Daria Parsa is a visual artist and program coordinator currently based in Laurel, Maryland. After receiving her Bachelor’s in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park, she has worked for community arts organizations such as the Greenbelt Community Center and Sandy Spring Museum in program coordination and exhibition management. Now as an independent artist, Daria works on freelance community art projects and her art practice, as well as works as a studio assistant and printmaking apprentice.
Nature-inspired illustrator and fine artist specializing in fine line work and hand-lettering.
I grew up on the green hills of Southeastern Pennsylvania. My earliest memories are of playing in the sun with my siblings - chasing each other through labyrinths of trees. We regularly attended the Brandywine River Museum, "home of the Wyeths" and I lived among realistic depictions of my county by an American great, Andrew Wyeth. The beauty of Chester County, Pennsylvania continues to inspire my focus on depicting "place." Currently, I make art among the beauty of Old Lutherville and I also teach art to young children in Baltimore City Public Schools.
Sara Maddox is a Maryland-based artist who works in oil, charcoal, and pencil. She is a graduate of the Compass Atelier Master Artist Program. Much of Sara’s painting involves working from images from media, as well as the “real” world, to capture on canvas moments that are severed from the usual or expected context of movement, action, and/or narrative and reframe the images isolated in time. She also enjoys painting portraits, pets, and landscapes.
Miriam Mörsel Nathan’s work was seen in Creative Quest: Art from the Holocaust’s 2nd Generation, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD (2022). Her work will be exhibited in 2024 at the American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC as well as in Photography of the Holocaust: Then & Now, Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Her work was included in Drawing Discourse, 13th Annual International Contemporary Drawing Exhibition (2022), Juror Catherine Murphy.
First and foremost I am a composer / jazz pianist, with nearly 700 works to my credit. These are mostly either New Jazz or Modern Chamber genres. Part of my performance credits include Art Scape and Light City Baltimore, both on the Main Stage, plus I've performed several times at the Kennedy Center. I have been awarded two MSAC music composition grants. Some of these works are art videos, i.e. music and visual images. I've also created visual art, a mix of acrylic painting, colored marker, and pen & ink drawings. I am also an "opportunistic" photographer, i.e.