Education: MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1995; BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1975. Recipient of Franz & Virgina Bader Grant 2017, Finalist Bakers Artist Awards 2017, Artscape 2017, Two person Show Harford community College 2016, Outdoor Sculpture Invitational 2016, Solo Show College of Southern Maryland 2015, Solo show University of Connecticut, 2014
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Lania D’Agostino was born in southwest Michigan in 1957 where she was raised on Lake Michigan in a small town that received many families from Chicago for summer vacations. This influenced her drive to visit Chicago and the museums knowing that she would live in a large city one day. During one visit to the Chicago Museum of Art, D’Agostino saw an exhibit of George Segal and was forever changed. At the age of 16 she began experimenting with casting her friends and family in plaster, some of which she never heard from again.
Ellen Burchenal is an artist who works in painting and drawing. An instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Burchenal has lived and studied in Italy, and she directs and co-teaches the MICA Summer Study program in Sorrento, Italy. She has exhibited and lectured in numerous galleries and universities throughout the region. Burchenal has received several Maryland State Arts Council Artist Fellowships, and she completed a public art commission “Undercurrent” in the Baltimore Shot Tower metro station in downtown Baltimore.
Biography- Mary Beth Muscara After working on the Baltimore City Mural Program in 1978 she lived in Mexico while studying painting and drawing at the Bellas Artes in San Miguel d'Allende. In 1989 she attended the School of Visual Arts in New York city for painting. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and non-profit spaces throughout the Baltimore-Washington, and mid-Atlantic region since 1983 including Maryland Art Place, Easton Academy of the Arts, the Anton Gallery, the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, and the Gwinnett Fine Arts Center in Duluth, Georgia.
Gina Pierleoni is a mixed media artist living and working in Baltimore. She earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and a B.F.A. from the College of New Rochelle (NY)
Individual Artist Awards include grants from :the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; the Gottlieb Foundation (emergency grant) and three from Maryland State Arts Council.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, David Page earned a National Diploma in Fine Arts from the Cape Tecnikon in 1986 and received an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002.
Recent solo shows include Security Theatre at the Creative Alliance (Baltimore),God and Lunchmeat at Old Dominion University and “Staan Nader, Staan Terug!” (come closer, get away!) at Stevenson University.
Ram Brisueno is a Baltimore based, self taught artist with a degree in English from UMBC. Ram considers himself a collagist focusing on form, color, and stories within his paintings using mixed media in an intuitive collage style referencing textures, color, meaning and intent which brings layers, upon layers within revealing unique and hidden narratives. An almost surreal perspective between material and transformations that play in stories and dreams.
Michael Kirby is the most famous artist nobody has ever heard of. He also goes by the name of Murals of Baltimore. Mr. Kirby was born in Baltimore and attended school in Baltimore City. As a teenager, he moved to Italy and lived abroad for over 10 years creating street art and murals. In the early 2000s, Mr. Kirby moved back to Baltimore and has been creating Public Art throughout the Mid-Atlantic. He has completed thousands of street art pieces around the world.
Solo Exhibitions
Highland Center For the arts, Greensboro, Vt
Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Gango Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Knight Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Limner Gallery, New York, New York
Lucas Gallery, Telluride, Colorado
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Swanson Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
Vermont Arts Exchange, N. Bennington, Vermont
Group Exhibitions
“26th Annual NBOSS”, North Bennington, Vermont, Summer 2023
“25th Annual NBOSS”, North Bennington, Vermont, Summer 2022