As a resident of Prince George's County, Winston W. Harris earned printmaking degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University, (BFA) and Howard University (MFA). (2022-2023 Key-Holder Artist in Residency Program at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, (2016-2017) Finalist Artist: Purple Line Transit Partners Project and Sandy Spring Museum (Guest Artist Program).
Elizabeth Steel is an artist in Rockville, MD. She has eighteen years of experience in the visual arts, and studied jewelry making and metal smithing, sculpture, and design at Montgomery College and elsewhere. Currently, she focuses on creating acrylic and mixed media wall pieces. Her work is widely exhibited and has been awarded honors in a variety of venues. Her jewelry, sculpture, and paintings are included in private collections in the States of Washington, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, and North Carolina, as well as in Canada and the D.C. Metropolitan area.
I was born in 1953 and grew up in Wyandotte, Michigan just 14 miles south of Detroit. In 1975 I graduated from Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan with a BFA and in 1978 graduated from Yale University School of Art with an MFA. I was awarded the Fannie B. Pardee and Polish Heritage Grants. I live and work in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
I’m a failed physics professor and fiction writer, turned artist only after trying to fit my love of magic into more traditional boxes. What most compels me about being an artist is the calling for authenticity, championing merit in a disposable world, and digging in the dirt for clues to what holds us together.
Julie Jankowski is a visual artist and educator living in Baltimore. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA) from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA) in painting and printmaking from Ball State University, Muncie, IN. She also studied painting and drawing at Indiana University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
From an early age, I discovered I was fortunate to have inherited an artistic perception of the world allowing me to create whatever I could envision. I was only limited by the technologies of the time.
Liz Miller is a second-generation fine artist. She creates hair sculptures, sculptural paintings, wearable art, performance art pieces, and film. Her films capture community members and herself performing while adorned with hair sculptures for meaningful transformative movement rituals. The concepts embodied in her work are social justice themes centered around the black experience in America; utilizing both history and Afro-futurism simultaneously balanced within. She considers her work to be a part of a broader black liberation strategy employing black joy and serious play.
Christopher Bowling has been creating art for over almost 40 years, focusing on sculpture and drawing. His main media is graphite, colored pencil and fine-tipped markers for drawing and metal, wood and found objects for sculpture. He worked for several years as an elementary school art teacher in Harford County, MD as well as substitute teacher in Seattle, WA. His drawings are mostly of animals, filled with various random objects - recently he is using iconic Baltimore/Maryland landmarks and objects.