Sue Slagle (stage name SUE-C) is a video artist and educator working at the intersection of creative coding and live performance. For the past 20 years she has created handmade videos and live media performances, taught college level courses and workshops, and traveled extensively in the USA and internationally. Sue is the recipient of a 2020 Creative Capital Award and a MacDowell Fellowship.
Pamela Woolford is an interdisciplinary artist and keynote speaker, intertwining her work as a writer, filmmaker, performer, and immersive-media director to create new forms of narrative work about Black women and girls and others whose joy, imagination, and inner life are under-explored in American media and popular art. She is the recipient of six Maryland State Arts Council Awards, five film-festival awards internationally, a Changemaker Challenge Award from United Way of Central Maryland and Horizon Foundation, and a Baker Artist Award in interdisciplinary arts.\
Peter is an exceptionally rare kind of artist—a true polymath—whose work seamlessly blends music, visual art, cultural heritage, history, and cutting-edge digital media. Building on the legacy of his grandfather, the legendary entertainer Cab Calloway, and great-grandfather Andrew Reid, a prominent Baltimore activist in the post–Civil War era, Peter brings forward a tradition of social justice, community engagement, and creative innovation.
Mike Rose is a professional magician who logs in over 200 shows a year. A perennial favorite at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, Mike is both a performer and the owner of the magic shop there. Approximately 20 years ago Mike developed an interest in magic history while reading about a magician from the 1940s named Joe Karson. Mike’s curiosity about Karson led to his first book Joe Karson – Beyond Zombie. Mike received the “Library Special Award” from the Society of American Magicians for his work on Karson.