Marguerite de Messières is a Maryland-based multimedia artist working across painting, portraiture, sculpture, installation, and time-based media. Her work explores landscape, memory, and the relationship between individual and collective experience. She frequently creates community-responsive public art in collaboration with sculptor Tsvetomir Naydenov, combining painting, metalwork, and kinetic elements.
I am a teaching artist offering Mobile classes and workshops in Frederick County, Maryland.
I cherish the communities that I have the opportunities to work with and have found long lasting friendships and partnerships that remain long after the project or class schedule ends.
Dajana (née Perić) Douglas was born in Serbia in 1995 and grew up in the Republic Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She completed her Master of Fine Arts studies Magna Cum Laude at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University in Washington D.C. in 2023, where the school presented her with the Outstanding MFA Studio Arts Award Certificate. She earned her B.A. from the Academy of Arts of the University of Banja Luka in her native country in 2020, majoring in Painting.
Amina J. Allen is the creative force behind MotherEarthEssence LLC, a Black Muslim woman-owned art business based in Baltimore, dedicated to transforming mix media resin art through the enchantment of glow in the dark pigments and 3D resin wave textures. A mixed-media artist, henna artist, and innovator whose work merges woodworking, resin artistry, and functional design to create one of a kind art, to inspire connection, expression, and healing within the community.