Bobby Blazek is a multi-media artist working and currently residing in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His work focuses on macabre storytelling through paintings, comics, and illustrations. Blazek combines biological, technological, and religious imagery while emphasizing color contrast, movement, repetition, and texture in order to convey narratives pertaining to marginalized bodies in the current state of the world. Currently he is at MICA majoring in General Fine Arts, minoring in Illustration and Sequential Art.
Eric Gordon is a studio artist in Baltimore, MD who participates in numerous artistic and freelance ventures under the guise of DC Creepers and as one half of Vinyl Vagabonds. Projects include comics with DC Conspiracy, Cartoonists Draw Blood, and various small press publications. He can often be seen sketching out and about in Baltimore. Current works on canvas are amalgamations of several strains of portraiture and storytelling, employing action sketching, gesture drawing, abstraction, creature creation, and re-purposed materials. Much like a page in his sketchbook, works are intended to
Patricia Buck is an American abstract painter based in Maryland, known for large-scale color field paintings and mixed-media
works exploring the representation of phenomenal energy. Her work was purchased by Joe Hirshhorn in 1981 and is
documented in the Hirshhorn Museum collection. In 2025, Patricia was the recipient of a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
Lydia Peters is an artist local to the DC Metro area, originally from Trinidad and Tobago. Lydia came to the US to perfect her craft by studying Art at Howard University obtaining her BFA. During her studies, Lydia became inspired by the AfriCOBRA and Cubism movements. Elements of each can be found in many of her works. Lydia is an American of Afro-Caribbean descent and aims to incorporate her culture and life experience into her artworks. When not creating new works, Lydia works to keep art alive through the next generation by teaching art at elementary schools in her community.
Lillian Chun (b. Allentown, PA 1989) is a mixed media artist, photographer and art educator. She earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011 and MAT in 2012. Chun currently lives and works in Ellicott City, MD. Her work has been featured in galleries in Maryland, Arizona, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, and online international exhibitions. Paradoxical narratives surrounding time, womanhood and motherhood, are often themes within her work.
From as early as I can remember, I was always making marks. Drawing was the one thing I could do ALL day long. I was born in Baltimore, MD as 1 of 3 children to Nigerian parents. I studied animation and art history in college and, later, taught art between the years 2005 and 2014, starting and ending in Baltimore. I am, currently, a museum professional.
Known for her colorful and biomorphic imagery, Shana Kohnstamm creates fantastical worlds and alien lifeforms that incite whimsy and wariness, intrigue and hesitation. Whether a sculpture that invites you to touch, or a painting that begs you to look closer, Shana’s work is uniquely engaging.
Baltimore based painter specializing in Plein Air and Surreal painting.