Karin Walland is a visual artist originally from Denmark but now based in the North East of England. She holds a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Glass

Always searching for the right medium and technique, she frequently transfers techniques from one medium to another or invents one if none is available. While she now mainly uses recycled glass to express themes of memory, loss, brokenness, death and new life, both relating to the human condition and nature, her extensive knowledge results in other materials being incorporated in the work. Her highly individual pieces employ techniques of layering and collaging glass as well as fusing and casting to form a new whole.
The nature of glass in its fragility, strength and brokenness, its ability to be fused and cast into a new whole through kiln firing, is symbolically and conceptually important for the work. The recycled element also links to the concept of giving new life to the material as well as being environmentally friendly.

Reared on a tiny Danish island, the sea features large in her work both for its malevolent and benign aspects and as a symbol of life and death.
Her work finds application both indoors and outdoors, ranging as it does from small jewellery items to large sculptural installations and commissions.
She exhibits widely throughout the UK and is branching out into Europe and further afield. In 2010 she is planning to take part in an artists exchange with the Gracia gallery in Barcelona, Spain.

I’m a Lebanese Asylum Seeker in UK. My professional background is Architecture but I jilted it to focus on Art.

I use art to express issues that concerns most such Diaspora, Forced Migration, the definition of “Home” and love.
To express these emotions I use digital photography, digital image manipulation, Arabic Calligraphy and films.
I made my first documentary in the summer of 2008 to mark my 7 years in the UK (www.cvp.org,uk)

I work closely with my wife who is also a keen photographer. The Fatherhood shot is a collaboration work between us.

We are looking for more venues to express ourselves and very excited for being in Washington exhibiting the art work.

This is was only possible due to the hard work and the support of the Sunderland Council team

Any art work bought now will 50% discount

Lauren Kotkin is an early childhood educator living in Washington, DC. She has a masters degree in using the arts in education and formerly was the education director at a creative childrens museum. For many years, Lauren had a business sewing fabric baby gifts. She recently put the sewing machine away and turned to collage because after working with young children, paper and glue seem to have stuck.

Artwork in The Leaves Project was created from photos taken in Prague of the intricate mosaic sidewalks. A native of the city ignores them the way a District native nonchalantly passes the White House. But a tourist sees the beauty and creates art...from art.

Mandala: (Sanskrit: “circle”) in Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, a symbolic diagram used in the performance of sacred rites and as an instrument of meditation. The mandala is basically a representation of the universe, a consecrated area that serves as a receptacle for the gods and as a collection point of universal forces. Man (the microcosm), by mentally “entering” the mandala and “proceeding” toward its center, is by analogy guided through the cosmic processes of disintegration and reintegration.

Renaissance Man: A man who excels at a variety of things.

Puleeze.
Ramon Bonzon, who is relatively new to painting with acrylic and oil mediums, has made time during his public health career to create a handful of works in the past several years. His first love is creating music (singer/songwriter), but Ramon has always been fascinated and inspired by artist like Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and Rothko (Who isn’t, right?). Ramon’s simple goal is to create pieces that are visually pleasing. He believes that art can transform a space and contains the power to generate emotion unlike anything else, transforming life itself. His work can be described as having simple broad strokes, layers of color and organic subject matter. Expressionist, realist, colorist or modernist? You decide. Ramon Bonzon would argue that although he may be capable in a number of areas, he wouldn’t necessarily say he “excels” in them. Come visit his very first exhibit on the 3rd floor of Artomatic’s 10th Anniversary during the summer of 2009 and you can decide if he’s a Renaissance Man or at least if he can paint.

You can also listen to one of Ramon’s recorded songs in Artomatic’s Artist Catalog online.

Things Change Everyday....
And so I have learned to ride that wave...
My works are usually derived from a visionary process until they are created and finished.
For me, that is part of fulfillment in the piece itself..until it's finally out for show...and then, it's usually time to move on to the next vision...the next show...

I am fascinated by the connections we find in our everyday experiences: from the isolation of communities on the subway, to the solitary experience of introspection, to the feelings of deep communion. How do we think of our place in this world? How do we fit in it?

My work is about levels of connectedness. I paint, draw, and knit to represent these moments. We are all connected somehow.

