Brendan L. Smith has shown his unconventional mixed-media artwork in many gallery exhibitions and alternative venues in the D.C. area. His Ghosts in the Machine series was featured in a solo exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum’s restaurant in Baltimore. He is a former member of the Sparkplug Collective and has won several grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Brendan also is an award-winning arts writer for several publications. He previously lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he showed his artwork in solo and group exhibitions across northern New Mexico.
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Allison Mondel is a highly versatile performing artist, teacher, and vocal coach. She has been lauded by The Washington Post for her "ethereal soprano" and "spare, otherworldly radiance... a performance from across the centuries, full of distant and irresistible beauties.”
Images create reality. That reality is the love of symbolic expression in all forms. al·chem·i·cal works.
Intuitive Abstract Modern Expressionist Paintings, Drawings, Acrylic, Oil, Pastel, Mixed Media, and Photographs. Conceptual Art. Dreams Spirit Revealed.
I am a visual artist and writer based in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Born in Washington D.C. in 1954, the year Elvis Presley recorded his first record, I am a child of rock and roll. Being part of the original baby boomers, I enjoyed my formative years watching the transformation of this country through the sixties. My immediate peers were heavily involved in music which included being in bands, touring and producing on various levels.
Michael Horsley is a Washington DC based visual artist working primarily in photography, who has explored many creative disciplines, such as filmmaking, theater/performance art, graphic design and music. He has been a member of I am Eye filmmaking collective, RicnMikenBill performance group, Theater du Jour, curator of KinoRama film series, and Fraudulent Productions. His work has been broadcast on BBC America, MSNBC, and WETA, and exhibited in the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, as well as numerous art spaces.
I am a Fifth generation artist, acclaimed jewelry designer, writer, poet, international consultant, master teacher to creative makers, speaker and a Fulbright Specialist 2023 - 2026
I was commissioned by the country of Rwanda to, write and illustrate their first manual on how to design and make beaded jewelry.
Authored The Art of Bead Stringing - Artist to Entrepreneur.
Dancing Out Loud: Navigating the Rhythms of Life.
Dancing Out Loud: The Little Book of Quotes
Board Member: Arts and Humanities Council Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Julia Casimira Sacasa is a Latin American artist with private collectors around the globe. CASIMIRA has been creating abstract paintings, mixed media and wearable sculpture jewelry for more than two decades.