Gina Pierleoni is a mixed media artist living and working in Baltimore. She earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and a B.F.A. from the College of New Rochelle (NY)
Individual Artist Awards include grants from :the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; the Gottlieb Foundation (emergency grant) and three from Maryland State Arts Council.
Shanthi Chandrasekar is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist from Maryland who has an academic background in physics and psychology, and has been trained in the traditional Indian art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting. While many of her works are influenced by her Indian heritage, her true inspiration comes from the mystery and majesty of the world around her; her muse lives where the scientific overlaps with the spiritual.
I learned to sew as a child, but didn’t discover the world of art quilts until 1986. Fiber art quickly became my passion. My design and technical skills have been enhanced through participation in workshops at the Quilt/Surface Design Symposium in Columbus, Ohio since 1991. I have been a member of the Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery since 2002. My work has appeared in juried shows and many of my quilts are in private collections.
Elizabeth Mackie is an interdisciplinary artist working in handmade paper, sculpture, installations, photography, video, sound and textiles. Her works addresses the interface between science and art. Prior and recent projects include Glacier Loss on the Ortler Mountain Range, Italy, Impact of Delaware River Rising Water Levels, and Microfibers in our Waterways.
Maryland artist Eileen Williams widens the conventional boundaries of fabric as a medium, using fabric as her palette to create one of a kind art.
Maggie Gourlay works in screenprinting and papermaking to create both installation and two-dimensional work that explores the intersection of the natural world and domestic space. She is a recipient of DC Arts and Humanities Council art grants and other awards, and has had numerous solo and group shows with her work in several public and private collections. Gourlay is a current member of Sparkplug--sponsored by DC Arts Center--and Cultivate Projects, a platform for a contemporary redefinition of landscape.
Sarah McCann is a Baltimore based curator, community artist, and educator. McCann’s text-based mosaics, prints and multimedia artwork has been exhibited nationally and she had her first solo exhibition in 2018 at Jubilee Arts in Baltimore. Since 2010 McCann has organized, curated and installed exhibitions and related programming from conception to completion. Her curatorial methodology poses questions to artists as themes for the exhibitions and often includes youth artists and/or a community component.
Ashley Minner is a community based visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland and an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She received her MFA (’11) and MA (’07) in Community Arts, and her BFA (’05) in General Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her PhD (’20) in American Studies from University of Maryland College Park. She especially enjoys spending time with her family, listening to old music, and traveling.
Suzanne Coley is an independent Baltimore artist. Her style is characterized by radical fabric manipulation, needlework, embellishments, superposition of layers, and couture ergodicity. She has a Master of Humanities with concentrations in philosophy and classical literature.
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