This series started because of my fascination with knitting, love for painting, and intrigue in the community I've found online with knitters from around the world. I think about how it links me to my mother, her mother, and all the generations of women who came before them.

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Awarded the 'Craft Award of Distinction' for Fiber by the James Renwick Alliance

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Pairs within the installation are priced separately. Available works may be purchased by contacting me directly at darnknit [at] gmail.com, or by visiting my shop: http://tr.im/4

"I pulled on trouble's braids. I pulled on trouble's braid."
Music, Bio, and Press Clips at: http://www.reverbnation.com/sarahfridrich

Listening to this sultry songstress will surely leave you wanting more. With the combined styles of Chante Moore and Sade, Canda delivers classic romance through writing and performing Soul, Jazz, & R&B.

Special Guest Artist - K.Nix, lyricist

Canda's EPK: www.sonicbids.com/canda

Vegan Pig Farm - a truly magical pig farm.

My exhibition of paintings at Artomatic this year are expressions and interpretations of my religious observations which are best described as atheistic agnosticism. This means that although I have no personal belief in the existence of any deity, I do not claim to have definitive knowledge that one does not exist.

I grew up being told I was ‘½ Jewish and ½ Catholic’ but was not taught anything about either religion. My parents never brought me to church or synagogue. When I was 16, I heard my father say he believed in god and I was befuddled because the subject of belief was not discussed at any time before that. In my confusion, I would sometimes look up apologetically at the sky and say “if there is a god up there, you must understand why I don’t believe in you, right? Nobody ever told me you existed!”

Throughout my 20’s and 30’s, I continued my personal quest to learn more about religion and come to terms with my own belief – or lack thereof. Now, I am finally fully comfortable with painting (and talking about) where I stand on religion. My paintings are not meant to offend. Instead, I hope they foster open-minded discussions. And perhaps induce a giggle or two along the way.

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Jessamy Kelly is a contemporary glass artist and designer, the material quality of glass and its reaction to light intrigues Jessamy and is the focus of her practice. She aims to harness light by manipulating the glass to reveal the inherent luminosity of the material. Based on the hand crafted sensitivity of glass making; her work is inspired by organic and naturally repeating forms. Working with simple forms to create a soft sensitive aesthetic, her sculptural and sensual blown and kiln cast glass draws inspiration from diverse natural forms, the local landscape and the human body. Jessamy’s work shows balance, precision and great delicacy. Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK as well as internationally in France, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and in the United States.

In June 2001, Jessamy Kelly completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Glass and Ceramics at the University of Sunderland and went on to complete her Masters in Glass Design at Edinburgh College of Art, in 2002. In 2004 she started her practice based PhD at the University of Sunderland which examines the combination of glass and ceramics in her artistic practice.

Neato Fleets is a three person band that plays LOUD lo-fi pop -- fuzzy, minimal and catchy, jangly and distorted pop. Though Neato Fleets is technically the solo project of Frances Chang, she and the band she plays with-- Paul Misak (http://myspace.com/learnthealphabet) and Mike Naideau (http://virb.com/mikenaideau) -- are touring as a musical collective, playing all of their songs together and creating a new project.

IRITIS blends western music with eastern influences.
Their sound bridges many different genres from hard rock to bollywood to piano ballads to psychedelic rock while their lyrics explore philosophical themes and the human condition.

"When a band describes itself as "Psychedelic Eastern Rock", it begs for a second glance. The fusion of various sounds is evident from this Rockville, MD outfit and results in a very cool vibe."
-Robert Fulton, On Tap Magazine

"Iritis is unlike any DC-area band that I have ever heard. They deliver melodies and rhythms that are at once familiar but also unusual, and mix them together into an eclectic musical menu that will both entertain and intrigue you at the same time. It is rare to find a band that can engage your head AND your feet. A definite must-see - and hear!" - Ken Salaets, Founder of Black-bird Star Music

This native mid-westerner got her musical start in the coffeehouses and clubs of Minneapolis, MN. She has since transplanted herself into the DC music scene and is stepping into the solo spotlight sharing her mellow melodic collection of songs about love, loss, faith, longing, hope, the unknown and the threads woven between.

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Eclectic mix of folk, pop, punk, and whatever else might pop up while we're writing it.