Started as a art student in Woodstock, NY. Majored in Fine Arts (BFA) at Univ. of Colo. Got MS in Art Education at SUNY New Paltz. Tried independent artist life in Europe for a while. Then taught Drawing and Painting in Woodstock, NY, for six years. Left teaching for a commercial artist job with IBM. Helped to develop, sell, and deliver commercial graphics and image software for many years. Now painting, exhibiting, and teaching art professionally in MD. Have exhibited in a great number of professional painting art shows, galleries, and museums.
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Michael Auger (last name pronounced: O-'zhA / rhymes with okay) is a full-time freelance artist based in Rockville, Maryland. In addition to the creating offbeat fine art he also works as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. For additional information please visit: www.Arty4ever.com
Carien Quiroga is an award-winning multimedia visual artist and educator using her artmaking and teaching practices to engage with creative communities, both locally and internationally. Social Justice, mindfulness, and collaboration is at the core of her artistic work and teaching practices. Ms. Quiroga is on the Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Residence, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and Artivate Teaching Artists Rosters.
Jim Harrigan (Painter) is originally from Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights.More recently he studied at the GMU Art Studio
and the Corcoran Art School. Presently, he belongs to three art
organizations in Maryland.
Shanthi Chandrasekar is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist from Maryland who has an academic background in physics and psychology, and has been trained in the traditional Indian art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting. While many of her works are influenced by her Indian heritage, her true inspiration comes from the mystery and majesty of the world around her; her muse lives where the scientific overlaps with the spiritual.
I learned to sew as a child, but didn’t discover the world of art quilts until 1986. Fiber art quickly became my passion. My design and technical skills have been enhanced through participation in workshops at the Quilt/Surface Design Symposium in Columbus, Ohio since 1991. I have been a member of the Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery since 2002. My work has appeared in juried shows and many of my quilts are in private collections.
Hsin-Hsi Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan and came to USA in 1994 to pursue graduate study in Fine Arts. Chen received her MFA from University of Maryland at College Park in USA, 1996 and BFA from Tunghai University in Taiwan, 1992. Chen was granted U.S. Permanent Residency based on “Extraordinary Ability in Art” in 2002, the grantee of 2013 Maryland State Arts Council Grant/Individual Artist Award and 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
It can be said that Sharon Wolpoff, who began her art training at age five, has always been an artist. She completed her formal education at American University (B.A., M.F.A. and J.D.), with additional coursework in Italy and Mexico. Counted amongst her honors are three Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards, an Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County Fellowship and a Kreeger Purchase Prize.
I have always thought of myself as an artist. When I was very, very young the definition of being an artist was described to me as someone who looks for beauty, finds beauty and creates beauty. I believe it is the ability to see the beauty in even the most grotesque, the most angry as well as the most lovely that makes one an artist. I was fortunate from an early age to have teachers in my life to guide my way, instill both the desire to create and the determination and work ethic to realize my vision.
WASHINGTON, D.C. NATIVE, CURRENTLY RESIDING IN SILVER SPRING, MD. TEACHING STONE SCULPTURE FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY ADULT EDUCATION, FOR TWENTY YEARS, NOW TEACHING FOR RECREATION AND PARKS, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD. A MEMBER OF THE ART LEAGUE, ALEXANDRIA, VA., STRATHMORE ARTS CENTER, BETHESDA, MD., AND THE ART GALLERY OF FELLS POINT, BALTIMORE, MD., FORMERLY INVOLVED ASSISTING IN THE SELECTION OF ART IN PUBLIC PLACES, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD.,ALSO JUROR MEMBER SELECTING EXHIBITIONS FOR FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER, CHEVY CHASE, MD.