Lorna Ritz received her MFA from the Cranberry Academy Art, Michigan and her BFA from Pratt Institute, New York. She has shown extensively throughout New England, alongside a notable teaching career at major institutions such as RISD, University of Minnesota, and Dartmouth College. She has traveled through the U.S. Information Embassy to teach overseas in Malta and Honduras and has exhibited with the Art-in-Embassies Program, D.C. in Africa, Guatemala, and Caracas. Ritz  is included in numerous public and private collections including The University of Michigan Museum of Contemporary Art and the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art. She currently works out of her barn studio in Amherst, MA.    CV

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Karen Reid studied at The Art Institute of Boston, The South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA. The Fuller Museum in Brockton, MA. The Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA. and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA where she earned her diploma in Fine Arts. She has studied many forms of fine art including drawing, painting, ceramics, monoprint and encaustics. Presently, her work centers on drawing and painting using oil paint, watercolor, wax and charcoal. Currently, Karen works out of her studio in Oxford, MA. and teaches painting and expressive art classes. Her work has been exhibited throughout New England.  CV

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Erin Reid is an interdisciplinary artist that plays with nuance. Her studies at the School of the Art Institute for Chicago directed her interest in painting, film, performance, and installation. Erin has exhibited in Chicago, Connecticut, and throughout Massachusetts. She currently works at the Worcester Art Museum and pursues independent studies in photography and dance. She is a Cofounder of EKD Gallery, an online gallery opened in September 2020 alongside her mother, Karen Reid, and artist, Don Munson. CV

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In a career spanning over fifty years, Don Munson has dedicated his practice to the fusion of graphic design and painting as an esteemed illustrator, graphic designer, painter, and poet. His work is in such public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Heckscher Museum, and the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration. Don has taught drawing, illustration, art history, design, typography and advertising at the Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and City University of New York. Don served as the Division Vice President and Art Director for Ballantine/Del Rey/Fawcett Books at Random House where he developed seven original typeface fonts and created covers for over 500 books. He has been nominated for a Grammy for his work on the Chicago VI album cover and held clients such as Readers Digest and The New York Times. Don currently works in his "Red Stair Studio" in his home in Longmeadow, MA and recently published his first novella, Edmund: A Voice Unheard in July 2021. CV