Mallory Kimmel is a Maryland-based artist, who makes conceptual furniture to address exclusionary design practices. She focuses on disrupting loopholes used to deny human rights. Placing the focus on object-centric forms of possession, exclusion, objectification, and consumption helps to unravel the exploitation of objects to address the same forms of abuse applied to people. Kimmel believes if you liberate objects, you liberate people. Kimmel looks to objects and people as co-facilitators to democratize comfort-based privilege.
Kathy MacMillan (she/her) is a writer, nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter, librarian, and signing storyteller. She writes picture books, children’s nonfiction, middle grade and young adult fantasy, and resource books for librarians, educators, and parents. Kathy presents high-energy interactive storytelling programs for all ages that teach basic American Sign Language, workshops for writers, and trainings for library staff and educators. She lives in Baltimore, MD.
A Unicorn from another dimension, Timothy hails from the Midwest Motor City "Of Detroit". Nearly 40 years in many fields throughout the arts community as a whole. Taking many roles from performer to Company Performance Manager, Production Manager, to Creative Director, Master Make-up Artist and more. With the Community always at the forefront...
I am an independent Artist who really needs support to realize projects that are aimed at educating and entertaining people of all works of life and age.
The clouds move on, but I am still here
Visitors are invited to sit at a small table in the center of the gallery and place their hand on a heart pulse sensor. As the sensor calculates their heart rate in real time, the viewer watches a projection-mapped timelapse of clouds rolling by in the sky. The playback speed of the timelapse changes in relation to how fast or slow their heart pulse is. The work becomes a tool to slow down the body and integrate with the surrounding environment.
Medium: Interactive installation using visitors’ heart rate and projected video
Year: 2022
Details: Dimensions variable
The Tender Interval
The Tender Interval invites viewers to watch and listen to water drip in sync with their heartbeats in real time.
Medium: Interactive installation using heart pulse sensors and water pumps
Year: 2022
Details: Dimensions variable
Cadence
A performance with two performers both attached to a heart pulse sensor. Each sensor is connected to a motor which is attached to a drumstick. Each drumstick taps to the individual's pulse.
The piece can be performed in different formats: In a durational setting, such as a gallery exhibition, predetermined performers can sit with the drum for 30+ minutes at a time throughout the course of the show, or the work may be open to visitor interaction when a gallery attendant is present. At an event with a set time limit, volunteers can be paired at random and instructed to sit with the drum for a minimum of two minutes at a time while an audience watches the interaction of the two people’s heart beats.
The piece can be performed in different formats: In a durational setting, such as a gallery exhibition, predetermined performers can sit with the drum for 30+ minutes at a time throughout the course of the show, or the work may be open to visitor interaction when a gallery attendant is present. At an event with a set time limit, volunteers can be paired at random and instructed to sit with the drum for a minimum of two minutes at a time while an audience watches the interaction of the two people’s heart beats.
Medium: Participatory performance using heart pulse sensors
Year: 2013
Details: Duration variable
A Visual Ode to Billie Holiday
"A Visual Ode to Billie Holiday"
Cinematographer: Niajea Randolph
Location : Sagamore Pendry Baltimore
Baltimore, MD
Performance Duration : 8 min
Size : 34 x 34
2023
An ode is normally a short lyric poem/song that shows appreciation to an individual, an idea or an event. This moment I created a visual ode inspired by the iconic Billie Holiday. During my time at the Sagamore Baltimore partnering with Visit Baltimore, my research about her lyrical rendition of the poem "Strange Fruit"written by Abel Meeropol. This moment in history told the unsung truth in the 1930s towards the horror of lynching in the American South.
Cinematographer: Niajea Randolph
Location : Sagamore Pendry Baltimore
Baltimore, MD
Performance Duration : 8 min
Size : 34 x 34
2023
An ode is normally a short lyric poem/song that shows appreciation to an individual, an idea or an event. This moment I created a visual ode inspired by the iconic Billie Holiday. During my time at the Sagamore Baltimore partnering with Visit Baltimore, my research about her lyrical rendition of the poem "Strange Fruit"written by Abel Meeropol. This moment in history told the unsung truth in the 1930s towards the horror of lynching in the American South.
Medium: Performance Art
Year: 2023
Strange Bedfellows: Contemporary Tragedy & The Commercial Determinants of Health
(World Cinema Studies – Lifelong Learning Activity, 2025)