Based in Ellicott City, Maryland, Tarah Boyd is a multidisciplinary artist who creates large scale macrame, woven and tufted fiber art. Her engaging work is whimsical and delicate, yet embedded in the earthly, natural materials she uses. Boyd's free-form style has allowed the fibers to create a pattern (or shape) organically, revealing the beauty and vulnerability of her materials. Boyd was raised in Maryland, received her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and her Graphic Design Certificate, before discovering her true passion for fiber art.
Liu Yefu focuses on film, sound, ceramics and drawing. Influenced by Asian folk culture, Liu is interested in the expression of black humor with a stream-of-consciousness style, and playfully comments on the chaos and restlessness of social realities. By shooting daily life scenes, combined with carefully selected ready-made products in line with his fictional plot, Liu mapping the ideology and stereotypes brought by history, nationality, and memory.
Yellow Dress
Medium: Synthetic felt, satin
Year: 2019-2020
Details: 2.57 minutes
Pink Ghost
Medium: Fabric, dye, embroidery
Year: 2019
Details: 142 in. diameter
Heart Beating Beneath the Earth (excerpt)
See more information about Heart Beating Beneath the Earth (excerpt)Medium: Artist Book
Year: 2022
Details: 11" x 8.5" x .25"
Christina Yoshika Greene is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Baltimore and Washington D.C. She received her Associate of Fine Arts degree at Northern Virginia Community College and her Bachelor's in Graphic Design at Maryland Institute College of Art. Yoshika has spent the past three years in Baltimore working with local businesses and nonprofits, including Requity Foundation and WGF Studio.
Elaine Weiner-Reed: EVERY PAINTING IS A SONG | STORY - Ekphrastic Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Hired to record and illustrate my intent and focus of my "Every Painting Is A Story" cross-discipline creative collaborative initiative: Video by T2PTV (Ashley Love and Bruce Nairn)
See also: Creative Collaboration - Elaine Weiner-Reed's Every Painting is a Song Initiative (https://youtu.be/N4w_rIJeX-c ); 3:57 minutes
EVERY PAINTING IS A SONG | EVERY PAINTING IS A STORY
"How do my works SOUND to you? Tell me in word, song, music... in your own true voice."
In 2016 or before, visual artist Elaine Weiner-Reed began asking and wondering: "If my paintings and sculptures were music, how would they sound to you?"
From this, her cross-discipline collaboration initiative "Every Painting is a Song" was born, and over the years musicians and writers have begun to respond, intrigued with engaging creatively across the many arts. Many videos were created based on the songs, music, and poetry inspired by these artists works. This video is an overview of Weiner-Reed's initiative and a gateway to "imagining more!"
In 2018, Elaine and her artist friend, April M Rimpo, collaborated to mount a Summer 2019 two-person art show entitled "Portraits of Life: The Art of Storytelling" which led to a magical merging of creative minds "Every Painting is a Song | Every Painting is a Story." In May-June 2019, Slayton House's Bernice Kish Gallery served as multimedia-cross-discipline exhibition and performance stage.
Visual Artists Elaine Weiner-Reed and April M Rimpo are visual storytellers, exploring relationships, life, shape, and color in different ways to honor life’s journey and individuals they meet along the way. Both artists are inspired by music and musicians in different ways as interpreted in their different styles, but their visions align and converged around the idea of creative collaboration with other artistic disciplines. Believing in the positive energy created when Artists-Inspire-Artists, they took Weiner-Reed’s “Every Painting is a Song” collaboration initiative and expanded into “Every Painting is A Song/Every Painting is a Story” incorporating writers and musicians in two collaboration events at their exhibition: “Portraits of Life – The Art of Storytelling.”
In 2021, Elaine and April collaborated again in their exhibition: Portraits of Life: Once Upon a Story. Art took flight as it found alternative reflections in poetry and music. The professional poets will be honored in separate videos throughout 2022.
Elaine Weiner-Reed: https://www.elaineweinerreed.com/
See also: Creative Collaboration - Elaine Weiner-Reed's Every Painting is a Song Initiative (https://youtu.be/N4w_rIJeX-c ); 3:57 minutes
EVERY PAINTING IS A SONG | EVERY PAINTING IS A STORY
"How do my works SOUND to you? Tell me in word, song, music... in your own true voice."
In 2016 or before, visual artist Elaine Weiner-Reed began asking and wondering: "If my paintings and sculptures were music, how would they sound to you?"
From this, her cross-discipline collaboration initiative "Every Painting is a Song" was born, and over the years musicians and writers have begun to respond, intrigued with engaging creatively across the many arts. Many videos were created based on the songs, music, and poetry inspired by these artists works. This video is an overview of Weiner-Reed's initiative and a gateway to "imagining more!"
In 2018, Elaine and her artist friend, April M Rimpo, collaborated to mount a Summer 2019 two-person art show entitled "Portraits of Life: The Art of Storytelling" which led to a magical merging of creative minds "Every Painting is a Song | Every Painting is a Story." In May-June 2019, Slayton House's Bernice Kish Gallery served as multimedia-cross-discipline exhibition and performance stage.
Visual Artists Elaine Weiner-Reed and April M Rimpo are visual storytellers, exploring relationships, life, shape, and color in different ways to honor life’s journey and individuals they meet along the way. Both artists are inspired by music and musicians in different ways as interpreted in their different styles, but their visions align and converged around the idea of creative collaboration with other artistic disciplines. Believing in the positive energy created when Artists-Inspire-Artists, they took Weiner-Reed’s “Every Painting is a Song” collaboration initiative and expanded into “Every Painting is A Song/Every Painting is a Story” incorporating writers and musicians in two collaboration events at their exhibition: “Portraits of Life – The Art of Storytelling.”
In 2021, Elaine and April collaborated again in their exhibition: Portraits of Life: Once Upon a Story. Art took flight as it found alternative reflections in poetry and music. The professional poets will be honored in separate videos throughout 2022.
Elaine Weiner-Reed: https://www.elaineweinerreed.com/
Medium: Video (artwork, poets, and artist)
Year: 2022
Details: 10:41 minutes