Abstract-gestural painter and mixed medium artist Cortney Mohring is know for bright, bold and line centric based works. Cortney’s playful attitude brings the viewer in and keeps them engaged by familiar and sometime suggestive shape and movement. You can find her artworks on walls around DC, large format paintings and smaller more accessible pieces for every collector.
Chyna has been a competitive artist since the age of 5, and she was selling custom paintings to her community by the age of 10. Throughout high school, she continued to develop her skills through lessons from professional artist mentorship, and workshops; and even enrolled in a pre-college program at the prestigious Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). At just 16 years old, Chyna taught herself digital design and quickly secured a job as a graphic designer at Damon Foreman's Music Academy, where she honed her craft and created her first professional advertisements.
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Losing Winter is a site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on weather patterns. The project is realized through the participation of local communities, site-specific exhibitions, and virtually through a dedicated augmented reality mobile application. The project responds to the phenomenon of environmental amnesia, wherein with each new generation the changed or degraded state of the environment is perceived as normal, by preserving personal memories about the season as it was in the past in a particular location.
Memory from realization of project in Bucharest, Romania
Memory from realization of project in Bucharest, Romania
Medium: video, audio, augmented reality
Year: 2018
Details: 57 sec
See more information about Losing Winter
Losing Winter is a site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on weather patterns. The project is realized through the participation of local communities, site-specific exhibitions, and virtually through a dedicated augmented reality mobile application. The project responds to the phenomenon of environmental amnesia, wherein with each new generation the changed or degraded state of the environment is perceived as normal, by preserving personal memories about the season as it was in the past in a particular location.
Memory from realization of project in Bucharest, Romania.
Memory from realization of project in Bucharest, Romania.
Medium: video, audio, augmented reality
Year: 2018
Details: 57 sec
See more information about Portrait Garden
Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection through the selection of plants to represent each woman and resulted in the co-creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographs of the cultivated plants paired with recorded statements by each woman and was first displayed as a series of interactive posters in Baltimore Light Rail trains.
Medium: photography, text, audio, community participation
Year: 2014
Details: excerpt, 1 min 7 sec
See more information about Portrait Garden
Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection through the selection of plants to represent each woman and resulted in the co-creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographs of the cultivated plants paired with recorded statements by each woman and was first displayed as a series of interactive posters in Baltimore Light Rail trains.
Medium: photography, text, audio, community participation
Year: 2014
Details: excerpt, 2 min 43 sec
See more information about Portrait Garden
Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection through the selection of plants to represent each woman and resulted in the co-creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographs of the cultivated plants paired with recorded statements by each woman and was first displayed as a series of interactive posters in Baltimore Light Rail trains.
Audio excerpt
Audio excerpt
Medium: photography, text, audio, community participation
Year: 2014
Details: excerpt, 3 mins 50 sec
Losing Winter
Four memories from realization of Losing Winter for Oresman Gallery at Smith College, 2022. For this iteration, artist Lynn Cazabon used the project as a means to engineer an intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue between communities of people aged 60+ and Smith College students enrolled in Professor Ellen Kaplan’s class THE 312 Theatre in Dialogue with the Landscape.
Medium: video, audio, augmented reality
Year: 2022 (ongoing project)
Details: excerpt, 9 mins 18 sec