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Jackie Reid - As far back as I can remember, I loved to create. My earliest memory is from kindergarden, where I colored in a butterfly with such determination to be unique that I hid my creation from the boy next to me, who watched closely for my next color choice so he could choose the same. I've experimented with just about every medium imaginable, but I fell in love with creating jewelry when I took a basic wire wrapping class at a local bead store. Ever since that day, my obsession with creating unique pieces has continued to blossom. What once started as a creative outlet in a guest bedroom has since expanded into a fully equipped studio where I solder, cut, hammer and fuse a variety of materials that make up my unique jewelry designs. 
Karen Casey is a Durham NC artist who has studied and experimented with stained glass for nearly 20 years and fusing for nearly 8 years. Karen's creations include a multi-colored selection of earrings, pendants and bracelets. In addition to unique jewelry designs, she also makes vases, candle holders, plates, bowls, clocks, mirrors, tables, hair adornments and funky art pieces just for pleasure! A combination of dichroic glass and other fusible glass give them their unique look and make each piece one of a kind. In addition to being an artist, Karen is a speech language pathologist with the specialty of augmentative communication. When she is not working or making glass creations Karen plays in a West African drum group. 
Susan Frosch is an imaginative jewelry designer, stained glass artist, photographer and accidental potter. Driven by a passion for self-expression through art, her works are often noted for their unusual approach. Susan's use of vibrant colors and expressive form give her art a strong emotive quality.Also trained in graphic arts, Susan is adept at creating commercial works and easily communicates the vision of her clients. Her illustrations have appeared in a vast array of marketing materials worldwide. Her floral, event & prop designs have delighted both individuals and corporations, in major cities across the country. After many years in a corporate environment, Susan chose to leave that lifestyle and to return to more creative pursuits. She lives & works in Downtown Durham, NC & couldn't be happier to have landed in a city with such a progressive atmosphere and cool art scene. 
Beth Palmer is a former elementary art teacher. She began taking her own artwork seriously after a breast cancer diagnosis in 2003 and some difficult side effects of her cancer treatments. She has exhibited her work many times since then, and frequently donates art to benefit individuals and organizations. Beth is a member of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare and the National Art Education Association. Her painting, David's Legacy, which was painted for David Turner before his death, was on the 2009 Durham Public Schools Teacher Appreciation Week poster, and is also a logo for the foundation. She is on the arts advisory council for DPS, participates regularly in the Durham Art Walk, sponsored by the Durham Arts Council, and is also beginning a new career as an Arts in Healthcare Consultant. She is a member of the LabourLove Gallery Collective at Golden Belt in downtown Durham, and her prints, cards, and gift items are available in several Triangle specialty shops: Bull City Craft and In the Pink Wigs and Boutique in Durham, Spiral Studios in Hillsborough, A Remix Gallery/Studio in Carrboro, and Cute Buttons Cards and Gifts stationery shop in Cary. Beth and her artwork have been featured in the Durham Herald-Sun, The Durham News edition of The Raleigh News and Observer, and also on WTVD news. She has also written two columns in The Durham News about her life as an artist after cancer, and an essay and painting were published in Touched by Cancer magazine. She designed the *wishing you wonderfulness* line of coffee mugs, hand painted scarves, T-shirts, tote bags, and cards. As Mrs. January, for Fighting Faces 2011, a Columbus, Ohio based inspiring calendar featuring cancer "thrivers," she helped raise funds for Pretty in Pink Foundation, a NC non-profit organization that assists uninsured and underinsured women who are undergoing breast cancer treatment. Themes of her art include the healing power of love, being kind and compassionate, and remembering what truly matters in life...and taking committed actions toward those things. Beth and her husband have two adult sons and live in Durham, NC. 
Jackie Helvey, web designer for A Remix Art Gallery, was on the Town of Carrboro Arts Committee Advisory Board from 1998 until 2011, is a founder of the Carrboro Music Festival and current member of that committee, and the founder of the Carrboro Film Festival and co-chair in 2011. She is an award winning web designer and photographer, is the owner of UniqueOrn Enterprises and Carrboro.com, has a radio show Fridays at 6 pm on WCOM 103.5 FM and a television show on the Peoples Channel in Carrboro/Chapel Hill Tuesdays at 11 am and in Durham on Wednesdays at 4 pm called The Wacqueline Stern Show. Jackie has worked for over a decade to put Carrboro in the forefront as a town dedicated to the arts.
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