Michael Weiss is a Baltimore-based artist who uses traditional painting materials and methods to create contemporary images containing oblique, but not opaque content. He has exhibited widely throughout the region and his work is a part of numerous private and corporate collections.
I am a fiber and ceramic artist whose artwork is inspired by Byzantine and medieval art. I stitch hand embroidered images set in architecturally inspired frames of hand built ceramics and found objects. Along the way I have engaged in a number of related pursuits.
Gina Pierleoni is a mixed media artist living and working in Baltimore. She earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and a B.F.A. from the College of New Rochelle (NY)
Individual Artist Awards include grants from :the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; the Gottlieb Foundation (emergency grant) and three from Maryland State Arts Council.
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.
Chris Shea designs and creates furniture, sculpture, and architectural metalwork at his studio in Brandywine, MD. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery and in numerous private collections. Chris's work has also been shown at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, Woodson Art Museum, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the National Ornamental Metals Museum, Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia, and at SOFA Chicago with Maurine Littleton Gallery.
Maryland artist Eileen Williams widens the conventional boundaries of fabric as a medium, using fabric as her palette to create one of a kind art.
Director of the Washington Glass School since 2005, I specialize in teaching the sgraffito glassmaking technique. A recipient of the 2012 Fulbright Scholarship, I completed my work at the University of Sunderland and served as an artist-in-residence at the Institute for International Research in Glass. As an artist/educator, I've taught at prestigious institutions worldwide. Massachusetts’ Fuller Craft Museum mounted a solo show of my glass panels and sculpture in 2011, where they have my artwork in their permanent collection.
Walter Oliver Neal, has shown his work throughout the Washington Metropolitan area, and is highly regarded for the unique, creative vision and artistic excellence he brings to his work. His artwork is in the respective collections of Howard University, the Evans-Tibbs Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well as various organizations and private collections. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Zaidi is founder and artistic director of AMKA Graphics Studios, which he founded in 1970, while a student at his alma mater, Howard University. He resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
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!