About

Kathleen Henderson is a visual artist living and working in the Delaware river valley. She is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Studio Route 29, a progressive art studio in Frenchtown, New Jersey that provides artists with disabilities space, materials and support to explore an artistic practice. Prior to Studio Route 29, she was the special projects manager and staff artist at Creative Growth in Oakland CA for over ten years. She was the founding editor of the Creative Growth magazine, which examined and celebrated the unfolding and expanding world of art and disability. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo shows in LA, and San Francisco as well as the Drawing Center in New York. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and is in the collections of the Hammer Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Lydia Glenn-Murray brings people together in creative community. Her work as a curator and arts organizer has led her from contemporary art galleries, art publishing projects and experimental project space Chin's Push in Los Angeles, to co-creating a new non-profit intergenerational art space, 2727 California Street, in Berkeley, CA, and most recently co-founding Studio Route 29, a progressive art studio for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Frenchtown, NJ. Lydia also co-runs No School, an experimental art education project. With a background and degree from UCLA in studio art, Lydia is also trained in Nonviolent Communication, Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy and Social Emotional Arts education. She has experience in both nonprofits and philanthropy as a former board and current committee member of the WHH Foundation in Los Angeles, CA. Her curatorial projects have been featured in Artforum, Art in America, ArtReview, LA Times, LA Weekly, and more.

Hop Peternell (b. 1991) lives in Frenchtown New Jersey. They are an electronic musician, a painter, and studio director and co-founder at Studio Route 29. They hold a Masters degree in painting from Rutgers University and a Bachelors degree in painting from The Cooper Union.

Christianne Ebel is a Queer BIPOC photographer raised in a multilingual, multicultural, and multigenerational household in NJ. Inspired by family lore, she seeks to capture narratives that connect people, cultures, identities, and moments. With nearly two decades of experience as a photojournalist, her work has evolved to include fine art and portrait photography. Christianne holds a BA in Visual Communications from SCAD and an MFA from SVA (2022), where she received the Alumni Scholarship Award. Her art practice explores themes of mental illness, trauma, culture, identity, and the influence of visual language on reality. Current projects include "Community Portraits" and "The Expressive Portraits Project" with Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia.

Anna Navasardian (b. 1988) is a multi-disciplinary artist and studio manager of Studio Route 29. Born in Yerevan, Armenia and raised in New York City, Anna currently lives and works in Lambertville, NJ. She holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and is represented by Ethan Cohen Gallery.

Rob I. Miller (he/him) is a singer, songwriter, record label owner, and guitarist known for his work with Bay Area bands like Blues Lawyer and for producing and/or performing on albums released through labels such as Dark Entries, Hardly Art, and Mt.St.Mtn. With a degree in Liberal Studies from Cal State East Bay, Rob has supported individuals with developmental disabilities as both a direct support professional and program manager at The Arc of San Francisco, where he helped produce the participant-led podcast “The Arc Speaks Out!” Recently, he completed a communications internship at NIAD and has since relocated with his family to New Jersey, where he now works at Studio Route 29. In his role as communications specialist, Rob draws on his creative and project management skills to help amplify the voices of underserved communities.

Earnest appeared at the opening of Everybody Shows in 2023. He was gifted on the spot to The Studio and has grown into the role of Studio Mascot. He lives with Hop and Lydia in NJ. Portraits of him are on view at the studio and in private collections in Hunterdon County.

Cal Peternell is the New York Times bestselling author of Twelve Recipes, A Recipe for Cooking, and Almonds, Anchovies, and Pancetta. His newest book is Burnt Toast and Other Disasters, a guide for making things better. Cal’s drive to teach people the pleasure and satisfaction to be found cooking at home led him to co-create the Cooking By Ear podcast. Before that, Cal was the chef at Alice Waters’ influential Chez Panisse for over twenty years. Cal grew up on a small farm in New Jersey and earned a BFA in painting from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He and his wife, the artist Kathleen Henderson, have three kids and recently relocated to Frenchtown, NJ.

Lacy Phelps is a forward-thinking, Hunterdon County based financial advisor that provides tailored solutions and attentive service to a select group of individuals, families and businesses both locally and around the country. Lacy lives in Frenchtown, NJ with her wife, Laura, and son, Beckett; and as an active member of the community, she has served on the board of United Way and the local Business Association. She enjoys staying active, traveling, and cheering on the Baltimore Ravens and US Women's National Soccer Team.

Jill Kearney is the founder and executive director of ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey. In earlier incarnations she was a creative executive at Zoetrope Studios in Hollywood and the west coast editor of American Film and later Premiere Magazine. One of her proudest achievements is luring Kathleen Henderson to Frenchtown to launch Studio Route 29 with Hop Peternell and Lydia K Glenn-Murray.

Lisa Zaretsky, a mom of 2 grown children and a lifelong early childhood educator, received her Masters in Education from Bank Street College of Education, worked for many years as a teacher in preschool settings in NYC, and started her own program, playAGAIN, in 2010. Through the exploration of open-ended, repurposed, everyday items, children are invited to reuse and recycle, tinker and discover, connect and learn.

Beverly T. Williams is the very proud aunt of Brian John Armour Jr. (“BJ Jr.”), an artist at Studio Route 29 and is truly excited to bring her expertise and experience to the Board of Directors of Studio 29. A graduate of Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Beverly is a transactional attorney (licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania for forty-five (45) years) and a former university administrator at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (“Penn Medicine”). As an attorney, Beverly has developed expertise over the years in the areas of intellectual property, municipal finance, and real estate law and in her capacity as deputy director of one of Penn Medicine’s first minority-health focused centers, she was primarily responsible for the Center’s management functions (including oversight of the Center’s development efforts and grants from federal, state, and private foundation sources of funding) for twenty years. Additionally, for over two decades, Beverly served as the Chair of her church’s Scholarship Committee overseeing the church’s fundraising drive to award scholarships annually to each of the congregation’s high school graduates and co-founded a bar association in Philadelphia over forty years ago for women of color lawyers, an organization still thriving today providing scholarships annually to women of color law students at each of the six law schools in the Delaware Valley under the umbrella of its Foundation for which Beverly served as its first Chair.

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