Cassandra Kapsos was born in the Ozarks, a mountain region in northwest Arkansas. She received her MA from the School of Visual Arts, New York City in 2006 and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011. Cassandra has exhibited in a variety of locations from across the US. The theory of light and the process of photography has been a great interest of mine. Enjoying photographing subjects to see how the camera capture the light, she has an obsession for the color temperatures of light and how it reflects off a surface.
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2001.
Julia Kim Smith is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been featured by Angry Asian Man, Animal, Art F City, artnet News, GQ, Hypebeast, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, kottke.org, Ms., Paper Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and international media outlets. Her films have received premieres at Slamdance Film Festival, Cinequest Film Festival, Center For Asian American Media CAAMFest, San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, and Maryland Film Festival.
Magnolia Laurie was born in Massachusetts and raised in Puerto Rico. She received her BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, and the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. Magnolia’s work has been supported with grants from the Creative Baltimore Fund, the Maryland State Arts Council Grants, the Belle Foundation and a Mid Atlantic Creative Fellowship.
Carrie Fucile is an interdisciplinary artist and experimental musician whose work is frequently performative and collaborative. She is first and foremost a sound artist, but often incorporates movement and physical materials into her process. Her creative efforts interpret the effects of political power, technological shifts, and global economics on the human condition. Ultimately each piece explores traces of these events found in objects, architecture, and landscapes.
PAUL DANIEL, an artist noted for his kinetic outdoor sculpture, has received several major commissions in the region. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues including American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington D.C., C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, MD, Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences in NY, and the International Sculpture Center in Washington, DC.
Biography: Adiante Franszoon was born in the interior of Suriname along the Brazilian border. He was raised in the Saramacca Maroon tribe, in one of many communities established by former slaves who moved from the coast of Suriname to the Amazon rain forest in the early 1700s. He learned to carve when he was a young boy growing up in the village of Dangogo. He came to the United States in the early 1970s to get an American education. He presently resides in Baltimore, Maryland where he carries on the traditional Maroon carving of his ancestors.
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.
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.