MSAC Individual Artist Grants, 1988, 1991. Work in the permanent collections of The American University Museum, Washington, D.C.; The Krannert Art Museum,Champaign-Urbana Illinois: The Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA.
Viki Keating has a glass studio called Stained Glass Creations, which produces commissioned glasswork for architectural installations as well as original work for galleries. She has been working with glass for over 35 years and works in fused and cast glass. Using and experimenting with different techniques. She has attended many professional workshops for various glass techniques with well-known glass artists and has been exhibiting in juried exhibitions for many years.
Virginia Sperry grew up in a house full of art, music, dance and theater. A bachelor’s degree in theater, a year dancing at the Martha Graham School in NYC and a master’s degree in dance therapy preceded Virginia’s visual arts career. Her first foray into sculpture started with polymer clay in 1990. In 2003 Virginia learned to weld in a metal fabrication class at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Virginia began to create amazingly life-like steel animals. Her public installations can be seen across the country.
I have always thought of myself as an artist. When I was very, very young the definition of being an artist was described to me as someone who looks for beauty, finds beauty and creates beauty. I believe it is the ability to see the beauty in even the most grotesque, the most angry as well as the most lovely that makes one an artist. I was fortunate from an early age to have teachers in my life to guide my way, instill both the desire to create and the determination and work ethic to realize my vision.
Gregory Hein (b. 1960, Baltimore, USA) uses the materiality of paint to explore the limits of language. His work in painting and video examines chance, symbols, and sentimentality, crafting found-word abstractions that generate shapes spontaneously. Hein studied Studio Art and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Design at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
I received a B.A. degree in Studio Art from Oberlin College in 1971 and a Master of Science in Visual Studies degree from the M.I.T. Center For Advanced Visual Studies in 1981. After teaching Video Art at the Massachusetts College of Art from 1984-1988, I joined the faculty of the UMBC Department of Visual Arts in 1988 where I continued to teach Video Art until I retired in 2020. I served as Graduate Program Director of the Imaging and Digital Art MFA program from 2001-2007 and as Chairperson of the department from 2008-2015.
Elena Volkova is a Ukrainian-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator, whose creative practice uses historic and contemporary photographic techniques to explore complex themes of domesticity, liminality, and subjective experience. Volkova has been a fellow at Hamiltonian Artists, and exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Elena received several recognitions and awards in support of her creative practice, including Janis Meyer Traveling Fellowship, Corcoran Women’s Committee Grant, MD State Arts Council Creativity Grant, and Baltimore Municipal Art Society Travel Prize.
Walter Oliver Neal, has shown his work throughout the Washington Metropolitan area, and is highly regarded for the unique, creative vision and artistic excellence he brings to his work. His artwork is in the respective collections of Howard University, the Evans-Tibbs Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well as various organizations and private collections. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Zaidi is founder and artistic director of AMKA Graphics Studios, which he founded in 1970, while a student at his alma mater, Howard University. He resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
Aubrey Garwood is a photographer based in Baltimore. She has worked at Discovery, Inc., and is currently working as a senior coordinator of photography production at National Geographic. Her art is about discovering new places, whether physically through nature or via the landscape of her mind. It has been shown in galleries in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC, and was featured as a Pop-Up exhibit on Maryland Public Television’s Artworks (episode 423). Her most recent show she participated in was Camera USA 2019 in Naples, Florida.