By day I am a professor of philosophy. But during grad school I fell in love with oil painting and since then I've been devoting as much of my free time to it as possible. I work primarily with a few different approaches to representational painting (urban realism, portraiture, hyperrealism, and a bit of pop psychedelia).
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Sera Boeno (1991) is a sculptor and installation artist from Istanbul, Turkey. Her praxis is research-based and heavily influenced by the socio-politics of her motherland, Turkey. Narratives of and around women in historically silenced topics –politics, sex, religion, trauma– are central to her work. Concrete, metal, wood, found objects make the foundations of her practice. Boeno holds a B.A.
Artist Antti Eklund paints iconic oil-on-canvas paintings to illuminate injustice and to expose the abuse of power. His goal is to encourage and inspire people to take action for a positive change. “We all have a voice, my art is mine.”
After an award-winning international career in design Professor Eklund switched his creative passion entirely into art - his deepest lifelong passion. “I am crazy about creativity. I love challenges. I love overcoming my fears and learning from my mistakes. Creativity is an endless process. Painting is my passion and my endless source of happiness.”
Julie Jankowski is a visual artist and educator living in Baltimore. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA) from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA) in painting and printmaking from Ball State University, Muncie, IN. She also studied painting and drawing at Indiana University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
I love creating to make the world a better place. I've enjoyed Art since I was 8 years old. While other children were drawing stick people I was drawing and painting life like art.
This love of art influenced me to pursue a commercial art track in high school and a graphic design degree in college.
Today, I am a teaching artist and have taught art in after school and summer school programs throughout Baltimore, Maryland. I enjoy painting, creating art with my hands, making handbags & teaching art lessons.
Work and Education Samuel Burt is a composer in Baltimore, Maryland and professor at Goucher College and Johns Hopkins. His activities include conventional and conceptual composition, improvisation, and electronic music. M.M. Composition and M.M. Computer Music, Peabody Institute and B.Mus, University of Georgia. He studied with Lewis Nielson and Christopher Theofanidis.
An avid performer and educator, pianist and composer Joshua Espinoza balances his time sharing music on the stage and off. As a performer, Joshua has played with renowned artists including Warren Wolf, Paul Bollenback, Miho Hazama, John D’earth, Mike Pope, Kris Funn, Todd Marcus, Chuck Redd, Ryan McGillicudy, Eugene Goss, and Gail Wynters, and on national stages including Piccolo Spoleto (Charleston), The Jazz Kitchen (Indianapolis), Blues Alley, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Keystone Korner (Baltimore), and the DC Jazz Festival.
I am a life-long learner. My professors have described me as a "watercolor master," but I am competent in acrylic, oil, and my favorite media is pastel.