Martin Krafft uses video, photography, social practice, sculpture and writing to explore boundaries of “otherness.” His work pushes for a democratization of philosophy, sharing reflections from people whose voices are not often heard in the public sphere. He has worked in a Catholic Worker house serving the unhoused and Death Row inmates, as an inner city teacher’s aid, on a ranch with a loving family of conspiracy theorists, and as an alternative preschool teacher, among other jobs. His feature-length documentary, “Ain’t Got Time to Die,” has won awards at film festivals around the world. He currently runs an artist residency, Red Rock Rabbit Ranch, in Schwenksville, PA. He also has roots in Owings, MD; Atlanta, GA; Tucson, AZ; Missoula, MT; Rochester, NY; and Berlin, Germany.

Donald Depuydt s a printmaker living in Northern Virginia. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Mankato State University, Mankato, MN.  Depuydt earned his Master of Fine Arts at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, with a concentration in printmaking. Depuydt is an award winning artist whose work has been exhibited nationally.  Since 1992, Donald Depuydt has been a Professor of Fine Art at Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun Campus.

Alexander D’Agostino is an interdisciplinary artist and independent researcher based in Baltimore, Maryland. Since graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009 with a BFA in painting, D’Agostino has been reclaiming and reimagining queer histories through visual art, performance, and installation. His work combines archival material from queer histories with myth-making and ritual, creating space to honor past generations and posthumously liberate them. He describes his process as embodying research and being “possessed” by the feelings and stories he uncovers, turning historical marginalization into acts of reclamation and artistic transformation.

I am a multi-media visual and performance artist. The themes I work with include minor obsessions, the bizarre landscape, self-realization, and social justice. I often integrate storytelling into my work through text and spoken word. I hold a BFA in Painting and an MFA in Performance Art, both from Arizona State University.

I have had solo exhibitions throughout the U.S. including at The Cultural Center of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Glazer Children’s Museum in Tampa, Florida. My first solo exhibition, “The Middle of Nowhere”, which consists of 32 B&W photographic prints depicting primarily arctic landscapes, toured 7 U.S. exhibition venues and was then acquired in its entirety by the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California. My follow-up exhibition “Floating Blue”, which features arctic icebergs photographed during the late evening light sometimes called “The Blue Hour”, debuted at the 10th Annual Songzhuang Art Festival at the Czech China Contemporary Museum in Beijing, China, in the fall of 2017, and toured 16 U.S. cities through 2023.

In the summer of 2021, in conjunction with the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod invited me to create and exhibit a short film titled “A Final Elegant Gesture” that reflects on that day from my street-level vantage point beneath the Twin Towers, and the unusual and beautiful ramifications that ensued through recurring and evolving dreams over the months that followed. The film later won Best International Experimental Short Film at the Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival, London, England.

In the fall of 2021, The Oakland International Film Festival, Oakland, California, premiered my short film, “Out My Window”, which explores in a unique and beautiful way some of the ramifications that ensued as a result of the protests and uprising following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. The film was also included in the North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival where it screened at the historic Fargo Theatre in Fargo, North Dakota, and then later won Best Monologue Film in the Monologues & Poetry International Film Fest, Vallejo, CA.

I am currently promoting my new solo film and performance exhibition “Tales of Terrible Beauty”.

I live in New York City.

As an aerial photographer piloting my own small airplane throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region, I seek to create the impressions of paintings from the altered landscapes of coal mining and quarried areas, as well as the natural, primitive beauty of the lower Eastern Shore coastal zones. Often in these places I find anthropomorphic figures and spiritual symbols and imagery which inform the narratives of my photographs. My aerial photographs came to embody what I termed “Third Spaces”, between the abstract and the representational, and which was the title of my solo exhibition at the Creative Alliance.

In 2023 I discovered the island of Cuba and began making underwater photographs while snorkeling and scuba diving. The undersea realms hold a fantastic visual world of shapes, forms and textures which are both similar to and extraordinarily different to the terrestrial world. I have returned to Cuba many times to explore and learn about the coral reefs and marine life. As the language of my experiences in Cuba is Spanish, I use the term “fotografía submarina” to define my work, and have exhibited them as a series entitled “Coral Gardens of Cuba”.

