Outreach

Annapolis, Continuing Education and Fine Arts
Fine Arts Instructors - Spring 2010

Mary J. Arthur has a BA from Marywood University, a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, and a MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art. She is a resident artist at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis and a 2004 and 2006 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. Also, 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 a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has also studied at the Cape Cod School of Art with Henry Hensche. Jaecks was the 2008, recipient of the Rochefort-en-Terre Artist Residency in Brittany, France. Her paintings have exhibited at the Rocherfort-en-Terre Museum Brittany, France, Corcoran Museum of Art, the National Arts Club, NYC Boathouse Central Park, the National Adirondack Exhibit of American Watercolors, the McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC 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 twenty years. His pottery has sold nationally through catalog sales and locally at his studio. His 40 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.

Laura Oliver is an adjunct creative writing instructor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus. Her personal essays and fiction have been published numerous times in national magazines, newspapers and journals such as “Country Living,” “The Washington Post” and “Glimmer Train.”

She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction. She was a Finalist for “Glimmer Train’s” Very Short Fiction Award/2007, and a Finalist in “Glimmer Train’s” Family Matters competition/ 2008. Oliver received her MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College and has completed summer writing seminars at the University of Iowa in creative non-fiction.

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 Theatre. 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. 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.

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