Marcus Blackwell - Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Rochester, New York, Marcus currently resides in Columbus, Ohio. An artist all his life, it has only been within recent years when he made a life-changing decision to transition from 25 years in the financial service industry to finally pursue his art career in earnest. With a foundation in studies in Illustration at the Columbus College of Art and Design and Multimedia Production at Columbus State Community College, he is a mixed-media visual artist who focuses on Illustration and Fine Art. His interests, rooted in storytelling traditions, are mainly concerned with the creation of expressionistic abstracted and figurative images which explore and depict themes and ideas related to Afrofuturism, dreams, mythology/folklore, symbolism, and social commentary. He is a self-described comic book nerd, a skilled but disgruntled ex-musician, a fledgling would-be poet, and proud father of two adult sons.

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Mary Burkhardt - As an interior designer, Mary Burkhardt is surrounded by beautiful colors, shapes, patterns, and textures. These elements of design—along with a passion for travel, gardening, and fashion, naturally inform her art. Mary’s new work is a collection of whimsical themes including female figures in flowing dresses that move and swing, to a collection of captured bouquets featuring flowers and foliage straight from the garden. The use of classic patterns including stripes, dots, and flowers weave and repeat, creating a fluid connection in a cohesive body of work.  

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