Koch was originally an abstract artist. A pivotal event for him was seeing the work of Edward Hopper. It inspired him early in his career to change to painting in a realist direction. Koch has been given unprecedented access to Hopper’s studio on Cape Cod, enjoying 17 residencies there since 1983, an honor granted to no other living American artist.
62 yr old artist painting since teens. Some obscure subject matter. Have an AA in fine arts. Paint for pleasure. Love to express raw feelings, color and general passion. Just all-around art fanatic who any form of creativity. Love to be part of art world. Thanks
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.