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.
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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.
Praised by The New York Times as a composer of "ear-grabbing invention," Fernando Benadon has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Tanglewood's Fromm Foundation Award, Copland House's Aaron Copland Award, the League of Composers/IscM composition prize, MSAC's Individual Artist Award, and UC- Berkeley's Ladd Prize (which funds a two-year residence in Paris). Ensembles that have performed his music include Talea, New York New Music Ensemble, Les Jeunes Solistes, Empyrean, and Continuum.
Rasha grew up between Damascus and rural south Georgia and cut their teeth organizing on the southsides of Chicago and Atlanta. They are a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and Alternate ROOTS. Their work appears in online and in print, including the anthologies Halal if You Hear Me (Haymarket Press, 2019) and Letters to Octavia E. Butler (Twelfth Planet Press 2017).
I come from an artistic family. One of my earliest memories is of my mother teaching me how to play piano in our living room, where I first learned how to make music. ln the 3rd grade, I had to choose an instrument for school, and that instrument was the violin. I began private lessons with an instructor who gave me direction in classical technique but who also nurtured any curiosity I held in regard to other genres. My father plays the accordion, and from him I gained an interest in Irish music, the music him and the rest of his side of the family plays.
Dani Cortaza has three decades of artistic life to his credit. This talented musician specializes in Brazilian, Latin jazz and South America folklore, in both nylon and electric jazz guitar. ln addition, he also performs, composes and arranges Latin American folk music.
He has appeared in many prestigious concert venues around the world, namely in Japan, Europe, South America and the United States.
"My art aims to traverse the distance between traditional and contemporary, East and West, planned and spontaneous. As an American of Indian descent, my dance and music represent a hybrid of my two cultures - an effort to preserve the ancient cultures of India by interpreting them in a modern language and context. My artistic practice means, to me, acting as a conduit for the beauty of lndia's cultural arts in the West. I consider myself on the fringes between two worlds, floating somewhere in between, trying to act as a bridge between them.