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.
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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.
I am a single mother, painter and photographer (and sometimes writer) living in Severna Park, MD. My day job is serving as an award manager for a non-profit organization which focuses on international economic development and sustainability in underdeveloped countries. When I’m not working or traveling, one of my favorite pass times and ways to decompress and relax is creating art. I don’t have any fancy degrees from Art Institutes or Colleges, only a degree in psychology from University of Maryland and some graduate level courses in public policy from Georgetown University.
A lover of hiking, the outdoors, and tea. Mother nature is my greatest inspiration. I use her gifts to create beautiful, one of a kind art.
Patricia (Patsy) Card is a long term resident of Anne Arundel County since 1974. Her graphic art career spans 28 years supporting government contractors in the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia areas. She holds a AA degree from Northern Virginia Community College in graphic arts. Patricia continued her fine art classes at UMUC and at AACC where she has taken classes in oil painting, intaglio, lithography, and silk screening. Her oil and watercolor paintings are done with an expressionistic approach with the use of light and shadow to bring the image into focus.