In both my aerial and underwater photography I approach my subjects primarily as an artist. But my work has also become a process of research about the history, culture, geography and environmental issues of the Pennsylvania Coal Region, as well as the beauty and diversity of coral reef ecosystems, and the importance of their preservation.

Julia Justo (b. 1963) is an interdisciplinary artist born in Argentina of Indigenous-Italian ancestry. She currently makes her home in New York.

She works across mixed media, textiles and social practice.

She has exhibited extensively in the US and abroad including Asheville Art Museum, Hunterdon Art Museum, Smack Mellon, Bric Media, WhiteBox, American Folk Art Museum and Museo de Buenos Aires.

She has been granted numerous awards and residencies including Robert Rauschenberg Foundation grant, LMCC Grant, Su-Casa Artist-in-Residence, Trestle Gallery residency, SVA Art Residency, Creative Capital Taller artist, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant among others.

Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, News NY1 and Memoir Magazine among others.

Dulce Pinzón was born in Mexico City in 1974. She attended the Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla, Mexico where she studied Mass Media Communications and earned a MFA in photography from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 1995 she moved to New York where she studied at The International Center of Photography. As a young Mexican artist living in the United States, Dulce soon found new inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of identity, and political and cultural frustrations.

Pinzón’s work has been exhibited internationally including group and solo shows in Mexico, the United States, Australia, Argentina, and throughout Europe. Her images have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian UK, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and others.In 2001 one of her images was used for the cover of a reprinting of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Pinzón has received various grants including the prestigious Jovenes Creadores Grant in 2002 and a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship grant in photography. “The Real Story of the Superheroes” series was recognized with an Honorable Mention in the Santa Fe Project Competition in 2006. Pinzón currently resides in Brooklyn.

I am a filmmaker and performer named one of Brooklyn Magazine‘s Top 50 Most Fascinating People. Out of love and masochism, I regularly collaborate with Aaron Gold. Find my films and videos on YouTube @StoddardSays and YouTube @DontMindTheShow.

​In a past life, I wrote for books and magazines, so I’m damn good with words. I also have a background in visual art, which informs my eye as a director. Kickstaring my career as the founder of Quail Bell Magazine bagged me awards, friendships, and life lessons I’ll never forget. These days, I’m focused on making movies and TV through Quail Bell Press & Productions. I’m also interested in on-screen opportunities with fabulous clients.

Marcia Wolfson Ray was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1993 she received a fellowship to attend the Mount Royal  Graduate School at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned her MFA.
She taught art in the Baltimore City Public School System.
While in graduate school she started using organic materials such as bamboo, phragmites, dog fennel, hibiscus, straw, marsh elder and pine wood to construct her sculptures.
Some of the galleries that have shown her work in include- the University of Connecticut, University of Maryland, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Pennsylvania College of Technology, Montpelier Arts Center, Rockville Arts Place, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk,Virginia, Arlington Arts Center in Virginia, Loyola College, Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania.
The inspiration for her work comes from nature, its forms, rhythms and patterns, including the physical manifestation of working outdoors- the light, temperature and season of the year which she feels reflects the sense of mystery at the center of life. She collects most of the materials herself from places as varied as the vacant lots in Baltimore to the fields and marshes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

“Micaela de Vivero’s exhibit highlights the artist’s experiments with a wide assortment of non-traditional media. As you enter the room, you are surrounded by transformed objects that evoke an innovative laboratory. The artist’s unconventional and repurposed materials speak to dreamlike encounters, while also exploring experiences of daily life. She is most interested in the relationship between observer and installation — how the viewer becomes a part of the work by navigating through the space.”

From article by Sherée Lutz, November 2016

Professor Vivero has exhibited her work nationally in the US, in Canada, in Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, Finland, Austria, Spain, France, Portugal, Bulgaria and Armenia. She has been an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE (2001), at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland (2003), at the Chretzeturm in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland (2005), at Koli Ryynaanen in Koli, Finland (2007), at the Rondo Marienmühle in Graz, Austria (2007-2008), at the Acoss Foundation in Yerevan, Armenia (2011), at Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany (2013), at Camac in Marnay-sur-Seine, France (2016), Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France (2017), at Museu de Lanificios in Covilhã, Portugal (2018) and at PINEA – Linea de Costa in Rota, Spain (2019). She has been a multiple times Durf Grant recipient, a Unesco-Aschberg grant recipient and has gotten international grants to support her artist residencies.

