Bart O’Reilly is an Irish artist living in Maryland. He teaches at Loyola University, Harford Community College, and The Maryland Institute College of Art. He has a BFA from NCAD in Dublin 2000 and received an MFA from MICA in 2012. He is a recipient of an Individual Artists Award from The Baltimore Office of Promotions of the Arts and has been recognized for scholarly and creative work at Harford Community College. In 2022 he published My Father’s Work Shed a collection of poetry and paintings with Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Art By Shayna is a newly formed glass studio in Silver Spring, Maryland. Born in Massachusetts, Shayna Heller attended Boston University School of Visual Arts, where she majored in graphic design. In the design field for forty-four years, Shayna retired from managing a creative graphic arts team at a national research corporation.