Hsin-Hsi Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan and came to USA in 1994 to pursue graduate study in Fine Arts. Chen received her MFA from University of Maryland at College Park in USA, 1996 and BFA from Tunghai University in Taiwan, 1992. Chen was granted U.S. Permanent Residency based on “Extraordinary Ability in Art” in 2002, the grantee of 2013 Maryland State Arts Council Grant/Individual Artist Award and 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Elizabeth Mackie is an interdisciplinary artist working in handmade paper, sculpture, installations, photography, video, sound and textiles. Her works addresses the interface between science and art. Prior and recent projects include Glacier Loss on the Ortler Mountain Range, Italy, Impact of Delaware River Rising Water Levels, and Microfibers in our Waterways.
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.
Thrive! ® abstract sculpture by GChris is mission-driven. Thrive! sculpture supports our creating and sustaining large, positive and timely change and building and achieving a thriving and surviving future for all forever. #ThrivingFuture Thrive! Website - ThrivingFuture.org Thrive! Blog ThriveBlog.org Thrive! Thought & Sculpture Blog ThriveSculpture.com Thrive! sculpture is to be interacted with and gently touched. Some are copper, wood or both. Sizes range from a foot to dozen feet. Some make sounds when moved by wind or people; some remain silent.
Janet Huddie is a silversmith and jewelry artist working in Annapolis, Maryland.
Descended from generations of Scottish engineers who built ships and bridges, she combines an inherited talent for three-dimensional design and metal fabrication with a passion for architectural detail, applied ornament and pattern. She likes to believe that she's continuing her family's tradition of metalwork, just on a much smaller scale.
Chris Shea designs and creates furniture, sculpture, and architectural metalwork at his studio in Brandywine, MD. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery and in numerous private collections. Chris's work has also been shown at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, Woodson Art Museum, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the National Ornamental Metals Museum, Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia, and at SOFA Chicago with Maurine Littleton Gallery.
During the mid-seventies David Knopp started working with plywood
as his medium. It was an accessible and inexpensive material to use in
the self-trained process of stack lamination. It became an expendable
resource to experiment with in creating forms.
As his work progressed he discovered the linear strata inherent in
the medium. Expressing movement with the "strata" became his aim.
Knopp creates flowing liquid lines that engage the senses as the eye
travels over the contours.
A lifetime Baltimore resident, Knopp attended Essex Community
David Friedheim’s mother was a painter and his father was a classical musician. He received his BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his MFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, MD. He has exhibited in many solo and group shows throughout the USA. He has built artwork on commission for private and public clients including such firms as Bill Graham Presents. In 1999 he was a founding member of The Crucible, a school devoted to linking the arts, industry and community in Berkeley, CA.