My interest in photography began while attending college in Philadelphia. It started with the school newspaper and I shot with a simple (but much loved) Pentax K-1000. Soon after I was doing family portraits in the JC Penny stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. I quickly found my real passion of Landscape and Nature photography and was then destined to eat peanut butter and potatoes for many years while all my money went into film and processing.
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After earning an undergraduate degree in Painting and Printmaking at Cornell University, I spent a year working and studying in Paris, France until relocating to Baltimore, to earn a graduate degree at The Maryland Institute, College of Art, (MICA). I have won a Maryland State Arts Council Award multiple times in different categories, a Trawick Prize, and I have been published in various publications including twice in New American Paintings. I have exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across the country and internationally.
Originally from California, Carolyn Case earned her MFA from MICA's Mount Royal School
of Art in Baltimore, MD, and her BFA from California State University in Long Beach, CA. Her
solo exhibitions include Asya Geisberg Gallery in New York, Western Michigan University,
Loyola University, McLean Projects for the Arts, and the Art Registry in Washington D.C., and
upcoming solo exhibitions at Lux Art Institute. She has participated in two-person and group
exhibitions at the Delaware Museum of Art, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, The Parlour
Corrie Francis Parks brings life to the inanimate through frame-by-frame manipulation of
physical materials. Her films and installations dance the fine line between the haptic and the
digital, demanding an inspection of details. She is an Assistant Professor of Animation at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County and author of the book, Fluid Frames: Animating
Under the Camera with Sand, Clay, Paint and Pixels. Parks has been an artist in residence at
the MacDowell Colony, Fundación Valparaíso and Klondike Goldrush International Historic
Nicole Stokes is an enterprising crochet designer. What began as a hobby, has evolved into a business and a growing philanthropic mission. As owner and operator of HGE Designs fashion-company, the spoken word artist turned designer has steadily built her reputation and brand. As one of the new faces revolutionizing people’s mindsets concerning crochet fashion, Nicole has been featured in Fashion at Artscape, The S.T.A.R.E Show, La Musee da la mode at Towson University, the 2019 launch of The Dollhouse Boutique in Los Angeles and countless other fashion and hair shows.
John Parkins is a Baltimore based artist. His experience buying and selling antique, vintage, and discarded objects educates his artistic practice. Rather than add to the existing material surplus that inundates our world, he recycles by mining metal from unwanted silver heirlooms, housewares, and cutlery. A background in fine art and painting evokes modern and minimalist forms with strong, understated compositions. John creates at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, a communal studio and education space for metalsmiths.