CAROL SAMOUR plays with color and texture while creating one of a kind, unique art to wear jewelry. Each and every piece is designed
and hand crafted with vintage beads, Venetian glass beads, African trade beads, gemstones and ethnic amulets and pendants. Her designs are
bold and colorful and are inspired by BEADS old and new from around the world. Over the years her jewelry as been shown at:
JRA Day James Renwick Alliance Craft Member exhibition & sale
MMMF Fair International Arts & Crafts Fair at the World Bank
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
Jenni B. Baker is an experimental poet based in Bethesda, MD. Her poetry, generated through conceptual, constrained and other “found” techniques, has appeared in publications such as The Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, Washington Square, Lunch Ticket, Whiskey Island, BOAAT and Quarterly West, among others. Her chapbook, Comings/Goings, a collection of poems generated by applying Oulipian constrained writing techniques to text from The Washington Post, debuted in 2015.
Mara Clawson, born in Seoul Korea in 1992, is a self-taught artist who paints visual stories using pastels and paint. Born with Familial Dysautonomia (FD), a rare genetic neurological disease, Mara’s art is a means for her to connect and express herself to others.
Sensing how colors mix and combine is at the core of Mara’s process. Mara layers different colors and patterns of oil pastels or paint, which creates her distinct mark making, a patchwork of textural arrangements, and intricate abstract compositions.
"My mission is to promote quilts as an art medium with my own work and through lectures, workshops and individual teaching."
Lauren Kingsland is well-known for repurposing garments of sentimental value to create quilts to honor life transitions. She holds a masters degree in Applied Healing Arts from the Maryland University of Integrative Health, formerly Tai Sophia Institute, with special emphasis the healing benefits of artistic expression as part of the interrelationship of mind-body-spirit.
I'm a lifelong Maryland resident who discovered fused glass in 2000. Learning to work with a medium that has a mind of it's own has been a great adventure.
Casey Speegle is an American artist from Yucaipa, California, who primarily works in oil and encaustic mediums.
After graduating with her Bachelors degree in Fine Art from Pacific Union College (2015) in the Napa Valley, Speegle moved across the country where she now lives and works in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Jessica Krash is a composer and pianist who grew up in Maryland. She was awarded the 2010 "Wammie" for Classical Composer (Washington Area Music Association's version of a Grammy). Her work has been presented in both traditional and experimental settings in New York City, Germany, Austria and most ofthe major performance venues and museums in Washington, DC, including a work for dance and saxophones on the C & O Canal in a thunderstorm.
Robert A. Baker is a composer, theorist and conductor of new music.
His compositions have been programmed on concert series, conferences and at festivals in North America and Europe, including: the St. Magnus, the York Spring New Music, and Didsbury Arts Festivals (UK); Jihlava 2001 lnternational Choral Festival ( Czech Republic); Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop, and Canadian Music Centre Professional Readings Series; Society of Composers, lnc., College Music Society, and FSU Biennial Festival of New Music, and Miami New Music ISCM Festival (USA).
Composer and classical guitarist Javier Farias (b.1973) is a recent recipient of a New Music USA award, Chilean Council of Culture and the Arts, and a Fromm Music Foundation Commission from Harvard University.