Art is Jessica St. Clair's life-long joy, passion and profession. Through photography, paint, digital art and graphic design she thoughtfully expresses uplifting energy and peaceful serenity to beautify your space and positively impact your perspective. That's good vibes by design!
Over the past two decades, Jonathan has become one of the most well established local artists in the Maryland and Mid-Atlantic areas. Originally from Baltimore, he began drawing at a very early age, soon earning recognition throughout his school days for his mural paintings and pen and ink yearbook contributions.
Damon Arhos is a visual artist and art educator who lives and works in Washington, DC and Louisville, Kentucky. A gay American of Greek descent, he creates artworks that present portraits of identity as they reflect both queer experiences and cultural dichotomies. Arhos frequently appropriates Ancient Greek art and mythology, anthropomorphic forms, and elements of LGBTQIA+ culture within repetitive and everyday visual contexts.
Brent Taylor
Brent Taylor (°1982, Baltimore, United States) makes paintings, photos, media art and mixed media artworks. With a conceptual approach, Taylor touches on various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matters can be recognized, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation, and the investigation of the process of expectations.
Performance Poet, Writer, Percussionist, Storyteller, Picture Maker, Workshop Facilitator Linda Joy Burke is a 2002 Distinguished Black Marylander Award recipient for Art from Towson University’s Office of Diversity, a 2004 Poetry for the People Baltimore Legacy Award recipient, a 2013 Howard County Women’s Hall of Fame inductee and a 2018 Women’s Giving Circle Young Women Journey Camp Leadership program, “Stand Up” award recipient and a 2021 Howard County Women’s Giving Circle (S)hero nominee.
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.
A native of Baltimore, Barbara Epstein Gruber's early career aspirations were brought to an abrupt halt at age six when Mr. and Mrs. Epstein discovered her going full Rembrandt on the wall behind the living room couch. This Crayola-on-plaster endeavor went largely unappreciated, and it would be 30 years before Ms. Gruber began to paint seriously again.
Aaron Oldenburg is a Baltimore-based game, interactive and video artist. His work has exhibited in festivals and galleries in New York, Johannesburg, London, Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Los Angeles, including SIGGRAPH, A MAZE. International Games and Playful Media Festival, the LeftField Collection at EGX Rezzed, Slamdance DIG, Game On! - El arte en el juego, and FILE Electronic Language International Festival. His games have been written about in Kill Screen, Baltimore City Paper, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
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.
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., she began drawing in her mother’s school books at a very young age. Her mother encouraged her gift by allowing Nickie to draw on a designated wall in the home. She also purchased crayons and watercolor paints for her to explore. “My mom’s encouragement made me free to be an artist.”
“I am passionate about helping others. People respond to me because I see them as people, not as labels society may have given them.“