Tyler Yvette Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily works with text, photography, and video. She blends children’s motifs, autobiographical, current, and historical narratives to discuss the aftershock of colonialism and the troubling foundations that underlie most of Western society. Tyler was raised in Austin, TX and Atlanta, GA. She studied at Davidson College from 2010 to 2016. After graduating with a B.A. in Studio Art, she attended Oglethorpe University for post-baccalaureate studies. In 2020, she earned her M.F.A.
DOB- 06-29-1955
Education- BFA VCU 1977 , MFA Rinehart 1979
Honors and Awards- Jose Puig Memorial Award, Amalie Rothschild Award, H P Walters Traveling Fellowship
25 year member of IATSE Local 487
Alizah Lathrop is a contemporary painter from Maryland. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV, in 2020. During her college career, she was President of the Visual Arts Collective and closely involved in many other art programs, such figure drawing and special event coordination. Additionally, her work was included in two of the school’s Literary and Arts publications Sans Merci, and was awarded high honors.
Yam Chew Oh is a multidisciplinary, multilingual artist and educator who explores notions of self, family, and circumstance through abstraction, language, and the everyday. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Asia, and Australia, and featured in Commotion, Lumina Journal, The Match Factory, Studio Visit, and Velocity. Oh is Faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he received an MFA in Fine Arts and teaches studio art. He is a writing tutor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a member of the international collective Atlantika. More at www.yamchewoh.com.
Caryn Martin is a Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist and educator. Martin received MAT and MFA degrees from Maryland Institute College of Art, and has taught color theory, two-dimensional design, and introductory time-based media classes at various institutions. She has shown her work at Catalyst Contemporary, Creative Alliance, Maryland Art Place, Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College, Anne Arundel Community College, School 33, Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, Gallery B in Bethesda, and the Delaplaine Arts Center.
Leslie Sapp is a creator, performer, teacher, and director of movement-based story theatre and an Arts-Integration Specialist with special expertise in the integration of drama, movement, and storytelling activities into English language teaching. Leslie is passionate about supporting the creative self expression of immigrants and refugees, older adults, and other marginalized populations.
Leslie holds an MA in ESL, a Post Graduate Diploma in Drama in Education, a BFA in Visual Arts, and a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA).
Caidy Lynn is a mixed media artist living in Maryland. She has a B.A in Drawing and Painting from Towson University and an MFA in Curatorial Practice and Art Criticism from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Caidy Lynn uses printmaking, sculpting, drawing, painting, collage, and fiber to create artwork which explores ideas of identity, femininity and the divergence between human and animal. Evoking ideas of discomfort and repulsion she encourages viewers to engage with how unnatural being human can sometimes feel.
Annette Wilson Jones received her BFA from MICA in 1978 and, in 1980, she was hired by Beautiful Walls for Baltimore as a full-time muralist. In 1986, her work was chosen by New Museum Curator Brian Wallis for a five-person show, Sweet Land of Liberty, at School 33 Arts Center; was featured and awarded an honorarium by Baltimore City Paper for her drawing, Self-portrait as St. Sebastian, Tattooed on My Husband’s Back; and she had her first child/ spiritual guide.
Artist John Neal Mullican
4908 General Gordon Circle, Sharpsburg, MD 21782
JohnNMullican@gmail.com web page johnnealmullican.com
As a formally trained architect, Jill Orlov sculpts real and imaginary spaces into miniature tableaus incorporating found objects, heavily researched and often with historic backstories, made of steel, brass, and sterling silver using welding and silver soldering techniques. Her inspirations range from recreations of archetypal interior spaces such as within literature and film to historic and justice related issues that keep repeating and continue to influence society today.