In 2006 Bolas launched a consulting firm to serve museums, community arts organizations, and academic institutions. Clients have included Clemson University, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, and the Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County. As a visiting scholar in the American Studies Department at UNC-Chapel Hill, Bolas is teaching a course entitled Electrifying Art! focused on art that employs televisions, lighting fixtures, computers, and other electrical and digital apparatus for artistic expression.

Bolas has a masters degree in medieval art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in American art from the City University of New York. His areas of interest encompass Asian and contemporary art, architecture and master planning, digital media and Web 2.0.

FRAN HARDY - Florida has been a fertile base for Fran Hardy's work and career including a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship and four solo museum exhibitions at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, The Museum of Florida Art, The Brevard Museum of Art and Science (a 15 Year Retrospective.) and the Gulf Coast Museum of Art. Her first solo museum exhibition was at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. Fran Hardy, In a Brilliant Light a documentary about her work aired on Orlando PBS, WMFE-TV.

In 2004 she and her husband moved to New Mexico near the rural town of Lamy about twenty minutes from Santa Fe where her fusion of abstraction and realism was born in a bold move from her previous work. Fran Hardy's traveling show, Pentimento at the Museum of Florida Art, in DeLand, Florida, in 2007 and the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Oklahoma showcased her new work. A second documentary Pentimento, The Artists Process aired on several PBS stations as well as internationally on FEC/PAEC-TV. Her work is in a number of museum collections and she is represented by Millenia Fine Art in Orlando, Florida, Longstreth-Goldberg Art in Naples, Florida and Uptown Gallery in NYC.