Alexandra N. Sherman grew up at the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in Upperville, Virginia. She also spent a portion of her childhood living in London and traveling across Europe with her family. Much of the art and architecture that she was exposed to while traveling through the continent became the basis for her love of art, especially Victorian paintings and medieval manuscript illuminations. Alexandra wears many hats; she was the curator of the Dadian Gallery in Washington, DC,…

Gary Smith has lived and worked in Berryville and Winchester for 40 years. He developed a passion for woodworking in his teens and has been chasing the dream of creating wood sculpture, furniture and saving pieces of wood from the woodstove ever since. With four years of retirement behind him, he has focused on building custom machinery to explore other woodworking avenues. Dawn Mickel has been playing with clay since first studying tile making with Joan Gardiner of Unison Pottery.…