Maude Kasperzak was born in 1988 in Toledo, Ohio. She studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and received a BFA in Painting in 2011. From 2012-2018, she served as the Creative Director of Charm City Cakes. In 2019, Maude created MUDE Studios, an accessories and homegoods business specializing in hand-painted, ethically produced goods. Currently, her work is solely focused on expanding the colorful world of MUDE as well as her continuing her artistic practice as a painter.
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Bobby Blazek is a multi-media artist working and currently residing in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His work focuses on macabre storytelling through paintings, comics, and illustrations. Blazek combines biological, technological, and religious imagery while emphasizing color contrast, movement, repetition, and texture in order to convey narratives pertaining to marginalized bodies in the current state of the world. Currently he is at MICA majoring in General Fine Arts, minoring in Illustration and Sequential Art.
Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, belgian artist, Marie-Paule, paints instinctively and mostly from imagination and feeling. She studied at different places such as M.I.C.A. , Schuler school of fine arts and B.C.C. but strived to remain true to herself in her works. The characters represent an emotion , a reminder or a question. The are dreamlike or symbolic. The abstractions are also mainlyi imaginary. Her paintings unfold instinctively, straight out of the subconscious . Texture and color play the most important role in her present work.
Catherine Leberg was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and is the child of two biologists. The majority of her childhood was spent out of doors, or within the confines of her own imagination. Leberg joined an off-campus art program in high school, the Lafayette Parish Arts Academy, and from fourteen onward was steadily headed towards being an artist.
Kelly Anne White is an author, editor, graphic designer, and collage artist. Her most recent book release, The Legend of the Fairy Stones, features originally authored verse integrated with digitally collaged images she curated from the public domain and Creative Commons.
Cheng Cao is a Chinese artist working and living in Baltimore. Where some artists specialize in one genre of traditional Chinese painting, Cao has mastered many genres, including landscape, flower and bird, animals and portraiture. Having spent many years developing his skills and techniques, Cao uses many approaches in his work, such as free-hand and elaborate styles. Cao devotes himself to as many aspects of Chinese art as possible to make him versatile. At the same time of concentrating on Chinese tradition, Cao always wants to combine modern elements in his art.
Annamarie Morris is a printmaker based in Baltimore, MD specializing in large-scale woodcut relief and reduction printmaking processes. Most of her prints focus on figuration or abstracted floral motifs with an emphasis on line, form, and color relationships.
Dereck Stafford Mangus is a Baltimore-based artist and writer. He currently works at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where he is regularly inspired by the permanent collections and special exhibitions. His review, “Jack Whitten, ‘Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017,’” was selected as the winner of the Frieze Writer’s Prize in 2018. Mangus finds inspiration in the built environment, which informs his artwork and writing.