Dave Montgomery has been interested in photography since he recorded his trip to Europe in 1955. He has been a vacation photographer while educating himself by observing work of other artists. In 2000 he began to experiment with the digital enhancement and manipulation of images scanned from slides and photos. His purchase of a digital camera in 2002 converted him to pixels. Since 2004, his work has been in more than 100 juried shows, winning awards at Strathmore Hall, The Art League, and Alexandria City Hall.
David Emerick was born in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. At the age of 10 his family moved to Singapore for 5 years and each year his family travelled back to the states through different routes, he started photographing at the age of 11, it was this cultural buffet that formed his diverse vision. He finished High School in Upstate New York then received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Kentucky and Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Nebraska.
Education: BS Photography, 1975, Rochester Institute of Technology D. B. Stovall, a Washington, DC area native, bought his first camera at age 10 – a Rosko purchased for 88 cents at Murphy’s Five and Dime. Quickly moving on to various Instamatics, an old Leica D, and finally Japanese 35mm SLRs, Stovall explored various aspects of black and white photography, becoming adept at all kinds of darkroom work by the time he entered high school.
Ginevra Shay is an artist and curator currently based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ginevra's photography and studio practice are in many ways inextricable from her site-specific curatorial work; they reflect one another through their investment in fostering an openness of exchange and dismantling passive engagement. Ginevra uses photography and sculpture to depict poetic moments of observation and adaptation.
Wilford W. Scott retired recently as the Head of Adult Programs at the National Gallery. With six staff lecturers and 125 volunteer docents, this department is responsible for the vast majority of gallery tours and auditorium lectures offered to the general public. The department is also responsible for orienting over 4 million visitors each year with the help of two paid staff and almost 200 art information volunteers. In his 30 years on the staff of the Gallery, Dr.
Richard Paul Weiblinger: Biography Richard Paul Weiblinger is an accomplished, award-winning, and completely self-taught photographer. Richard is originally from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and currently resides in suburban Maryland just outside of Washington DC. Color is a major focus of his work with many of his pieces exhibiting a chromatically strong theme. Recently, he has been exploring the vibrant colors which can be created by utilizing the digital post-processing technique of High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography.
Bio-Cathy Leaycraft
Cathy Leaycraft has been photographing for over 30 years. In 1976 she moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she resides today. At that time she was working with other artists creating Video Documentaries. This led her to the study of still photography, which she started at the University of Delaware and continued at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Her work has evolved from Xerox copy machines, to Photoshop collage, then to reflected landscape, and now, the use of Encaustic on her photographs.
Elena Volkova is a Ukrainian-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator, whose creative practice uses historic and contemporary photographic techniques to explore complex themes of domesticity, liminality, and subjective experience. Volkova has been a fellow at Hamiltonian Artists, and exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Elena received several recognitions and awards in support of her creative practice, including Janis Meyer Traveling Fellowship, Corcoran Women’s Committee Grant, MD State Arts Council Creativity Grant, and Baltimore Municipal Art Society Travel Prize.