| Kelly McConnell Cox was born in Lima, Pennsylvania in 1973 and grew up in Chester County. Art and music runs in her family. Kelly's artistic ability first appeared at age six in a portrait she drew of her three older brothers. From grade school through high school, she won awards at local art shows for her pastel and watercolor portraits. Kelly's professional training began as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware in Newark, where she received awards for her artistic achievement and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. Soon after, she earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the prestigious Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her mentor, Grace Hartigan, helped Kelly refine her basic interest in light and the human form into more meaningful situations within the canvas space. It wasn't until Kelly returned to her roots in Chester County, PA that she found her painting voice. Her work portrays her local surroundings and the Jersey Shore (where she vacations every summer). Her love of animals and open space is revealed in her most recent work. Kelly is also known for her striking commissioned portraits of people and pets. After a recent eye-opening trip to Tanzania, Africa, Kelly plans to paint exotic animals in their natural habitat. Kelly has been painting professionally since 1999 and exhibits her work in galleries throughout the Tri-State area, including Carspecken-Scott, Wilmington Delaware, Brush & Palette, Kennett Square, PA, Peter McPhee Fine Arts, Stone Harbor, NJ, and Lambertville Gallery, Lambertville, NJ. 
Jon Cox is a wildlife and nature photographer crossing the digital world with the oldest photographic processes of tintypes and dagguerotypes . Jon holds a master's degree in fine arts, teaches photography at the University of Delaware and conducts photography workshops throughout the tri-state area. Jon has been a professional photographer since 1998 and exhibits his work in numerous galleries along the East Coast. Jon also leads photography tours to worldwide locations, including Antarctica, Vietnam, Australia, Patagonia, Tanzania and across the United States National Parks. Jon is the photographer/author of the two books, Digital Nature Photography 2003 and Digital Nature Photography Closeup 2005. Jon was also the Adventure Photographer/Writer for Digital Camera Magazine with over twenty full feature articles published. After being the photographer for a cultural mapping project of Hadza Hunter Gatherers, Jon was recently asked to be a Board Member of the Dorobo Fund a non-profit fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples of Tanzania.
Danielle Quigley is a freelance photographer whose photos have appeared in national magazines including Digital Camera and Photo District News. She also contributes to several regional publications and works as a photographer for the University of Delaware, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Since graduating with a bachelor's degree in photojournalism from the University of Delaware, she has worked continuously to cultivate her twin passions for nature and portrait photography by shooting weddings, photojournalism projects and documenting her treks throughout the U.S., South America, Europe and Antarctica. 
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