I was born in 1953 and grew up in Wyandotte, Michigan just 14 miles south of Detroit. In 1975 I graduated from Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan with a BFA and in 1978 graduated from Yale University School of Art with an MFA. I was awarded the Fannie B. Pardee and Polish Heritage Grants. I live and work in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
My story starts in Wilmington, Delaware where I was raised in a family that greatly appreciated art and learned to use my artistic ability to see what I was gifted in doing. From there I went to college and received a degree at Towson University with a focus on painting.
I found my true love and friend in college, married her, and stayed in the Baltimore metro area. From Maryland I have helped raise a family of four and continue to create paintings and learn what it means to be an artist businessman.
Bruce Woodward paints the mid-Atlantic, from the Chesapeake Bay and Eastern Shore to the Appalachians of western Maryland. His work portrays the legacies of vanishing landscapes and ways of life, preserving the stories of disappearing farmlands and their structures as well as those of dwindling numbers of waterman,their workboats and lifestyles. His watercolors and acrylic paintings record with authenticity and atmosphere these transient images.
Art was always an important part of my life while growing up at the New Jersey shore. As a child I loved copying detailed illustrations in books. My favorite gift was a new box of 64 crayons and a coloring book. I attended University of Maryland, College Park, majoring in elementary education; and received a Masters Degree in special education of the deaf from Temple University, Philadelphia.
Alice Marie Gravely
Fine Artist and Printmaker
While developing a twenty year career as a Public Relations/Marketing Communications professional, Alice Marie Gravely took her video/film/photography experience to the next level. She became a printmaker and an artist. A critic once said you could not put her work in one category - and Alice Marie would not have it any other way. Her photographs, prints, and mixed media work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
By day I am a professor of philosophy. But during grad school I fell in love with oil painting and since then I've been devoting as much of my free time to it as possible. I work primarily with a few different approaches to representational painting (urban realism, portraiture, hyperrealism, and a bit of pop psychedelia).
Artist Antti Eklund paints iconic oil-on-canvas paintings to illuminate injustice and to expose the abuse of power. His goal is to encourage and inspire people to take action for a positive change. “We all have a voice, my art is mine.”
After an award-winning international career in design Professor Eklund switched his creative passion entirely into art - his deepest lifelong passion. “I am crazy about creativity. I love challenges. I love overcoming my fears and learning from my mistakes. Creativity is an endless process. Painting is my passion and my endless source of happiness.”
Julie Jankowski is a visual artist and educator living in Baltimore. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA) from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA) in painting and printmaking from Ball State University, Muncie, IN. She also studied painting and drawing at Indiana University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
I started seriously publicizing my artwork in 2016 and have since worked to become an independent artist.
Mara Clawson, born in Seoul Korea in 1992, is a self-taught artist who paints visual stories using pastels and paint. Born with Familial Dysautonomia (FD), a rare genetic neurological disease, Mara’s art is a means for her to connect and express herself to others.
Sensing how colors mix and combine is at the core of Mara’s process. Mara layers different colors and patterns of oil pastels or paint, which creates her distinct mark making, a patchwork of textural arrangements, and intricate abstract compositions.