Artist. Graduated from Notre Dame University of Baltimore in Fine Art, 2004. I have a disabled son and after years of working to support both him and myself, I have decided to leave a low paying job to pursue my Masters in Fine Art. It is a risk but the benefits of such a move would bring better living possibilities for both my son and myself. I am currently attending community college to get my portfolio in order. During this transition, financial help would be an amazing blessing.
May Kuroiwa’s grandparents emigrated from Japan over a hundred years ago to work on a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation. Hawaii and its land and peoples often appear in her work. One of her short stories won the 2020 Chautauqua Literary Arts Charles McCorkle Hauser Prize; another was selected this summer as a Narrative Magazine Story of the Week. Her poems have been published in The Loch Raven Review; Mobius, the Journal of Social Change; and Maryland in Poetry, the 2020 MWA Anthology. She is working on a chap book and her first play.
I’m a self-taught artist who creates art as a way of expressing feelings, emotions, and thoughts that I have merely lost the words for. My current artwork encompasses not only the use of traditional surfaces like canvas and paper but also mirrors, wood panels, cheese cloth, and tiles. I garner inspiration for each piece from the world that I intact with on a daily basis as well as my own emotions to the things I see around me due to the times that we are currently living in.
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard received her B.A. from the University of Maryland in Studio Art and studied Fine Art & Illustration at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Her paintings in encaustic (wax) and mixed media have been exhibited widely on the East Coast. Marcie teaches drawing, painting, mixed media, and encaustic painting. She teaches students of all ages including individuals with disabilities and seniors with dementia. Marcie is an instructor at Glen Echo Park, Yellow Barn Studios, The Smithsonian, and has transitioned to teaching virtually from her studio.