Darab Shabahang has worked as a musician artist, graphic designer, webmaster, journalist, human rights activist and Persian music instructor, for more than 30 years in Iran, Canada and United States. He got his BSc.from Poona University - India and continued his Master in Bedford college in London. Shabahang continued his studies in Graphic design and web technology In Vancouver, British Colombia Institute of Technology and got his Associate Degree from BCIT.in 2002.
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
Soul & Ink is the brainchild of husband and wife design team, Frankie and Sherry Meneses. Passionate about design for social change, they sought to step away from the isolation of computer life and into the community, bringing brands and missions to life. They were inspired to create a mobile screen printing set-up after seeing how thrilled their friends were at screen printing parties they hosted at home. Soul & Ink’s participatory live screen printing experiences reshape traditional relationships between art and audiences through modern aesthetic and vintage technique.
Melinda Lowy is a national award-winning quilter and is actively involved in local art quilt and critique groups. She has exhibited widely, including regionally and nationally. She is a member of Surface Design Association and Studio Art Quilt Associates, as well as locally of Potomac Fiber Arts Guild and Fiber Art Study Group. She is a native of Billings, MT and resides in Silver Spring, MD. She is retired from a full-time career at a non-profit scientific society, where she managed the higher education programs, although she continues to manage a small non-profit scientific society.
Born in Washington, DC and raised in Bowie, MD, Sasha-Loriene is a 27 year old self-taught painter. Using acrylic paint as her medium of choice with no formal education or training, Sasha-Loriene weaves together different themes and techniques to capture her thoughts, feelings, and interpretation of the world in every piece. The goal of her art is to tell a story and create a personal experience for all that encourages others to not only reach deeper within each painting, but within themselves, as well.
John MacArthur was born in Washington, DC in 1946. Having grown up the son of a writer and an artist in our Nation’s Capital, he was exposed to museums and the work of masters from the time he could walk. Plein Aire painting became a daily activity. John has always been fascinated by color and how the world is comprised of shapes, values and hues. He created his first pigments with water and poke berry juice. After meeting Vincent VanGogh (Kirk Douglas, but at 10, he was convinced it was Vincent), he began using acrylics. Ms.
W.F. Lantry’s poetry collections are The Terraced Mountain (Little Red Tree 2015), The Structure of Desire (Little Red Tree 2012) winner of a 2013 Nautilus Award in Poetry, The Language of Birds (2011) and a forthcoming collection, The Book of Maps. He received his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston.
CURRICULUM VITAE
JEROME HARRIS PARMET
Sculptor
11534 Highview Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20902
TEL: 914-980-8013
E-M: jhparmet@yahoo.com
www.sculpture.org/parmet
EXHIBITS, COMPETITIONS & INSTALLATIONS:
2018 Zenith Gallery, Traveling Full Circle, 40thAnniversary Exhibit, Washington, DC
2016 Intersections; 2016 Sculpture Now, Edith Wharton Estate, Lenox, MA
2016 Hell Gate Bridge, Memories & Horse, Of Course; Carriage Barn Gallery, New Canaan,
Authenticity is at the heart of Audra's creative work. The undeniably bold digital and acrylic paintings that make up her latest collection demonstrate the principle of layout and composition that hse developed in her 15 years as a professional graphic designer.
Each piece begins with a photo that she then digitally manipulated. Details are simplified, the boundaries between objects expanded, and the colors enhanced, often resulting in an abstract and nearly unrecognizable composition.
Melisa Matthews graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art with a concentration in Digital and Film Photography. She has exibited her work in galleries around the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. She is currently a public school educator. She focuses on provoking landscapes from around the world
BIO of Donato Soranno
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