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Jennifer Kahn Barlow
Jennifer Kahn Barlow is an award winning oil painter. Her works are intimate, bold, and focus on the sweeter things in life: confectionery and nature. Jennifer shows her work throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.  Jennifer has been featured in the Washingtonian and Professional Artist magazines.  Her paintings reside in the collections of The District of Columbia, Cookology Culinary School (Arlington, VA), along with numerous private collections.
Shineh Kim Yoon
Shineh Kim is a Mom, Artist and Director/Teacher at Shineh Art Studio, LLC. Shineh's love of art started at a very young age. She was recognized as Maryland's Emerging Young Artist from MAEA (Maryland Art Education Association) and attended the Visual Art Magnet program at Albert Einstein High School. She attended the Maryland Institute College of Art specializing in the field of Illustration, receiving a scholarship for her artistic achievement as a finalist in the Maryland Distinguished Scholars Program.
Alif Laila
Alif Laila is one of the few internationally performing female sitar players of the world. She was trained in Indian classical music through sitar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. By Mir Qasem Khan, nephew of legendary maestro, Allauddin Khan. During her final years of training, she attended the College of Fine Arts in Dhaka, where she graduated in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree and received several awards for her watercolor painting.
Lynda Andrews-Barry
Mid-Atlantic-based artist Lynda Andrews-Barry has a multidisciplinary practice encompassing time-based media, installations and sculptures created from found and fabricated objects that reflect the often unseen or ignored beauty of our world.
Samia Mahbub Ahmad
Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and currently a resident of Maryland (USA), Dr. Samia Mahbub Ahmad is a Hindustani (North Indian) classical vocal musician who has been studying, teaching and performing this ancient 5000 year-old genre of music of the Vedic times, live and on television in North America, South Asia and Southern Africa for the past two decades. In the process, Samia has earned many awards and recognitions, including, performing for Nobel laureates, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalyn Carter. 
Edelweiss Calcagno
My primary interest is in abstract art and I use a variety of techniques in painting, printmaking and sculpture and all kinds of material, including recycled ones, in order to convey my ideas. I explore how the intersection of different planes and line shapes can create illusions within distorted shapes, objects, letters, and words.
Meghan Narayan
Born… April 14, 1989 in Silver Spring, MD Graduated from…       University of MD, College Park (BS)             Teachers College, Columbia University (MA) Lived in… Maryland, Italy, Brooklyn Worked as… Elementary School Teacher Pursuing… Painting and other Visual Art   If you questions about any of my pieces, please reach out.
Ollie L. Jefferson, Ph.D.
Ollie L. Jefferson (Ph.D., Howard University) is a Producer, Playwright, Professor, Publisher, and the Founder/President and Chief Executive Officer of Timeless Visual Works – The Inspirational Film, Theater & Publishing Co. She formed the collegiate communication, culture, and multimedia organization with extensive experience in the arts and education. As a professional teaching artist, Dr. Jefferson designed Masterclasses at Timeless Theater Academy. She has a proven track record in educating and training film, television, and theatre professionals to compete in a global market.
Kaitlin Jencso
Kaitlin Jencso is a photographer from Southern Maryland. She draws upon her rural upbringing on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay to present the world around her. 
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