Professional Fine artist 46 years capturing black history, women issues, world issues, spirituality, and culture. As a painter creating fine art that is diverse is texture, color, and mixed media I am able to create art that speaks with great emotion and triumph of the human spirit .
Ann Quinn is a poet and essayist, editor, teacher, mentor, mother, and classical clarinetist. Her award-winning work has been published or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Broadkill Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Haibun Today, and Snapdragon, and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. She teaches at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda and is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal. Ann holds an M.F.A.
About The Artist
Art is capturing a moment of time.
A moment of one’s soul.
That is why every piece of art is different even if we are looking at the
same model or the same still life or landscape.
It has to be different because the art is a reflection of who we are at the moment, and how we are relating to the object or person at that moment.
In doing so, we are bringing our histories with us:
Our past, present and hopes for the future.
I really don’t know what led me to art. I didn’t get there until much later in life.
Rahne Alexander is an intermedia artist and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2021 graduate of the Intermedia+Digital Arts MFA at UMBC, and a 2021 Baker Artist Prize Awardee. Her works in video, performance, music, and painting have been exhibited across the U.S. and around the world, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, and MIX NYC. She performs music as 50’♀ and as the front woman of the rock band Santa Librada.
Illustrator at heart, writer and graphic designer. I express myself through my art work.
Vanessa Renee Williams, a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is the very proud mother of one daughter, Lisa J. Locke, Esq.
Annalisa Dias is a Goan-American citizen artist, community organizer, and award-winning theatre maker working at the intersection of racial justice and care for the earth. She is Director of Artistic Partnerships & Innovation at Baltimore Center Stage. Annalisa is also a Co-Founder of Groundwater Arts. Prior to joining BCS, Annalisa was a Producing Playwright and Acting Creative Producer with The Welders, a DC playwright's collective; and a Co-Founder of the DC Coalition for Theatre & Social Justice.
I pitch myself as "The Artist at the End of the World". I'm an expert in dry mediums, especially graphite drawing, but with experience in charcoal, chalks, pastels, and have some experience with inks and paints as well. I'm also a photographer, wherein I've been developing a collection of post-apocalyptic-themed stylized photos, combining urbex style locations, volunteer models, costumes, and props. I have also been known to write and perform spoken word poetry at various locations and open mic nights.
During my career as Professor of English Literature, I also followed my passion for drawing and painting. I took lessons where I lived and finally settled in Bethesda, MD. Retired from teaching in late 90's and dedicated myself entirely to painting, studying with various teachers and at the Compass Atelier program. Have been gallery represented, had exhibits and sold widely.