Mary Ellen Graham Wehrli is a native of San Francisco, California, who now resides in Lewisville, Texas. Her formal art studies began some fifty-plus years ago at San Jose State University and the College of San Mateo. She has exhibited in many juried shows throughout California and Texas and has been a juror for several arts organizations. Her work is exhibited in public buildings, including the Santa Paula Museum, where the painting below is part of the permanent collection. She has also shown in the Newport Museum and the San Diego Museum. Mary Ellen was the fine arts supervisor for the Orange County Fair, the fine art coordinator for the Los Angeles County Fair, and the special events coordinator for the Art-A-Fair Festival in Laguna Beach, California. Mary Ellen does representational and abstract forms of art in various artistic media. Her award-winning works have been presented internationally by firms as cards, calendars, collector plates, puzzles, cross-stitch designs, posters, and limited-edition prints. J. Lawrence Graham has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught courses in behavioral sciences at both the University of Southern California and, most recently, at UC Irvine, where he is a professor emeritus. He has published eight other books, both fiction and nonfiction. Lawrence is also an award-winning photographer who has exhibited his work at the Festival of the Arts in Laguna Beach and at other locations in Southern California.
