Martie McNabb is a personal historian/visual storysharer and founder of Memories Out of the Box ® and Thingtide Show & Tale ®. Thingtide Show & Tale ® is an international creative marketing platform that pays licensees to market their own small business, art/work. This simple, yet powerful format provides high touch, high customer engagement while increasing brand awareness and customer loyalty.

Maria Tsaguriya is a Brooklyn based artist/hairstylist working on multiple conceptual projects that seek to suspend in tension every moment, showing the fragility of life and speed that it passes as eternal human struggle persist. Currently she is utilizing traditional pastel as a means to capture moments of natural beauty and the effervescence of youth. Maria was drawn to the NYC art scene and moved to NYC to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology and graduated with a BA in fine arts with a focus on sculpture and painting.

Heidi Russell is a fine art photographer, curator, and entrepreneur.  In 2004, Heidi left her career in academic fundraising to make her passions of photography and the Arts, international cultural exchange, and connecting people a part of her daily life and purpose. Ms. Russell is founder and director of the cross-disciplinary International Women Artists’ Salon, connecting women creatives of all disciplines, generations, stages of career, and backgrounds around the globe to raise up women’s artistry in all disciplines and societies.