My name is Phillip McLaughlin and I go by Raccoon Stew. I've been practicing art for well over 15 years and have even taught art for 2 years as an elementary art teacher.
Having been heavily exposed to music and the arts since early childhood, I am so grateful for my late mother who initiated my formal musical training in elementary school with piano lessons, but drums and percussion became a greater calling. My private instructor trained me as a Jazz drummer. The school band teacher required me to study Jazz, Symphonic and Pop music. The early 80's for me were filled with the sounds of Art Blakey, Coltrane, Mingus, Run DMC, Man Parrish, Fela Akuti, Stevie Wonder, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Terry T. and B.B.
Yasi is a Mixed Media Artist. She is a photographer, painter, illustrator, Graphic Artist, T-Shirt and Hat Designer, Landscape Architecture Student, Video Editor, Animation Creator, and Writer. She is working on book publishing this summer in addition to NFT works. She has served in the military, was raised in Germany, and graduated with a Digital Design Degree in 2016. She has sold several paintings in Virginia while working for another artist.
Our life’s journey takes us through so many changes and to many places, and so it is with my artwork, which evolves on an ongoing basis.
I am inspired by, and love to paint and draw from nature; always looking to explore the impact of color and to highlight the juxtaposition of darks and lights - how one enhances and beautifies the other. I create vibrant outdoor scenes and dramatic portraits, mostly using oils, watercolor and graphite.
Born in Baltimore City. MICA 2004 Alum.
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Naomi Rose Weintraub (they/them) is a Jewish, gender-queer, multi-media artist and educator based in Baltimore, MD, on the lands of the Piscataway and Susquehannock peoples.
They are currently working as the Community Artist-in-Residence at the Jewish Museum of Maryland.
Naomi’s art practice is interdisciplinary and focuses on themes of play, jewish ritual, queerness, anarchism, and ecology.
I’m Jeanne Woodward, a photographer who loves nature/wildlife, still life, animals (including pets) and people photography. For me, photography is more than taking beautiful images. It’s about capturing the emotion and essence of a single moment, and sharing that with the world. Every photograph that I take has a story behind it. It’s being able to capture that story through the lens of my camera that is both exciting and exhilarating.
I was born and raised in Washington, DC. From drawing the green ranger for my kindergarten self-portrait to getting in trouble for coloring characters on the back of my homework. I’ve always had a passion for illustrating characters and storytelling. As a child my uncle would joke and say “you’re going to grow up to be a cartoon”, and honestly I couldn’t agree more. I attended the visual and performing arts program at Suitland Highschool, majoring in Fine Arts. Shortly after graduating, I dove right into my college career at the Art Institute of Washington.