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.
16Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County https://www.creativemoco.comSuzan.Jenkins@creativemoco.com(301) 565-3805
801 Ellsworth Dr
Silver Spring, MD 20910
United States
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.
Gregory Hein (b. 1960, Baltimore, USA) uses the materiality of paint to explore the limits of language. His work in painting and video examines chance, symbols, and sentimentality, crafting found-word abstractions that generate shapes spontaneously. Hein studied Studio Art and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Design at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Adrienne Moumin is a visual artist based in Silver Spring, MD, and part-time in New York, NY. Moumin works in hand-printed B&W photography, and photo-based, hand-cut-and-assembled, and mixed-media collage. She is best known for her Architextures photo collage series, ongoing since 2000.
Jackie, a native of Ireland based in Maryland, is an award winning interdisciplinary artist, curator and activist. She has had solo exhibitions across the US and has been featured in the: Washington Post, Washington City Paper, HuffPost, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Reno Gazette-Journal. She is the recipient of grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Vermont Studio Center and multiple grants from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.