Originally from Germany, Katja Toporski is an installation and jewelry artist, and an educator with an MFA from Towson University. Her work explores the limitations of knowledge in the seen and unseen worlds. It has been shown in numerous exhibitions, currently at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, and recently in Tallinn, Estonia and in Lappeenranta, Finland, both in 2022.
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Kim Keller is a DC-area photographer focused on street photography, public events, area traditions, and communal celebrations. She has held private shows at the Abington Art Center (Jenkintown, PA), Links Bridge Vineyard (Thurmont, MD), and Lyceum Gallery (Sandy Spring, MD). Kim has participated in group exhibits across the U.S.
June Linowitz has been engaged with art her whole life. She has been, at varying times, an art teacher, a gallery director, and a corporate art consultant with her own business, ArtSeen. She has worked with local community groups, serving on the boards of local art and philanthropic organizations. Currently, she serves on the board of the McLean Project for the Arts and recently joined the Advisory Board of the Montgomery County Community Foundation.
My creative outlet is drawing and painting using mixed media. The work partly maps my thoughts, the work evolves slowly, sometimes surprisingly offering new ideas and directions.
A Maryland painter and art educator. Martin has a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has been concentrating on landscape and figurative painting for fifty years. Her work takes her from the locals of Maryland's diverse landscapes to distant shores in Europe. Noted for her plein air landscape style which is a direct reaction to nature.
E. L. Briscoe was born in Charles County, MD, attended Charles County Public Schools and went on to attend Charles County Community College (now College of Southern MD), Morgan State University (BA, 1996) and Howard University (MFA, 1998). Briscoe is also a professor in Visual Art and the Coordinator of the Visual Arts Program in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and has artwork in the collections of the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, The David C.
I am a representational, expressionistic painter with a focus on the figure. I view the subjects I paint as vessels that house emotions and concepts that are important to me. My work is also heavily influenced by East Asian philosophies of Taoism, Buddhism, and the concepts of Wabi Sabi (the beauty of imperfection), fragility, impermanence, and emptiness.
Natalie Jean is a Billboard, iTunes, and Apple Music Charting Artist. She is also an award winning, multi-nominated singer/songwriter performer. She is also a Voting Member in the Recording Academy (GRAMMYS). Natalie Jean is a versatile performer and singer. She sings and writes for many genres , such as Jazz, Pop, R&B, Blues, World, Rock, Country, Americana, Inspirational, Adult Contemporary, Alternative, and, Dance. She can also sing in French, Spanish, English, and Haitian Creole.
My work focuses on age and aging in a variety of subjects. I paint to express the emotional response within me, what I see and feel, not just the physical aspect of aging, but what I find to be beauty at every stage of life in defiance of the aging process itself. Exploring the theme of entropy in today’s world, I want to paint scenes that represent to me a second chance at beauty. As I see it these moments play an important part in what draws me to paint.