Yasi is a Mixed Media Artist. She is a photographer, painter, illustrator, Graphic Artist, T-Shirt and Hat Designer, Landscape Architecture Student, Video Editor, Animation Creator, and Writer. She is working on book publishing this summer in addition to NFT works. She has served in the military, was raised in Germany, and graduated with a Digital Design Degree in 2016. She has sold several paintings in Virginia while working for another artist.
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Prince Frederick , 20678
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I lead a four-piece jazz band (the Creole Gumbo Jazz Band) that plays early New Orleans jazz (King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton), and we are available to present an educational program that illustrates how the meeting of African Americans and European Americans gave birth to the beginnings of American popular music.
Candy Campbell, DNP, is an award-winning actor, author, playwright, filmmaker, and fine artist.
As a proud SAG-AFTRA member, she has appeared on stage, screen, radio, and television.
Candy co-founded an improv and stand-up comedy group and has since created three solo shows. The latest, “An Evening With Florence Nightingale: The Reluctant Celebrity,” has received rave reviews and played off-Broadway, several states, and in three countries (so far!) Audiences young and old love the wit and wisdom of one of history's most influential women.
Resumed painting again in 2019 after decades working as a journalist and musician. I paint in the folk art style and have exhibited at many events in Md & Va. My work has been selected for five juried shows at Ann Marie Garden Art Center in Solomons, Md. I formed The Grim Pickers bluegrass band in 1975 which played often in Md, DC and Va including performances at the Birchmere, Red Fox and King of France Tavern.
Margaret Dowell is an artist and art educator, teaching most recently for the College of Southern Maryland. Her artworks have been included in many regional and national exhibitions Currently painting Southern Maryland heritage subject matter in oils, her earlier paintings were social commentary in nature. She holds a Ph.D, (Curriculum and Instruction) and MFA (Installations) from the University of Maryland.
Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center is located in scenic Solomons, Maryland, where the Patuxent River meets the Chesapeake Bay. The sculpture garden features trails that meander through the woods past permanent and loaned sculpture, including over thirty works on loan from the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art. Artists in the collection include: Antonio Tobias Mendez, Barbara Hepworth, George Rickey, Cesar, Robert Engman, Kenneth Snelson and Francisco Zuniga.
Exhibitions have included solo show at Kanvas, NYC; group exhibitions at Skowhegan '75 on 22nd St. NYC, 2021. Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomons, MD, Maryland 2022 at Howard County Arts Center, Works on Paper Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD.
Artist-in-Residence, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 2009-2102. Currently teach Studio Art and Art History at College of Southern Maryland.
Education: University of Illinois (BFA, 1972); Northern Illinois University (MA, 1975; MFA, 1976); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.1972
Barb Mowery attended Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia, where she was fortunate to study with abstract painter Nan Covert. She is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association and is represented by Bishop’s Stock Fine Art, Craft & Wine in Snow Hill, Maryland. Mowery’s paintings are in private collections in the U.S., Germany, and South Korea. Her studio is located in Southern Maryland where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and dog.
David Emerick was born in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. At the age of 10 his family moved to Singapore for 5 years and each year his family travelled back to the states through different routes, he started photographing at the age of 11, it was this cultural buffet that formed his diverse vision. He finished High School in Upstate New York then received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Kentucky and Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Nebraska.