Sue Crawford (Baltimore, MD) was born in Santa Barbara, California and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art in 1998. Sue has since lived and worked in Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee. Sue moved to Baltimore in 2007 where she was introduced to the fields of painting restoration and conservation. The processes used in that work have informed her current art practice in technique, momentum and material.
Lisa Bernstein has been painting for 30 years, and currently lives and works in Washington, DC. She has studied watercolor and oil painting at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France; VisArts in Rockville, Maryland; Smithsonian Associates in Washington, DC; and The Art League in Alexandria, VA. Her style is impressionistic, combines representational and abstract elements, and focuses on family and community through portraiture, and on local landscapes and cityscapes.
Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. He is the cartoonist of the Ignatz nominated comic series, The Gulf. Nguyen’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and Medium. He is the vocalist/pianist of the jazz trio, Superior Cling, and he is a digital media lecturer at Loyola University Maryland. As a 2021 Rubys Artist Grantee, Nguyen is working on a graphic novel chronicling his experiences during the ongoing pandemic. Nguyên lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, son, and terrier.
Baltimore Based Artist and Musician