Erno Keskeney

Erno has been interested in glass art from a very young age. His early encounters include breaking his grandmother’s chandelier with a flagpole, and carving crix-crax into the glass plate of his front door with a sharp stone. The real interest started years later, when he bent his first glass tube during a short glass blowing instruction in chemistry class.  Since then his dream was to learn to manipulate glass in the fire. His dream became a reality when he saw an ad for a Glass casting class with instructor Lucartha Kohler at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.  He was then directed to the Salem County Community College where he began glass blowing at the torch. After taking several weekend classes, workshops, and subsequent semesters he was hooked!   He met and was inspired by great artists like Emilio Santini, Luccio Bubacco, Shane Fero and the great Paul Stankard. He mentioned to someone that glass art was his hobby, and the person corrected him “It is your passion my friend.” And he was right.

Lisa S. Lutwyche                                        

Lisa studied fine art at Philadelphia College of Art (now called University of the Arts), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Youngstown State University.  She has a BFA in Studio Art (Watercolor) and a BA in Art History.  Lisa also spent 28 years in corporate and residential architecture and design.  Lisa has taught watercolor, creative writing, poetry, and interior design at CCArts in Yorklyn, Delaware since 1992.  She has been an adjunct instructor in the Fine & Performing Arts department of Cecil College in Elkton, Maryland since 2008.  She has taught workshops in art and creative writing in numerous other venues, including the Kennett Friends Home in Kennett Square, at A Room of Her Own at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, and privately, to home schoolers.  She has shown and sold her watercolors successfully in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Ohio.  A poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, she has had poetry published widely in the US, as well as in two anthologies in the UK, and

two one-act plays produced in Philadelphia.  Lisa received her MFA in Creative Writing in January of

2013 through a low residency program at Goddard College in Vermont.  

Lois Johnson                                                                                    

One of her earliest memories is sitting next to her mother on the porch while her mother was creating an elaborate sampler.  Her mother handed Lois a threaded needle and a little embroidery hoop with white fabric in it, to embroider whatever Lois wanted, which was a drawing of her dog and herself. She gave her first attempt to her father for Father's Day. She hasn't stopped since.  Learning  her first stitches from her mother and grandmother, and then from excellent books, she then began teaching along the way, sharing her pleasure of this medium. She loves embroidery's freedom to create, and to color outside the lines.