Hey! My name is Mikayla but I go by Aylakay. I do multiple kinds of art including, Digital, Photography, making handmade items, and sometimes paintings. As an artist, I love capturing moments that others can feel they are a part of. I love trying new things when it comes to my artistry and aspire to give myself the freedom to show true emotion through my work.
Liu Yefu focuses on film, sound, ceramics and drawing. Influenced by Asian folk culture, Liu is interested in the expression of black humor with a stream-of-consciousness style, and playfully comments on the chaos and restlessness of social realities. By shooting daily life scenes, combined with carefully selected ready-made products in line with his fictional plot, Liu mapping the ideology and stereotypes brought by history, nationality, and memory.
Chelsey A. Anderson (she/her) is an artist scholar who lives and works in Montgomery, Maryland. She makes paintings and drawings that cue the environment, body, spirit, and reference human-made systems that are meshed in an illustrious world of signifiers and personal narratives. Anderson’s work is concerned with questions about how systems impact each other and how an individual is positioned within the collective.
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Born in Athens, Greece, Claudia McDonough is the daughter of a diplomat. She received her BA from Hampshire College in Massachusetts, and her MFA from Southern Methodist University in Texas in 1988. Claudia moved to Baltimore in 1991. Formally trained as an abstract painter, the canvas gave way to the textures of memory and experience expressed by multi-media sculpture and textiles.
Nancy Berson is an artist living in Maryland, who paints and draws in a variety of media: acrylic, oil, watercolor, pencil, charcoal and ink. She strives to interpret the beauty of the natural world through careful observation of landscapes, flora and fauna, and also applies this focus to still lifes. Maryland provides abundant inspiration; other influences include travels in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and growing up in Hawai'i.