• Read more about Lisa M. Despres

As a sound healing practitioner, Lisa of Wandering Lotus Healing Arts combines her 35+ years as a musician with her studies as an acupuncture clinical intern to provide a unique and immersive sound experience for adults and children of all ages.  Sound healing taps into your body's own wisdom to promote healing, mindfulness, and peace through vibration, energy, and stillness.  Studies have shown that sound can deepen a meditation, calm our sympathetic nervous system (our "fight or flight" response), and activate our parasympathetic nervous system (our "rest and digest" system).  Crystal bowls,

• Read more about Julie Simon

Julie Simon has been working with the photographic process for more than 40 years - first in television news, and then in corporate media and education. She has exhibited her experimental video, photographic, and interactive work on television and in art galleries/museums and on the web, winning a number of prestigious awards for a wide range of media projects.  Simon is a Professor at the University of Baltimore where she teaches photography and video production.    

• Read more about James Gossard

James Gossard is an award winning Maryland film producer & director, poet, and playwright. He is also a screenwriter and fiction writer. His current project, DIVINE INSTINCT, a feature-length documentary about sculptor Gary Spinosa, was a 2023 Finalist in the Washington DC Independent Film Festival where it screened its World Premiere on March 1, 2023. Gossard worked as a freelance journalist in Montana, following the Border Grizzly Project and writing for wildlife journals. StoryPros named his screenplay, WHITE DUST, in its Top Ten Action-Thrillers.

• Read more about JBeruff

Hello My name is Javier Beruff and I currently reside in Columbia, Md. I enjoy working in watercolors, charcoals, pen and ink and other mediums. My influences are the Renaissance Period, The Surrealist Movement and Dutch Genre Paintings. Artistically I challenge myself by trying to create unique and dynamic works. Thanks for Looking Javier

• Read more about Susan Augsburger Velli

I am an oil painter, graphic designer, and crafter with an extensive educational and professional background in the arts.

• Read more about Daria Parsa

Daria Parsa is a visual artist and program coordinator currently based in Laurel, Maryland. After receiving her Bachelor’s in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park, she has worked for community arts organizations such as the Greenbelt Community Center and Sandy Spring Museum in program coordination and exhibition management. Now as an independent artist, Daria works on freelance community art projects and her art practice, as well as works as a studio assistant and printmaking apprentice.  

• Read more about Rebecca Rothey

Rebecca Rothey studied photography under Geoff Delanoy while working towards her undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Maryland. She was an adult, part-time student and photography allowed her a much needed creative respite from the pressures of work and school. She learned photography by developing film and making gelatin silver prints using traditional darkroom techniques. 

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• Read more about Monica Cottman

Monica is an artist from rural Eastern Shore living in Ellicott City, Maryland. She is a mixed media artist who currently enjoys foil printmaking and collage.    Inspired and informed by Virginia A. Myers, Monica  has developed her own method of printing with roll foils.

• Read more about MargG's Cards

I make hand-embroidered greeting cards which can be displayed in frames or sent to others as greeting cards.