Paula Owen holds the MFA degree in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, the MS degree in Art Education from Minnesota State University, and a BA in art and political science from Luther College in Iowa. Prior to joining the Southwest School of Art & Craft in San Antonio, Texas as president and CEO in 1996, she was the Director of the Visual Art Center of Richmond, Virginia from 1985-1996 and has also held positions in business and education.

She has organized regional and national conferences, served on numerous national and regional boards and panels including the National Endowment for the Arts, and served on the board of the Craft Emergency Relief Fund. She is a frequent lecturer and has written for various art periodicals and catalogs. A book of essays entitled Objects and Meaning, New Perspectives on Art and Craft that she co-authored with Anna Fariello, was published by Scarecrow Press in 2003. Owen is also a practicing artist whose work is in public and private collections.

Denise Ward-Brown is an internationally exhibited sculptor who frequently explores African and African-American themes and history. She has based works on topics ranging from the Middle Passage, when slave ships brought captive Africans to the New World, to stories by author Toni Morrison and contemporary funeral rituals in Ghana.

She has exhibited at the "O" Street Gallery and the Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery in Washington and the Cinque Gallery in New York. She has been part of numerous group exhibitions, including shows at the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Maryland at College Park and the Port of History Museum in Philadelphia. Denise was a 1997 recipient of the Fulbright Scholar for an African Research Program in Ghana.

Denise earned her B.F.A. in Painting, and her M.F.A. in Sculpture at Howard University. She is currently Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Sculpture at Washington University in St. Louis.

Tom Huck is a visual artist best known for his large scale satirical woodcuts. He earned his B.F.A. in Drawing at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and his M.F.A. in Printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis.

Tom has exhibited on a national and international level, and he has lectured widely across the U.S. about his work. His woodcut prints are included in numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, and New York Public Library. He currently runs his own press, Evil Prints, and is a Senior Lecturer in Art at Washington University.