Quentin Walston is an active composer, pianist, and founder This Is Jazz, a company dedicated to jazz appreciation and education. He performs with his jazz trio and as a solo pianist, blending memorable melodies and striking rhythms with adventurous improvisations. As an educator, Quentin gives workshops & seminars for all ages on jazz, composition, and music history, bringing a passion to jazz performance and education in any setting, classroom or concert hall.
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R. Z. Zoot is a self-trained sculptor working in limestone. A civil engineer by training and orginally captivated by stone in architecture, he is forever learning the versatility of limestone in design and ability to hold fine details.
Daniel is a potter who specializes in wood fired functional ware. He has been working with clay for 25 years in a variety of forms. He has been making pots in New Market MD since 2012 where he has a studio and shop.
Born just outside of Philadelphia, S. Manya Stoumen-Tolino is an artist currently residing in Frederick County Maryland. Her work is known for its strong gestural animation and sense of events unfolding. Manya has a B.F.A. in Painting from the Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and a M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Her artwork is included in many private collections.
I've always enjoyed making things but I fell away from it in my 20s, although I flexed creative muscles when it came to writing and photography. It was only in my mid-30s—paradoxically a time of both stagnancy and seismic changes—that I reclaimed the makery part of myself and wove it into my life as a kind of therapy. In my 40s a friend and I started selling our art at a few dark/indie craft shows each year.
Growing up, my mother sewed constantly so it is not surprising that I learned to love textiles, fabrics, cloth and sewing. In my education as a textile artist weaving became, and still is, a powerful passion along with dying thread, encaustics, eco printing cloth, hand stitching and recently knitting.
Kevin Hluch retired in 2017 as Professor Emeritus of Montgomery College at the Rockville, MD campus where he taught and coordinated the ceramics area for thirty-five years.
Linda Plaisted is an award-winning American multi-disciplinary artist whose exploratory practices include photography, collage, painting and encaustic. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States. She has also illustrated book and magazine covers for major publishers and contributed to international art and literary journals.
She is a 2024 and 2023 Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist and 2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Award winner.
Lifelong artist. Highly rated teacher (and ongoing/in depth student of many skills and interests. "smart creative"). Have taught in public schools, at regional and national conferences, senior living facilities, and for local and regional guilds and art centers. Have been written up in several national magazines (rug hooking, beadwork, triaxial weaving +) and authored articles. Presented at the international math art conference "Bridges".
I grew up on a farm in Western Maryland. Living in a rural environment brought me to learn from and appreciate nature. The outdoors was and still remains my preferred classroom. My sourcing for inspiration is somewhat similar to how I source my materials. I will look to my immediate surrounding environment: the flora, the animals, the people, the landscape; and I will reach out to cultures and environments from around the world.