Linling Lu was born in 1983 in Guizhou Province, China. In 2005 she received a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Beijing Forestry University. Lu came to the United States in 2006 to attend Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, received a BFA in painting in 2008 and an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA in 2011. Her work is included in private and public collections nationally and internationally and the permanent collection of the US Embassy in Beijing.
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Yulia Hanansen is a second-generation artist. Having mastered many techniques including mosaics, printmaking, drawing, painting, textiles, and more, Yulia has been primarily working in mosaics, prints, and painting. She takes pride in her ability to be able to create art in a variety of media and in a vast array of themes she comes up with. Her Mosaic Sphere Studio, LLC was the first mosaic studio/gallery in the state of Michigan to show and represent mosaic artwork. Studio has evolved through the years to offer not only unique mosaic artwork, but also prints, paintings, and drawings.
Katie Pumphrey is an artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. Katie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has participated in artist residencies at the Studios of Key West, Vermont Studio Center, Gallery Four, and the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including solo exhibitions in Baltimore, Washington DC, Alexandria, and Key West. Katie is also a long distance, open water swimmer — who swam the English Channel in 2015, around the island of Manhattan in 2017, and the Catalina Channel in 2018.
L. M. Smith played in rock bands and recorded her original songs at home for about 20 years before returning to college to take up painting once again in 2003. In 2008 she earned an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Since then she has begun to show her work in the Baltimore/Washington region.
Amita Bhatt
Education:
MFA- Maryland Institute College of Art (Hoffberger School of Painting), Maryland,USA-2009
BFA- Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India-1993
Solo or Limited Person Shows:
• Deborah Colton Gallery-Visions-Houston, Texas- May 2017
• O’Kane Gallery-University of Houston, Downtown – “Balancing Acts-Paintings by Amita Bhatt”- Houston, Texas-September 2013
• Blue Star Contemporary Art Center-“Texas Tough”-Depends Who You Ask” - San Antonio, Texas-June 2013
• Gallery 138- “Cut.Paste.Sew”- Armory Week Event - New York, NY- March 2013
S. Lee Triolo is visual artist working in multiple mediums including painting, ceramics, encaustic, video art and physical expression. She is a board member of the Transmodern Festival for the past six years. Creative collaborative projects that hold opportunities to promote change are of prime importance.
I earned an B.A. in music composition at Washington College and an M.F.A. in studio art at Towson University. My process begins with drawing and/or sound, and usually ends with animation.
Born in Maryland and raised in both Maryland and Maine, Christy continues both residences where she has studios. After graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art, she earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. During that time she spent an invigorating summer at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Christy's teaching art to school children on Long Island where they were visually describing their experiences, led her to financially support herself as an artist with a career in art therapy.
Sarah McCann is a Baltimore based curator, community artist, and educator. McCann’s text-based mosaics, prints and multimedia artwork has been exhibited nationally and she had her first solo exhibition in 2018 at Jubilee Arts in Baltimore. Since 2010 McCann has organized, curated and installed exhibitions and related programming from conception to completion. Her curatorial methodology poses questions to artists as themes for the exhibitions and often includes youth artists and/or a community component.
Matthew Saindon is a photographic artist, living and working in Baltimore. He strives to produce images which invoke his curiosities surrounding perception, working tirelessly to acquire "true sight" the art of seeing without definition.