Lecture: Patricia Watts: Art and the Ecology: Some Kind of Nature Wednesday, February 22, 4:45-5:45, Cole Cinema Patricia Watts is an Artist House curator-in-residence: February 6 – March 31, 2017 The Art and the Ecology lecture will focus on how contemporary artists are creating projects that partner with communities and environmental groups to make positive Find out more »

 Workshop with Patricia Watts: Art & Agriculture: The Art of Food Saturday, February 25, 10am – 5pm, Glendening Annex To register for this workshop: contact Sue Johnson srjohnson@smcm.edu Over the last eighty years farming practices have made a radical shift with the number of family farms dropping from six million to basically two million nationally, Find out more »

  Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk: Gabriela Bulisova and Mark Isaac Thursday, March 2, Noon – 1pm, Glendening Annex Free pizza or bring your own lunch Gabriela Bulisova and Mark Isaac are Artist House Artists-in-Residence: March 2 – 17, 2017 Gabriela Bulisova and Mark Isaac are collaborating with other artists and community members on an interdisciplinary Find out more »

Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk: Kyle Hackett Wednesday, March 29, Noon – 1pm, Glendening Annex Free pizza or bring your own lunch Kye Hackett is an Artist House Artist-in-Residence: March 18 – 31, 2017 Sponsored by The Department of Art and Art History, Artist House Residency Programs, Lecture and Fine Arts Committee, DeSousa-Brent Scholars Program and Find out more »

Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk: Michael Pinnix ‘95 Wednesday, April 12, Noon – 1pm, Glendening Annex Free pizza or bring your own lunch Michael Pinnix is an Artist House Artist-in-Residence: April 10 – May 12, 2017 Michael Pinnix’s artwork tends to combine stream of conscious imagination in a somewhat concrete world. Letting the image evolve over Find out more »

Brown Bag Lunchtime Artist Talk: Dimitra Skandali Thurs. April 20, 12-1pm Glendening Annex Free pizza or bring your own lunch Dimitra Skanali is an Artist House Artist-in-Residence: April 10 – May 10, 2017 The experience of growing up on Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea in Greece, and her journey since then to build Find out more »

Jennifer D. Anderson is an Associate Professor of studio art at Hollins University, where she teaches drawing, printmaking and professional practices. She currently serves as Art Department Chair. Her recent scholarly output includes papers given at the SGC International, College Art Association, and Southeastern College Art conferences. The Norton Simon Museum included her essay “Print Find out more »

Drawn to the ambiguities and mysteries surrounding the subjects of death, creation and religion, Tristan Cai is interested in the cultural production of knowledge and the realities that humanity constructs in these domains. He draws inspiration from academic research and first-hand interaction with individuals, ranging from bio-ethicists to cult victims. Cai’s practice involves using photography Find out more »

Sarah Cantor received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 2013, specializing in Early Modern European art history. Her research explores the intersections between landscape imagery, natural history, and antiquarian culture in seventeenth-century Italy. She has taught at Maryland and University of Maryland University College and has worked as a curatorial fellow at a Find out more »

Born in Italy, with a background in graphic design and photography, Sandro Del Rosario came to the U.S. in 1998 with a Fulbright Scholarship to study for an MFA in Film/Video with emphasis in Experimental Animation at CalArts, in California. His work has been awarded and exhibited in many festivals and venues worldwide, including at Find out more »

Aschely Vaughan Cone (b. San Antonio, TX 1985) recently graduated from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art with an MFA in Painting. In 2007 she received a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, studying classics and philosophy; in 2012 she received an Find out more »

Aschely Vaughan Cone (b. San Antonio, TX 1985) recently graduated from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art with an MFA in Painting. In 2007 she received a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, studying classics and philosophy; in 2012 she received an Find out more »

Sarah Cantor received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 2013, specializing in Early Modern European art history. Her research explores the intersections between landscape imagery, natural history, and antiquarian culture in seventeenth-century Italy. She has taught at Maryland and University of Maryland University College and has worked as a curatorial fellow at a Find out more »

Mika Yoshitake is Associate Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where she curated Shana Lutker: Le “NEW” Monocle, co-curatored Days of Endless Time and Dark Matters and coordinated Ai Weiwei: According to What? and Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 .  In 2012, she curated Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha (2012) at Blum Find out more »

Emily Chase makes ethereal garments out of paper. She uses clothing as a subject because it is a personal and expressive thing. How people dress reveals what they believe is important, culturally and personally. Clothing is able to indicate a history without a person being present. Paper is workable in many of the same ways Find out more »

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 12:00 – 1:00pm Glendening Annex Bring your lunch and join us for a discussion with Jay Noble! Jay Noble is a visual artist and educator living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  His artwork spans the continuum between abstraction, figuration and the beauty of seeing.  He earned his MFA from American University in Washington DC and also Find out more »

In 2012 Jolene started Platy-Morph, a handmade leather mask art company after a previous experience as a graphic designer and scientific illustrator and model-maker. Shortly after graduating from St. Mary’s College with a B.A in Art she was selected for a year-long internship with the Das Puppenspiel Puppet Theater during which time she was trained Find out more »

Bethany Springer’s work lies somewhere between romanticism and realism, an inquiry into place and identity as influenced by history, heritage, globalization, and the information age.  She earned a BFA in Studio Art from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a MFA from The University of Georgia, Athens. She is currently an Associate Professor in Find out more »

Catherine Drabkin is a painter, printmaker and educator. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute/College of Art and her MFA from Queens College/CUNY. She has been represented by Kraushaar Galleries in New York where she has had 7 solo shows – other recent solo exhibitions include Art Space Harrisburg Area Community College, Lancaster, PA, Find out more »

Matt Hollis ‘03 both harnesses and celebrates the allure of nature in his elaborate faux-floral assemblages that express a devout obsession with all things organic who earned a BA in Art from SMCM in 2003. His work plays with notions of the power that the natural world holds over the human psyche and uses flowers to Find out more »