Education: MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1995; BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1975. Recipient of Franz & Virgina Bader Grant 2017, Finalist Bakers Artist Awards 2017, Artscape 2017, Two person Show Harford community College 2016, Outdoor Sculpture Invitational 2016, Solo Show College of Southern Maryland 2015, Solo show University of Connecticut, 2014
Catherine Woods of C Glass Studio, LLC has been creating artwork specifically for the public sector for over a decade. Her focus is work that responds to and transforms environments. She is a nationally recognized sculptor working primarily in architectural glass and metal with installations across the country. Many of her pieces incorporate a narrative element and are included in collections within the United States. Her award-winning work has been recognized by Americans for the Arts prestigious public art competition ‘Year in Review’.
Sera Boeno (1991) is a sculptor and installation artist from Istanbul, Turkey. Her praxis is research-based and heavily influenced by the socio-politics of her motherland, Turkey. Narratives of and around women in historically silenced topics –politics, sex, religion, trauma– are central to her work. Concrete, metal, wood, found objects make the foundations of her practice. Boeno holds a B.A.
Laurel Lukaszewski is a Prince George’s County, Maryland-based artist who creates installations and sculptures primarily from clay. Her work is influenced by an appreciation of rhythms and patterns found in nature, and her study of Japanese art and culture over the past three decades.
Lisa Battle is an artist who creates a distinctive style of abstract sculptures by handbuilding with stoneware clay. She explores form and line in three-dimensional space, inspired by patterns created in nature through wind and water erosion, and the graceful arching movements of dance. As a viewer moves around the work, the lines advance and recede, giving an undulating sense of movement. The subtle surface treatments of her work are derived from atmospheric firing techniques, including wood firing in a multi-chambered Noborigama kiln and pit firing.
Nick Primo (b. New Britain, CT 1982) earned an MFA from Rinehart School of Sculpture at MICA (2014), and BS in Art Education from Central CT State University (2006). After serving as a public school art educator for half a decade, he relocated to Baltimore, MD to enroll at MICA with the aim of receiving the aforementioned degree. In addition to being an artist and freelance furniture maker, he currently works as an Exhibits Specialist for Smithsonian American Art Museum. His work has been featured in a number of group and solo exhibitions in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC.
Vienne Rea is a visual artist who presents her work in international, national, and regional exhibitions and galleries. Her creativity is expressed through multi-disciplinary visual arts—primarily, photography and sculpture. She prefers to work in themed series in both art forms. The artist’s chosen themes are emotionally-derived, and are either based on direct personal experience or stem from a compassionate response to another’s personal history. The expressive storytelling in Vienne Rea’s work is both compelling and sensitive.