Jay Coleman is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary focus is public art. He is an experienced muralist, bronze sculptor, portrait painter, tattoo artist and photographer/ filmmaker.
"Take a Peek at the Chesapeake"
What do a disco-dancing dragonfly, a comb jelly with a combover and a spinning owl have in common? They all live in the Chesapeake Bay and star in this lively video created by 101 fifth graders during a week-long residency at Clarksville Elementary School in Clarksville, Maryland. The students learned how to create an animated cycle with the zoetrope, a 19th-century optical toy, and then filmed their drawings frame by frame. Each student brought to life a plant or animal of the Chesapeake Bay. The authentic animal sounds were provided by the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and by Gary Nafis. The music is by songwriter, singer, and musician Frank Schwartz and Tom Wisner, the late environmental educator and songwriter known as the “Bard of the Chesapeake.” "Take a Peek at the Chesapeake" was an official selection of the 2015 Chesapeake Film Festival.
Medium: pens, colored pencils, paper
Year: 2015
Details: 09:33
Wesley Clark currently resides in Hyattsville, MD, with his wife and two beautiful children. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Syracuse University and a Master of Fine Arts from The George Washington University.
At the core of his practice, Clark primarily creates mixed media wood assemblages that read as familiar and are often hybrids of two, or more, objects/concepts. He refers to these objects as fictional artifacts, made to look as if they’ve lived a life prior to being on display prompting viewers to question their importance and create their own narratives.
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___ Commission awarded by the GSA Art-in-Architecture Program for a site-specific, carved-stone plaza environment at the Duncan Federal Building, Knoxville, TN
Desmond Beach is an artist and educator. He earned his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art's Rinehart School of Sculpture and his BFA from MICA. Desmond is an interdisciplinary artist, the middle son of three boys born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a project artist, meaning that his work takes its point of departure from specific problems or tragedies. Desmond finds inspiration for his work from growing up in Baltimore during the 80s and 90s and his lived experience as a Black man.
Formstone Castle is a small team based out of Upper Fells Point, Baltimore, bringing together the enthusiasm and diverse skillsets of many different communities to make art for festivals and events, as well as simply for the joy of creation.
Baltimore based artist, James ALPHA Massaquoi Jr., is an emerging artist that works primarily with large drawings made with charcoal and pastels. Alpha was born in West African, Liberia, as the youngest of four to an upper middle-class family, where his father worked as a florist for the United States embassy to Liberia, and his mother was a Fashion designer with a small charcoal business. At age fourteen Alpha and his family moved to the U.S. seeking the "American dream".