Mara Clawson, born in Seoul Korea in 1992, is a self-taught artist who paints visual stories using pastels and paint. Born with Familial Dysautonomia (FD), a rare genetic neurological disease, Mara’s art is a means for her to connect and express herself to others.
Sensing how colors mix and combine is at the core of Mara’s process. Mara layers different colors and patterns of oil pastels or paint, which creates her distinct mark making, a patchwork of textural arrangements, and intricate abstract compositions.
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I am a life-long learner. My professors have described me as a "watercolor master," but I am competent in acrylic, oil, and my favorite media is pastel.
Rachel Alvarez is a native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She received her BFA in Painting and Photography from Salisbury University in 2002. Her original work has been exhibited at a number of local galleries, and her prints, notecards and decals can be found in shops across the United States.
To paint what I see is to present life as a visual conversation. The world may be raucous, with talk and distractions, but to see something else behind this surface, and share it, is to find purpose. My paintings are for sale, commission and the pleasure of your engagement. - Jonathan Mann
Jonathan Mann is a practicing artist and has been an art educator for 40 years in higher education and grades K-12. His art is about painting specimens from our natural world for the purpose of reconstructing and reinvigorating our memory of them when they become lost in our daily lives.
Suzannah Sulek has enjoyed drawing and painting from a young age. She studied Fine Art at Boston University but ultimately majored in Graphic Design and pursued a more business oriented career. Recently, she shifted her focus back to the more creative arts. She paints from life and is inspired by her family as well as her interest in food and nutrition.
CBilly (Baltimore, Maryland) is a surrealist oil painter. As a self-taught painter, CBilly is influenced by the human anatomy, nature, and life’s journeys. CBilly’s artwork is shown in the "Erase Hate Though Art" exhibit at the Chesapeake Arts Center, located at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport in Terminal D. The artist’s work was also featured at the Columbia Art Center in Columbia, Maryland. Currently, CBilly will present a solo exhibition at the Aloft Hotel BWI Baltimore International Airport (2017).
I was born and raised North of Detroit in a rural town surrounded by nature and a rich exposure to four seasons. Water was an abundant resource - I could walk in any direction and see a running brook, a river, a pond or a lake which all provided a playground for curiosity and pleasure.
Mary Annella “Mimi” Frank
Mary Annella Frank was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and received her MFA from the University of Maryland in 1979. Her work explores social, cultural, and historical themes or persons with the intent of creating physical objects that embody the essence of those investigations.
Primarily working in steel and a range of other materials, her work straddles a craft sensibility of workmanship, while maintaining an artist’s expressiveness and interpretive power.
Christopher Bowling has been creating art for over almost 40 years, focusing on sculpture and drawing. His main media is graphite, colored pencil and fine-tipped markers for drawing and metal, wood and found objects for sculpture. He worked for several years as an elementary school art teacher in Harford County, MD as well as substitute teacher in Seattle, WA. His drawings are mostly of animals, filled with various random objects - recently he is using iconic Baltimore/Maryland landmarks and objects.