Lenora Yerkes, a comics artist as well as a painter, draws on both low and high art traditions in creating unreal landscapes and the figures that live in them. Always narrative and often sequential, her paintings rely on metaphor and archetypes to tell disquieting, moody stories about family and the individual.
Christina Yoshika Greene is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Baltimore and Washington D.C. She received her Associate of Fine Arts degree at Northern Virginia Community College and her Bachelor's in Graphic Design at Maryland Institute College of Art. Yoshika has spent the past three years in Baltimore working with local businesses and nonprofits, including Requity Foundation and WGF Studio.
John Lister, III was born in Shreveport, LA in 1985 on July 8th. Lister spent a majority of his life between Maryland and Louisiana. He claims his first stint at creating, was at a very young age with his food, i.e. oatmeal. The child would take his toddler hands and draw abstractly in the overturned bowl remnants of oatmeal. Upon seeing this, his educator of a grandmother Ella D. Douglas, whom he affectionately named "Grants." Grants then thought it be wise to introduce crayons and coloring books to the young child.
Susan Fitch Brown has been making art or studying art all her life. In childhood there were always trips to museums and she was often enlisted to make samples for her mother's art teaching. As an adult a chance job led her to work for an art historian, organizing her reference work and researching and writing entries for an exhibition catalog. She loved the research but slowly realized that she kept wanting to make art herself and use her studies to inform her work. Susan finds much personal reward in the work and the learning that are the constant companions of making art.