Ricky Vertolli is a mixed-media artist living in Durham, NC. He graduated from Evergreen State College with a bachelor’s in visual arts and media Studies. He has been a vital Frame & Print Shop Member since October 2022.

Ash Lindner has been putting your art in beautifully designed frames for almost 2 decades… but did you know that she is also an artist? Ash has a fascination with the long extinct, rarely seen alien-like organisms, and kaiju. She specializes in colored pencil studies of flora and fauna that inspire her to artistic interpretations of Darwinian deviations. She has a keen eye for evolutionary oddities and dead enders to illustrate.- R.E. Ream IV

James Rinearson is from Montclair, NJ and studied sculpture at Guilford College. James works with wood, metals, and plastics. James is one of our newest team members and joined us in March 2023.

Anatolii Tarasuik is an abstract artist, composer and videographer born in Ukraine in 1978. In the summer 2022, his family fled from Kiev, Ukraine to North Carolina. Today he continues his art in Hillsborough, North Carolina where he has a studio at the Eno Arts Mill. Anatolii’s art style is abstract expressionism with oils on canvas with lots of color. He joined the Frame & Print Shop Team this past April.

Katy Kaltenbrun first started working at the Frame & Print Shop in January of 2021, but she has been framing for almost ten years in various shops. Originally from Reno, Nevada, she has a BA in Music and she is a classically trained singer. After first studying pottery at a community college, she took a private apprenticeship focusing on wheel throwing and raku pottery. She is a member of Antfarm Studios in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Holly Yohn is a self-taught artist who grew up in Florida, and currently lives in Chapel Hill. She primarily works in acrylic and wood, and is inspired by old houses, ghost stories, and animals. She has been a framer for eight years and has been with the Frame and Print Shop since the summer of 2022.

Scott Shaner has been working in the Framing Industry for over thirty years. He studied Illustration and design at San Francisco Academy of Art. He has a degree in graphic design. For two years he served on the board of Professional Picture Framing Association for the Carolina’s. He enjoys figure drawing and sculpture when he is not at the Frame & Print Shop.

Julia is a painter, collage artist, and graphic designer living in Durham. She earned her MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in Painting, and her BA in Studio Art from Guilford College. The newest member of the Frame & Print Shop team, she has 10 years of previous fine framing and gallery experience. More of her work can be seen on her website: www.juliacharmon.com

Kellen is a graffiti artist originally from Las Vegas. He works in a variety of mediums including acrylics, metalworking, sculptures and street art installations. With over 12 years of experience in fine art framing and galleries, his pieces can be found in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Oakland, and San Francisco.