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.
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.
Meredith Meer is a teaching artist, illustrator, and arts educator dedicated to empowering students through creative exploration. She believes art is more than technical skill—it’s a way of thinking, observing, and expressing ideas. Inspired by the Studio Thinking framework, she creates classroom environments that function like real-world studios, where students experiment, make creative choices, and develop their unique voices.
Anabel Milton (she/her/hers) is a Silver Spring-based actor, singer, and teaching artist who believes strongly in the power of the arts and storytelling to foster connection, community, and empathy among human beings. Anabel has been involved in theater and music since childhood, and her early experiences sparked a love of the arts and lifelong learning.
Diane Y. Macklin has dedicated over two decades to the narrative arts. As a performer, teaching artist, and writer, she invests fully in the transformative nature of storytelling to explore the unique, yet universal, elements of humanity.
Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner, a.k.a. 'Magpie,' have played music together professionally for over 50 years, and have performed in countless schools all over the state of Maryland and beyond for most of those years. Their broad and deep repertoire includes numerous songs that comprise uplifting and upbeat programs on topics of history and the environment. From the Underground Railroad and the Civil War to The Great Depression and the Nineteen Sixties, history comes alive in the songs the people sang.
I am a musical performer who plays the guitar with interactive songs about many topics my favorite being songs about the Earth. I am also an Author of a story called Grandmother Moon Tells a Tale-How the Moon Got Up in the Sky. My programs are fun and educational and I can adapt to any age groups. I love the little ones and the elders and am a Wolftrap Artist as well as an Arts for Learning Teaching Artist. I have been on this adventure for over 25 years!!
Rosemarie (MiMi Zannino) Law has been a teaching artist with the MSAC since 1989, originally as a poet-in-residence, and additionally as a living history performance artist portraying the American poet, Emily Dickinson, and the American spy, Virginia Hall in one-woman dramatic shows. She has conducted creative writing and recitation workshops with over 10,000 students and teachers throughout the State, helping them create, recite and publish original poetry as well as compete in the national Poetry Out Loud Program.
Pam Minor has been entertaining children for many years with song, dance and puppetry with ventriloquism. She was a regular cast member for the Emmy award winning TV show "It's Kindertime" on the ABC affiliate WMAR TV2 during its' nine year run. Her CD Musical Manners won the Parents' Choice Recommended Listening award.
After 3 decades I’m still excited to witness how art making changes us, how a whole space can become welcoming and inspiring, how all humans, regardless of their age or socio-economic bracket , are deeply impacted by the process of creating. So I’ve led hundreds of mosaic mural installations, mural creations, taught classes, workshops, and retreats in schools, libraries, senior centers, jails, and my home. I’m an artist who explores consciousness, growing myself into a more kind human who understands we’re part of nature.