Austin Martin White
Rachel Eulena Williams
Kristine Woods
Josephine Halvorson
Seth Cameron
Nathlie Provosty
Oletha Devane
After receiving her MA, Oletha DeVane taught for over a decade and worked as an administrator for the Maryland Council on the Arts for 13 years, before taking a position in 1993 at the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, where she was Director of the Tuttle Gallery and head of visual arts in the Upper Level. In 2007 she was the recipient of the Rollins/Luetkemeyer Chair for Distinguish Teaching. DeVane started a mosaic in Camp Coq, Haiti with the help of local artisans and students in 2017.
DeVane has received grants, awards, and fellowships from the Ruby Foundation, Art Matters, the Trawick Prize, and other honors. In addition to her 2016 residency in Abu Dhabi, DeVane has also been an Artist in Residence in Banff, Canada, and in Leece, Italy. DeVane counts among the artistic cohort she has formed over the years: art historian/artist Leslie King Hammond, former graduate dean at MICA, bead and glass artist Joyce J. Scott, poet Charles Fox, as well as a women’s artistic collaborative known as the Girls of Baltimore, which includes King Hammond, Scott, Patti Tronolone, Ellen Burchenal, and Linda DePalma.