Folk art and patterns, history, the environment, and landscapes make up the wide breadth of Magan's work. A painter at her core, Magan is an artist of diverse interests spanning from work with natural materials, to wearable art, to digital design.
Susan Due Pearcy was raised in St. Louis, MO. She studied art at Southeast Missouri
State University and graduated from New York University with a B.S. in Painting,
Graphics and Sculpture. She studied lithography at the Art Students League in New
York City, etching at Fort Mason Art Center & and reduction woodblock at Graphic Arts
Workshop in San Francisco, CA. Susan studied pastel at Montgomery College, MD.
She has participated in numerous continuing education workshops.
Susan worked in printmaking with the Graphics Workshop and the Printmaker’s
Freda was born in Washington DC. She studied Chinese Traditional Painting in Taipei, Taiwan from 1955 with Chun-pi Huang and C.B. King. Minored in Art at the University of Maryland from 1961-65. Later studied Chinese Landscape painting with the renounce master C.C. Wang in New York City from 1981-2003. Studied watercolor with Diana Marta in the 90’s. Taken many workshops with Skip Lawrence, Joe Mayer and Katherine Chang Liu. Freda has had 10 Solo Shows, 11 Duo Shows and participated in more than 10 group shows in USA since 1999. She currently lives and work in Maryland and Virginia in the US.
Lesley Riley never intended to be a full-time, professional artist. She just followed her passion in the small blocks of time she carved out while raising six children. Now, as an internationally known instructor and multi-media artist, Lesley works in botanical printing, mixed and digital media, paint and of course, fabric. In 1999 she turned her initial passion for fabric, photos, color and the written word into a dream occupassion that continues to delight and inspire creatives and art lovers everywhere.
Mixed media artist from Baltimore
Growing up as an odd, chubby, artsy child in the late 60's', early 70's, I aspired to become Barbie, a Stewardess or a Playboy Bunny. With my untreated addiction to candy, paper dolls, Vogue & House Beautiful magazines as well as Colorforms, I lived for anything to take me away into a fantasy world of pointy-breasted, high-fashion, feminine whimsy. Later on in life, after my 19th nervous breakdown in the corporate world, I got off the mind-numbing rollercoaster train-wreck created by my own thoughts and returned to my artistic roots reflecting my childhood passions.
Meredith S. K. Boas (formerly Meredith S. Keating) is a life-long artist and arts advocate who comes from a long line of artists and entreprenuers. She has studied many artistic mediums, and has a bachelor's degree in Integrated Arts and four associate degrees in the disciplines of photography, graphic design and multimedia, video production, and visual communications.