The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland is an integrated arts laboratory where artists, arts scholars, students and arts administrators collaborate to spark inspiration and build a better future for the arts. As an intellectually curious and socially conscious community, The Clarice leverages creativity, scholarship, innovation and community engagement across the arts to foster expression, generate curiosity and inspire a greater good.
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District5 is a daring, Washington DC-based wind quintet that specializes in new music and new transcriptions. They are recipients of a 2016 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant with composer Evis Sammoutis and have recently performed at "The REACH" at the Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, U.S. Department of State, Library of Congress, Barns at Wolf Trap, DC Kosciuszko Foundation, and the Anderson House. In 2014, they gave the U.S. premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's ROTARY Woodwind Quintet.
Shawn Smith from the DMV area. An artist working mostly with acrylics on canvas.
Prince George's County, MD Graphic Artist Broadie fell in love with art when he was a child in elementary school. The moment his teacher gave him a pair of scissors to start cutting shapes, he knew he wanted to create. He still remembers using cotton balls, popsicle sticks, paint, and glitter to create a snowman. He dreamed of having his designs on billboards for people to stop and stare. He was first introduced to digital art in 2005 attending Bowie State University, a Historical Black College (HBCU), majoring in Fine Arts.
Liz Lescault is known for her biomorphic sculptures. She worked for many years exclusively in clay first as a potter and then as a sculptor. She continues to work in clay combined with other media but is currently working primarily with extruded plastic filament. Liz also explores a variety of mixed media in her work.
Kendra Lee (b. 1987) is known as Kay Lee, is a multidisciplinary artist. She is a true Washingtonian, who currently resides in the Upper Marlboro, MD area. In 2011, she received her A.A. in Liberals Arts from community college, her B.A. in 2013 from the University of the District of Columbia in the Administration of Justice and in her M.S.A. in Business Administration from Washington Trinity University. Kendra has always had a love for the arts. As a self-taught artist, she learns through experiences and trying different approaches to her artwork.
I am a visual artist. Stained glass mosaics and oil painting are my areas of passion. No matter where I wander I always come back to rich skin tones, storytelling eyes and wrinkled skin. Period. Full stop.
In 2021, Jeanette Bolden received the Washington Print Club Young Printer awards and was featured in On Paper: Journal of The Washington Print Club. Bolden also contributed illustrations to the Diamondback Newspaper's "Behind the Demands" project.
In 2022, she graduated from the University of Maryland with an MFA in studio arts and a minor in art history. That same year, Jeanette interned at Pyramid Atlantic and co-taught for the Hispanic Heritage Month Poster Internship Program.
Currently, she's participating in the Exercise for Emerging Artists program hosted by Transformer Gallery.
Shahin Talishkhan is an artist whose distinct visual language reflects a confluence of wide-ranging interests in art, philosophy and science. His paintings are meditations on the nature of visual perception and its connection to our most intimate emotional experiences. These meditations result in imagery that seems both representational and abstract as well as pictorial field that exude a sense of tactile presence, movement, and transformation.
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