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Sandra Grippi is a freelance illustrator and artist who currently resides in Maryland. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelors in Illustration. She works in various mediums and loves to experiment with new styles and techniques. Sandra has a passion and specializes in horror art and illustration. She loves illustrating ghosts, ghouls, and horror flicks and is known as a horror movie expert among friends. Sandra also loves to spend her free time going on "drawing adventures" where she picks a new place and draws the environment around her. She loves helping people find their creative side and express themselves. She believes that art is about having fun and finding something new about yourself in the process.

Kara Smith has been making art for as long as she can remember. She began painting while attending high school at Carver Center for Arts and Technology, and was even granted a scholarship to paint in Tuscany after her sophomore year. She also dabbles in several other art forms including drawing, crocheting, and digital arts, including some professional graphic design for a local business. In her spare time she listens to podcasts, reads books, collects & cares for her houseplants, and travels when and where she can.

Juliet Gilden is an artist who primarily paints acrylics on paper and canvas. Her studio is located in Baltimore, and she was trained at the famed, Maryland Institute College of Art. Juliet's free-form style reinterprets reality on her own loose terms, showing the world she sees as sunny, funny and optimistic. She is Influenced by an eclectic mix of styles and artists -- everything from surrealism to realism, Bottecelli to Botero. Mostly, however, she is inspired by the works of her own mother, Miriam Bransky Gilden, a respected professional artist of more than 60 years before she passed away in October 2013. Juliet's subjects include women at their most vulnerable and powerful, animals -- both domestic and wild, astrology, and social justice.

Stanley D Pearson Jr, a Baltimore native whose proclivity for art began as far back as juice boxes and recess. As a self-taught artist, Stanley has a style all his own. Merging rich and vibrant colors with passion and grunge, you will not find a boring piece with his name on it. This innovating, enthusiastic artist is sure to make your night memorable.