Kyle Campbell of Port Costa, a graduate of College Park High School in Pleasant Hill and currently enrolled at Chico State, took a class in the art of glassmaking six years ago. He has since studied glass flameworking at the Crucible, a non-profit educational academy in Oakland that teaches "everything from blacksmithing to woodworking." In his carport studio at home, Kyle uses a bench-mounted 2000-degree oxygen-propane torch to craft glass beads, marbles,pendants and all sorts of eclectic glass works.

Dan Robertson assumed the editorship of the historic Crockett Signal when he took over as publisher of the monthly news and arts magazine in 1987. Since that time, Dan can be seen in and around the Crockett community with notebook and camera, covering politics and town meetings, Chamber of Commerce events, social affairs and breaking news. An art major at UC Berkeley, Dan continues to pursue his love of art in his studio at home. He often paints from snapshot photo images he takes around town and while on vacation, earning a batch of blue ribbons for his canvases at county fairs, and kudos from art and poetry magazines. "It’s a matter of looking at the world," he says.