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IMG_4667Larry Cook (Landover Hills, MD)

Larry Cook, a 2012 Master of Fine Arts graduate from The George Washington University (GWU), is a photographer and video artist who has been featured in exhibitions in several galleries in the Washington, D.C. and Maryland areas. His work has also been featured at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, the University of Maryland, the Brentwood Arts Exchange, Hillyer Art Space, the Smithsonian and Gallery 102 at GWU. He is an adjunct professor of photography at GWU and a proud teacher for Project Create, a non-profit organization that provides art education for children experiencing poverty and homelessness.

IMG_4672Larry Cook

IMG_4681Nate Larson (Baltimore, MD)

Nate Larson is a member of the full-time faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and serves on the board of the Society of Photographic Education. His work with photographic media, artist books and narrative video has been widely exhibited across the U.S. and internationally. Numerous publications have reviewed and published his projects, including WIRED, NPR’s The Picture Show, The New York Times, Frieze, Utne Reader, The Washington Post and ART PAPERS. His work is included in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Larson earned a Master in Fine Arts from the Ohio State University in 2002, and a Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University in 2000. Larson recently completed an artists’ residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2013.

IMG_4703Nate Larson

IMG_4723Dan Steinhilber (Washington, D.C.)

Dan Steinhilber, a 2002 Master of Fine Arts graduate of American University, lives and works in Washington DC. His sculptural installation based artwork has been featured in dozens of exhibitions throughout the United States. These include solo exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; The Baltimore Museum of Art, in Baltimore, MD; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX; the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. He is also part of group exhibitions at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD; D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, to name just a few. His artwork has also been highlighted in numerous publications such as The Washington Post, Baltimore City Paper, Sculpture magazine, ARTnews, and The New York Times Style Magazine. Steinhilber has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.

IMG_4724Dan Steinhilber

Screen Shot 2013-06-30 at 10.30.40 AMGabriela Bulisova (Alexandria, VA)

Gabriela Bulisova is a documentary photographer and multimedia artist based in the Washington, D.C. area. Her work focuses on underreported and overlooked stories affecting marginalized populations around the world and in the United States. She has received numerous awards for her work including the National Press Photographers Association’s Short Grant, Open Society Institute’s Moving Walls 18, the Corcoran College of Art + Design Faculty Award, and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the Washington, D.C. area where she is a member of the Metro Collective Photo Agency. She is a 2005 graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program in photography and digital imaging at the Maryland Institute College of Art and teaches photojournalism at the Corcoran College of Art + Design.

Screen Shot 2013-06-30 at 10.30.11 AMGabriela Bulisova

IMG_4690Louie Palu (Washington, DC)

Louie Palu is an award-winning documentary photographer whose work has appeared in publications and exhibitions internationally. He has been awarded numerous honors including an Alexia Grant, Aftermath Project Grant, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting grant and is a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow with the New America Foundation. Louie’s work has been featured in The New York Times, TIME, The Atlantic and the BBC. His work is in the permanent collections of many museums and archives including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, George Eastman House, Portland Art Museum, National Gallery of Canada and has been exhibited world-wide. Palu is best known for his long-term studies of social and political issues, which includes a five-year project on Kandahar, Afghanistan, a project on the prison in Guantanamo Bay and a recent body of work covering the drug war in Mexico.

IMG_4705Louie Palu

IMG_4709Caitlin Cunningham (Baltimore, MD)

Caitlin Cunningham’s sculptural installations were recently the focus of a solo exhibition entitled Tan Penis Island at sophiajacob, a gallery in Baltimore, MD. Her work has also been featured in exhibitions locally as well as nationally, including Nudashank, Baltimore, MD; 48 Bowery, New York, NY; Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA; Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY; Civilian Art Projects, Washington, D.C., among others. Cunningham’s art is included in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, MD and the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, OR. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2005, where she majored in sculpture and painting.

IMG_4710Caitlin Cunningham

Sondheim Artscape Prize: 2013 Finalists is free at The Walters Art Museum from June 29–August 11, 2013

Museum hours are 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday and Thursday evenings from 5–9 p.m. General admission to the Walters’ permanent collection is free. For more information, go to www.thewalters.org.

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