In terms of career transitions, oil painter John C. Gawne has experienced perhaps one of the more drastic ones: from 20 years as an accountant and stockbroker in Chicago to a full-time, award-winning artist and member of the C.M. Russell Museum’s prestigious art circle, the Russell Skull Society.

Laura Fedro has 25 years of professional residential and commercial interior design experience. She comes naturally by her design skills: Her great, great grandfather was a well known landscape designer in Sweden, and she cherishes his design journals, filled with beautifully rendered watercolors and detailed landscape plans. Both her mother and aunt were early influences with their love of interior design and fashion, and many days were spent hunting through antique shops in rural Iowa.

Laura graduated with a degree in interior design and immediately began designing interiors for the nationally renowned firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in San Francisco. She was a designer for Ralph Lauren in NYC and for Herb Newman and Associates in New Haven, CT. She founded her own design firm in Bozeman in 1995, became nationally licensed by the National Council of Interior Design Qualifications (NCIDQ) in 1998 and has been a member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) since 1985. She lives in a historical house in downtown Bozeman with her son Augustus Gideon Chisholm (named after her Swedish ancestors).

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Daniel’s love of cooking and food design developed at the young age of thirteen awhile living in Chico, California. Daniel’s father, a café cook, plated a passion for food in Daniel that soon lead to his own culinary career apprenticing in a cheese and charcuterie shop before gaining experience at a renowned Berkeley restaurant. Very quickly, Daniel discovered his natural talent. And he enjoyed the lifestyle, immersing in self-study and practice.