An Eye for Art: Westminster artist’s dive into art has been cathartic
Judy Viers is an artist and writer living in Westminster who says when she dove into art, she found catharsis. “My older brother and sister are phenomenal artists so at...
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Meet Westminster author Jean Burgess | An Eye for Art
In the novel, Burgess focuses on the Baltimore music scene in the 1970s. Some scenes include “The Famous Ballroom” and “Café Park Plaza,” two jazz venues in Baltimore that no...
An Eye for Art: ‘God is the potter and we are the clay,’ says Manchester artisan
Laurel Nalepa, a potter who lives in Manchester, started doing ceramics in 2003 when she was a senior at North Carroll High School.
An Eye for Art: Taneytown artist and entrepreneur Breezy Zawoysky
Breezy Zawoysky, 19, is a local artist and entrepreneur living in Taneytown.
![Andrew Thorp is an adjunct professor at McDaniel College. Thorp first got interested in art when he was a child. Both his parents were artists. They were both painters. At first, Thorp drew cartoon characters he saw on television. Thorp took as many art classes as he could in school and his mother helped him out with his art skills. Thorp started to paint seriously in the junior year of high school. He attended Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He used acrylic paints to paint portraits from photographs of his friends. The paintings were the portfolio he […]](https://www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CCT-L-McNulty-Thorp-2-Natty-Ice.jpg?w=106 "Andrew Thorp is an adjunct professor at McDaniel College. Thorp first got interested in art when he was a child. Both his parents were artists. They were both painters. At first, Thorp drew cartoon characters he saw on television. Thorp took as many art classes as he could in school and his mother helped him out with his art skills. Thorp started to paint seriously in the junior year of high school. He attended Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He used acrylic paints to paint portraits from photographs of his friends. The paintings were the portfolio he […]")
An Eye for Art: For Andrew Thorp, ‘art is something very innate to my life’
Andrew Thorp is an adjunct professor at McDaniel College. Thorp first got interested in art when he was a child. Both his parents were artists. They were both painters. At...
An Eye for Art: Illustrator and painter, Fabula is fabulous
Terri Fabula is a local self-taught artist living in New Windsor. Fabula always dabbled in art. Her grandfather, a sign painter and gilder, was her inspiration. Fabula’s grandfather painted murals...
An Eye for Art: Manchester artist sees life as a circus
Annie Lesch, a painter who lives in Manchester, grew up in California.
An Eye for Art: Self-taught Taneytown painter stresses realism in his work
Michael Sutphin is a painter living in Taneytown who got interested in art in the late 1980s while watching shows with his parents featuring Bob Ross and other artists. “I...
An Eye for Art: Westminster blacksmith is an artist with an eye for American history
Reb Staup is a local blacksmith, woodworker and T-shirt designer living in Westminster.
An Eye for Art: Through film, photography and more, Adam Bowen is on a winding journey
Meet Adam Bowen, a photographer living in Finksburg.