2010 Selected Finalists  
Barbara Bernstein, Amherst, VA
Barbara Bernstein has exhibited work in numerous group and solo shows throughout the country including The Brew House, Carnegie Museum of Art and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA; Mack B Gallery and Metamorphosis Gallery, Sarasota, FL; Cummings Art Gallery, New London, CT and Riverviews Artspace in Lynchburg, VA. Bernstein has been the recipient of arts grants from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Governor’s Fellowship; the Mellon Foundation/Pittsburgh Foundation and Vermont Studio Center. Currently, Bernstein is an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA.
  

Milana Braslavsky, Reisterstown, MD
Milana Braslavsky, originally from the former Soviet Union, moved to the United States in 1993. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD and holds her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. Braslavsky’s work has been featured at Gallery Four, School 33 Art Center, Annex Gallery, Maryland Arts Place and Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, MD; as well as A.I.R. Gallery in New York City, Arlington Arts Center in Virginia and Purdue University in Indiana.  She currently teaches art and design courses at several colleges throughout Maryland. 		 

Ellen Burchenal, Baltimore, MD
Ellen Burchenal is an artist and instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, MD, teaching the Senior Thesis Program and Summer Drawing and Painting Program in Sorrento, Italy. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Artist Residency, an American Institute of Architecture Honors Award and six Maryland Sate Arts Council Fellowships. Burchenal holds a Master of Fine Arts from MICA’s Mount Royal School of Art. Most recently, she has exhibited her work at Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD; Maryland Arts Place and Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens, Baltimore, MD; and The Mitchell Gallery, St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD. 		 

Anne Chan, Silver Spring, MD
Anne Chan earned her Bachelor of Art from Washington College in Chestertown, MD and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. She is a recent recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center Partial Fellowship and a So-Hamiltonian Fellowship at the Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, D.C. Chan’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA; School 33 Art Center and RTKL Associates Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Dorothy’s Gallery, Paris, France; Energy Gallery, Toronto, Canada and the Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA. 		 

Kathryn Cornelius, Washington D.C.
Kathryn Cornelius holds a Bachelor of Arts from Ithaca College in New York and earned her Master of Arts in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Cornelius has performed and had work featured in exhibits nationally and internationally including Area 405 Gallery, Baltimore MD; Wool Exploratorium Gallery, Transformer Gallery, Jane Haslem Gallery and Curator’s Office in Washington, D.C.; Video Art World, Seville, Spain and Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany. She was selected as a semi-finalist for the Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize in 2007, awarded a Young Artist Program Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities in 2008, and received a fellowship from Mildred’s Lane Artist Residency in Beach Lake, PA in 2009.

Adam Davies, Washington, D.C.
Adam Davies is an adjunct professor at Catholic University and a photographer and teacher at the National Gallery of Art, both in Washington, D.C. His work has been highlighted in solo exhibitions at Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Main Line Art Center, Philadelphia, PA and Fe Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, as well as in group exhibitions at Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA and 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA. Davies earned a Bachelor of Arts and Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Massachusetts. He earned his Masters of Education from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Most recently, Davies attended residencies at Yaddo in New York, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX.		  

Bernhard Hildebrandt, Baltimore, MD
Bernhard Hildebrandt earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI and his Master of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting in Baltimore, MD.  Hildebrandt was selected as a Trawick Prize finalist in 2004, 2005 and 2008 and exhibited his work at Creative Partners Gallery and Heineman Myers Contemporary Art in Bethesda, MD. He has had solo exhibitions at C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, MD; Gallery Olym in Tokyo, Japan and Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI. Hildebrandt was selected for the Maryland Arts Place 23rd Annual Critics Residency from 2008-2009; as well as a traveling exhibition organized by The Drawing Center and Independent Curators International in 2009.  		 

Magnolia Laurie, Baltimore, MD
Magnolia Laurie holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been featured in solo exhibits at Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, D.C., and Causey Contemporary and DRWR Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Laurie has been the recipient of an Individual Artist Grants from the Creative Baltimore Fund, a Hamiltonian Fellowship and third place honors at the 2009 Bethesda Painting Awards. For the past three years, she has been an artist-in-residence at Creative Alliance at the Patterson in Baltimore MD, and served as adjunct art faculty at numerous Maryland colleges. 		 

Sara Pomerance, Washington, D.C.
Sara Pomerance’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Unit D Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. and Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO.  Additionally, her work has been in numerous group exhibitions throughout the country including Flashpoint Gallery, Warehouse Gallery and Capitol Hill Arts Workshop in Washington, D.C., John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; The Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, NM and G2 Gallery, Chicago, IL. Pomerance’s work was selected as a Favorite Shorts Film pick by the Independent Film Channel in 2008, and DC Art News gave her Top Recognition in 2007.

Ding Ren, Washington, D.C.
Ding Ren, originally from China, is an artist, writer and professional lecturer of photography at American University and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a Master of Fine Arts from George Washington University. Ren’s work has been featured in many regional exhibitions at Area 405 and Current Gallery in Baltimore, MD; Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel MD; and The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Transformer Gallery, Conner Contemporary Art and Civilian Art Projects in Washington, D.C. Ren has written for Art Voices Magazine, Urbanite Magazine and Locus Art Magazine, as well as had her work reviewed in The Washington Post and Baltimore City Paper. 		 

Dan Steinhilber, Washington, D.C.
Dan Steinhilber earned his Master of Fine Arts from American University in Washington, D.C. He has presented solo exhibitions at a number of museums including The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD and The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Steinhilber’s work has also been featured in group shows regionally, nationally and at international venues in Canada and Italy. He has been the recipient of a Joann Mitchell Foundation: Painters & Sculptors Grant, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and was named second place at the 2008 Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards. 		 

 

 

 

 

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