Shannon Collis is an interdisciplinary artist who creates installations and interactive environments that explore the ways in which digital technologies can transform the perception of audio and visual stimuli. She seeks to build a deeper connection between the sensing body and the world, blurring the lines between physical and digital spaces. More broadly, her work is reflective of the human imprint on the environment and the range of its social, economic, and ecological implications.
Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves are choreographers, performers, filmmakers, and mixed media designers. They are groundbreaking artists who bring virtuosic athleticism, mesmerizing design landscapes, and powerful imagery to their work. They have been making work collaboratively for over thirteen years as the Artistic Directors of Orange Grove Dance, a dance, design, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive, performer-operated design.
Studio and gallery for fine mosaic art and handcrafted jewelry. Art created with materials including glass, stone, minerals, fossils, fine gems, and found objects. Resident artists with frequent guest showings. Some commissions accepted – help design a piece for yourself or for a gift. Watch the work, browse, shop and meet the artists! Andamento is an Italian word meaning ‘movement’ or ‘course.’ It describes the flow of lines in a piece of mosaic art produced by placement of rows of materials chosen by the artist.
Visual artist and graphic designer Sangeeta Kaul (online at Spicyseed Art & Design) wields her creativity as a fuel for social change, mental health awareness, and community connections. Kaul enjoys organizing events designed to coach and encourage the personal creativity of the participants. She is currently studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling as a graduate student so that she may use her passion for art in a therapeutic way.
Born in southern Virginia during the seventies to a family where art was not practiced or encouraged, Qrcky was drawn instinctively to Chuck Jones' cartoons, Norman Rockwell's c, and Bob Ross' PBS show. Qrcky would try to imitate their art while watching cartoons. Twenty years later and entirely desolated by a bad marriage and subsequent relationships, Qrcky began to paint, reverting to the kinds of self-expression he felt closest to as a child. Finding freedom in his art, Qrcky discovered his voice by exiling himself away from friends and family.
I am a life long artist and Marylander. I draw, sculp and oil paint.
In April 2018, I submitted a community grant to MSAC for 8 benches by 8 artist to be located on 8 business for the public to enjoy in Historic Stevensville. The project was call 'Benches of the Shore' in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
Sally Davies studied illustration and graphic design at Sheridan College, Canada, and primarily worked in this genre for many years. Recently, she shifted her interest to painting and creating Time-Lapse films of her paintings. She was awarded 2019 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. Davies' films were featured at 2019 Utopia Film Festival.
Aziza Afzal is a queer, multi-racial artist residing in Maryland. She creates art in many mediums, such as performance, adaptation, script-writing, painting (murals), linocut and intaglio printmaking, drawing, jewelry-making, design, collage, and puppetry.
Rashad Ali Muhammad is a multidisciplinary collage artist known for creating vivid and captivating works reflecting the vast complexities of our human existence. With a formal graphic design and photography education, Muhammad blends his acquired skills to create art that fascinates and expands the mind. His love for innovation and continued experimentation fuels my whimsical and enchanting artistic sensibilities. He works primarily in mixed media analog and digital collage.
In her most recent work, Audra uses digitally manipulated photographs of the environment around her as the basis for her paintings. Her understanding of visual design concepts and color theory are evident in her work. By connecting photography, graphic design, and painting, Audra has found authenticity in her art practice.
Audra works out of Rockville, MD.
“Aligning my skills has shifted my relationship with my art, providing a level of fulfillment that was missing from my previous work and allowing me to enjoy the process of creating.”