Let’s celebrate with light refreshments and a LIVE performance by Virginia Warwick Trio! Details to come. The Plains and Aquatic Womb are on view through Sept 7.
About the Artists
Magan Ruthke is a versatile artist whose work encompasses folk art, patterns, history, the environment, and landscapes. Primarily a painter, her diverse interests include natural materials, wearable art, and digital design. Magan grew up in Harford County, Maryland, and has been a long-time resident of Baltimore City, where she worked for 15 years at the Children’s Museum as an educator, artist, manager, and director. Now a Master Naturalist and full-time artist, her travels and love of the outdoors often inspire her work. She volunteers as the site manager for the Remington Village Green Community Garden.
Magan holds an M.S. and B.S. from Towson University in Human Resource Development and Theatre Arts. She has been recognized as an emerging artist by the American Craft Council Marketplace in 2024, one of two artists-in-residence at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in 2024, and a Visual Arts Fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2022. Her work has been showcased at numerous venues, including the Chesapeake Arts Center, Maryland Art Place, the Circle Gallery, Palos Verdes Art Center, the Studios of Key West, the John James Audubon Center, the Annapolis Maritime Museum, Atomic Books, the Lemonade Stand Gallery, the Saville Gallery, in private collections across the U.S., and on the cover of the Baltimore Review.
A prankster at heart, Virginia Warwick first started performing, creating characters and storylines while growing up in Frederick, Maryland. In high school one could spot her on the streets handing out free cheese dressed as the infamous “Professor Cheese”. Growing up she grew to love wildlife and nature, evident from her history of pets, which included everything from quails to guinea pigs. While attending University of Maryland, College Park, she began to gravitate towards sculpture. Soon after graduating she was accepted into Rinehart School of Sculpture at MICA, where she refined her practice.
Warwick’s work has been shown at such places as the Arlington Arts Center, ConnerSmith, Edison Place Gallery, Hood College, Goucher College. City Arts Gallery, Metro Gallery, Creative Alliance, E.M.P Collective, Current Gallery, 14kt Cabaret, Ruby Projects and Visarts at Rockville. She has been included in the Transmodern Festival in Baltimore multiple years and has participated in two performance arts festivals in New York. One at the Brooklyn International Performance Arts Festival in New York City and the other at the Infridgement Festival in Buffalo, New York. She recently attended the La Baldi artist residency in Montegiovi, Italy. Virginia currently teaches and creates artwork in Baltimore, Maryland.
