French-American Painter and Sculptor Valérie Chaussonnet worked as a museum anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, a specialist of Siberian and North American Native cultures, before moving to Austin in 1997. She attended the Corcoran Art School in Washington, DC to study sculpture and art furniture. Steel, Watercolor and fiber are her main mediums. One of her sculptures, a whimsical assemblage of crocheted yarn French pastries, is currently on exhibit at the Austin City Hall’s People Gallery for two years. She participates in numerous art exhibitions and opens her studio, La Petite Provence Austin, which doubles as a French Language and Art school, twice a year for visitors.

Georges Schemagin, aka Mr-Photographer.com, has been snapping pictures for decades and over 16 years professionally. Based in Austin, Texas - he juggles his Wellness Campus Tiger ATX and local/global photography gigs - seeking to shoot it all and not limit himself to the singular niches that photography tends to offer, Georges lives by the creed: “If you understand light, and people/nature/physics - you can capture almost anything.”