Chloe Irla grew up outside of Richmond, VA but moved around a lot as a teenager. She attended McDaniel College before receiving an MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited nationally and in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Vancouver, Canada. Chloe has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center and the Wassaic Project. As an educator, she has taught studio art courses at MICA and the University of Maine at Farmington and is currently an Associate Professor of Art with tenure at McDaniel College.
Sarah Magida (b.1979) is a Baltimore City, Maryland native. She is full of curiosity, the potential to learn and a passion for all things hand crafted. She earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in General Fine Arts and her MA from the University of Baltimore in Publications Design.
She currently creates primarily embroidered work but engages in painting or drawing small works as well. She is continually developing her work in any and all spare moments, days and hours possible.
Nick is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in soft sculpture from Columbia, Maryland. He loves the ocean and taking photos of toads in his backyard.
Welcome to Chesapeake Shoppe. My name is Lisa Christie. I grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. As a child, I was a horse lover, and an avid book reader. I wrote stories, crafted things with my mother, and loved acting. I studied theatre arts in college, had a horse and a pony, a smattering of cats and kittens, a couple of dogs, and several parakeets. I have always had a love for the arts and for nature, and I decided to take that love and turn it into something more.
Stephen Towns was born in 1980 in Lincolnville, South Carolina, and received a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting from the University of South Carolina. His work has been exhibited nationally, including solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Galerie Myrtis, York College, Goucher College, as well as group exhibitions at Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, August Wilson Cultural Center, Arlington Art Center, The David C. Driskell Center, Montpelier Arts Center, Star- Spangled Banner Flag House and Museum.
Melinda Lowy is a national award-winning quilter and is actively involved in local art quilt and critique groups. She has exhibited widely, including regionally and nationally. She is a member of Surface Design Association and Studio Art Quilt Associates, as well as locally of Potomac Fiber Arts Guild and Fiber Art Study Group. She is a native of Billings, MT and resides in Silver Spring, MD. She is retired from a full-time career at a non-profit scientific society, where she managed the higher education programs, although she continues to manage a small non-profit scientific society.
Nico’s cross-cultural art training rooted from his country of origin, Indonesia. He moved to the United States in 1990 to pursue a degree in design.
Toward the end of his undergraduate studies, Nico had an amazing opportunity to work for and be mentored by a successful artist in Tampa, FL, Jane Murray Lewis. She introduced him to the world of Gutta/ Serti Silk painting. He uses lush white silk and the application of vibrant fabric dyes on his paintings. In some of his painting he assembles hand dyed and hand cut silk to create a bas relief / three dimensional surfaces.
Sara Caporaletti is a visual artist from Maryland. She received her BA in studio art from McDaniel College in Westminster, MD and her MFA in fine art from American University in Washington DC. Her work explores various autobiographical elements related to Catholic religious practices and beliefs through a variety of media. She has participated in the American University Studio MFA Berlin residency with GlogauAIR studios in Berlin, Germany, as well as residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Wesley Theological Seminary.