Professional Bio – Experienced Organist
Travis a highly accomplished organist with over 20 years of experience in sacred and classical music. Renowned for their technical mastery and expressive musicality, Travis Ferrell has served as principal organist and music director at several prominent churches, where he has led liturgical music, directed choirs, and developed vibrant music ministries.
Alzaruba's works stem from a diverse multicultural background having visited or lived in 37 nations. He has exhibited extensively, including in France, Italy and Asia and was twice awarded the Pollock Krasner Fellowship as well as serving as a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Seoul, Korea (2003-04). He taught visual art at MICA for two decades before retiring
Ali Oliver-Krueger is a teaching artist, director, performer and playwright/composer of plays for young audiences. Her most recent play has been performed for nearly 30,000 children and adults last season. As a professional artist educator, Ali has worked with school systems, arts organizations, and community partners in Maryland, throughout the region, and across the country. She is a Master Teaching Artist with The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning and presents residencies through the Arts and the John F.
Valentine Aprile (b. 1972, Somerville, New Jersey USA) is an American multidisciplinary artist of Indigenous Mexican and European descent, currently living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the first woman in her family to receive a college degree, having earned both a BFA in visual arts and MA in Arts Education from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia in 1995 and 1997 respectively. Her work encompasses painting, various forms of dance, site-specific and theatrical performance, video, filmmaking, acting, and directing.
Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer who won the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. Mr. Cabico was a featured poet at the 2022 Whitney Biennial and received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers. Television credits include The Poet Speaks, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, TEDx & NPR’s Snap Judgement. He is a teaching artist at the Kennedy Center for the Arts and one of the inaugural recipients of the 2023 James Baldwin Fellowship from La Maison Baldwin, Paris, France. His work appears in over 50 anthologies, including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Pat Smith is a multidisciplinary artist that reflects on his vast life experience from military service, mental health struggles and addiction to create accessible songs of triumph. His classical voice foundation, allows him to blend a wide variety of genres, whether he accompanies himself on piano or is supported by his band.
I have had an interdisciplinary studio practice for 35+ years with works that include assemblage - furniture or household items - public art & installations - painting & graphic design comingled with digital-photo techniques.
Concurrently I have worked as a production artisan or used applied visual presentation techniques to support my other vocational track.