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.
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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.
Andrea McCluskey is a visual artist, living and working in Frederick, Maryland. Andrea has been creating artwork for over 40 years. She is currently an adjunct faculty in the art department at Hood College, teaching Design and Printmaking courses.
Andrea works in a variety of mediums: printmaking, pulp painting,encaustic, assemblage, and sculpture. The embodiment of Nature as a sentient presence and its connection to our ancestral lineages are central themes in her work.
I am a maker of fanciful rugs for wall and floor. I make hand tufted rugs with a tufting gun and hand knots. I am self taught and have been making my rugs since 2022. I work out of my home studio in Frederick, Maryland.
Born in Baltimore, Beckie Laughlin is an award-winning artist now living in Frederick County, Maryland. She has a B.A. in Art and a M.F.A. in Painting from American University in Washington, DC. For the past 50 years, Ms. Laughlin has shown and sold her work extensively in group and one-person shows throughout the DMV, and in New York City and Chicago. Beckie is represented by the Jo Fleming Contemporary Art gallery is Annapolis, MD. Her artwork is included in many private and corporate collections including the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey.
Creative Metal Design is dedicated to connecting with and inspiring others through our design and fabrication. Our work is driven by a fascination with the endless manipulations of metal as a medium, and we are constantly seeking new techniques and approaches to expand our repertoire. Whether we are working on a large-scale public sculpture or bespoke commission, we strive to create work that is visually striking and thought-provoking.
Creative Metal Design is a group of experienced fabricators, makers, and artists, with a vast knowledge of materials and techniques.
MET and its Founders Tad Janes & Gené Fouché have spearheaded the growth of MET from an improv troupe of young comics called the Comedy Pigs who performed in the back of local Frederick, MD bars in the late 90’s into a community stronghold. From a humble beginning, both the theatre and the community it serves, has grown significantly over the course of 20+ years.