14Howard County Arts Councilhttp://hocoarts.org/info@hocoarts.org(410) 313-2787
8510 High Ridge Rd
Ellicott City, MD 21043
United States
Cultura Plenera is a non-profit organization dedicated to community building in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Virginia areas through the traditional Puerto Rican musical styles of Bomba and Plena. Bomba is a Puerto Rican musical genre that dates back more than 300 years, has heavy African influences, and expresses the sentiments of Puerto Ricans and their culture through barrel drums, maraca, cúa, singer, and dancers. Plena is another Puerto Rican musical genre, which dates back more than 100 years, and also narrates stories of the Puerto Rican experience through hand drums, güiro, and singer
Sarah Matthews is a MA Art & the Book graduate from the Corcoran College of Arts and Design at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Matthews also received an MBA with a Marketing Concentration in 2005 and a BS in Sociology in 2000 from Bowie State University in Bowie, MD. Mrs. Matthews’ work has been exhibited in the US and is a part of the permanent collections of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, George Washington University’s Gelman Library, University of Puget Sound, and Samford University. Mrs.
BADGER is a unifying voice of the DMV
Alan Rubinstein, a certified public school teacher, has founded and directed Involvement Theater, Inc.
Involvement Theater programs have been used with Maryland County Office of Aging sites, preK-12 public & private schools, College & University Student Activities, after school and No Child Left Behind programs. The programs are adapted to the participating age level including special needs and at-risk populations. Residencies, teacher in-service, family/parenting programs, music song writing and creative drama workshops are also available. Please call for funding options.
Katherine Dilworth is a photographer and fiber artist who has been combining her interest in both disciplines in her own artwork and in her role as a teaching artist in Maryland schools. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the US and Europe and is included in two books on surface design and digital photography.
Kevin Martin, the founder of Rockcreek Steel Drums, has been building, teaching, and performing on steel pan musical instruments of Trinidad since 1989. We have taught over 100,000 people in person the joy of performing music on the steel pan and the steel tongue drum.
As a teaching artist, Kevin has visited over 300 schools bringing large group steel pan workshops and steel pan residencies throughout MD and the east coast.
The Howard County Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo) is a small, local non-profit literary organization that produces live and recorded literary programs hosting poets and writers from around the region and around the world.. Established in 1974, programs include public readings, workshops, a writer-in-residence program for county high school students and The Writing LIfe - a half-hour writer-to-writer talk show available on YouTube.com
Annual events: Lucille Clifton Reading Series, Evening of Irish Music & Poetry and the Blackbird Poety Festival.
Jennifer “Jeni” Fairman has had a love of art and a penchant for science all her life. She is a certified medical illustrator and principal artist of her illustration studio, Fairman Studios. Jeni’s metalsmithing and jewelry-making take place at Jeni Elizabeth Jewelry. Constantly inspired by anatomy, science, and nature, Jeni creates pieces that incorporate these subjects.