Chloe Irla grew up outside of Richmond, VA but moved around a lot as a teenager. She attended McDaniel College before receiving an MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited nationally and in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Vancouver, Canada. Chloe has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center and the Wassaic Project. As an educator, she has taught studio art courses at MICA and the University of Maine at Farmington and is currently an Associate Professor of Art with tenure at McDaniel College.
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O. Kenneth Hankins was born in Bluefield, WV in 1944. He moved to Baltimore, MD with his mother in 1950 when she came to work at Martins Airport. Ken attended Baltimore County Public Schools and Frostburg State College. He graduated from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1966. He taught art in Baltimore and Carroll Counties; in 1970 he met his future wife at Hereford High School. After they married in 1971, they moved to Almond, NY where Ken attend Alfred University and his wife taught English at Alfred-Almond Central School.
I am a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and I work in my studio called Cat Tracks just outside of Westminster, Maryland. As a artist I work in a variety of media. Most of my subject matter has a feline and floral theme. My inspiration comes from the many gardens surrounding the studio and my two Siamese cats who oversee the studio.
I have taught art for the Carroll County school system, worked in art education at McDaniel College and teach for Carroll Community College and also private lessons at Cat Tracks.
Lyndie Vantine was born and raised in Buffalo, NY. She has also lived in Philadelphia, PA and Baltimore, MD. She holds a MLA degree from Johns Hopkins University, a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art. She has exhibited throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, New Mexico, and Massachusetts for the past twenty-five years. She was selected to participate in the Corcoran Art Gallery's ArtSites98 biennial.
Gillian Collins was born in England. Her family immigrated to Maryland in the early 1960s where she continues to reside. She earned a BFA and is currently pursuing a MFA from Towson University. As a co-owner of residential plumbing and HVAC service companies, her association with these trades artistically inspires Collins.
A late bloomer in the visual arts, I am primarily a mixed media artist with a specific interest in relief collage. As an abuse survivor, my art is often reflective of both hope and despair, but never without a message. I often use barn timber and other reclaimed wood as my base. I have become involved in digital art and am finding new and exciting ways to present it to the public.
Bruce Woodward paints the mid-Atlantic, from the Chesapeake Bay and Eastern Shore to the Appalachians of western Maryland. His work portrays the legacies of vanishing landscapes and ways of life, preserving the stories of disappearing farmlands and their structures as well as those of dwindling numbers of waterman,their workboats and lifestyles. His watercolors and acrylic paintings record with authenticity and atmosphere these transient images.
I am a no frills painter. My methods are crude. Brushwork eludes me. I prefer fingers, palette & putty knives, sandpaper, old t-shirts and paper towels. I like texture. My approach is rooted in impressionism, but the execution is abstract-fauvist. Or something. There is a major disconnect between my thoughts and my fingertips.