Celeste was born and raised in upstate New York where she began her art career living in a community of artists in the Adirondack Mountains. She spent her early years judging the subtle shifts in color between grades of the finest dark maple syrup, on her family’s off-grid maple syrup farm. This love for the play of light and color and the feeling of being at the center of a solitary forest is at the core of her work as an oil painter today. While a largely self taught artist, Celeste studied drawing and painting at the New Mexico Art League and Watts Atelier. She holds a BA in anthropology, mountain geography and linguistics from the University of Montana, and an BSN in nursing from Montana State University.

While a hint of an accent reveals Maryland roots, Colorado has been Brazee’s home since 2001. Returning to college as a “late-bloomer,” she now holds two graduate degrees, one in environmental science with an emphasis in ecosystems and the other in visual art with an emphasis in painting. This unusual combination of interests has profoundly influenced her work, keeping it suspended somewhere between recognizable reality and imaginary narrative. Brazee’s primary love is painting; through it, she investigates human relationships with the natural world, its creatures, others, and themselves. She gathers photographs that she has taken and those from public archives, creating collages as references for her paintings. Through this process, she makes social commentary with a sprinkling of humor, a nip of nonsense, a dash of self-deprecation, and a dose of deeper meaning.

Ingrid Oliphant is a savant artist whose creative journey began unexpectedly in 2022, echoing her earlier awakening to the capacity to heal through touch in 2009. Drawing from her work as a shaman, Ingrid channels what she calls the "Language of Creation" into her paintings, offering viewers a deeply mystical and multi-sensory experience.

Karen Kokjer has been passionate about drawing and painting since childhood, where early exposure to art included classes at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and inspiring art teachers throughout her education. While minoring in painting and graphics in college, she also majored in Chemistry, balancing her artistic creativity with technical expertise.