Maura Dwyer was born and raised in Baltimore and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. She creates work that supports place-making/keeping through teaching mural workshops, creating visual campaign material, and co-designing community art projects that fuse history, political action, and personal narrative.
Illustrator - painter - graphic designer
www.shannonwang.com
Exhibitions have included solo show at Kanvas, NYC; group exhibitions at Skowhegan '75 on 22nd St. NYC, 2021. Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomons, MD, Maryland 2022 at Howard County Arts Center, Works on Paper Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD.
Artist-in-Residence, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 2009-2102. Currently teach Studio Art and Art History at College of Southern Maryland.
Education: University of Illinois (BFA, 1972); Northern Illinois University (MA, 1975; MFA, 1976); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.1972
John Ruppert, Sculptor - Professor and former Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park, was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1951. He received his BA in Art and Art Education from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1974, and his Master of Fine Arts from the School for American Craftsman, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, in 1977. From 1962-64 he lived in Amman, Jordan. Became active in archaeology and traveled throughout the area (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and Cyprus), visited sites, and participated in several digs.
Viki Keating has a glass studio called Stained Glass Creations, which produces commissioned glasswork for architectural installations as well as original work for galleries. She has been working with glass for over 35 years and works in fused and cast glass. Using and experimenting with different techniques. She has attended many professional workshops for various glass techniques with well-known glass artists and has been exhibiting in juried exhibitions for many years.
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.