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.
14Howard County Arts Councilhttp://hocoarts.org/[email protected](410) 313-2787
8510 High Ridge Rd
Ellicott City, MD 21043
United States
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.
I've always drawn - started too young to be intimidated by portraiture. I graduated from Corcoran in 1983 & The University of Maryland 4 years later. My late husband, Michael & I raised our daughter, Katherine in old Greenbelt. Teaching kindergarten for 20 years was most rewarding but left little time for my art. Retirement, remarriage, & a home studio here in Laurel has allowed me to create portraits full time. I have exhibited with The Laurel Art Guild many times. My favorite venue is the Montpelier Mansion.
Katherine Nelson is a Maryland-based artist whose charcoal and graphite drawings document the heritage and visual poetry of rural landscapes. Grounded in field research and direct observation, her work explores the intersection of agriculture, sustainability, and cultural identity, drawing on her Danish farming lineage and extensive travels from the Palouse to Europe. Nelson’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally—including at the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, St.
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.
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.\