Nikki Brooks was born in 1975 in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in Spotsylvania County, VA. She is a multi-disciplinary artist that works specifically in installations and assemblage that are infused with digital and audio elements, paintings, sculpted text, and collage spaces. These works encourage the viewer to connect in forms of writing, storytelling, and shared dialogue through workshops that focus on diversity, inclusion, truth- telling and lament.
Aaron Henderson (Spud MD) is a pop artist from Baltimore Maryland.
Spud’s artworks is heavily inspired from loud, brightly colored, thick outlined Saturday morning cartoons from his early childhood.
From a young age SPUD has been working with many mediums of art from Graffiti to mixed media. Now narrowing down his focus on canvas and murals, Spud has been making his mark in the District of Columbia and Baltimore Maryland area.
Spud MD is a hardworking individual who strives to create a brighter and more creative world wherever he goes. #SpudMD
Andy Dahl is an artist, filmmaker, and organizer with an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Dahl is an Innovation Fellow with the Warnock Foundation, and winner of the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Medial. He currently works as a community organizer focussed on connecting resources to undocumented communities in Southeast Baltimore as well as a public artist producing large-scale works focussing on theme “connection.” He has also worked extensively on community empowerment projects through the arts in New Orleans, Bolivia, Paraguay, and California.
Khristian Weeks works primarily with phenomena - sonic, visual, kinetic, and situational - as distinct from the making of objects. His background is in music, first as an instrumentalist and improviser, eventually exploring composition and sound installation. Weeks earned a bachelor's degree from The New England Conservatory of Music in 1995 (and he has a BM to prove it), but not before taking a few years off of this schooling to re-examine his life-trajectory...to live a little. In 1990, he found a job caring for infants.
Dirk was born in Trinidad, grew up in NY and has been based in Baltimore since 2002. For the last 30 years he has worked as a visual artist, art teacher, performing artist (puppetry and theater), and a graphic designer. In 2016 Dirk founded String Theory Theater, a puppetry troupe in which he performs with his daughters.
I enjoy creating mixed media pieces from found, natural, and upcycled items. I paint with acrylics as well as gouache and watercolor. I also work with fiber to create traditional wool rug hooking pieces. I was trained in illustration and advertising and my work has a strong illustrative feel. Creating art is my passion and sharing that passion with others either through them experiencing my art or when I share my knowledge through instruction is so fulfilling.
Professional Fine artist 46 years capturing black history, women issues, world issues, spirituality, and culture. As a painter creating fine art that is diverse is texture, color, and mixed media I am able to create art that speaks with great emotion and triumph of the human spirit .
b. 1974 Nova Scotia, Canada
Eric is an abstract "automatist" artist who works in a loose abstract gestural style throughout all his media, including stone. His paintings and other 2-D works are largely made without any plan other than to keep a constant reverence for composition and open mind. Often his compositions remain non-objective, but spontaneously works will evolve to become abstract figurative forms using a technique of layering paint.
Baltimore based artist Becky Borlan engages in a multi-disciplinary practice that is grounded in playful, large-scale public art. Through her sculptures and installations, Borlan explores geometric form and color interactions, creating engaging and immersive experiences that challenge perception. Drawing from a wide range of materials, she experiments with perceived functionalities, proportions and color theory.