Robin M. Gilliam is a mixed media abstract collage artist in Annapolis, Maryland, who specializes in creating to get her zen on. She paints and weaves found objects into mixed media collages and journals and is a teaching artist at Maryland Hall.
Robin achieved her BA in art and psychology from Goucher College in 1984. She has spent the past 30+ years creating to heal from life’s challenges, such as sexual assault, addiction, spouse battling opioids and stage 3 head/neck cancer, and aging parents with cancer and dementia (both passed now).
Ms. Holl has been a professional teaching artist for over 25 years. She has created glass installations (sculptural, leaded, fused, & cast) mosaics, murals, sculptures, and many mixed media art works in public spaces. She received an AIA award for excellence (American Institute for Architects) on two large glass projects created for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Reston, Virginia. Tara opened a National Geographic exhibition at Explorers Hall at the Washington D.C. with 8 large sculptures depicting the many uses of glass.
Giulia Piera Livi is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting and installation. Her immersive rooms employ hyper-cohesive color and abstract forms to work out ideas of multi-functional art objects and curated domesticity. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally with notable shows at the Delaware Contemporary Museum (Wilmington, DE), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Governor's Island Art Fair (NY), Mono Practice (Baltimore, MD), Guest Spot @ the REINSTITUTE (Baltimore, MD), Untitled Space (New York, NY), VAE Gallery (Raleigh, NC), and Walter Otero Contemporary Art (
Krista Schlyer is an artist living Mount Rainier, Maryland. Her
focus is long-term projects exploring landscape level ecological and human social relationships. Her subjects have included the US-Mexico borderlands, the Anacostia River watershed, the longleaf pine ecosystem and the Caribbean Sea. Schlyer’s work has been published by the BBC, Orion, The Nature Conservancy, High Country News, Newsweek and others. She is the author of
three books including Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall, winner of the
Meredith S. K. Boas (formerly Meredith S. Keating) is a life-long artist and arts advocate who comes from a long line of artists and entreprenuers. She has studied many artistic mediums, and has a bachelor's degree in Integrated Arts and four associate degrees in the disciplines of photography, graphic design and multimedia, video production, and visual communications.
Bobby Blazek is a multi-media artist working and currently residing in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His work focuses on macabre storytelling through paintings, comics, and illustrations. Blazek combines biological, technological, and religious imagery while emphasizing color contrast, movement, repetition, and texture in order to convey narratives pertaining to marginalized bodies in the current state of the world. Currently he is at MICA majoring in General Fine Arts, minoring in Illustration and Sequential Art.
Joshua Littlefield (b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working primarily in the contexts of photography, collage, and installation. Originally from St. Petersburg, Florida, he obtained his B.F.A in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2017, and his M.F.A in Photography and Electronic Media from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2020. He is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland, and serves as an adjunct professor at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Maryland, where he teaches Fundamentals of Design courses.
Joe Kraemer is an award winning filmmaker, artist and writer based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He received his M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts at Temple University and his B.F.A. in Film from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. His films have exhibited at film festivals and conferences both nationally and internationally. His most recent film, Just Another Day, was nominated for a regional Emmy Award, received numerous industry accolades including a Gold Telly Award, and reached over 7 million views on YouTube in the three years since its debut.
Artist Bio for Lea Craigie-Marshall Born in Falls Church, Va in 1976, self-taught, contemporary artist Lea showed talent from an early age. An natural creative spirit, she spent time taking private art lessons with her mother at home as well as in the mountains of scenic West Virginia with her grandmother, both artists. These strong female influences helped mold and inspire Lea to be the dynamic, multifaceted, feminist artist she is today.
Patricia (Patsy) Card is a long term resident of Anne Arundel County since 1974. Her graphic art career spans 28 years supporting government contractors in the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia areas. She holds a AA degree from Northern Virginia Community College in graphic arts. Patricia continued her fine art classes at UMUC and at AACC where she has taken classes in oil painting, intaglio, lithography, and silk screening. Her oil and watercolor paintings are done with an expressionistic approach with the use of light and shadow to bring the image into focus.