Paige Cragg

Paige holds a BFA in Art Education from UNC Greensboro and has spent over a decade teaching in the Durham and Chapel Hill area, including with Durham Public Schools and the Young Rembrandts program.

Outside the studio she has led a Girl Scout troop for more than fifteen years and served on church education boards. She works to make the studio a place where every student can grow as an artist and as a person.

Shelby Cragg

Shelby is a graduate of the Ringling College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration, and specializes in painting and color work. Alongside teaching at the Cary studio, she is illustrating her own series of science fiction novels, NEOKOSMOS.

Julie Driggers

Julie taught art at Green Hope Elementary and Baucom Elementary. She holds a BS in Commercial Design from Barton College and earned her art certification from Meredith College. She is a committed advocate for the arts in public education, and what she loves most is watching a class succeed.

Prathya Krishna Prasad

Prathya is an urban conservation architect and artist, born and raised in India, whose work sits where art, history, and cultural heritage meet. She paints in watercolor layered with texture and pen-and-ink detail, drawing on traditional Indian art forms and on her travels.

She brings that same curiosity to the classroom. Students working with Prathya learn where a technique came from and who used it first, so a project is never just a project. Through her art and her teaching, she fosters a deeper understanding of how heritage connects us all.

Carissa Schultze

Carissa is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer whose work looks for the emotional experiences people share, and uses them to build a connection with the viewer. Her style leans on classic, vintage-inspired dark academia, natural beauty, and close attention to detail. She currently attends Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

She works across digital and traditional production, shaped by the interplay of space, hierarchy, typography, and color. She is committed to making things by hand, and brings that commitment to her classroom.

Krysta Black-Mazumdar

Krysta holds a PhD in Art History from UNC Chapel Hill. She has taught art history at UNC Chapel Hill and NC State and worked as an educator and researcher at the National Gallery of Art and the Ackland Art Museum.

She spends her own time making art with her son and opened the studio to share that with the rest of Cary.

Arup Mazumdar

Arup moved to North Carolina from Mumbai to study Electrical Engineering at NC State and is now a VP of Engineering. He follows soccer and cricket and spends his free time with his son, Rohan.

Mary Buckner

Mary helps small business owners streamline marketing efforts without the frustration of navigating technology in the online arena, through her company, Compass VA.