Michael Auger (last name pronounced: O-'zhA / rhymes with okay) is a full-time freelance artist based in Rockville, Maryland. In addition to the creating offbeat fine art he also works as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. For additional information please visit: www.Arty4ever.com
Ric Conn started drawing at the age of five, moving up to painting as a teenager. He has been going strong ever since.
Ric is a New York based international award winning expressionist artist; creating paintings that reflect relevant social issues, equality, empowerment and psychological conditions to increase awareness and understanding. He focuses primarily on figurative depictions of the female experience, looking into the realities women face in Western culture focusing on their courage and beauty.
Shanthi Chandrasekar is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist from Maryland who has an academic background in physics and psychology, and has been trained in the traditional Indian art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting. While many of her works are influenced by her Indian heritage, her true inspiration comes from the mystery and majesty of the world around her; her muse lives where the scientific overlaps with the spiritual.
It can be said that Sharon Wolpoff, who began her art training at age five, has always been an artist. She completed her formal education at American University (B.A., M.F.A. and J.D.), with additional coursework in Italy and Mexico. Counted amongst her honors are three Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards, an Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County Fellowship and a Kreeger Purchase Prize.
Beth-Ann Wilson (American, b. Copiague, NY 1983, lives and works in Baltimore, MD) received her BFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2005). Wilson is an award-winning artist, gallery owner, entrepreneur, educator, and community organizer. Her art focuses on expressive painted portraits suffused with colorful abstractions as well as energetic landscapes and cityscapes (painted both in the studio and en plein air) inspired by the places she has traveled to and explored.
Kimmary I. MacLean is a Maryland artist specializing in nature and animals. She works in a variety of media including charcoal, drawing pencil, pastel, acrylic, and digital photography. Kimmary is also a ballet teacher at National Ballet Institute for the Arts with advanced teaching certification in the Cecchetti Method of Ballet
Kimmary published two books for Kindle, 'A Caterpillar Goes for a Walk' and 'One Squirrel in A Tree...'. 'A Caterpillar goes for a Walk' is also available in print, through Amazon. A book of poems accompanied by fantasy landscapes will soon be available.
Emily Conover received a BS degree from Purdue University, a BA degree in Studio Art from the University of Maryland College Park, and an MFA degree from the University of Maryland College Park. While at the University of Maryland, she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship, and she also received the David C. Driskell Award for outstanding visual thesis and excellence in teaching. She has been teaching painting and drawing at the University of Maryland in College Park since 1999. Ms.
Rice McKelvin is a mixed media portrait artist that lives in the Baltimore area. Their passion for art history and pop culture influences their work. Their unique experiences have left them with PTSD, that they choose to draw inspiration from. Art started as a way for Rice to cope with abuse and has grown to aid in their recovery from it. Their artwork has always represented personal hope for the future, and now helps them solidify and explore the progress they have made. Rice has also been using their art to help fully explore their identity, and relationships.
Gregory Hein (b. 1960, Baltimore, USA) uses the materiality of paint to explore the limits of language. His work in painting and video examines chance, symbols, and sentimentality, crafting found-word abstractions that generate shapes spontaneously. Hein studied Studio Art and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Design at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.