Dick Schneier

 Dick Schneier is a retired engineer who went “back to school” to unlearn all the bad things he had learned about his favorite then avocation…photography!  Under the expert tutelage of nationally known photographers Helen Kelley, Frank Lavelle, Barbara Southworth, Libby Cullen and others at the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program in Washington, he has almost achieved that goal, and his work is now appearing regularly in area-juried all-media and photography shows.  He works primarily in 35mm, color and black and white, but uses medium format and 4x5 view cameras when conditions permit.  Venues his work has appeared include the Art League Torpedo Factory; MFA Circle and City Galleries; Metropolitan Visual Arts Center RAP Gallery; Arlington County Arts Center Ellipse Gallery; the galleries at Quiet Waters, Annapolis, the Gallery at 333, Annapolis and ARTOMATIC as well as in private collections.  He is active in the Maryland Federation of Art, a member of its Exhibitions Committee, chairperson for the Holley Gallery exhibitions, and for the past two years, chair for the organizations’ national American Landscape Show.  Dick is a native of the Bronx, NY, but has lived for the past 43 years in Derwood, MD with his wife and sometimes tripod carrier, Ann. Please contact him at dicksch@comcast.net