• Read more about Aliana Grace Bailey

Aliana Grace Bailey is an interdisciplinary fiber artist—taking up space with bold softness. Her work embraces artmaking as a vehicle for growth, building intimacy, and creating inner peace through weaving vibrant colors, narratives, and the creation of environments. Aliana is the founder of vibrant grace studio. At vibrant grace studio, she creates art installations, patterns, products, design, and facilitates art + healing workshops. vibrant grace studio caters to health, social justice, and wellness-centered initiatives dedicated to the wellness, joy, and liberation of Black communities.

• Read more about Reshada Pullen-Jireh

My interest in art began to develop when my 10th grade art teacher required us to maintain a sketchbook of our own original ideas.  It was the first time I was given space to communicate my love and observations of my own black girl experience in public spaces.  I found that visual art gave me a space to express myself, while everywhere else required my silence.  I earned my BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University, and pursued my Masters at Maryland Institute College of Art.

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• Read more about Andrew Horgan

Andy Horgan lives and works in his Wilmington Delaware studio. Knowing from a young age that being an artist was his journey, he pursued many mediums of expression starting with photography. As a military photojournalist, Andy mastered the use of light and shadow with the goal of capturing real expressions and true stories in just one image. This quickly became a new path in his artistic journey, one that continues today.