Visual artist with a focus in fusing wearable art concepts with luxury streetwear.
Gayane Minasyan is a painter and collage artist whose prolific work focuses on showing the beauty of women and portraiture. She first turned to art to help relieve the stress and loneliness of disconnecting from social life, losing a dear friend and watching her native country of Armenia enter into a war, all during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and has quickly turned her work into a statement about the power of art to share messages of hope, faith and beauty.
Denise was born in Washington, DC and raised in Prince George's County Maryland. A Bachelor of Science in Fashion Merchandising and Management graduate from Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) with 20 years’ experience in the field of Early Childhood Education. During the latter portion of Denise's high school career, she awakened her interior and fashion design skills and later served as Assistant to her crafts teacher in 12th grade after enjoying the course the prior year.
Irene V. Martinelli
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” said Pablo Picasso.
And, so it was with Irene Martinelli. She has spent a lifetime of creativity as a writer, a clay artist, a photographer, and then suddenly something unthinkable happened. She turned 70. With no time to waste she threw herself into freeing her mind of the dust of everyday life.
I am a traditionally trained artist skilled in multiple media disciplines, current Associates in Arts: Photography student with a completed Photography Certification, and proud Navy veteran with six years of free-lance photography hobby experience prior to college. My current focus is on my "Shattered Past" photo series where I photograph various types of antique broken glass with a variety of experimental techniques.
Tracy Butler has been a self-taught artist residing in Baltimore, Maryland for over 20 years. Her journey which she refers to as her Art-Life journey has taken her all over the DMV, painting and sharing her art works with the world. Tracy's resume includes:
2015 “Making it work” and 2016” “ put name here exhibitions at Banneker Douglass Museum in Annapolis Maryland;
Published artwork, 2021 “ArtFest Magazine” 1st edition. Participation at several :First Sunday Art Festivals” in Annapolis Maryland.
As well as art pop-ups and local galleries in the DMV area.