Laurie Fader has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including two Pollock-Krasner Awards, an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Assistance Grant, an artist residency in Rochefort en Terre, France, a painting fellowship in Haiti, and the Helen W. Winternitz Award for excellence in painting from Yale University.   She lived in New York City for 26 years and taught at Pratt Institute and now resides in Baltimore. Laurie teaches at Stevenson University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Goucher College. She has shown widely, including one-person shows at 55 Mercer and The Painting Center in New York.

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Barbara Gruber is a native of Baltimore and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She studiedat the University of Pennsylvania and earned her MFA in studio art with a concentration in painting from Brooklyn College. She was the recipient of numerous graduate and undergraduate awards including the Charles Shaw Award for Excellence in Painting.   Barbara’s work has been exhibited extensively and received recognition in national shows and publications including the New York Times and New American Paintings. Her work is in private and public collections throughout the United States, Europe and the UK. Along with teaching at Stevenson, Barbara is an instructor at Johns Hopkins University.
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