Brooke Rothshank has been working as a studio artist since 2002. She is a painter/illustrator working in a variety of media including oil, acrylic and egg tempera paint. Brooke’s work as a miniature artist has been exhibited around the country and featured in both Miniature Collector and Dollhouse Miniatures magazines. In 2009 Brooke illustrated her third book, Julia's Words, for Herald Press. Brooke’s work has been exhibited at the Midwest Museum of Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, Garfield Artworks, the Chicago International Miniature Exhibit, and elsewhere. Brooke is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the International Guild of Miniature Artists. She has taught miniature portrait painting for the International Guild of Miniature Artisans School in Castine Maine. Brooke is currently working on series of miniature portraits for a joint solo show with her husband at Hershberger Art Gallery in Goshen Indiana.

Justin Rothshank is a studio ceramic artist working in Goshen, Indiana. In 2001 he was co-founder of the Union Project, a nonprofit organization located in Pittsburgh, PA. Justin served as Associate Director and Principal Artist until 2009. Justin’s work at the Union Project was recognized with numerous historic preservation and social innovation awards from city, state, and national organizations.  Justin’s ceramic work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally, including articles in Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, Studio Potter and Neue Keramik. He has been a presenter, panelist, visiting artist, and artist-in-residence at numerous universities, schools, conferences, and art centers throughout the United States and abroad. His functional and decorative ceramic ware with decals is available for purchase in more than two dozen galleries and gift shops around the country.  In the Spring of 2010 Justin was an invited Artist-in-Residence at Baltimore Clayworks, in Maryland, where he made and freely distributed hundreds of cups that were decorated by community members around the theme Cups of Hope. In Summer 2010 Justin designed and built a two-chamber wood kiln at his home studio with the help of friends from Missouri and Sweden. He produces a line of functional and decorative wood fired ware fired in this kiln.  Justin was presented with an Award of Excellence by the American Craft Council in February 2009. In 2007 he was recognized by Ceramics Monthly Magazine as an Emerging Artist. He has also been awarded an Alcoa Foundation Leadership Grant for Arts Managers, a 2007 Work of Art Award from Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the 2005 Decade of Servant Leadership Award from Goshen College, and was named to Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 under 40 in 2005.