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Pamela Joy Trow is a life-long artist with an award-winning career in design, illustration, and creative
direction. She was first introduced to wholesale working as a surface designer for a woman’s
footwear company, where deadlines were set to the wholesale trade show calendar. Pamela
eventually applied her experience to creating a line of wearable art jewelry, sold to retailers around
the country, through sales reps at AmericasMart Atlanta, wholesale trade center. As she developed
her art business through traditional venues, Pamela turned her paintings and illustrations into a line
of greeting cards, art prints, and ephemera, sold through retail stores and museum shops around the
country and internationally

KD Tobin has been painting for over 35 years. Painting, sculpting, & teaching are his passions. Mr. Tobin’s work has evolved from very large abstract-figurative to smaller, purely abstract pieces. Close examination of a particular piece will reveal texture, hand-prints & even footprints that are part of the process of creation. Buried within many pieces are subtle snippets of newsprint, headlines, & other social commentary that act as time-code elements to root the piece and act as a reference to its place in time.

Mary Lou Williams is a retired teacher and a professional storyteller. She holds a masters degree in education from Columbia University. She has served on the board of the Florida Storytelling Association and has produced local storytelling workshops and concerts featuring national storytellers. She is also a member of Toastmasters and has achieved the Distinguished Toastmaster award. Mary Lou has written a book of her stories called Ten Fractured Fairy Tales. She is a member of The Storytellers of the Round Table. She won 1st Place in the Story Slam contest at the 2018 Florida Storytelling Festival, and 1st Place in the District 48 Toastmasters Humorous Speech contest in May 2022.

Nancy Mayhew is a self-taught mosaic artist. She always dreamed of making mosaics when she was a child. Twenty years ago, with a cement garden turtle and a broken plate she started her first mosaic. Since that time she has made thousands of mosaics ranging from garden mosaics, wall art mosaics, mosaics on rocks and mosaic jewelry. Nancy uses all types of medium in her creations from stained glass, beads, jewelry, stone, tile, shells, crystals, fossils, sea glass and driftwood. Besides being a mosaic artist Nancy has been teaching the ancient practice of Qigong and Tai Chi. She uses the five Chinese Elements in her new creations: Wood, Fire, Earth (stone). Metal and Water. Her goal is to bring these elements into art for people’s homes and offices (residential and commercial).

Nancy’s mosaics can be seen during the summer months at the Beloit Farmer’s Market, at the Beloit Art Center, at the Villager and Walnut in downtown Beloit.

Nancy loves custom orders and teaches several mosaic classes in Beloit and Janesville Wisconsin and Rockford Illinois.

In 2020 and in 2021 Nancy won Wisconsin State Awards for her mosaics.