Peggy is a lifelong resident of Jefferson County and has always been active in the community. She retired from City National Bank but presently serves as chairperson for their advisory board of directors. Peggy is a past President of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce and she served on the board for over twenty years. She has served on the Jefferson County Development Authority and the Eastern Regional Planning and Development Council. She has served on the board of directors for United Way, served as a campaign co-chair, was volunteer of the year and received United Ways highest honor the Van Ryzin Award. Peggy has served on Habitat for Humanity board of directors.

From 2005 to 2017, Peggy served as mayor for the City of Charles Town. She started the movement to save Happy Retreat and was a founding member of Friends of Happy Retreat. During her term, Charles Washington Hall was renovated and returned to its original use.  Peggy initiated a National Endowment of the Arts grant to establish a C Town arts district.  She also initiated and then chaired committees for the Charles Town Car Show and the WV Fest. Peggy serves on the Jefferson County Convention and Visitor Bureau board of directors and is dedicated to promoting tourism and the Arts.

Judy was a Jefferson County Art Elementary Educator for thirty-five years before she retired in 2016. Judy's Arts education background includes being Jefferson County Mentor Teacher, a Shepherd University Student Teacher Supervisor and 19 yrs. as Co-director of the Jefferson County Arts & Humanities Alliance Summer Sampler. Judy has been a recipient of the following awards: 1992 West Virginia Art Education Association "Outstanding Art Educator" Award, 1992 & 1994 WVAEA Fall Conference Presenter, 1996 WVAEA Fall Conference Presenter & Gallery Show, 1997 Jefferson County Teacher of the Year, 1997 WVAEA "Outstanding Art Educator" Award, 1998 Robert Rauschenberg- "Power of Art Award" Washington D.C., 1999 Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholar to Japan, 2001 & 2006 WVAEA "Elementary Art Educator of the Year." Judy has been awarded 22 grants from WV Education Mini-grants, WV Dept. of Culture & History, Jefferson County Arts & Humanities and Jefferson Arts Council.

Kendra has a BFA from James Madison University and  BA in art education k-12 from Shepherd University. She currently teaches elementary school art in Jefferson County. Prior to teaching she worked in the art department at IBM and in marketing for EDAW, Inc., landscape architects and planners. Kendra also serves on the board of directors for Art Works for Good.

Kirsten explores the unruly mysteries of nature in photography, paint, and mixed media. Her work is often seen in locally and nationally juried exhibitions, as well as group and solo shows. Her two mosaic designs sparkle on local park bridges as anchors of a community arts installation. Kirsten is a popular teaching artist throughout the eastern panhandle and beyond. She has been awarded a Puffin Foundation Artist's Grant, and has received multiple grants through the WVDACH, the WV Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Ken Fanelli is currently president and Board chair of the Firehouse Artists Cooperative in Charles Town, WV. He holds a B.A. in Art History from American University and an M.S. in Nonprofit Management from Eastern College. His late father, Victor, was a commercial artist in the “Madmen” era, and his mother, Janice, was a high school art teacher. In the 1980s Ken was an arts and culture columnist in the Philadelphia area. He worked for nearly 30 years as a writer, editor, marketer and desktop publisher for associations and nonprofits, among them Winterthur Museum, Hagley Museum, Catholic University and the Club Managers Association of America. Since 2017 he has worked as a substitute teacher in the Jefferson County public schools.

Suzanne Ravgiala’s talents include gold leafing, faux marble, wall murals, stenciling, antique reproduction signage, woodworking, decorative furniture painting, songwriting and quilting with found embroidered pieces. Some of her clients have been The Architect of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., The Smithsonian Institute, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Pratt Art Institute in Brooklyn, and The National Park Service Restoration Division. She was commissioned to stencil a historic church addition in Ellicott City Maryland and won the Craftsman of the Year Award from the Building Congress of Baltimore for that job. She lettered numerous display cases in the Smithsonian Institute’s 1876 Exhibit. She has gold leafed for many clients such as The Kennedy Center, The Pride of Baltimore tall ship, The National Park Service in Alaska, Roosevelt’s house Sagamore Hill, The Capitol Building in D.C., one of the clustered gold spires in Frederic Md., and the Pentagon. Some of her work can be seen at www.mauxfaux.weebly.com

Diane Myers is a fiber artist concentrating on traditional handweaving. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Mercyhurst University and a Master of Urban Affairs degree from Virginia Tech. Diane worked in the corporate world before moving to Jefferson County in 2002. She worked in the county schools as a substitute teacher before becoming a juried member of the Over the Mountain Studio Tour. She is a member of the Fiber Guild of the Blue Ridge.

Sandra Nichols (Sandy) is a jewelry artist whose passion for making jewelry began in 2006. Her jewelry conveys beauty, elegance, unique design, and timeless style. She finds inspiration in the colors and patterns in nature. Natural gemstones are her material of choice, which she highlights using wire and metal, to create original wearable art. In search of a historic home, Sandy moved to Jefferson County in 1991. She retired from corporate life in sales and marketing in 2008 and began focusing on her hobbies, especially the art of making jewelry. Beginning in 2010, she became involved in various organizations in search of means to generate a greater focus on the arts.