Sarah Clough is a visual artist, writer, teacher, and curator who grew up in Oklahoma and Nebraska. Her work is about semiotics, the poetic, the physics of light, and the connections between them. She has received awards in screenwriting, journalism, and the visual arts. She has exhibited in Oklahoma, New Mexico, New York, Maryland, Virginia, and the United Kingdom. While a graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, she was awarded a GradEX solo show and her paintings were also featured in the annual First Year Juried Show.
Emory Knott was born and raised in Baltimore, MD, and has recently earned her B.A. in the Arts, with a minor in English, at St Mary’s College of Maryland. Although she likes to experiment with any type of medium, she prefers printmaking using linoleum relief and intaglio to create her pieces. She travels yearly to both Bethany Beach in Delaware and an old hunting lodge on a lake in Maine, which is reflected in her architecture work. Her fascination with animals and flying is also shown in her series In the Sky, which is a collection of animals with wings flying.
Baltimore Native, I fell in love with art at a young age of 5. I attended the Baltimore School for the Arts class of 1987. Fresh out of high school I started working for Penn Advertising painting billboard where I was able to develope my skills even more. After 14 years I decided to try another form of art in the form of culinary arts.
I've been creating art since I was a small child living in New York. I attended a high school where my creativity was supported and could flourish. After living in Los Angeles for many years, I came back to the East Coast to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art (aka MICA) and pursue my dream of art. I followed that with a Master of Arts from the University of Baltimore. I worked for many years in the commercial side of art creating graphics and animation for the Intelligence Community. I am now enjoying my lifelong dream of creating fine art paintings full-time.
Tara creates abstract works with a variety of media including strips of dried acrylic paint she likes to call "palette trash." She uses this recycled material for entire works as well as collaging into acrylic and oil paintings rich with texture. An artist for more than three decades and former high school art teacher, Tara finds endless visual inspiration during walks in her historic Baltimore neighborhood.
I define my work as an opinion to express, which is created to invoke the thoughts, emotions and impression of the viewer. Because art is subjective, I create so the viewer can effortlessly engage with the art. I create original abstract, expression, modern, realism and contemporary works of art.
My images are not confined to one subject matter or design, surface or medium. Canvases are always primed and each work a series of under paintings, layered one after another, until the final image is achieved, and I am confident the expression is complete.
Being relatively new to Howard County MD, I have spent the last 30 years in 15 different locations, following my husband's career. Art making has always been my touchstone since childhood, my happy soul and safe place, as well as my own creative journey. "MCI" = "Many Changes Instantly" happens to be our family motto.
Being relatively new to Howard County MD, I have spent the last 30 years in 15 different locations, following my husband's career. Art making has always been my touchstone since childhood, my happy soul and safe place, as well as my own creative journey. "MCI" = "Many Changes Instantly" happens to be our family motto.
Shanelle Harrison is a visual artist, educator, and author primarily working in printmaking, drawing, and mixed-media art. She was born in Columbia, MD, and received her B.A. from Morgan State University in 2019. As an artist, Shanelle explores sociological and psychological conditions to convey a story and begin a dialogue. As an educator, Shanelle teaches art for elementary school children, hosts art lessons for beginning artists, and creates art videos on YouTube for people who cannot afford art lessons.