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JURIED SHOWS Kindred, Celebrating Our Ancestors, Annmarie Art and Sculpture Garden, Dowell, MD 8/17-1/18 Escape, Art on Vacation, Annmarie Art and Sculpture Garden, Dowell, MD 6-8/2017 Dimensional Expressions, Artful Dimensions, Fredericksburg, VA 4/2017 The CalvART Invitational, Prince Frederick, MD 8/2016 See The Light, VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD 4/2016 Dimensional Expressions, Artful Dimensions, Fredericksburg, VA 4/2016 Alchemy: Sand to Light, Washington Art Works, Rockville, MD 10/11/2015 Dimensional Expressions, Artful Dimensions, Fredericksburg, VA 4/2015

• Read more about Parran Collery

How fortunate I am to have found the medium of ceramic tile.  My fascination with flora and fauna, meeting my technique of relief sculpted terra cotta, brought to a mouthwatering finish with my own custom glazes.  I love making tiles!

• Read more about The Spirit of Jazz & Democracy

In 2016, Dominic Fragman developed The Spirit of Jazz & Democracy with Paul Murphy, Larry Willis, Jere Carroll, and Sybol Anderson to illuminate key lessons about preserving democracy that can be derived from experiences of jazz music. Jazz is the true American art form and the music of freedom in performance as well as concept. Improvisation, the essential element of jazz, expands freedom and improves the human condition through its reliance upon the dual liberatory powers of listening and self-expression.

• Read more about Lyn Striegel

Artist for over thirty years. Works primarily in acrylics. Paintings from representational to abstract expressionist. Art teacher.

• Read more about Mark Power

Mark L. Power is a photographer/critic/educator currently living in Southern Maryland. In 1998 after twenty-seven years, he retired as a professor of photography at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington.   His photography has been featured in a number of galleries and museums both in the US and Europe. His work is in a number of museum collections.   He is a published art critic, writing for the Washington Post, Art in America, the New Art Examiner and the Times Literary Supplement among other publications. He is the author of a number of book introductions.  

• Read more about Carmelo Ciancio

Carmelo Ciancio Carmelo is credited with having developed the technique of applying color to the traditional black and white medium scratchboard. Carmelo loves the total control the medium provides him and its unusual e ects. With painstaking attention to detail, Carmelo adds layers of color to the scratchboard, which seem to sparkle in the light like little diamonds or jewels. By trial and error he has developed his own technique for mixing color and types of paint. “There were no instructional courses in this technique,” Carmelo says.

• Read more about Suzanne Shelden

Suzanne Shelden has lived in Maryland for most of her life. Her strengths are in painting, drawing, photorestoration, graphic design, and exhibit design. As a painter she has been active for over 40 years. Three of her current series are: "Route 4" (paintings of views as seen from the car), "Appalachian" (scenes from the mountains), "Washingtonian" (DC perspectives). Her work is currently showing at Artworks@7th in North Beach, Maryland, and at North End Gallery in the heart of the Leonardtown Arts District.

• Read more about Dalya Bain

dalya bain (american, b. huntingtown, md 1996) received her ba in studio art and art history from the university of maryland college park (2018). she is currently working on her mfa (painting and drawing) at the pratt institute in brooklyn, ny.

• Read more about Gina Durgin

I’ve been artistically inclined since my early teens and was mentored by a renowned San Diego artist who discovered my talents early on. I have dabbled in many forms of art throughout the decades and have taken many art courses by professional artists over the years. Still, I would consider myself mostly self-taught .