Maggie Barnes never planned on being an artist. But that's what she's become, through a series of serendipitous events, and now she can't imagine her life as anything else. With a bachelor's degree in English, and a master's in Secondary Education, this Cincinnati, Ohio, native was (or at least seemed) destined to be an English teacher. And that's what she was for a few years-until she had children and became a stay-at-home mom. "I was originally planning to go back to teaching when the kids went to school fulltime," she says. "And while I very much enjoy teaching, I'm so grateful that my career as an artist sort of took off on its own."