Born in Washington D.C. in 1954, the year Elvis Presley recorded his first record, I am a child of rock and roll. Being part of the original baby boomers, I enjoyed my formative years watching the transformation of this country through the sixties. My immediate peers were heavily involved in music which included being in bands, touring and producing on various levels.
Michael Horsley is a Washington DC based visual artist working primarily in photography, who has explored many creative disciplines, such as filmmaking, theater/performance art, graphic design and music. He has been a member of I am Eye filmmaking collective, RicnMikenBill performance group, Theater du Jour, curator of KinoRama film series, and Fraudulent Productions. His work has been broadcast on BBC America, MSNBC, and WETA, and exhibited in the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, as well as numerous art spaces.
Valerie Aleta Smith - Currently lives and work in Baltimore, Maryland
Valerie Smith is artist working primarily in oils on canvas, bottle art, cigar box art and shoe art. She often employs bold and bright colors in her surrealism style of painting.
EDUCATON:
Graduated: Professional Institute of Commercial Art – 1984
Studied: RETS Electronics and Architectural Design School; Maryland Institute of Art (fine Art);
Towson University College of Art
SOLO EXHIBITS:
2009 - Joe Squared Restaurant
2013 – Padonia Stations Restaurant
2013 – Towson University, Department of Chemistry
Aaron Henderson (Spud MD) is a pop artist from Baltimore Maryland.
Spud’s artworks is heavily inspired from loud, brightly colored, thick outlined Saturday morning cartoons from his early childhood.
From a young age SPUD has been working with many mediums of art from Graffiti to mixed media. Now narrowing down his focus on canvas and murals, Spud has been making his mark in the District of Columbia and Baltimore Maryland area.
Spud MD is a hardworking individual who strives to create a brighter and more creative world wherever he goes. #SpudMD
Tima Aflitunov is a visual communicator based on Planet Earth. His artwork is often driven by imaginative ideas and concepts. When Tima is not illustrating or designing, he enjoys writing, literature, exploring language and history. For Tima, as an immigrant in a foreign country, art became a key to the language barrier and an important outlet for self expression.
Born and raised in New York City, USA, 1990. She is a self-taught artist, designer and a poet. she has decided to pursue her education in the Engineering discipline. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Avionics Technology, in 2014 at Vaughn college of Aeronautics and Technology, NYC.
Greetings, I am a visual artist based in Laurel, Maryland.
A graduated from Towson University in 2016 with a BS in Advertising and Art + Design. I have a wide range of mediums from digital to sculpture. I am currently focused on fluid art and oil pastel. I love getting inspiration from women and nature. I like earthy tones and bright pops of color.
Abstract art is such a fun and creative medium that in 2019 I started my own fluid art classes called Paint & Pour. I have hosted at The Remy in New Carrollton, Six Flags in Largo, as well as my own events.
Juried Artist: Group Show, Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA), “Small Works”, Artists’ Emporium, Havre De Grace, June 2018, June 2019
Juried Artist: Group Show, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Winter Member Show, 2020, Maryland, Small Works, 2018, Lowe House Gallery Show Exhibition, 2017, Fall Member Show 2016,
Juried Artist: Group Show, Interfaith Gallery, “As Seasons Turn”, Columbia, MD, May 2017 to July, 2017
Juried Artist: Group Show, Cuba 2016, Crystal Moll Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2016
Kailey Barthel is a visual artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Born in Milwaukee, WI, she received her Bachelor’s degrees in both Fine Arts and Latin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her MFA at the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA in Baltimore, MD. After graduating, she was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center for their January 2019 session, and was the Fall 2020 Artist in Residence at the historic James Castle House in Boise, Idaho. She currently lives and works in Baltimore.
Andy Dahl is an artist, filmmaker, and organizer with an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Dahl is an Innovation Fellow with the Warnock Foundation, and winner of the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Medial. He currently works as a community organizer focussed on connecting resources to undocumented communities in Southeast Baltimore as well as a public artist producing large-scale works focussing on theme “connection.” He has also worked extensively on community empowerment projects through the arts in New Orleans, Bolivia, Paraguay, and California.