Founder and owner, Jo-Ann Lizio, is a fine artist, art therapist and art educator. Born in Peekskill, New York, she resides in Naples, Florida. Ms. Lizio is classically trained, having received her BS in Art Education from the State University College at Buffalo, New York, and her MA in Therapeutic Techniques of Art Education from the College of New Rochelle, New York.

Jo-Ann Lizio at work.

She was Chair of the School of Arts and Sciences Arts Department, Assistant Professor of Art and the Supervisor of Art Student Teachers at the College of New Rochelle, New York. She served as an art consultant at a school for learning disabled and as a Registered Art Therapist in private practice. Jo-Ann Lizio is a former Professor of Art in New York, and has over thirty years of teaching and exhibition experience in Massachusetts, New York, Washington, DC, and Florida. She was a featured artist in the Naples Museum of Art 7th Annual Artist's Studio Tour.