John Ruppert, Sculptor - Professor and former Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park, was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1951. He received his BA in Art and Art Education from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1974, and his Master of Fine Arts from the School for American Craftsman, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, in 1977. From 1962-64 he lived in Amman, Jordan. Became active in archaeology and traveled throughout the area (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and Cyprus), visited sites, and participated in several digs.
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
Gina Pierleoni is a mixed media artist living and working in Baltimore. She earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and a B.F.A. from the College of New Rochelle (NY)
Individual Artist Awards include grants from :the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; the Gottlieb Foundation (emergency grant) and three from Maryland State Arts Council.
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.
I have been painting and exhibiting since the mid 60's and that is what I currently do full time. I have been affiliated with several galleries over the years, most currently with the Studio Gallery in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington DC. For more biographical info, see my website at www.stanwenocurart.com or my resume here.
Solo Exhibitions
Highland Center For the arts, Greensboro, Vt
Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Gango Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Knight Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Limner Gallery, New York, New York
Lucas Gallery, Telluride, Colorado
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Swanson Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
Vermont Arts Exchange, N. Bennington, Vermont
Group Exhibitions
“26th Annual NBOSS”, North Bennington, Vermont, Summer 2023
“25th Annual NBOSS”, North Bennington, Vermont, Summer 2022
Steven Hoffman Shapiro has been working as an artist since 1980. His work explores various aspects of abstraction, the figure, narrative expression, and architectural themes. He works primarily in oils and acrylics but also explores a variety of three-dimensional media, including clay and wood constructions. Like many artists, his drawings and monoprints serve as explorations for larger works. Shapiro's paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional works have been exhibited in Alabama, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington D.C., and Venice, Italy.
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.
Leah Cooper is a Baltimore based installation artist. She received her BA in Studio Art from the University of Maryland and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Through site responsive drawings she examines the liminal state that exists between what is noticed and what is overlooked and is interested in employing the contextually dependent nature of her work as a means to create a heuristic state that invites the viewer to complete the piece.
Shanthi Chandrasekar is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist from Maryland who has an academic background in physics and psychology, and has been trained in the traditional Indian art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting. While many of her works are influenced by her Indian heritage, her true inspiration comes from the mystery and majesty of the world around her; her muse lives where the scientific overlaps with the spiritual.