School for the Deaf. He married Karen and moved to Somerville. Most recently he was Director of Education at the Boston Architectural Center. He passed away quite suddenly in his prime from a massive heart attack in September, 2001. Tom, we miss you.