Brooke Lamplough desires to pursue photography professionally and explore installation work further. She has photographed multiple weddings and has worked as a student photographer for Integrated Marketing. She loves to photograph abandoned buidlings and nude photography because of their intimacy. Walking into another person's history is very personal and has stories waiting to be told. Nude photography is very raw and can show the vulnerability or power of the female nude. She creates large scale charcoal drawings with frantic strokes.
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Aloha and welcome to Meki’s Tamure Polynesian Arts Group, Inc.! We were founded in 1969 by Meki & JoAnn Toalepai who were performers at Baltimore’s most famous tiki restaurant – The Hawaiian Room in the Emerson Hotel. Meki is an immigrant from Western Samoa performing across the United States in the early 1960s when he met JoAnn who was a Baltimore native that practiced hula as a hobby. They met when Meki’s group had a contract with the Emerson Hotel to provide entertainment. The Hawaiian Room closed around 1970 and the Emerson Hotel was demolished in 1971.
Robin M. Gilliam is a mixed media abstract collage artist in Annapolis, Maryland, who specializes in creating to get her zen on. She paints and weaves found objects into mixed media collages and journals and is a teaching artist at Maryland Hall.
Robin achieved her BA in art and psychology from Goucher College in 1984. She has spent the past 30+ years creating to heal from life’s challenges, such as sexual assault, addiction, spouse battling opioids and stage 3 head/neck cancer, and aging parents with cancer and dementia (both passed now).
Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of the story collection, The World Doesn't Require You
(Norton/Liveright, August 2019). His debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of
Kentucky, 2016), was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017
Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in
journals such as The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Rumpus, among others.
He lives in Annapolis, MD with his wife and two sons.
Ping Shen is a trained artist who specializes in using traditional Chinese Gongbi painting
techniques to create contemporary artwork inspired by her rich life experiences in China and
America. Using various brush sizes and shapes on Chinese rice paper, her expressive watercolors
feature portraits, figures, animals and flowers. Ping’s work builds a bridge between traditional
and contemporary by showcasing ancient painting techniques and mediums in a modern and
simply beautiful way. She creates artwork that evokes feelings of happiness and pleasant
emotion.
Paula Chase grew up on a healthy diet of Judy Blume, Mildred Taylor and Francine Pascale. Admiring
authors of such differing styles resulted in a forever love of children’s fiction of every variety. In 2006,
she put finger to keyboard and created her own world of characters. The result was her debut YA novel,
So Not the Drama, the first in a five-book series about a multi-cultural group of friends navigating the
highs and lows of high school.
Growing up, Paula never thought about the lack of characters of color in popular fiction. However, when
I was born and raised in Maryland, and in 2016 I graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art earning a BFA in animation. Though I came in with a background in 3D animation and modeling, I ended my program focused on cut paper stop motion. I fell in love with both working with my hands and the meticulous act of making the puppets and moving them bit by bit. This experience has come to influence my work through to today. I take my fascination with the feel and pattern of paper and use it to create paper-craft illustrations and the occasional animation.
Jeff Huntington aka Jahru (@jahru) is a studio painter and street artist living and working in
Annapolis, Maryland. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 1997) and the Corcoran
School of Art (BFA 1995). Huntington taught painting as an adjunct professor at the Corcoran
School of the Arts & Design/ George Washington University from 2012 until 2016. At this time,
he and his wife and fellow artist, Julia Gibb, founded the nonprofit arts program, Future History
Now (FHN), whereby they create collaborative murals with youth in under-resourced
Greg Jones Ellis is an award winning playwright, actor and singer. He received a 2017 Julie Harris Playwriting Award for his comedy-drama All Save One, set in Hollywood in the 1950s. The play was first performed as a staged reading at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of its 2017 Page-to-Stage New Plays Festival. All Save One was then chosen by the Washington Stage Guild in Washington, DC, as a World Premiere production in its 2018-19 season.
Maria Hinerman grew up in Ontario, Canada and studied graphic design and advertising in George Brown College in Toronto. She now resides in Glen Burnie with her husband, son, and 3 dogs. Maria was always been fond of painting and abstract designs, and just recently decided to get back into painting after taking a few years off to raise her son.