Alexis Irby is a visual artist and educator currently living in Columbia, Maryland. She is an Adjunct Professor and MFA Candidate at Towson University, pursuing a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in sculpture. Her art draws inspiration from both nature and post-consumer objects, with a focus on formal qualities such as shape and pattern. She has exhibited sculptural work in a variety of galleries and exhibitions in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Delaware. Alexis has two Bachelor’s degrees in Art Education and Art & Design, with a concentration in the Fine Arts.
Emma Long is an aspiring artist based in Chesapeake City. She is a student at Cecil College and plans to graduate in spring with an Associate's of Fine Art in Drawing and Painting and Graphic Design. Her work explores many ideas surrounding faith, hope, life and death, and vulnerability. The mediums most commonly used in her work are ceramic, oil paint, gouache, and acrylic paint.
I would love to collaborate with artists to make immersive installation arts.
Please visit my website:
www.riekochacey.com
Ladi Glori's is an innovative Baltimore-based spoken word artist, actress, author and host. Performing on stage as a poet since 2009, Ladi Glori combines dynamic performance and message-filled activism. Clinging to her love for musical expression, she released the hip-hop/spoken word CD, ‘Mute the Background’ and performed with the band “Funk Out the Trunk” in 2011.
Much of my work is about people and animals, young and old. Pieces often convey joy and playfulness, reflection, a child’s spontaneity, and the person’s inner character. In my artwork I start with sheets of stained glass and, after cutting them into tiny pieces of certain shapes, I transform them into a mosaic that tells an emotional story.
estrellita beatriz, who uses the pronouns starr, e, bea, or anything non-gendered offered gingerly, is a poly-disciplinary artistic facilitator, doula, educator, and change shaper. e started stage managing storefront theatres in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a junior in high school. bea’s work as an artistic facilitator mixed with starr’s ancestral healing practice lead e to become a death doula and ritual writer. Working at the praxis of grief, ritual, and theatre, starr hopes to help guide folks back to their bodies through boundaries, intentional conversations, and plant medicine.