Featured Artists

Antonio Angelo

Tim Bryner
Tim Bryner was born in Washington, DC.  He grew up in a suburb of the city and has been passionate about drawing since his youth. In the early seventies, he began pursuing his love of painting. For the past twenty-two years, he has lived in Ocean View, Delaware, where he creates his art and operates the furniture refinishing business his father began. Tim is modest in discussing the merits of his work whether it is his poetry or his painting. He is inspired by the work of Matisse, Picasso, and Mary Cassatt as well as the colors of nature.  His images come from the life and living that surrounds him. Found surfaces frequently serve as his canvas (cardboard, fiber board, etc.), and much of his work successfully marries mixed-media.  His shop doubles as his studio and a small exhibition space is attached.

Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson began drawing at age 3, displaying artistic acumen before he could even write or spell. “I have always been an artist,” Nelson explains. “It’s part of my DNA.” At age eleven, Nelson was apprenticed by his uncle, an artist and an art instructor. “My uncle gave me my foundation in art,” says the artist. Nelson experimented with several different mediums and later began painting in oils at age sixteen under the encouragement and tutelage of his uncle and his high school art teacher. He went on to win an art scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, NY. Upon graduating with honors, Nelson began his professional career as an artist, publishing his works and receiving commissions from publishers and production studios such as Dreamworks, Nike, Sports Illustrated, Coca-Cola, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Major League Baseball among others.  Recently, Nelson collaborated with several authors on a series of picture books. Presently, eight children’s books are in print including Debbie Allen’s Dancing in the Wings Deloris and Roslyn Jordan’s Salt in His Shoes, Please, Baby Please by Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee, and Will Smith’s Just the Two of Us, for which Nelson won an NAACP Image Award. Currently, Nelson is planning a tribute book about the Negro Baseball Leagues. When asked to describe his work Nelson says, “My work is all about healing and giving people a sense of hope and nobility. I want to show the strength and integrity of the human spirit.”

Milton Shirdan
Milton Shirdan II was born in Montgomery, Alabama and raised in Philadelphia. A graduate of Germantown High and Temple University, he studied art under Harper T. Phillips and Gregory Ridley. His work, “Brown V. Board of Education” is a kinetic piece in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of the United States Supreme Court decision on May 17, 1954 case of Olivia Brown Et Al V. the Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas.

Victoria Sutherland

Dane Tilghman Artist Dane Tilghman graduated from Kutztown University in 1979, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts. Mr. Tilgmhan’s art has moved from realism to a stylish combination of his own, using pencil, acrylics, and watercolors he combines surrealism and primitive elongation. He has established himself as one of the premier painters of African American Golf Art, and Negro League Baseball images. Mr. Tilghman’s work has been exhibited throughout the nation at art festivals and galleries and he has completed a baseball mural for Turner Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Tilghman’s work has also appeared in Sports Illustrated, and television shows such as “The Cosby Show” and “Roseanne”.  He has received numerous awards, including the Medal of Honor in Graphics from American Artists Professional League. Mr. Tilghman’s philosophy of bringing your best to life and not holding back is reflected in his past and current works as he presses on to new horizons, staying committed to serving the public with his mastery of his craft.

Sandi Turner