Artist, writer and editor Raymond Elman co-founded Provincetown Arts magazine in 1985. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the ArtSpeak arts publication platform, which is sponsored by the FIU Lee Caplin School of Journalism & Media in The College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University. Elman’s paintings have been widely exhibited and are included in numerous collections. His large-scale portraits of Pulitzer Prize recipients Stanley Kunitz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alan Dugan and U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Elman holds a BS and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.