~~Starr Page is a Baltimore based visual essayist who contemplates the contemporary image as the major focus in her work. She creates through scribbling and twisting and interlacing lines and from this mass of procreative shapes a vital expression is released expressing an involution of images. She enjoys delving into the psychological mind and is a huge fan of the outsider artist.
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Maria Adelmann's novel HOW TO BE EATEN and short story collection GIRLS OF A CERTAIN AGE have been published by LITTLE, BROWN. Her novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma, while her short story collection features realistic, character-driven stories that explore the worlds of female narrators.
As a champion of contemporary music, Lisa Cella has performed throughout the United States and abroad. She is Artistic Director of San Diego New Music and a founding member of its resident ensemble NOISE. With NOISE she has performed the works of young composers all around the world including at the Acousmania Festival in Bucharest, Romania in May of 2004, the Pacific Rim Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz in May of 2005 and as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2007. NOISE also presents a three day festival of modern music entitled soundON.
Stacey Grabowski Phinney, resides in Baltimore, MD. She was born and raised in New Jersey. There, at the age of 12, she began her career in art, although she did not know it at the time. Stacey began private oil painting lessons one night a week for $5 a lesson. That investment paid off, since that is where she learned to appreciate color and texture along with great composition. These skills would become invaluable later in her fused glass designs. Stacey exhibited her artwork at numerous shows in and around New Jersey and New York, where she won several 1st place ribbons.
Juanita Rockwell is a writer/director with over 100 projects in theatre, opera, radio, multimedia, puppetry, song and site-specific performance produced in a over a dozen cities worldwide. She was founding director of Towson University’s experimentally-focused Theatre MFA, and as artistic director of Company One Theater in Hartford, directed dozens of premieres by leading innovative playwrights of the 90s. Her work explores different ways of structuring narrative and how that changes us, and how shifting relationships of sung and spoken text affect character and story.
Shana R. Goetsch's art frequently involves themes of social justice, empowerment, love, loss and bereavement; she began painting in 1989 after witnessing the murder of her mother. Often using words, cultural references or found objects, she injects personal voice, history and memory into her pieces. Originally from southeastern Wisconsin, Goetsch's work has appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout Wisconsin, Virginia, Maryland, Arizona, New York, Washington D.C. and British Columbia, Canada.
Lauren Frances Adams mines the histories of power, labor, and material culture to make surprising connections that resonate with current sociopolitical issues. She is an MFA graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, and lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is a full-time faculty member in painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Back Lane West, Cornwall, UK; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; EXPO Chicago; Conner Contemporary, Washington, D.C. and Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, California.
Carmen Martini is a Spanish born artist currently based in Baltimore, MD.
Her love for the fine arts comes from her grandmother, who greatly influenced her to look into art from a different perspective since an early age.
Sanzi Kermes is a binational progeny of immigrant grandparents (Bohemia and Italy), the fourth youngest of five. At age seven, she declared that she wanted to be an artist.
Sarah Magida (b.1979) is a Baltimore City, Maryland native. She is full of curiosity, the potential to learn and a passion for all things hand crafted. She earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in General Fine Arts and her MA from the University of Baltimore in Publications Design.
She currently creates primarily embroidered work but engages in painting or drawing small works as well. She is continually developing her work in any and all spare moments, days and hours possible.