Sanah Brown-Bowers is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans realistic
portrait painting, sculpture, shadow boxes, installation, and immersive experiences.
Rooted in her Christian faith, her practice explores themes of legacy, spiritual
restoration, and Black joy. Through layered materials such as fabric, archival
imagery, wood, and found objects, she creates narrative-rich environments that
honor ancestry, community, and the divine presence in everyday life.
In 2024, Brown-Bowers earned her MFA in Multidisciplinary Art from the
Theophilus Thompson: An Elusive Kinetic Portrait
With over 1000 hand-formed aluminum tiles which spin and flicker, the pixelated portrait of Theophilus Thompson, an early African American chess expert, mathematician and teacher from Frederick, Maryland, shifts and changes in the wind, honoring him while acknowledging his obscure history. Created with Tsvetomir Naydenov. More of our public art projects are at www.margotwitht.com
Medium: mild steel, stainless steel, aluminum, glass, copper, enamel
Year: 2020
Details: 10’ x 14’ x 8’
Cadence (Wildfire Suns)
I made this work in response the Canadian wildfires of summer 2023, when smoke turned our skies hazy red for weeks. I washed soot out of my air filters, froze the dirty water into discs of ice, and filmed them melting on the floor of my studio. I paired this with footage of a cornfield near my home that is now being developed. I have passed it since childhood. The work holds what felt familiar and fragile at the same time, touched gently by cataclysms far away.
The video is projected onto the paper relics of the process of melting the ice discs, with the watermarks and soot circles on them.
The video is projected onto the paper relics of the process of melting the ice discs, with the watermarks and soot circles on them.
Medium: video, paper, soot
Year: 2024
Details: dimensions variable, 36 seconds
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.