In his many travels, John Davis Held spent several months living in an African Hut, before hitch-hiking across Europe to paint the cathedrals, castles, and countryside.
John Davis Held is known for his luminous work in pastel and oil, and has had One Man Shows at the Gallery D'May, NIH, and the Troika Gallery where he is currently represented. He has appeared on CBS and Fox news, and his art was featured this last December on MPT Artworks as well as being displayed on the 60 foot jumbotron across from Penn Station in Baltimore.
I was born in Houston, Texas to an American father and Welsh mother. I became disabled when I was eleven and withdrew into comic books for comfort. I received a BA in visual art from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2013. Drawing inspiration from Botticelli, Caravaggio, and Hans Bellmer, I work primarily in oil painting. I have now expanded my work into comics and illustration, and my work has been published in comics anthologies. All my work has a unifying concern with the representation of women in art and media.
Jennifer Lynn Beaudet is an award-winning artist with a focus on oil painting. She was born in Washington, DC, and lives/works in Kensington, MD in Montgomery County. Jen exhibits her paintings locally and has received prizes for her work displayed at the Kensington Labor Day Show, Art at Penn Place Gallery, and Women’s Club of Chevy Chase. Jennifer is a current student at The Compass Atelier, where she is pushing herself to grow as a representational artist with an eye for color and mood and a style that incorporates purposeful mark-making.
I am an artist living with my family in Harford County. I received a BA in fine arts from Towson University in 1998 and have my Master's in Elementary Education. Currently I am working on my portraiture technique and creating a series of paintings retelling classic fairytales.
Alizah Lathrop is a contemporary painter from Maryland. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV, in 2020. During her college career, she was President of the Visual Arts Collective and closely involved in many other art programs, such figure drawing and special event coordination. Additionally, her work was included in two of the school’s Literary and Arts publications Sans Merci, and was awarded high honors.
Diane Lorio was born in New Jersey, and now lives in Rockville, MD. She graduated from Guilford College with a Bachelor of Art degree in Fine Arts, Greensboro, NC. Her early artistic career as a painter started in Florida with her interest in abstraction. As she expanded her visual vocabulary, she became interested in woman's issues and traditional women’s creative expression. She began reinterpreting this tradition and it naturally lead her to paint patterns. Lorio has shown in museums and art centers across the eastern part of the US as well as Michigan, Texas and California.
Yam Chew Oh is a multidisciplinary, multilingual artist and educator who explores notions of self, family, and circumstance through abstraction, language, and the everyday. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Asia, and Australia, and featured in Commotion, Lumina Journal, The Match Factory, Studio Visit, and Velocity. Oh is Faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he received an MFA in Fine Arts and teaches studio art. He is a writing tutor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a member of the international collective Atlantika. More at www.yamchewoh.com.
Caidy Lynn is a mixed media artist living in Maryland. She has a B.A in Drawing and Painting from Towson University and an MFA in Curatorial Practice and Art Criticism from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Caidy Lynn uses printmaking, sculpting, drawing, painting, collage, and fiber to create artwork which explores ideas of identity, femininity and the divergence between human and animal. Evoking ideas of discomfort and repulsion she encourages viewers to engage with how unnatural being human can sometimes feel.
Annette Wilson Jones received her BFA from MICA in 1978 and, in 1980, she was hired by Beautiful Walls for Baltimore as a full-time muralist. In 1986, her work was chosen by New Museum Curator Brian Wallis for a five-person show, Sweet Land of Liberty, at School 33 Arts Center; was featured and awarded an honorarium by Baltimore City Paper for her drawing, Self-portrait as St. Sebastian, Tattooed on My Husband’s Back; and she had her first child/ spiritual guide.