Hans Schuler (May 25, 1874 - March 30, 1951) was an American sculptor and monument maker who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), having studied there at the Rinehart School of Sculpture. Hauer won the Salon Gold Medal in Paris in 1901, and he served as president of MICA from 1925 to 1951. His works are in the collections of museums including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955), is an American artist. He is noted for his use of kitsch imagery using painting, sculpture and other forms, often in large scale.

Nan Goldin (born 1953) is a notable American fine-art and documentary photographer.

Morris Louis (Morris Louis Bernstein is a United States abstract expressionist painter, one of the many such painters to emerge in the 1950s. From 1929 to 1933, he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts (now Maryland Institute College of Art) on a scholarship, but left shortly before completing the program. He worked at various odd jobs to support himself while painting and in 1935 was president of the Baltimore Artists’ Association.

Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957, is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. He is one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, and is one of the most influential comics creators of his generation.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1922, second-generation Abstract Expressionist Grace Hartigan signed her work "George Hartigan" until 1951. She received critical attention in the early 1950s as a participant in two major group exhibitions: "New Talent," organized by art-world heavyweights Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro , and the "Ninth Street Show." She secured representation by the newly opened Tibor de Nagy gallery, a leading venue for the younger New York School artists.

Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, the American artist, was born Elaine Hamilton in 1920 in Catonsville, Maryland, near Baltimore. [Please note: the primary source of information for this article is the article on Elaine Hamilton O'Neal at marylandartsource.com, …

William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor (1825 - 1874), was born in Maryland and studied sculpture in Baltimore, at what is now called the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1858 he relocated to Italy, where he resided for the rest of his life. He died in Italy (Rome or perhaps Florence - sources are inconclusive). According to artcyclopedia.com and askart.com, Rinehart's sculptures, neoclassical in style and mostly of human figures, …

Jane Frank the American artist, was born Jane Babette Schenthal on July 25,1918, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Baltimore on May 31, 1986. She is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist. A pupil of Hans Hofmann, she can in much of her work be categorized stylistically as an abstract expressionist, but one who draws primary inspiration from the natural world, particularly landscape — landscape "as metaphor", …

Norman Carlberg (full name Norman Kenneth Carlberg) American sculptor, was born in 1928 in Roseau, Minnesota. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist style. Norman Carlberg studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and at the University of Illinois before going on to study under Josef Albers at Yale. "Recent Sculpture USA", a 1959 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, featured Carlberg's work.

Lee Gatch (1902-1968), the American artist, was born in a rural community near Baltimore. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in the early 1920s and then studied in Europe for a few years before returning to the United States. Although he is best known for his nature-inspired abstract works, he also worked for a time as a muralist for the WPA. Today his work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, …

Jeph Jacques writes and illustrates the webcomics "Questionable Content" and "IndieTits". He was born in Rockville, Maryland, graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music, and lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts with his girlfriend (and business manager) Cristi. Jacques is a self-described hipster. "Questionable Content" (QC) is a comedic slice-of-life webcomic that Jacques started on August 1, 2003.

Raymond Creekmore (May 5, 1905 - May, 1984) was a prolific artist, author and sailboat designer. Creekmore (known to his friends as Creeky) was an American artist who, in the beginning of his career, "wandered" extensively, using his experiences in observation and his direct and expressive draftmanship as vehicles to bring the sensitivity and ways of life in foreign lands to America's local shores. Creeky was born in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Arthur Quartley (May 24, 1839 - May 19, 1886), was an American painter known for his marine seascapes. Quartley was born in Paris and lived there to the age of twelve, when his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He studied drawing with his father C.G. Quartley, who was an English engraver. His father was reputed to have demanded two drawings per week from the young lad. At age 17, Arthur was apprenticed to a sign painter in Baltimore.