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Me & My Art Monday: Hannah Sturm

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This week’s featured artist:  Hannah Sturm, member since 2014: ME:  I have lived in the Annapolis area all of my life, apart from a three-year stint at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where I completed my BA in Theater, Film, and Media Studies in May (I minored in Art History and Museum Studies). I have interned around Annapolis in a handful of places: Maryland…

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Me & My Art Monday: Chris Quinn

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This week’s featured artist:  Chris Quinn, member since 2014: ME:  I was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Potomac, Maryland. In my early twenties I moved to New York City and got a job painting sets and furniture at Martha Stewart Living Magazine. It was there that I learned a great deal about paint, color, aesthetics, stains, effects, finishes; and the…

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Me & My Art Monday: Sea Yoon

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This week’s featured artist:  Sea Yoon, member since 2014: ME:  I was born in Seoul, Korea in 1988. At age of fourteen, I moved to U.S. with my family. I obtained my BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, in 2011. During those years, I gained experiences in sculpture, drawing, ceramic, painting, video, and teaching through several internship programs. In…

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Me & My Art Monday: Joe Galindo

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This week’s featured artist:  Joe Galindo, member since 2014: ME:  I’m a Texas Gulf Coast native. Before moving to Crofton, MD two years ago, I moved and traveled around for about 12 years, living in and visiting almost every continent.  My life has not come without its challenges but those challenges gave me deep, soulful roots. I enjoy experiencing life with others and getting…

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Me & My Art Monday: Lesley Giles

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This week’s featured artist:  Lesley Giles, member since 2012: ME:  My experience as an artist started in early adolescence when I became a pseudo hippy. Heavily influenced by psychedelic bands like Pink Floyd, the French existentialist writers & anything Avant-Garde in the London art galleries I joined an evening nude life-drawing class when I was 16.  I graduated (failing art), and was accepted into…

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Me & My Art Monday: Gail Higginbotham

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This week’s featured artist:  Gail Higginbotham, member since 2001: ME:  A Maryland native, I spent my summers along the waterfront off Whitehall Creek. My passion for art began as a child – my medium of choice the big box of Crayola crayons, and I still love using this medium. I have upped the quality to Carn d’ache neopastels (oil pastels).  My formal study began…

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Me & My Art Monday: Carol Donahue

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This week’s featured artist:  Carol Donahue, member since 2009: ME: I was born in Washington D.C., 3rd generation, but always lived in the surrounding suburbs of Maryland. For the last 30 years I’ve called Davidsonville home. I’m not sure if my love of photography is a genetic thing as my grandfather was a photographer/musician but when I saw images processed I was filled…

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Me & My Art Monday: Mark Peria

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This week’s featured artist:  Mark Peria, member since 2013: ME:  Growing up in the Philippines in a loving family, but in less than favorable conditions, it was not always a comfortable life. In addition, I have been living in pain since I can remember due to a venous complication that I was born with, spending more than a quarter of my life in hospitals and…

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Me & My Art Monday: Jennifer Wilkinson Rynbrandt

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This week’s featured artist:  Jennifer Wilkinson Rynbrandt, member since 2012: ME:  I am originally a native of the Washington, D.C. area suburbs, and I now live with my husband and four children in Hampstead, MD.  As a Gerontologist for seven years, I was a Director of Care Management for two geriatric care management firms. I also provided consulting services for eldercare providers, and I…

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Me & My Art Monday: Maureen S. Farrell

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This week’s featured artist:  Maureen S. Farrell, member since 2012: ME:  Growing up in rural upstate New York, my connection to art was visiting museums or art and craft fairs. In my late thirties, I took a photography class in composition and I took thousands of photos. A beginner’s watercolor class in 1994 led me on a journey of a lifetime! Putting in…

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