Ambassador Stuart Holliday is CEO of Meridian International Center, a leading non-partisan institution advancing global security and prosperty through effective leadership and diplomacy. Stuart is a self-taught artist.

Liliane began painting at an early age. She earned her doctorate in pharmacy from St. Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon. Since then she has volunteered as a research assistant in the Department of Neurology at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, helped found a suicide prevention hotline in Beirut called Embrace, and initiated and directed a recreational activity center for long-term pediatric patients at the American University Hospital of Beirut, which has become part of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. She paints in many different styles and enjoyed art history courses at the Glassel School of Art in Houston with the late Dr. David Brauer. She finds she is painting more than ever and is inspired by her late mother, who she says aged gracefully, and elegantly, cherishing her friendships.

Tessa Morris's painting is inspired by nature and color. Her background in landscape design began at George Washington University in their Landscape Design Program. She studied botanical drawing and watercolor painting at the Corcoran School of Art. Watercolor has been her favorite medium, but she also works with pastels, oil, and acrylic. The interplay of color and composition is an important focus of her work. Awards include best in show and Second Place at the Chevy Chase Women’s Club annual show. 

Debra Perkins is an award-winning contemporary fine artist and is represented by Touchstone Gallery. Jean-Michel Basquiat's quote: “Every single line means something” perfectly captures the importance to Debra of every line in her paintings. Be it straight or curved, thick or thin, fluid or broken, pristine or textured, every line really does mean something. Her lines are integral to visually telling a story or evoking an emotion. By connecting disparate things, creating or traversing boundaries, and forging paths to follow, she uses lines of all kinds as well as color to speak to social justice issues, life journeys, and the reconciliation of conflicts. Her color palettes sometimes involve considerable contrast to create strength commensurate with the challenges she is seeking to understand, resolve or represent. The inspiration behind her paintings may not be obvious, so there is room for each viewer to see Debra’s work through their own lens and to experience it in their own unique way. Debra’s paintings can be seen at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC.

Robin Breckenridge Stiner is an abstract painter with a passion for color, shape and pattern. She enjoys having her paintings reveal themselves to her during the process of creation and the challenge that not portraying anything representational brings. Robin was trained as a graphic designer and founded a marketing and design firm in Washington, DC, in the 1980s.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Skidmore College.

John Stiner is a self-taught abstract expressionist painter. His palette is often subdued tones that suggest landscapes from places he and his wife have visited. He uses acrylic paint and employs various techniques to apply and move the paint on the canvas, including scraping, dripping, and rubbing. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Connecticut College and the

University of Connecticut School of Law.