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.
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Rice McKelvin is a mixed media portrait artist that lives in the Baltimore area. Their passion for art history and pop culture influences their work. Their unique experiences have left them with PTSD, that they choose to draw inspiration from. Art started as a way for Rice to cope with abuse and has grown to aid in their recovery from it. Their artwork has always represented personal hope for the future, and now helps them solidify and explore the progress they have made. Rice has also been using their art to help fully explore their identity, and relationships.
A freelance photographer since 1975, Stephen McDaniel treasures nature in all its forms, from inspiring scenic vistas to close-ups of an insect’s face. In his photography, he attempts to convey emotions as well as information, whether his subject is the awesome power of a volcanic eruption or the delicate beauty of a tiny wildflower blossom. The world is in our hands now more than ever before, and we will only cherish and protect what we understand and love.
Adrienne Moumin is a visual artist based in Silver Spring, MD, and part-time in New York, NY. Moumin works in hand-printed B&W photography, and photo-based, hand-cut-and-assembled, and mixed-media collage. She is best known for her Architextures photo collage series, ongoing since 2000.
i am a self taught metal smith with a custom goldsmith background. i have been a self employed artist working with many different types of metals for over 25 years. i enjoy working on custom projects the most as it keeps me challenged and keeps the creative juices flowing. i create a lot of wall sculptures as well as free standing sculptures. i also design pieces for the garden and landscaping projects.
Born with crayons in both hands, my world is all about color. When I look at an object such as a tree trunk, I don’t just see browns; I see greens, reds, oranges, golds and a dozen shades of grey too! In other words, my world is awash with color. I’ve outgrown my crayons, experimenting often with new approaches to my art, but I consistently employ a style of disjointed, colored shapes. This color-block style lets the painting surface show through inbetween blocks of color to become an outline for each shape, resembling a stained glass or mosaic composition.
Lou Joseph (b.1975) is a Baltimore artist working in painting, printmaking and installation. He is a project manager for the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and also director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore. He earned a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1998 and an MFA from Indiana University in 2004. He lives in the Radnor-Winston neighborhood with his wife Miriam and son Gabe.
Born in Baltimore and raised and educated in nearby Anne Arundel County, I was mesmerized by painted screens in Baltimore city rowhouses as a child. Like most screen painters, I've had little formal art training and I am for the most part self-taught. Folk art is passed down from generation to generation, not necessary through formal art lessons.
Biography: Adiante Franszoon was born in the interior of Suriname along the Brazilian border. He was raised in the Saramacca Maroon tribe, in one of many communities established by former slaves who moved from the coast of Suriname to the Amazon rain forest in the early 1700s. He learned to carve when he was a young boy growing up in the village of Dangogo. He came to the United States in the early 1970s to get an American education. He presently resides in Baltimore, Maryland where he carries on the traditional Maroon carving of his ancestors.