Outreach
Annapolis, Continuing Education and Fine Arts - Fine Arts Instructors - Fall 2008
Mary J. Arthur(BA Marywood University, BFA Kansas City Art Institute, MFA Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art) is a resident artist at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis and a 2004 recipient of an Individual Artist Award in the Visual Arts with the Maryland State Arts Council. She has received numerous awards and fellowships in the visual arts and education including the Prince of Wales Fellowship in Normandy, France; National Arts Club Award, New York City; and an Excellence in Teaching Award sponsored by the Mid–America Arts Alliance. She has been published in New American Paintings as well as The Artist's Magazine. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.
D. H. Banker is a sculptor living in Annapolis. She has a BA with honors from George Washington University. She teaches sculpture at Glenelg Country School. Her work can be seen at DeMatteis Gallery in Annapolis. She is the recipient of Anne Arundel County's 2004 Annie Award for Excellence as an arts educator.
Jean Brinton Jaecks is a plein air landscape painter. She received her MFA from George Washington University and her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art; she also studied at the Cape Cod School of Art. She is a 2008 recipient of the Rochefort-en-Terre Artist Residency in Brittany, France. In the summer, Jean teaches plein air workshops in the gardens of Annapolis. She is a painting instructor for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the United States Botanic Garden and Corcoran, and the National Arboretum. Her paintings have exhibited at the Corcoran Museum of Art, the National Arts Club, NYC, the National Adirondack Exhibit of American Watercolors, the McKissick Museum, Columbia, S.C., and the Heritage Museum, Taladega, Alabama.
John Jensen is a full–time studio potter in Annapolis and has been teaching pottery classes for the past ten years. His pottery is sold nationally through catalog sales and locally at his studio. His 30–year career as an artist includes continuing work with figurative sculpture, painting, and drawing. He earned a BS from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Lynn Schwartz, who received her BA from Columbia University and her MA from The City College of New York, also is a graduate of the professional New York City acting school, The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater. Her plays have been performed in Atlanta and New York City, her short stories have been published in literary journals, and she was the founder and curator of the Temple Bar Literary Reading Series in New York City, which hosted many renowned authors including Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award recipients. Her numerous freelance features have appeared in a variety of publications. Locally, she has written for Inside Annapolis, What's Up? Annapolis, and was a columnist for The Capital newspaper. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Award in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council. She currently profiles celebrity chefs for the online magazine of the Center for the Advancement of Foodservice Education and has formed Writer's Wordhouse, which offers writing seminars by conference call.