The Greater Columbia Fantasy Costumers Guild, GCFCG, was formed in 1982 as a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to the study, presentation, creation, wearing, and informing people about costumes, past, present, and future. We welcome Costumers of all ages and skill levels and those who appreciate the art of costuming.
GCFCG is based in Columbia, Maryland area. We serve the state of Maryland and the Washington DC metro area. We currently have members from Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Washington DC.
14Howard County Arts Councilhttp://hocoarts.org/info@hocoarts.org(410) 313-2787
8510 High Ridge Rd
Ellicott City, MD 21043
United States
Stephanie Smith is a painter and muralist focusing on the human figure and lives in Howard County, MD. She’s completed public art for private and public entities including MuralArts Philadelphia, Merriweather Post Pavilion and DoodleHatch. Her work has been featured in over 20 exhibitions.
Cindy Rivarde is an artist living and working in the Maryland Capital Region. Her work focuses on connections and resonance in response to a sense of place and time both with landscape and figurative subject matter. Rivarde has a B.A. in art and dramatic art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.F.A. in painting from Towson University, as well as a J.D. from the University of Connecticut. She currently works as an economic development professional helping to build community with a strong sense of placemaking and location identity.
Pamela Woolford is an interdisciplinary artist and keynote speaker, intertwining her work as a writer, filmmaker, performer, and immersive-media director to create new forms of narrative work about Black women and girls and others whose joy, imagination, and inner life are under-explored in American media and popular art. She is the recipient of six Maryland State Arts Council Awards, five film-festival awards internationally, a Changemaker Challenge Award from United Way of Central Maryland and Horizon Foundation, and a Baker Artist Award in interdisciplinary arts.\
Columbia Pro Cantare (CPC) is a nationally recognized chorus of 100 auditioned volunteer singers founded in February 1977 by Frances Motyca Dawson and based in Howard County. It performs 5 concerts per season, and reaches audiences in the entire Central Maryland area and beyond. Its soloists range from local talent just beginning their careers, many of the graduates of Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, to world-renown artists who regularly perform with the MET in NYC. As often as possible, CPC utilizes the talents of middle and high school choruses in Howard County.
Laura Shovan is a children’s author, educator, and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone, won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize. She has worked as an editor of literary journals and poetry anthologies. Laura's debut novel-in-verse, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, won several awards, including NCTE Notable Verse Novel. Her novel Takedown was selected for Junior Library Guild, PJ Our Way, and the ALA’s Amelia Bloomer Project. Her most recent work is Sydney Taylor Notable A Place at the Table, co-written with Saadia Faruqi.
Education: Master of Fine Ats in Painting , Towson University, 1988. Recipient of the University "Outstanding creative Project" Award for 1988 Thesis Exhibit. BS with distinction and graduate studies in Art Education, Penn State University Solo Exhibits: Annmarie Sculpture Garden Gallery, Solomons, MD 2001. Mill River Gallery, Oella, MD2000. Drawing/Painting installation, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD 1996. Drawing installation, EC Cafe Annex, Ellicot city, MD1994. The Roxx Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1993. Mosley Gallery, University of Maryland, 1990.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Oletha DeVane received her B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and M.F.A. in painting from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her first major exhibition was at the Springfield Museum of Art in Massachusetts in 1976. Since then, her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Maryland and along the East Coast. The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture in Baltimore commissioned Ms.
I have been painting and exhibiting since the mid 60's and that is what I currently do full time. I have been affiliated with several galleries over the years, most currently with the Studio Gallery in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington DC. For more biographical info, see my website at www.stanwenocurart.com or my resume here.
Mia Eve is an interdisciplinary artist who creates in site-specific lands of spiritual, social, and cultural resistance. Autónomos globally engaged collectives of artistic practice are formed that create expressions of underground communities and territories through distributed authorship using a magic realist aesthetic. The work reincorporates healing strategies from pre-colonial practices, and delves into the imagination of the psyche.