Ping Shen is a trained artist who specializes in using traditional Chinese Gongbi painting
techniques to create contemporary artwork inspired by her rich life experiences in China and
America. Using various brush sizes and shapes on Chinese rice paper, her expressive watercolors
feature portraits, figures, animals and flowers. Ping’s work builds a bridge between traditional
and contemporary by showcasing ancient painting techniques and mediums in a modern and
simply beautiful way. She creates artwork that evokes feelings of happiness and pleasant
emotion.
Giulia Piera Livi is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting and installation. Her immersive rooms employ hyper-cohesive color and abstract forms to work out ideas of multi-functional art objects and curated domesticity. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally with notable shows at the Delaware Contemporary Museum (Wilmington, DE), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Governor's Island Art Fair (NY), Mono Practice (Baltimore, MD), Guest Spot @ the REINSTITUTE (Baltimore, MD), Untitled Space (New York, NY), VAE Gallery (Raleigh, NC), and Walter Otero Contemporary Art (
After earning an undergraduate degree in Painting and Printmaking at Cornell University, I spent a year working and studying in Paris, France until relocating to Baltimore, to earn a graduate degree at The Maryland Institute, College of Art, (MICA). I have won a Maryland State Arts Council Award multiple times in different categories, a Trawick Prize, and I have been published in various publications including twice in New American Paintings. I have exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across the country and internationally.
Arianna Ross creates entertaining, educational programs that weave the power of storytelling, dance, theatre, creative writing, visual art and music together. A master educator and performer who offers a wide variety of arts integration residencies, performances and professional development workshops, Ross uses the tools of her art forms to help students foster a deeper connection to the subjects they’re learning, be it language arts, math, science, geography, or social studies, and guide the teachers to incorporate the arts into their lesson plans.
Originally from California, Carolyn Case earned her MFA from MICA's Mount Royal School
of Art in Baltimore, MD, and her BFA from California State University in Long Beach, CA. Her
solo exhibitions include Asya Geisberg Gallery in New York, Western Michigan University,
Loyola University, McLean Projects for the Arts, and the Art Registry in Washington D.C., and
upcoming solo exhibitions at Lux Art Institute. She has participated in two-person and group
exhibitions at the Delaware Museum of Art, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, The Parlour
McKinley Wallace III is a painter and draftsman whose art depicts strength expounded by the
oppressed and an educator dedicated to cultivating people-oriented environments that foster
inclusive community building and high-quality learning. Wallace received a Bachelor of Fine
Art in painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). His studio work has obtained
both local and national attention, including solo exhibitions at MICA, Jubilee Arts, Baltimore
Polytechnic Institute and, later this year, Gallery CA and Creative Alliance, as well as group
Deborah Tomlin is a painter who relishes the feel of brushstrokes and vibrant color in her paintings. Tomlin grew up in Maryland. In 2008 she returned to her childhood home where she currently lives with her husband, two school-age children, and her aging parents. Raising children and caring for elderly parents informs her work with common themes to our human experience such as aging, loss, gender, identity, independence/dependence. Repetition and closely cropped compositions help convey this emotional content in her paintings.
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.
Ric Garcia is a Cuban-American painter and digital printmaker. His work is a sampling
of visual information from various sources that are combined into a new expression of
Americana, inspired by his bi-cultural experiences. His pop art style paintings are a
meditation on identity and explore language, hero worship, gender and Latino culture as
subject matter.
Garcia exhibits in the DC metro area and has been part of exhibits at American
University, Katzen Art Center in Washington DC, and The Smithsonian’s Aviation
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