Glen Kessler (b. 1976): Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Painting from the New York Academy of Art; Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Glen has been awarded a 2013 Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Grant, 2 Elizabeth Greenshields Grants, and a Prince of Wales Fellowship. His artwork is collected widely internationally, and is in the public collections of Prince Charles, Amazon Web Services, Capital One Bank, Ford’s Theater, Yale University, The George Washington University, Boston University, Maryland Institute College of Art, St.
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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.
Biography and Statistics:
Education:
University of Colorado: 1984-1986
University of Maryland: Bachelors Degree in Art History; 1991
Occupation:
Sculptor of one of a kind works
Artist/Designer and Co-owner - Girardini Fine Art and Design: 1992 – present
Ceramics Instructor: Columbia Art Center, Columbia MD
Personal:
Working and making a living in the arts for more than 28 years.
Exhibitions and Positions:
Positions:
Served as board member for the Craft Emergency Relief Fund 1999-2005 CERF+
Alan Fink has been painting professionally for 45 years. He has studied architecture, film, and video at the University of Maryland and received his fine art training at the Schuler School of Art. He is the second generation director of the Fink School of Traditional Art, founded by Paula Fink in 1965. He works in pastel and oil, and in addition to accepting portrait commissions for both people and pets (www.petonapalette.com), paints numerous subject matter including landscape, wildlife, and still life.
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.
My expressive and sometimes whimsical style is reflected in my art. I do pen and ink, acrylic and oil paintings of still life, landscapes and animals. I created several murals for the Carroll County Womens and Mens shelters. My oil painting of Tag, a wirehaired griffon, won honorable mention at the Schuler School of Fine Art 5th Annual "Furs to Feathers" exhibition of animal art in 2014.
BIOGRAPHY OF THERESA KNIGHT MCFADDEN
I have loved the outdoors since I was a small child. My love of painting came later yet it flows directly from this earlier passion. I seek to capture the aliveness of the natural world through the strong use of color and attention to the shapes found in nature. as I evolve as an artist, I am experimenting with pushing shape and color to a more abstract, elemental level while continuing to maintain an emotional connection to my subject. What I love about making art is that it is always a journey, never a destination. I hope to take whoever views my art on the journey with me.
Errol W. McKinson is a resilient and vibrant breakout award-winning artist. At an early age, Errol was fascinated by the works of art that surrounded him in his homeland Jamaica and later became extremely interested in Impressionism and Modern Art, the style and techniques of Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso. These Masters influence Errol’s work today.
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.