“Making art is as necessary and as invigorating as oxygen for us,” says Ken Tesoriere. His partner in Lyric Arts, and life, Mary Ellen Palmeri, concurs emphatically, “Creating original art satisfies me like no other work. It totally absorbs me - totally absorbs us both. Through making Art we integrate the work we love with making a living financially.”
Ms. Palmeri is an internationally recognized paper engineering master. Using distinctive papers - some store-bought, but many hand-painted - she creates original designs in origami, pop-up cards, and her own invented specialty,...more