Vidya Vijayasekharan is an artist, art historian and educator, whose work is informed by both history and mythology. She has been teaching Art History at Montgomery College since 1993. She lives and works in Maryland.
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Art is Jessica St. Clair's life-long joy, passion and profession. Through photography, paint, digital art and graphic design she thoughtfully expresses uplifting energy and peaceful serenity to beautify your space and positively impact your perspective. That's good vibes by design!
Born in New York and raised in Philadelphia, Crystal Wonder is a completely self-taught artist who moved to Maryland in 2000.
Crystal specializes in creating rich and beautiful paintings on canvas, wood, as well as in mural format for both indoor and outdoor locations.
Iris Grundler is a Maryland Artist whose works is displayed in homes and business throughout the metropolitan area. As a young girl she tried every medium of art, and as an adult she experimented with most media and she chose both photography and pottery to express herself. Iris was born in Peru South America, moved to United States as a teenager. Ultimately earning a BSAT-Bachelor of Science in Architecture Technology degree in 1984 at Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., and immediately began her career as an Architect.
Born in Maryland in 1977, Rose Anderson spent her childhood sequestered in her mother’s carefully curated environment of religious indoctrination. When Anderson was 14 years old, her mother joined a cult to keep her children safe from the false doctrines of mainstream society.
In 1999, trapped in a loveless union within the cult, Anderson gave birth to her third child in as many years. As her husband’s efforts to control her escalated, she fled with her children and entered the workforce directly from a place of utter poverty and ignorance.
I was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but was raised in Tinton Falls, NJ. My interest in art began at a very early age and I was encouraged to pursue it through many avenues, including after school art classes and outside lessons. I was lucky enough to have the support of many teachers, as well as family and friends.
I received my BA in Studio Fine Arts from Marist College (Poughkeepsie, NY) in 2005, and in 2008, my MFA in Printmaking from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.
John Styer, known as "The Lathe-meister", turns wood. His broad range of art includes pens, bowls, magnifiers, peppermills, coffee grinders, key rings, vases, natural edge vessels, and a great variety of other one-of-a-kind pieces. His primary marketplace is art shows throughout the mid-Atlantic region.
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Founder, Director at The Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery and Co-founder at The Griffin Art Center.
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Walter Bartman, Director and Founder of the Yellow Barn, has taught art in the Bethesda, Maryland area for over thirty years. Specializing in landscape and figure painting, he is known as one of Maryland's finest painting teachers. He is listed in the Art and Artist Files in the Hirshhorn Museum and Scupture Garden Library Collections.
Pamela Merrick is a self-taught artist born and raised in the inner city of Baltimore, MD with an affinity for bold color and a blend of realism and abstraction. Although she has doodled and sketched casually as a hobby since early childhood, it wasn't until 2010 that she tried her hand at painting and begin playing with the idea of building a career as an artist. Although Ms. Merrick chooses not to limit her work to any particular subject matter she enjoys using her art as a platform for subjects that celebrate and document love, light, faith, humanity, passion, diversity and positivity.
I like viewers of my band saw bowls to wonder "How did he do that?" -- mentally deconstructing how I might have made the piece and becoming intellectually engaged with it. Each vessel makes a unique statement—whether it be joy or sorrow, movement or stability, excitement or tranquility. I believe that wood deserves great respect when I transform a once-living tree into a work of art. I try to use every piece of wood I can, recycling the pieces left over from one project— even as small as ½ inch thick—into other projects.