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
b. 1974 Nova Scotia, Canada
Eric is an abstract "automatist" artist who works in a loose abstract gestural style throughout all his media, including stone. His paintings and other 2-D works are largely made without any plan other than to keep a constant reverence for composition and open mind. Often his compositions remain non-objective, but spontaneously works will evolve to become abstract figurative forms using a technique of layering paint.
Joan Marie Giampa, Art.D.
Joan Marie Giampa was born in Arlington, Virginia. She has a BFA in graphic design from James Madison University, an MFA in painting from the University of Maryland, and a Doctor of Arts from George Mason University. Joan has been exhibiting her work professionally since 1993 and has exhibited extensively throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Nick Frymark is an artist who works in a variety of media.
Danielle is a senior Studio Art and Philosophy double major at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.
DC-based vocalist and songwriter Cecily is known for her agile soprano and honest lyrics. Her current album Awakening Pt. 1 was named “Best New Soul on Bandcamp” by the Bandcamp editorial team, who described the project as “stirringly timeless and modern.”
Her sound, as soothing as it is rich, is musically mature, and rooted in a deep appreciation for mid- century soul and jazz, 90’s R&B, and re-imagined folk music. Her work has a unique sensuality that
As a film composer, Mr. Barnett has scored hundreds of television and theatrical films, and his scores have won numerous awards.
Mr. Barnett’s orchestral and chamber works have been performed internationally. Mr. Barnett also collaborated on a spoken word piece with Dr. Maya Angelou. His most recent orchestral work, Retablos, received its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Mr. Barnett has also written several ballet and modern dance scores.
Call Your Mom (Emma Bergman, E Cadoux, Sophie Goldberg, and Mia Massimino) is a multimedia performance collective founded in 2014 and based in Baltimore, MD. Known for interdisciplinary, immersive works, Call Your Mom uses video, installation, movement, and participatory performance to facilitate spaces of reflective vulnerability. The collective engages the public in conversational work that responds to local perspectives. Call Your Mom’s making structure is horizontal; all four voices hold equal weight in the process. Our creative process begins when we select a theme.
Dr. Joshua Fishbein composes vocal and instrumental music, with special emphasis on choral music. He has won awards from the American Choral Directors Association, the American Composers Forum,
Keira Hart-Mendoza, graduated summa cum laude with her MFA in Dance from Arizona State University. There she studied more intensively dance and technology expanding on her undergraduate degrees in both Dance and Media Arts and Design from James Madison University. She is the director of UpRooted Dance, and has been working as an interdisciplinary dance artist for 20 years. She threads her artistic interests in mixed media into performance based dance works that cross many different artistic disciplines.