Introducing Digital Explorations
Computer software and technology have forever expanded the ways artists capture and produce their work. Artists can weave together scenes in photoshop, produce paintings through a screen, create videos, animations, and projections that transport us to new worlds, and sculpt with a 3D printer.
Maryland Federation of Art (MFA) invites all artists from around the world, with exception of sanctioned countries to enter our 7th annual exhibition dedicated to digitally-produced art. Any original 2D or 3D image based work created and/or produced through digital software and following exhibition guidelines will be considered. This includes, but is not limited to digitally produced photography, digital painting, illustration, graphic design, digital video and projection. MFA exhibitions are blind juried by professional and credentialed art experts. Works selected will be exhibited in MFA’s Virtual Gallery from February 15 – April 14, 2027.
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Juror: Mollye Bendell, Artist and Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Immersive Media Design at UMD
Mollye Bendell is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in electronic media. She has received grants and residencies from Wave Farm WGXC, the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art. Awards include the GBCA Baker Artist Award, the MSAC Independent Artist Award and the RW Deutsch Foundation Rubys Artist Grant. She is also a founding member of media arts collective strikeWare, which creates experiences grounded in our collective history, often using new technologies to emphasize the nowness of that history. Mollye’s work has been exhibited in venues such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the New York Electronic Arts Festival, CURRENTS New Media Festival, and National Sawdust. Public art commissions include Ladew Topiary Gardens and the City of Redmond, Washington. She has recently exhibited at the BlackRock Center for the Arts, the Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Mollye is an Assistant Professor of Art with a focus in Digital Media and Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland, College Park. She lives and works in Baltimore, MD.