This week’s featured artist: Kellee Wynne Conrad, member since 2012: ME: I come from a long line of artists in California and growing up, I lived with art as part of my daily life. After many years in the design industry I decided to return to my first love of painting. I now live in the suburbs of Maryland with my husband and three…
This week’s featured artist: Elaine Weiner-Reed, member since mid ’90’s: ME: I was the odd duck in my Pennsylvania family: I knew I was an artist since the age of four. In the third grade, I experienced a life-changing event: my best colored picture to date was given a C by my teacher because I “did not copy exactly.” In that moment I…
This week’s featured artist: Mary Ellen Geissenhainer, member since 2005: ME: I grew up in Washington, D.C. My husband and I moved to Anne Arundel County about 10 years ago to be near the water. I have taught elementary art in private schools in Fairfax, Montgomery, and Anne Arundel Counties. I happily work in a studio that looks out over a creek that leads…
This week’s featured artist: Victoria (Tory) Burnett, weekend Gallery Manager since 2008: ME: My name is Victoria Burnett and I am a mother, studio painter, and educator. Most members of MFA know me as Tory the weekend manager at Circle Gallery. I received my BFA in Studio Painting from Northern Arizona University then returned to Annapolis in 2004. MY ART: At…
This week’s featured artist: Carol Tessier, member since 2011: ME: I am a Maryland native living with my husband Tim and Emma, our 11-year old Golden Retriever, in Eastport. I’m a retired CPA using “the other side of my brain” now to create mosaic art in my home studio, where I also give workshops as an adjunct faculty member at Anne Arundel…
This week’s featured artist: Joann Vaughan, MFA Executive Director since 2008: ME: I grew up in Oklahoma and attended the University of Virginia where I met my husband Bill. Together we have four children and have lived all over the country, in New Orleans, Carmel CA, Columbus OH. We moved to Annapolis MD in 1999. I have worked in the nonprofit arena…
This week’s featured artist: Chris Fowler, member since 2012: ME: My development as an artist has been a somewhat circuitous path. I started out as a graphic artist, quite literally spending my childhood drawing. I then became interested in making animated films. From that I shifted to live action films (this was the golden age of Super-8 home movie film). It was…
This week’s featured artist: Dick Schneier, member since 1999: ME: I was born in the Bronx. I lived in Westchester County, Greenwich, CT, near Boston, MA, and the last 47 years in Derwood, MD with my wife and tripod carrier Ann. I trained and worked as an engineer, mostly in Underwater Acoustic research and applications. I retired from Tracor Inc. at…
This week’s featured artist: David Diaz, President of MFA Board of Directors, member since 2004: David is the 2014 Annie Awards Recipient for Visual Arts, awarded by the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County. Congratulations, David! ME: I am a plein air artist living in Annapolis, MD. I received formal training in the public schools of Western Maryland, Frostburg State University, University of…
This week’s featured artist: Anna Fine Foer, member since 1997: ME: I decided I was going to be an artist when I was 11 years old, living in Paris for the summer, visiting every museum and gallery. While a fibers/crafts major at Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) I became fascinated by the relationship between maps and the land they…
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