Visual Art – Baltimore
Brigitte Winter makes jewelry out of garbage. She is also a writer, a purveyor of magnetic car poetry, and the Executive Director of Young Playwrights’ Theater (yptdc.org), a Washington, DC nonprofit that inspires young people to realize the power of their voices through creative writing. She loves to create at imaginative intersections where old meets new, organic meets industrial, and fine art meets upcycled trash. Every jewelry piece she makes is one-of-a-kind. Follow Brigitte @bwinterose on Instragram, and check out her jewelry at etsy.com/shop/gearsandroses.
Dustin Blottenberger picked up a paintbrush at five years old and since then he’s been putting paint on the strangest things, even when people tell him not to. When he came of an age to appreciate sharp objects, he merged these two loves to start carving linoleum blocks and making prints. His father told him he should come up with some sort of plan to fall back on—something sensible and lucrative—so Dustin also decided to start writing a novel. You can find Dustin on Twitter and Tumblr @NeverSayDustin, and on Etsy at etsy.com/shop/BlottoArt.
Brigitte and Dustin are the co-founders of No Discipline Arts Collective (@NoDisciplineArtsCollective on Facebook), an artist-led initiative committed to producing cross-disciplinary work that breaks down traditional boundaries between isolated artists and disciplines. Since August 2014, No Discipline has presented six pop-up art events featuring 50 artists and writers and benefiting causes including the ALS Foundation, the Kristin Rita Strouse Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Columbia Writers, and Young Playwrights’ Theater.