The Changing Americas 2025

State: Maryland

Dimensions: 23.5 x 27.5 x 1.25
Media: Digital art / collage. Original, unique work. Archival pigment print on premium fine art paper. Professionally mounted with 8-ply mat and presented in a sleek, black modern gallery frame with wire hanging system.
Artist Statement : Through digital manipulation, Coded Frontier transforms Manifest Destiny-era paintings into pixelated patterns evoking Indigenous textile traditions. This visual metamorphosis creates a palimpsest where colonial imagery becomes the ground for Indigenous-inspired pattern-making—a gesture that honors both the original stewards of the land and the Navajo women who worked at Fairchild Semiconductor. These women assembled microchips through a process known as “electrical weaving,” their meticulous labor powering technologies from Apollo missions to early personal computers—yet they remain largely unrecognized. Subtle text blanching mirrors how Indigenous contributions are hidden beneath dominant narratives of technological progress. By fracturing and reencoding historical landscapes, Coded Frontier reveals how the landscapes of the Americas continue to be reshaped—visually and materially—by systems of extraction, computation, and erasure.

State: Maryland

Dimensions: 14 x 14 x 1.15
Media: Digital art / collage. Original, unique work. Archival pigment print on premium fine art paper. Professionally mounted and presented in a gold-leaf gallery frame with wire hanging system.
Artist Statement : Silicon Harvest overlays a pastoral harvest scene with a magnified circuit board, fusing agrarian labor with digital infrastructure. The inverted, spectral figures—evoking 19th-century depictions of field workers—bend under a pale algorithmic sun, their gestures mirrored in the delicate tracings of microchip pathways above. This composite image references how extractive systems have evolved from soil to silicon, from colonial plantations to semiconductor factories. The piece invites reflection on the continuity between agricultural and computational forms of labor exploitation, particularly the invisible hands that power the digital age. While the figures are ghostly, their presence lingers—refusing erasure. Silicon Harvest surfaces the entangled histories of land, code, and human toil, revealing how the technologies we prize are built atop inherited systems of classification and extraction. In doing so, it asks: What is grown, what is taken, and who tends the fields of progress.

State: MD

Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1
Media: digital photo on archival paper
Artist Statement : Within sight of modern Cartegena skyscrapers, native fisherman work as they have for centuries.

State: MD

Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1
Media: digital photo on archival paper
Artist Statement : In Costa Rica rural residents are constructing small, modern homes equiped with electricity and satellite dishes. They are often like this one, still nestled in the surrounding rain forest.

State: VA

Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 1
Media: Photography
Artist Statement : Celia Slater is an artist based in Arlington, VA. She primarily focuses on abstract photography, using her camera to capture the multi-layered complexity of the world around her. Her work is all about storytelling – crafting unexpected compositions and blending images to produce new visual narratives. She loves to overlay the shapes, textures and shadows of two photographs to create thought-provoking perspectives on familiar subjects. She hopes her work sparks viewers’ imaginations and encourages them to broaden their perspective on the environment around us. RED ROCKS SURF blends 2 photos – the steadfast majesty and warm colors of the West with the cool rolling waves and bubbling surf of the East -- to reflect the vastly different elements of our interwoven and increasingly colliding natural landscape.

State: VA

Dimensions: 18 x 18 x 1
Media: Photography
Artist Statement : Celia Slater is an artist based in Arlington, VA. She primarily focuses on abstract photography, using her camera to capture the multi-layered complexity of the world around her. Her work is all about storytelling – crafting unexpected compositions and blending images to produce new visual narratives. She loves to overlay the shapes, textures and shadows of two photographs to create thought-provoking perspectives on familiar subjects. She hopes her work sparks viewers’ imaginations and encourages them to broaden their perspective on the environment around us. LIFE CYCLES juxtaposes 2 photos – a vibrant autumn marsh scene with an abandoned, deteriorating barn – to create a sense of the ongoing cycles of old and new, forgotten and rebirth.

State: Md

Dimensions: 46 x 50
Media: Acrylic paint on wooden board.
Artist Statement : This painting explores the effect that farming has on landscape. The paint is dribbled and splashed allowing the materials to affect the final image.

State: VA

Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 0.25
Media: Oil On Linen Panel
Artist Statement : Still Standing And Resolute was motivated by the recent wildfires in California. Living in California for many years, with family still there, I witnessed several wildfires. But they pale in comparison to the ferociousness of the recent wildfires. Many of my friends and family were impacted, but they are resilient and tell me they will survive. The painting shows the devastation from the fires - dead trees, soot and ash, metal structures and furnishings burnt to rubble. Shadows of buildings stand in the background, while the burnt structure of another stands closer, as a young couple looks on. Among all the destruction and rubble is a single stalk of brilliant green that survived - depicting the resilience and survival of many. Painted roughly with brush and palette knife to further depict the devastation of the wildfires.

