Len Luterbach is an independent artist.
His work explores the language of the mind-body relationship, the nature of reality and experience, and beekeeping.
An eight-year Navy veteran, Len served in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Following his last tour at the Pentagon in 2003, Len completed his degree in Social and Public Policy at Georgetown University.
His research interests include systematic philosophy, phenomenology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, sexual ethics, and the symbiotic relationship between beekeeping and the art of life.
Ram Brisueno is a Baltimore based, self taught artist with a degree in English from UMBC. Ram considers himself a collagist focusing on form, color, and stories within his paintings using mixed media in an intuitive collage style referencing textures, color, meaning and intent which brings layers, upon layers within revealing unique and hidden narratives. An almost surreal perspective between material and transformations that play in stories and dreams.
Kimmary I. MacLean is a Maryland artist specializing in nature and animals. She works in a variety of media including charcoal, drawing pencil, pastel, acrylic, and digital photography. Kimmary is also a ballet teacher at National Ballet Institute for the Arts with advanced teaching certification in the Cecchetti Method of Ballet
Kimmary published two books for Kindle, 'A Caterpillar Goes for a Walk' and 'One Squirrel in A Tree...'. 'A Caterpillar goes for a Walk' is also available in print, through Amazon. A book of poems accompanied by fantasy landscapes will soon be available.
http://bonnieschupp.com
• Bachelor of Arts, Frostburg State University
• Master of Liberal Arts, The Johns Hopkins University
• Doctor of Communications Design, University of Baltimore
Published writing
• Past weekly photography columns: Baltimore Evening Sun, Prescott (Arizona) Courier, South Bend (Indiana) Tribune
• Articles appeared in: Petersen’s Photographic, Darkroom Magazine, PSA Journal
• Published photos (numerous), through iStock and Getty Images
Awards/recognition
• Second place winner KINSA (Kodak International Newspaper Snapshot Awards)
• Bodine Contest (honorable mention)
A native of the Eastern Shore, Jenny O’Grady writes and makes book sculptures in Baltimore. She is the editor of UMBC Magazine. She taught book arts and electronic publishing as an adjunct professor in the University of Baltimore’s Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program (2008-2012), where she earned her MFA in 2006. Previously, she worked as a community newspaper reporter, following in the footsteps of her mother, and also at a culinary school.
Personally, Alyscia Cunningham is a granddaughter, daughter, wife, mother of 3, sister, aunty, friend, artist, advocate, writer, Pisces, dreamer, truth seeker, positive thinker, adventurer, traveler, hiker, teacher, student...and her journey continues.
Professionally, Alyscia is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, filmmaker, and photographer who has contributed to National Geographic, Discovery Channel, America Online and the Smithsonian Institution. Alyscia is also the Founder of Her House Media and the CEO of a Maryland Home Improvement company, Uprising Builders, LLC.
I am a Baltimorian with mid-western roots. Brought up by a social worker and landscape photographer moonlighting as a trucker driver. I was raised in a house with art, deep thinking, community, strong work ethic, thoughtful inclusivity, and a WHOLE lot of neurodivergent folks.
Performance Poet, Writer, Percussionist, Storyteller, Picture Maker, Workshop Facilitator Linda Joy Burke is a 2002 Distinguished Black Marylander Award recipient for Art from Towson University’s Office of Diversity, a 2004 Poetry for the People Baltimore Legacy Award recipient, a 2013 Howard County Women’s Hall of Fame inductee and a 2018 Women’s Giving Circle Young Women Journey Camp Leadership program, “Stand Up” award recipient and a 2021 Howard County Women’s Giving Circle (S)hero nominee.
Sue Ellen Thompson’s sixth book of poetry, SEA NETTLES, was published in 2022. Her work has been included in the Best American Poetry series, read on National Public Radio many times by Garrison Keillor, and recently won a Pushcart Prize. She taught at Wesleyan University, Middlebury College, Binghamton University, and Central Connecticut State University before moving to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 2006. She now mentors adult poets and teaches workshops at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. She was awarded the 2010 Maryland Author Prize from the Maryland Library Association.