Mark Tobin Moore was born in Washington DC, and lived in various cities in Europe and the United States before settling in Charleston, West Virginia. He studied studio art in college and graduate school, and eventually earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from West Virginia University. He considers the Beatles his first and biggest cultural influence and the late artist, Robert Rauschenberg, his most important painting influence. Moore has exhibited for many years in group and solo shows in art centers, museums and universities in the U. S. and abroad. He also directed the exhibition program at the West Virginia State Museum, managed an Arts and Crafts Program in Germany, has been an Assistant Professor of Art, and he continues to teach for Concord University and Marshall University Graduate College.

West Virginia artist, Eric Pardue, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1993 and served a year long apprenticeship with New York based ceramic artist, Jeff Shapiro. Mr. Pardue currently lives and works in Milton, WV.
 
Recent Selected Exhibitions
A Frosty Journey: Past Watershed Winter Resident Potters, Worcester Center for Crafts, MA 2010
Agrillaceous: The Clay Invitational, West Liberty University, WV 2010
Reflection/Projection, Concord University, WV 2010
Autobiographies: Six West Virginia Artists, The Clay Center, WV 2008
East-West Ceramics, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan 2008
Exhibit 280, Huntington Museum of Art. WV 2007

Established in 2004, The Washington St. Gallery is located in beautiful historic downtown Lewisburg, WV. The gallery specializes in a variety of contemporary fine art in clay, painting, photography, and handmade print genres.