11th Annual Arts in the Park
Eco Art Exhibition
A Pop-Up Exhibition Featured During CAC’s Arts in the Park Festival!
Hammonds Lane Theatre Gallery I Saturday, October 4, 2025 10am-3pm
Chesapeake Arts Center’s Eco Art Exhibition, was a pop-up exhibition dedicated to exploring the intersection of art, recycled/upcycled materials, and environmental awareness. This exhibition aims to highlight creative responses to artworks that utilize recycled, upcycled, or sustainable materials or that conceptually engage with eco-conscious ideas. The pop-up exhibition took place as part of our annual Arts in the Park Festival, CAC’s outdoor community festival filled with art, music, performances, hands-on activities, and more! This fantastic opportunity showcased eco-inspired artwork to a diverse and engaged audience on Saturday, October 4, 2025.
Exhibition extended! The pop up exhibition will be on display in CAC’s 2nd floor education wing hallway from October 8 - November 9, 2025.
Please note CAC does not take a commission at this time. Artwork sale(s) must be coordinated through the artist. For contact information, please see below.
Questions? Email gena@chesapeakearts.org
Exhibiting Artists:
Atalante Shay - My Greek and German heritage inspires my artistic work. This rich cultural background, filled with vibrant traditions and stories, has profoundly shaped my creative vision. My creative process begins with a deep dive into my art books, where I sketch and brainstorm, allowing my ideas to flow freely. Whether working on tracing paper, in a sketchbook, on a napkin, or directly onto canvas, each provides an opportunity to bring my artistic concepts to life.
Camila Velasco - My name is Camila Velasco; I am a beginner artist. I have discovered my artistic skills through my canvases and the inspiration to share with others the beauty of the line through my paintings. In my opinion, if someone makes a mistake, never give up and work for your dreams.
MAHOGHANY ARTISTNATION - MAHOGHANY ARTISTNATION, Fearless Storyteller, DMV native, an edgy/vulnerable/witty/truth-telling being who affectionately refers to herself as an Emotional Vessel for the Universe. "I love creating what I want, when I want. It's the only beautiful thing I have control over." Humbled by her gifts spanning from Actress to Playwright, Host, Performer, Creative Director, Motivational Speaker, Songwriter...which have all been hats worn proudly while entertaining, inspiring and enlightening individuals and organizations alike, shining light on the need for creativity in the ARTS to be nourished because it not only celebrates and champions exploring all of life's possibilities... but it gives a voice to the oftentimes voiceless and the underrepresented.
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Tynika Stern - Art has become my vehicle to route my perception of the world. Everyday life interactions allow me to connect my creative energy with visual notions. As the founder and owner of Thank You, Art; I enjoy discovering different mediums. I have fallen deeply in love with texture art, figure art, and abstract expressionism. Texture art permits me to connect with each sense human beings use. Figure art allows to see human beings at their most vulnerable and neutral state. Abstract Expression gives me the freedom to transfer feelings into vivid colors. My art is the translation of optical attraction and emotion. Each one of my creations have an emotional intelligence. Feel, think, wonder, and touch are the emotional end result of each of piece. My creative intent is developing artistic concepts that promote peaceful ambience. Thank you for taking a moment to view my artwork.
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Mark Cameron - I am an artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. My work span multiple media – paint, objects, paper, printing, and sculpture. It is abstract, minimal, and corporeal. Currently, my artistic practice utilizes wood and other found materials to explore form, color, space, and geometry.
Beth Higgins - Beth Higgins is a mixed-media artist who is deeply inspired by the intricate beauty of nature’s cycles and the interplay between organic forms and consumer remnants. Her works are a fusion of diverse elements, upcycled wires, embossed aluminum cans, and other collected items - repurposed to create textured, layered canvases. She is driven to discover new ways of finding beauty in the waste we create every day, while inspiring viewers to be mindful of their consumption. She earned a BA with a dual major in Studio Art and Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. She lives and works in Woodbine, Maryland, which provides endless inspiration from nature.
Charlotte Hager - Charlotte is a multimedia artist, with a background in painting and now works primarily in textile and fiber arts. Self taught in sewing during COVID, Charlotte focuses on using recycled or secondhand materials for her art pieces, tapestries, quilts, etc due to her deep passion and purpose in environmental conservation and waste reduction. Charlotte upholds that making art out of recycled materials further encourages creativity, innovation, and challenges her to explore unconventional techniques with whatever she can find. Charlotte uses secondhand materials given her belief that everything can have another life (or two!) in it. Charlotte is inspired by the bright and bold moments in our everyday lives; using her art to show the world as a magical place where even when exploring heavy themes we can still have visually beautiful compositions. Charlotte is also a co-founder of the Bmore Fabric Swap: Baltimore’s largest free, publicly-accessible event to encourage creatives to destash, restash, and connect through semi-annual material and resource swaps.
Eric Gordon - I create paintings, zines, and illustrations. The paintings submitted use a form of collage and live action interpretation that involves reclaimed paint peels. Found objects are incorporated into the works when appropriate as they are subsumed into the sculptural effects of the stacked media.
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Abby Kiesa - After a 20 year career in the democracy-building space, Abby’s (she/her) work focuses on creating moments of pause, reflection, and wonder, and explores human interactions with water and the natural world. These two pieces are commentaries on humans’ relationship to water, including the impact of mining for metals. For Abby, learning about the world is a key input to her work. Abby seeks to bring new eyes and inquiries to central challenges in our communities to catalyze more conversation. Abby is a self-taught, emerging watercolor artist and longtime resident of Prince George’s County, MD. She likes to say that her work is Made in Maryland, Inspired by the World.
Carl Caracia - Carl is a local tattooer who makes art of various styles. This piece is inspired by Japanese style artwork for tattooing. Come see his work online or in person at Magic Mirror Tattoo.
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Mozaiq Adansonia - Mozaiq Adansonia (they/them) is an anti-disciplinary, Black, independent artist born and raised in Bronx, NY. They relocated to the DMV in 2021 to do some healing and connect with more Black Trans people. Maryland ended up being a grand introduction to more nature than they ever had access to, and they quickly became a studying forager, herbalist and gardener. Their visual art is a micro-manifestation of their fantasies, fears, and ponderings; usually spiritual, mythical unions between beloved plants, fungi, animals, people and celestial bodies. Now, they continue trying to build community through mutual aid and organizing, and they are on a travel farming journey with their partner to keep learning and getting free.
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