I am a life long artist and Marylander. I draw, sculp and oil paint.
In April 2018, I submitted a community grant to MSAC for 8 benches by 8 artist to be located on 8 business for the public to enjoy in Historic Stevensville. The project was call 'Benches of the Shore' in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
Sally Davies studied illustration and graphic design at Sheridan College, Canada, and primarily worked in this genre for many years. Recently, she shifted her interest to painting and creating Time-Lapse films of her paintings. She was awarded 2019 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. Davies' films were featured at 2019 Utopia Film Festival.
Karen Jenise Richey is a visual artist and graphic designer in Frederick, Maryland. Blackbird Art & Design is her portfolio of past and current passions and projects. She received her Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland with a concentration in Applied Design. After over twenty-five years in the field of advertising and marketing, she is happy to be working in the studio again, primarily painting, but also exploring new mediums and techniques through further study and practice. Her work can often be seen at art galleries in and around Frederick, Maryland.
About the Artist:
Vian Borchert is an established expressionist artist. Borchert has exhibited extensively in exhibitions within the US and internationally. Vian is a graduate and "Notable Alumni" from the Corcoran College of Art & Design George Washington University, Washington, DC. Borchert exhibits in museums and key galleries in major cities such as NYC, LA, London, and the DMV area.
I’m a passionate artist and educator that is currently educating students at Century High School located in Sykesville, Maryland. My expertise encompasses a broad range of both 2d and 3d materials as well as digital media. My passion is creating sophisticated, technically skilled, eye catching artwork with emphasis on contrast and composition. Recently I've been most recongized for my appearance on Food Network's Halloween Wars and Outrageous Pumpkins.
Andrei Kushnir, a plein air painter, has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. He is an elected signature member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, and the Salmagundi Club, NYC, an official US Coast Guard Official Artist, and member of Oil Painters of America. His work is in the public collections of the US Coast Guard, D.C.
Stephen Towns was born in 1980 in Lincolnville, South Carolina, and received a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting from the University of South Carolina. His work has been exhibited nationally, including solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Galerie Myrtis, York College, Goucher College, as well as group exhibitions at Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, August Wilson Cultural Center, Arlington Art Center, The David C. Driskell Center, Montpelier Arts Center, Star- Spangled Banner Flag House and Museum.
MSACPamela Wilde received her first formal art training at the Chicago-based American Academy of Art in the early 1980s and holds a degree in Advertising Design and Illustration. Her early career was spent in Tacoma, Washington where she worked for the Tacoma News Tribune from 1984 to 1989. While employed at the Tacoma News Tribune she worked extensively in advertising design and editorial illustration. In the early 1990’s Pamela took a break from her professional aspirations to raise her family but continued to extensively grow and further expand her artistic horizons.