This week’s featured artist: Lee Boynton, member early years in Annapolis, then rejoined MFA in 2012: ME: I was born and raised in Southport, CT, and spent a lot of my childhood and on the water, racing and cruising along the coast of New England. The sea became the spawning ground for my passion for art and I yearned to express the subtle beauty…
This week’s featured artist: Alison Menke, member since 2014: ME: I am 27 years old, born of American parents in the country of Venezuela. I’ve been surrounded and inspired by art and artists all of my life. My great-grandmother, Georgia Leigh Caldwell, was an American Artist in Chicago and my grandmother, Jane Caldwell Menke, was also an accomplished artist. My mother, Beverly Ann…
This week’s featured artist: Joan Owings, member since 2012: ME: I grew up in rural southern Maryland, and have loved and expressed myself through art since childhood. My lifelong motivation has been the discovery and contemplation of beauty as I find it in what is a chaotic and at times overwhelming world. After living many years in Annapolis, I moved to the…
This week’s featured artist: Chris Kelsey, member since 2011: ME: After growing up in various places as a Navy brat, I became a Virginian, graduating from Virginia Tech. We moved to Upper Marlboro in early 80’s to be near Andrews AFB where my husband was stationed. There were horses and cows when we moved there but not a lot else! We moved to…
This week’s featured artist: Lynn Mehta, member since 2008: ME: Born and raised in La Jolla, California, I now live in Alexandria, Virginia. I hold a B.A. in Art from San Diego State University and have studied with internationally acclaimed artists in the US and abroad. As a landscape painter, I primarily paint outside and travel to paint when I get the…
This week’s featured artist: Kari Melen, member since 2012: ME: I grew up in a small town in western Wisconsin where the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers meet. I had the urge to draw and paint when I was in grade school and high school. Then life got in the way and painting got pushed to the side in pursuit of…
This week’s featured artist: Richard Niewerth, member since the ’70s; joined the Board of Directors, January, 2015: ME: I was born and raised in Baltimore. I earned a BFA in Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art, (MICA) and MA at University of Maryland. While painting has always been my passion, teaching art has run a close second. I hold an emeritus status…
This week’s featured artist: Maggie O’Leary, member since 2011: ME: I grew up in Cocoa Florida, a quiet Southern town full of fishermen, surfers, and rocket scientists. People ask how long have I been an artist and I tell them all of my life. I would fill my coloring books, draw the nature that surrounded my Indian River paradise and make…
This week’s featured artist: Deborah Kommalan, member since 2010: ME: I was born and raised in rural Baltimore county, and was always considered the artsy one in the family. I spent my spare time drawing, painting and making things. I graduated from MICA in graphic design in 1970. I worked for a time in a graphic art agency, but I was not…
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