Ellen Hopkins Fountain many awards include the “Art of the Northeast Watercolor Award” and the “Windsor & Newton Painting Award.” Her career began as a scenic artist, working in film, television and theater in venues ranging from The Santa Fe Opera to Sesame Street. In 1989, she began painting in watercolor. Fountain earned a BFA degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and has exhibited in galleries throughout New York State, including a solo show at the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City. Sheppard said that her work “combines lush, personal color with the elegance of classical compositions in a style that is distinctively contemporary . . . and the results are intensely magnetic and deeply satisfying paintings.”

Stephen Geldman lives both in Hawley, along the Lackawaxen River, and in New York City. He received a
BA in art from Cal State Los Angeles and a MA from UC Irvine. Early on, Geldman was influenced by the feminist artist, Judy Chicago, the painter, Peter Krasnow and the sculptors, Peter Alexander and Masami Teraoka. In 1980, he won the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship in the annual competition and was chosen by Robert Motherwell to spend a year at the American Academy in Rome. In 2009, he had a solo show at the Philip Alan Gallery in the East Village of New York City.