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Lillian Bayley Hoover
Lillian
Bayley Hoover earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of
North Carolina, Asheville and her Master of Fine Arts from the Maryland
Institute College of Art. Hoover’s work has been featured in the
Baltimore area and beyond, and recently appeared in the 94th edition of
New American Paintings and the Summer 2011 issue of the Little Patuxent
Review. She is the recipient of a grant from the Center for Emerging
Visual Artists, which enabled her to conduct research and make
photographs in Istanbul, Turkey. Hoover has received many awards,
including “Young Artist” for the Bethesda Painting Awards and two
Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and she
has thrice been a semifinalist for both Baltimore’s Sondheim Prize and
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David D’Orio
David D’Orio is the
executive director of DC GlassWorks, a public access glass blowing
facility in Maryland, just outside of Washington D.C. He earned a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture and a Bachelor of Arts in sociology
from the University of Hartford/Hartford Art School in Hartford, CT. His
work has been shown at Artomatic in Crystal City, the Marlboro Gallery
of Prince George’s Community College and as part of the Arlington Arts
Center Fall Solos. In his work, D’Orio explores “the ideology of
technology as the source of solutions for social problems (both real,
invented and imagined). … This work has the sense of a forgotten or
undiscovered manufacturer/inventor whose sole purpose is to create
objects that defy classification.”
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Skye Gilkerson
Skye Gilkerson grew up at
the edge of the known world, in the space that Thomas Jefferson thought
would take 1,000 years to populate. After her childhood on a farm in
South Dakota, she’s slowly migrated along the rust belt, landing in
Baltimore, where she has a studio at Current Space. Skye has been an
artist-in-residence with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Anderson
Ranch Arts Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the
Philadelphia Art Hotel. Her work is in the Robert F. Pfannebecker
Collection, the Notre Dame of Maryland collection and numerous personal
collections in the U.S. and Germany. She received her Master of Fine
Arts in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI,
and a Bachelor of Arts in studio art from Bethel University in St.
Paul, MN. Gilkerson was a finalist for the 2011 Trawick Prize. |
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Dean Kessmann
Dean Kessmann lives
and works in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in solo exhibitions
at the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida and Conner Contemporary Art in
Washington, D.C. among numerous other locations across the United
States. His work has also been featured in many group shows, including
those at Strathmore in North Bethesda and Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland
Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He received a Master of Arts from
Sothern Illinois University, Carbondale and is currently the chair of
the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at The George Washington
University in Washington, D.C.
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Nate Larson
Nate Larson is
full-time faculty in the photography department at Maryland Institute
College of Art in Baltimore. His work with photographic media, artist
books and digital video has been widely shown across the U.S. and
internationally. He serves on the board of directors of the Society for
Photographic Education. His current project GEOLOCATION, in
collaboration with Marni Shindelman, tracks GPS coordinates associated
Twitter tweets and pairs the text with a photograph of the originating
site to mark the virtual information in the real world. Larson has a
master of fine Arts from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of
Arts from Purdue University.
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Joshua Smith
Joshua Wade Smith
was raised on the outskirts of a small border town in South Texas. He is
a nationally exhibited object-based performer and sculptor and
currently a fellow at Hamiltonian Artists in Washington, D.C. His work
has been featured in exhibitions at the Contemporary Museum-Baltimore
and the Arlington Arts Center, among others. He received a Master of
Fine Arts degree from the Mt. Royal School at MICA in 2010. In his
recent work, Smith explores themes of labor, masculinity and gymnastic
investigations of landscape. His installations and performances feature
contraptions and repetitious actions that emphasize the transfer of
value through absurd or thankless tasks; his work is often about making a
show of the “Work” itself through schematics, photo documentation and
endurance based on drawings.
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Diane Szczepaniak
Diane Szczepaniak
earned a Master’s degree in art education from the University of
Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Northern Kentucky
University. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions including
SCULPTURE NOW 2012 at Pepco Edison Place Gallery in Washington, D.C.,
InLiquid Benefit Auction in Philadelphia, PA, among others and in many
solo exhibitions. She was named a semi-finalist for Baltimore’s Sondheim
Prize in 2011 and received an Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts:
Sculpture from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2009. About her work,
Szczepaniak says: “Colors naturally hold meaning for me and I have
painted in response to images from poems that I find mysterious,
feelings aroused by music, that familiar experience Wallace Stevens
calls ‘passions in rain, or moods in falling snow,’ and even meditations
on thoughts.”
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Hannah Walsh
Hannah Walsh earned
her Master of Fine Arts in sculpture and extended media from Virginia
Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana
University. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions nationally
and abroad, including The Boiler, Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn; Little
Berlin in Philadelphia; The Wayfarers in Brooklyn; Nominimo Gallery in
Quito, Ecuador and the Reynolds Gallery in Richmond. Walsh explains her
interest in cheerleading as a subject: “All-star cheerleading squads are
not affiliated with any sports team. They only cheer competitively, in
other words, for themselves. These squads embody several of my
interests: the simultaneous occurrence of sincerity and extreme
artifice, skilled physicality, gender performance and American
identity.”
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