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Who We Are
Jason Hughes an artist, writer, and independent curator, was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1978. Hughes moved to Baltimore in 1996, where he and fellow artists renovated their 10,000 sq ft warehouse to create 6 artists’ live/work studios, including the soon-heralded 4,500 square foot exhibition space known as Gallery Four. In 2002, the Baltimore City Paper honored it as “The Best Proof of Contemporary Art Life in Baltimore.” Gallery Four has also received awards and honors from Baltimore Magazine and the Washington Post. In December 2004, Hughes received his BFA in sculpture, cum laude, from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he was among ten finalists for the prestigious Jacques and Natasha Gelman Travel Award. Hughes has since exhibited work at many non-profit art spaces, galleries, outdoor sculpture exhibits, and international art fairs in the US and Mexico. In 2006, Hughes had his first solo exhibition at Curator’s Office in Washington, DC; was awarded a fellowship to attend an artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA; and was selected among eight finalists for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. That same year his most recent curatorial project, Material Matters, for Maryland Art Place’s 25th Anniversary was honored as the “Best Gallery Show of 2006” as well as “#4 in The Year in Art Top 10” by the Baltimore City Paper. Hughes is currently Exhibitions Coordinator for School 33 Art Center.

Franciska Farkas received her BFA in illustration with a concentration in video from the Maryland Institute College of Art, 2002. She has been working with Baltimore and New York-based production companies, Open Eye Media and Elan Artists, since 2004. Prior to video production work, Franciska freelanced as a decorative painter for Thomas Moore Studios and contributed to the restoration of The Standard Oil Building, Bank of America in downtown, and Lovely Lane Methodist Church. Her personal work is based in video, dance and performance with a strong connection to yoga, which she also teaches. She completed her first training in 2002 at Charm City Yoga and her second in 2004 at the Sivananda ashram in upstate New York. In addition, she completed Thai yoga bodywork training through the Lotus Palm school in Quebec in 2006.
Franciska is looking forward to utilizing The Library as a center for yoga and mindfulness as well as a space to create and generate ideas through video and other media.

Maureen Martin has produced, directed, written and edited films since 1989. She is best known for her skills as a storyteller. Her talent for distilling complex ideas and images into compelling narratives has won her awards and the loyalty of many repeat clients. Her body of work is predominantly non-profit, helping them challenge their audiences to think in new ways and cause social change. In 2006, she collaborated with Richard Chisolm on a film for Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital for which they won a CINE Golden Eagle.

Currently she divides her time between shooting digital video and editing on Final Cut HD (including LiveType, InDesign and DVD Studio Pro).