Helen Glazer's work in photography and photogrammetry-based sculpture is informed by scientific insights into interacting forces affecting ecosystems and shaping landscapes. Experiences as Baltimore Ecosystem Study artist-in-residence and National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program grantee have shaped her thinking. Her project Walking in Antarctica premiered as a solo show at Goucher College, Baltimore, funded with a Rubys Award from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and an artist's grant from the Puffin Foundation in 2017.
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.
Born in 1975 in Ohio. Attended Salisbury University in Maryland. Became a professional photographer in 2001.
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.
Elizabeth Mackie is an interdisciplinary artist working in handmade paper, sculpture, installations, photography, video, sound and textiles. Her works addresses the interface between science and art. Prior and recent projects include Glacier Loss on the Ortler Mountain Range, Italy, Impact of Delaware River Rising Water Levels, and Microfibers in our Waterways.