STUDIO #1 – Marty Weishaar
With bright colors, cheap materials and rough edges, Marty Weishaar brings a conscious naivete to his explorations of nostalgia and the contemporary American landscape through painting and sculpture. He received his BFA from Alfred University, his MFA in Painting from American University, and spends his days teaching high school art, and as an adjunct professor.

STUDIO #2 –Jeremy Stern
Jeremy Stern is a conceptual artist who explores mapping and distortions in information through objects, audio, video and installations that often play with viewer perception and interaction. He has exhibited his work in solo and group shows across the U.S. including New York, Colorado, Nevada and Nebraska. An experienced curator who spent four years directing exhibitions at Omaha’s Bemis Center, Jeremy earned his MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno, and continues to teach drawing at the university level.

STUDIO #3 – Mackenzie Peck
MacKenzie Peck, a magna cum laude graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, is a self-proclaimed post-medium artist exploring ideas of phenomenology, perception and memory. The artist, provoked by an innate fear of death, creates objects in pursuit of englightenment and possession of the sublime. Complimentary to her studio practices, Peck is currently manager of the C. Grimaldis Gallery.

STUDIO #4 – Sam Allerton Green
As an oil painter, Sam Allerton Green welcomes the paint's inevitable distortion on reality. He searches for the moment at which an object is defined, but also when its meaning or purpose as an object is blurred. Sam endeavors to find the collision between observation and impression. Sam received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010, and often ventures into the third dimension to throw his yoyo.

STUDIO #4 – Kathleen Pumphrey
Large-scale painter Kathleen Pumphrey was born and raised in rural areas of Maryland. She finished her BFA in Painting at MICA in 2009. Since then she has been an artist-in-residence at Gallery Four and has been teaching painting and drawing to adults and children at various local non-profits. Pumphrey is also a competitive, long-distance, open water swimmer and swim coach. During her residency with the Creative Alliance, she is looking to embark on a new body of work exploring competitive roles and instincts.

STUDIO #5 – Michael Owen
From large-scale public art commissions to traditional paintings on canvas, Michael Owen’s recognizable minimal and graphic style bridges the gap between street art and the gallery. Michael is the founder and lead artist of the Baltimore Love Project, a planned series of 20 murals forming the word “Love” with silhouetted hands, and recently completed the city’s largest mural in the Eastern Avenue underpass between Highlandtown and Greektown.

STUDIO #6 – Alessandra Torres
A sculptor with a background in steel and porcelain mold making, Torres makes objects, garments and environments that she interacts with in photographs, video and performance to evoke dreamlike states of emotion. She has exhibited widely in DC, NY and elsewhere and recently helped design sets for the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. Torres received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and currently works and teaches sculpture at MICA.

STUDIO #7 – Francisco Loza
Since 2002, before The Patterson opened, Francisco “Paco” Loza has been an annual presence at the Creative Alliance, teaching and presenting the indigenous art forms of the Huichol people of Nayarit, Mexico. Paco’s own work reflects those traditions - vibrant colors, astounding beadwork, and “paintings” made of yarn pressed into beeswax - while often incorporating contemporary themes. In recent years, he has been joined by several Huichol shamen and artists. The initiative reaches new heights with Paco’s full time residency, and a series of NEA-funded programs with an expanded Huichol delegation in Spring 2011.

STUDIO #8- Joe Norman
A longtime instructor and Chair of Painting at the Lamar School of Art at the University of Georgia, where he launched a study abroad program in Cuba, Norman is a widely traveled and exhibited artist. His work is similarly far reaching and ambitious, emphasizing printmaking and drawing. His works are in the collections of MoMA (NY), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the National Gallery of Art (DC) and scores of others. He’s teaching himself the harmonica and is happy to be in Highlandtown.