Joel Michael-Schwartz is an eclectic and deeply curious mandolinist, guitarist, teacher, and composer. He is based in Baltimore, and performs, collaborates, and teaches around the Mid-Atlantic. Bridging traditions and using music as a tool of cross-cultural communication is at the heart of his wide-ranging musical life. Equally at home playing Bach, flamenco, bebop, swing, and celtic, he brings expression, command, and a quirky sense of fun to all his artistic endeavors.
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J.B. Shepard is a studio pet portrait photographer and the founder of the Puptrait Studio in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Best known for his signature headshot style of dog photography and the whimsical Paper Hats featured in many of his pet portraits, J.B.'s unique take on dog portraiture has quickly made his dog photos some of the most instantly recognizable in the pet industry and have earned him critical acclaim within the United States and abroad.
America’s official national museum, education center, and repository for self-taught and intuitive artistry.
Maryland Art Place's primary focus is supporting artists from the State of Maryland. We believe Black Lives Matter and we recognize that there is much more to be done in supporting and elevating the voices of Black artists across the state and we are committed to doing this work. Despite - or perhaps because of - the current climate, we continue to believe that the arts are essential to our health and well-being, and are dedicated to finding new ways to bring our services to the public that are representative to the artistic community as a whole.
Art with a Heart is a non-profit organization that provides interactive visual arts classes to underserved Baltimore area children, youth, and adults in schools, community centers, group homes, shelters, permanent housing facilities, hospitals, and senior facilities. Art with a Heart’s mission is to enhance the lives of people in need through visual art. In an effort to achieve its mission, Art with a Heart works to harness the benefits of arts education to cultivate positive changes in behavior and general attitudes among its participants.
Mezzo-soprano Christine Thomas-O'Meally has performed everything from the motets of J.S. Bach to the melodies of Irving Berlin to the minimalism of Philip Glass. Equally at home in opera, oratorio, cabaret, and musical theater, Ms. Thomas-O'Meally has performed with companies throughout the DC-Baltimore and Milwaukee-Chicago areas. An advocate for contemporary American music both as a performer and as a teacher, Ms. Thomas-O'Meally has created roles in five world premieres, including The Woman in Red in Dream of Valentino at Washington Opera.
Rey Velasquez Sagcal is a Filipino artist working primarily with video art, drawing, and painting. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Illustration and is currently residing in Baltimore City.
McBrien is a Baltimore native who began her artistic career as a painter, exhibiting her work throughout the East Coast from the mid 80’s to mid 2000’s. As a painter, she showed her work in numerous group and one person shows throughout the Mid-Atlantic US region.McBrien began her fiber direction about a decade ago, feeling that pool painting was too toxic for what she wanted to communicate. She currently has her studio in a historic mill building in the Hampden area of Baltimore where they use to produce cotton duck canvas which has become one of McBrien’s main materials she uses.
An initiative under the Southwest Partnership to establish a community arts center, anchored by a dance operator, with youth and community programming and education provided by artist studio residents.
Cynthia Daignault received a BA in Art and Art History from Stanford University. She has presented solo exhibitions and projects at many major museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, MASS MoCA, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and White Columns. Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Daignault is a regularly published author, and editor of numerous publications.