Jerry Truong is a Maryland-based interdisciplinary artist whose work deals with issues of
history and memory as they relate to the exercise of power and the residuals of trauma. Truong
received his B.A. in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine and his M.F.A.
in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, where he was the recipient
of the San Diego Fellowship. He has had solo exhibitions at the Arlington Art Center (Arlington,
VA, 2018), Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, 2015), Hood College (Frederick, MD, 2014),
Damon Arhos is a visual artist and art educator who lives and works in Washington, DC and Louisville, Kentucky. A gay American of Greek descent, he creates artworks that present portraits of identity as they reflect both queer experiences and cultural dichotomies. Arhos frequently appropriates Ancient Greek art and mythology, anthropomorphic forms, and elements of LGBTQIA+ culture within repetitive and everyday visual contexts.
Ryan Schmal Murray is an artist who creates conceptually-driven work that combines digital and physical media. His work addresses the search for meaning at the intersections of “high” and “low” culture and at the boundaries of different media.
Sara Dittrich (b. Cincinnati, Ohio 1991) is an interdisciplinary sculpture artist who builds introspective experiences that shift perspective from passive seeing to active looking, from passive hearing to active listening.
Daniel Stuelpnagel has participated in more than 100 exhibitions coast to coast since 1998, and recently completed a two-year residency at Mill Centre Artist Studios in Hampden.
His creative career pursuits have taken him from Washington, DC to San Francisco, from Burning Man to the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, Bologna, Barcelona and Maui among other inspiring destinations.
Julie Jankowski is a visual artist and educator living in Baltimore. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA) from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA) in painting and printmaking from Ball State University, Muncie, IN. She also studied painting and drawing at Indiana University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bobby Blazek is a multi-media artist working and currently residing in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His work focuses on macabre storytelling through paintings, comics, and illustrations. Blazek combines biological, technological, and religious imagery while emphasizing color contrast, movement, repetition, and texture in order to convey narratives pertaining to marginalized bodies in the current state of the world. Currently he is at MICA majoring in General Fine Arts, minoring in Illustration and Sequential Art.