Margaret Huddy’s work is in private and public collections worldwide. She taught and lectured in the US, Italy, Ireland, France, Canada and Tunisia. She also incorporated her love of travel with teaching on cruise ships. Huddy is an award winning, signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society and Watercolor USA Honor Society. She is also listed in Who’s Who in American Art.
Johan Lowie is an internationally acclaimed artist and venerable professional in the vibrant Frederick art scene. He has an MFA from the Royal Academy in Ghent, Belgium, his country of origin. He has shown extensively in Europe and the United States. A heart transplant recipient, Lowie explores diverse subjects in his work but returns repeatedly to the intangible, yet deeply emotive spaces that shape human feelings and memory. His works provoke consideration of the liminal spaces between life, death, and dreams.
Mary Waldhorn has been an Artist and Art Educator for over 40 years. Notable Art Institutions which have benefited from Mary’s expertise over the years are the Cleveland Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Interlochen National Music Camp. She taught kindergarten through high school art at several DC area schools. Mary enjoys making art in various mediums. She exhibits in several galleries in the D.C. and Frederick area.
Lisa Sheirer works in a wide variety of mediums. The natural world has long been the foundational concept of her work. Awareness of the flora, fauna, microflora, water, and soil comes from hiking in her neighboring watershed, the ancient Catoctin Mountains. Sheirer goes almost daily into the watershed, documenting life there. Sheirer’s focused study and artistic expression of our natural environment helps us gain awareness of ecological rhythms and change, as we gain our sea legs in an evolving world.
Ron Young roamed the Frederick streets and alleys from his boyhood to the present day. A visionary and former Mayor of Frederick, he continues to contribute to the quality of his community through painting. According to Young, Frederick has one of the most beautiful historic districts in America. Young uses acrylics for his Frederick paintings, showcasing the warmth and liveliness of Frederick’s downtown. Proceeds from the sale of Young’s artwork go to Frederick Community College.
Don Coomes’ work is largely non-objective and relies heavily on obtaining a final image through a process involving the use of color and texture that results from brush strokes or marks that are applied by hand to the painting surface. Texture is achieved largely through the brush marks, which distribute the paint unevenly. The colors used in the paintings are normally not predetermined; instead, the artist bases his color choices in response to the color that already sit on the painting surface.
Sheryl Massaro is an oil painter, poet and photographer. Her award-winning oil paintings and photography have been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and are in several private collections. Her artwork, though often based on the recognizable, share a deeper look at life than pure representation.
S. Manya Stoumen-Tolino is known for her expressive, gestural paintings that reflect her fascination with organic life and its fleeting, ever-changing presence, and its power to evidence the eternal. For Manya, the act of painting parallels her desire to express and underscore life’s constantly evolving, cyclical nature and its inherent conflicts. Existing somewhere between representational and non-representational abstraction, her work transcends the confines of any particular movement or time period.
Alla and Milana Borovskaia are a mother-daughter team and current resident artists at the Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel, MD. Throughout their careers they have explored fiber art and developed signature techniques, with wool becoming the primary medium. They have exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Russia, Italy, and the United States.
Bill Watson is a fine artist, curator, muralist, animator, illustrator, and arts advocate. Art makes the world a better place, according to Bill. His creative approach is to find links between shapes, colors, and ideas. An idea forms and he goes to work devising the best process or materials to make the concept a reality. He draws inspiration from innocuous objects like road signs, clockworks, x-ray light boxes, and a multitude of other objects. He uses objects for purposes other than those originally intended.
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