Mixed media artist based in Baltimore County imploring others to encounter her work and the world with childlike wonder ☆
Fine artist oil and acrylic painter specializing in abstract realism with a focus on helping clients focus on alignment of Chakras of the body and Manifesting More.
Based in Ellicott City, Maryland, Tarah Boyd is a multidisciplinary artist who creates large scale macrame, woven and tufted fiber art. Her engaging work is whimsical and delicate, yet embedded in the earthly, natural materials she uses. Boyd's free-form style has allowed the fibers to create a pattern (or shape) organically, revealing the beauty and vulnerability of her materials. Boyd was raised in Maryland, received her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and her Graphic Design Certificate, before discovering her true passion for fiber art.
Dr. Diana Baird N’Diaye is a multidisciplinary artist, folklife researcher, curator and transcontinental arts advocate who combines decades of experience both as a researcher and curator of African and African diaspora expressive culture. She considers her teaching as a vital aspect of her participatory art practice. N’Diaye’s art training began with sewing and needlework instruction from her Caribbean great aunts; In high school she became a student of African American couturiere Zelda Wynn Valdes, and worked as a mender in her mother’s dry cleaning store.
Fascinated by the art of Gabriel Munter and Hans Hoffman since childhood, Ms Baker has been creating paintings in a fauvist style for the last 60 years. she is also strongly attracted to collage, jewelry and quilt making. She resides in Takoma Park with her artist husband James Colwell in a Victorian era house they continue to restore.