I make anything that I can until I can’t anymore.
I try to make things that delight me, and hopefully they sometimes delight others too.
I also love to make awful things that are sometimes somehow beautiful.
Sometimes they’re just awful though and delight nobody.
I like to learn new things but also get better at old things.
I feel it is important to practice looking closely, critically, but also joyfully; to treat sight as you would listen to music or learn an instrument.

In an attempt to learn to see better, I earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in InterMedia and Digital Arts and a BFA from Radford University. Originally from and still missing the Appalachian Mountains, I can now be found in or around Baltimore, Maryland and rather like it here.

Mary McCoy is an environmental artist and writer whose interdisciplinary work includes both indoor and outdoor installations, sculpture, artist’s books, drawing, and painting, often with the inclusion of text and with an emphasis on found natural materials. Her solo work and collaborations with Howard McCoy have been exhibited in the U.S., Ireland, Wales and New Zealand, notably at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD; Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD; Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD; Loyola College, Baltimore, MD; Cardigan Heritage Center, Cardigan, Wales; Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC; C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, OH; Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC; Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY; Gallery 10, Ltd., Washington, DC; and the International Sculpture Conference, Dublin, Ireland.

Her writings have been published in Orion Magazine’s Place Where You Live, Gargoyle Magazine, From Whispers to Roars, Bay to Ocean 2021 and 2022, Pen in Hand, and Salisbury University Art Galleries Here/Not Here–Art and Poetry of Place. Her artist’s books include four printed books, My Covert Home, The Turning Year, Iceland and Tree Tales, and numerous handmade artist’s books. She is a former art critic for The Washington Post, Sculpture, New Art Examiner, American Craft, and The Washington Review and currently writes for The Chestertown Spy and The Talbot Spy. She is the recipient of a 2022 Independent Artist Award in Literary Arts from the Maryland State Arts Council.

I believe that art-making draws creative energy from unconscious processes.  As an abstract painter I am interested in exploring the use of paint, fabrics, and other materials with differing textures and light-reflecting qualities to capture the sometimes fleeting, visual and mental images that people experience as well as their feelings and emotional struggles.  Color and texture are central aspects of my work.  While I am especially drawn to fabrics like satin that reflect light and velvet that absorbs it, their interaction with traditional art mediums such as oil paint and oil pastels as well as the new polymer mediums and industrial products such as cement and sandpaper offer a rich field for investigation.

For several years my mixed media pieces have centered around images of landscape and water.  Sometimes these images are fragmentary, such as light shining on water; sometimes they bring to mind an actual landscape though no such place exists.  More recently my mixed media pieces have dealt with issues of mortality, war, security and insecurity. Both my earlier work and my current pieces are often multi-layered, for example, cement covered  fully or partially by fabric, then covered by paint and charcoal.  As I work the surface of a piece with various media, I often de-construct and re-construct it by tearing, sanding, and re-working it so that underlying layers can be uncovered, almost in an archeological sense.  My working process is both rough and delicate. Serendipity plays an important role, so that discovery is a constant ingredient of working. As hidden marks and images emerge and are built on, I try to use them to express a range of emotions and to generate a sense of light, place, object, and environment.

Andrew Flanders is a sculptor whose works trasnsition between object, furniture, installation to explore the deliriously masculine, and idiosyncracies within craft and trade psychoses.  He received his BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), studied woodworking at Craft Schools such as Arrowmont School of Crafts and Penland School of Crafts, attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the National Youngarts Foundation in Paris, France.

Andrew has exhibited in numerous locations in Maryland, Texas, and other national galleries such as  Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel, MD, National Youngarts Foundation in Miami, Fl,  Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick, MD, Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC and many local Baltimore galleries and institutions such as Terrault Contemporary, the Creative Alliance, and Maryland Art Place.