State: VA

Dimensions: 36 x 18 x 0.25
Media: Oil
Artist Statement : Let Us Not Turn Away was motivated by the continued impact of climate change on our planet. A lush valley with clear skies, crystal clear blue green water, and lush woodlands is depicted in the top tier. The clear blue green water flows down through the valley and falls into the second tier creating the basis of an environment impacted by climate change. The valley, waters, and woodlands have shrunk and become more muted. The landscape is more bleak but pockets of life and lush area still exist. As our impact on the environment becomes more pronounced, the environment become more impacted, more barren and more desolate. Let Us Not Turn Away is a plea for us to not turn away and address climate change before it's too late.

State: Maryland

Dimensions: 15 x 11
Media: Watercolor on 300lb Fabriano Artistico paper, with rough natural texture.
Artist Statement : Some Beaches are experiencing reconstruction and this is such a hopeful sign for the future!!!

State: MD

Dimensions: 20 x 26
Media: Mixed Media
Artist Statement : Arcadia National Park is where I found these trees along this weather beaten shoreline. The shoreline here will change vegetation from one strong storm after another because there is nothing to shelter it from the beating it will take when strong and gusty winds arrive. The waves will come ashore and will hollow out the ground beneath the grassy areas that are still left showing roots from previous attacks. All part of nature's changing scenes.

State: MD

Dimensions: 14 x 20 x 2
Media: Watercolor/Gouache
Artist Statement : My art depicts a scene from Blackwater Refuge in MD after a strong rain storm. The left over water along the roads brought the usually hard to see wildlife closer to viewers. This Great Blue Heron was spotted because of stopped cars along the roadside viewing this large bird behind these large fallen trees. The two large fallen trees are in two stages of decay-one still has bark while the other has none. The area shows decay of trees, reeds and weeds all contributing to nature's life cycles of plants on our earth.

State: MD

Dimensions: 29 x 40 x 1
Media: archival digital print

State: MD

Dimensions: 29 x 40 x 1
Media: archival digital print

State: Texas

Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1
Media: Oil on Canvas
Artist Statement : As a San Antonio-based oil painter, I blend Contemporary Surrealism with Illustrative styles to explore the unraveling American Dream and the stark realities of climate change. My work contrasts mid-century optimism with today’s environmental collapse, using bold 1960s color palettes and high-contrast compositions to draw viewers into a world where nostalgia and disaster collide. Inspired by Nat Geo/global disasters, I reflect on illusory promised prosperity. A '70s LA landslide sparked my interest in fragile stability. My dreamlike, narrative paintings show past comforts dissolving into impending storms, questioning if we're sleepwalking into catastrophe. For me, painting is both an act of resistance and reckoning. It’s my way of staying grounded while navigating the weight of an uncertain future. My art transforms helplessness into a visual dialogue, urging viewers to confront the contrast between past and present. By facing these truths through art, perhaps we can inspire change.

State: Texas

Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 2
Media: Oil on Canvas
Artist Statement : "The Last Resort," a diptych, plunges viewers into a present climate catastrophe where high floodwaters engulf rooftops. Unlike previous works hinting at a creeping environmental threat, this piece depicts its immediate devastation. One panel shows figures desperately swimming and incongruously floating on luxury tubes amidst the debris-filled water, highlighting a bizarre adaptation to the apocalypse. The other panel captures individuals leaping from rooflines. The oppressive palette of browns and grays, punctuated by fleeting bright colors, and the urgent brushstrokes underscore the chaos. This starkly portrays a world where environmental collapse is no longer a future concern but a brutal reality. "The Last Resort" viscerally confronts the human response a mix of struggle, adaptation, and the lingering remnants of a lost life. The diptych's scale emphasizes the overwhelming nature of this two-part panorama of an irrevocably altered world.

State: Maryland

Dimensions: 10 x 14 x 1
Media: Digital photography printed on archival paper.
Artist Statement : As the world evolves, our political landscape shifts, which causes ripples in the actual landscape around us. I saw this bus stop as I was riding through a rural landscape, and thought it epitomized why our country is where it is today.

State: Maryland

Dimensions: 8 x 11 x 1
Media: Digital Photo printed on archival paper.
Artist Statement : Landscapes are what we see looking out our window, or when we go to school or work. Sometimes it is a field of flowers and blue mountains off in the distance. But for a vast majority of people, it is scenes like this that shape and form the people who live there. It is not necessarily ugly (as I think that is a very subjective concept) but it definitely creates a myopic view of the world we live in.