Stephanie Scott earned her B.A. in Studio Art with a minor in Educational Studies from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and both an A.A. in Art and a Letter of Recognition in Digital Imaging from the College of Southern Maryland.
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.
Alexander Heilner is a multi-disciplinary artist and photographer whose work inhabits both fine art and documentary initiatives as he investigates the relationships between artificial and natural elements within the environment, and within our culture. A winner of the prestigious Baker Artist Prize, Alex has exhibited, screened, and performed his work nationally and internationally, Photography festivals including Pingyao, Sienna, and Daegu have featured his aerial photography, and he has been awarded numerous grants and commissions in support of his ongoing environmental projects.
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.”
A Maryland native, Vicki’s work is influenced by the varied and dynamic landscapes as well as the different seasons. Photography, digital painting, and illustration all find their way into her work.
A lifelong Maryland resident, Vicki is an artist, photographer, and designer. Using her art to reveal the beauty in everyday scenes, Vicki is captivated by the changing landscape. Her love of rural farm scenes as well as main streets, cityscapes, mountains, and seashores that make up the state, influence her choice of subject.
I grew up wanting to be an astronaut, watching the Apollo missions with rapt fascination. Looking at the world from a different angle as you would in space always intrigued me, that is, until my first algebra class. I learned that that math wasn’t my thing, and without the math, no engineering degree, no engineering degree, no space flight. So kicking around in Holland during my 8th-grade year (my father was in the Air Force), trying to figure out how I wouldn't be just another tool to society in my later life, I happened upon a person with a Canon camera with a very long lens attached. As
Leslie Olabisi is an engaging narrator and the relatable, conversational voice you are looking for in your commercials. Using her training as an actor, she makes adjustments quickly and her throaty yet clear vocal quality is a unique tone that stands apart from any other female voice.
She is a SOVAS Voice Arts Award winner for Outstanding Radio Promo and the documentary she narrated, Unmarked, was nominated for a Capital Emmy.
Leslie studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in NYC, Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory and was a student of the late great, Wynn Handman.
Working at the intersection of art, culture, and politics, Ann Stoddard is an interdisciplinary artist who explores underlying connections across media, including video, installation, electronics, animation, sculpture, site-work, as well as painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking. Ann Stoddard makes art that explores space- the space around and between us, the biosphere, the noisy public space of political debate, and the cultural landscape in which art can reveal connections and challenge divisions.