Amy Cavanaugh
For over a decade Amy Cavanaugh has been the Executive Director at Maryland Art Place (MAP), a 41 year old not for profit serving living, visual artists located in Baltimore City. Two years after taking the helm Cavanaugh steered MAP back to its original home, a 20,000 square foot building located just within Baltimore’s west side; the now the Bromo Arts and Entertainment District. Prior to her work at MAP, Amy was the Vice President and COO of ARCH Development Corporation in Washington, DC where she co-founded Honfleur Gallery, a contemporary art space in Historic Anacostia. Amy is an accomplished cellist, alumni of the Catholic University of America and the Chair of the Board for the Bromo Arts District in Baltimore city.
Laurel Lukaszewski
Laurel Lukaszewski is a Prince George’s County, Maryland-based artist who creates installations and sculptures primarily from clay. Her work is influenced by an appreciation of rhythms and patterns found in nature, and her study of Japanese art and culture over the past three decades while promoting US-Japan grassroots exchange. Laurel has shown her ceramic sculpture throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to solo exhibitions in the Mid-Atlantic region, Huntsville, AL, St. Louis, MO, Tulsa, OK and Bainbridge Island, WA, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and international art fairs in the District of Columbia, Miami, Palm Beach, New York, Chicago and London. In 2015, her work was exhibited at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as part of the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies Program. In 2021, she was the recipient of an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. Laurel serves on the IA&A Hillyer Advisory Committee, and is an emeritus director of the National Cherry Blossom Festival Board. Please visit www.laurellukaszewski.com or @laurellukaszewski on Instagram for more information on her work.
Andrew Wodzianski
Andrew Wodzianski is a Washington D.C.-based interdisciplinary artist and Professor of Studio Arts at the College of Southern Maryland. His exploration into falsehood, adolescent nostalgia, and appropriation reflects a fantastical youth with generous sprinkles of reverence and satire. A seven-time recipient of the D.C Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Wodzianski’s work is included in the Wilson Building Art Collection, D.C. Art Bank, Chrysler Museum, and private collections. He has exhibited nationwide, and curated for the d’ ART Center, Anacostia Arts Center, and Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. Wodzianski has previously served as juror for Annmarie Sculpture Garden’s Artsfest, Stockley Gardens Arts Festival, and Gosport Arts Festival. Please visit wodzianski.com or @wodzianski on Instagram.