Brian Michael Dunn (b.1982) creates paintings and sculptures that mine the visual language of mass reproduction. Born in Milwaukee, WI, Dunn received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from Boston University and a Master of Fine Art from Cornell University. Dunn is an alumnus of the Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship and was awarded a DC art Bank Grant in 2020 and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in 2019. Dunn has attended the Millay Residency in Austerlitz, NY, the Byrdcliffe Residency in Woodstock, NY and the Yale Summer Painting Program in Norfolk, CT.
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Lindsay McCulloch holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from the University of
Virginia, and a Master of Fine Arts in painting from Boston University. Her work includes
paintings, works on paper and artist books. McCulloch has exhibited her work internationally in
England, Spain and Iraq. Her work has also been featured in museums and galleries across the
United States including the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond
Museums, Richmond, VA; the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA; the American
Carson Wu's fiction has appeared in the North American Review, Onthebus, Confrontation, and
other literary journals. Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, but has lived in the Maryland area
the last fifteen years. He works at the U.S. Department of State.
Paula Whyman is the author of the linked story collection YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press), which won the 2017 Towson Prize for Literature. A music theater piece based on a story from the book is in development with composer Scott Wheeler. Paula’s work has also appeared in Ploughshares, VQR, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Hudson Review, andThe Washington Post, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. Paula is a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and Vice President of the MacDowell Colony Fellows Executive Committee.
A.A. Weiss is the author of the Luke Lundy thriller series (The Agency Books) and the travel memoir Lenin's Asylum (Everytime Press). His essays and short stories have appeared in various journals and twice received special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. A recipient of grants from the Bronx Council on the Arts and the Maryland State Arts Council, he lives with his family in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Stanley Patrick Stocker, a Philadelphia native, is the son of a meat cutter and a meat wrapper. A
graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Stocker is a lawyer in Washington, DC. His
writing has appeared in the New York Times and Shooting Star Review. He lives in the Maryland suburbs
with his wife and son.
Melanie S. Hatter is the author of two novels and one short story collection. Selected by
Edwidge Danticat, Malawi’s Sisters won the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize and is
published by Four Way Books, 2019. The Color of My Soul won the 2011 Washington Writers’
Publishing House Fiction Prize, and Let No One Weep for Me, Stories of Love and Loss was
released in 2014. Her short stories have appeared in The Whistling Fire, Defying Gravity,
TimBookTu and Diverse Voices Quarterly. She was a runner-up winner in the Fiction category
Judith Benderson exhibits in the Washington, DC area, most recently at American University’s Katzen Arts Center in both the AU Museum and the Katzen Rotunda, at DC Arts Center, and at BlackRock Center for the Arts, and previously participated in public art projects including DC Party Animals and Color Field Remix. She was the Cultural Property Law Enforcement Coordinator at the Justice Department with responsibility in area of law enforcement for art theft and artifact smuggling, as well as doing appraisals for the FBI Art Theft Program. Benderson has a JD from American University, a BA and
Kristina King (b. 1991) is a Washington, D.C.-based interdisciplinary artist working in
handmade paper and installation. Kristina received a BFA in 2014 from Denison University.
King’s work has been reviewed in BmoreArt and The Washington Post. King was honored with a
Studio Workshop Residency at Women’s Studio Workshop in 2019. King has exhibited at
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Allegany Arts Council, Willow Street Gallery, Via Umbria
Galleria, Takoma Park Community Center, among others. Her studio is located at DC Art
Amelia is a graduate of Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania and the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland, where she received her master’s degree in Fine Arts and Art Education. She is currently working at Prince George`s Community College, helping Adult Education students.
Originally from Poland, Amelia lived for more than eight years in Southeast Asia before relocating to Burtonsville, Maryland, where she lives with her family, two cats, and one dog.