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.
Hasani Claxton is an author, visual artist, and educator from St. Kitts, West Indies. His love of art began in the first grade, but he did not initially pursue an art career. He studied Business at Morehouse College (1999) and Law at Columbia University (2003). While working as an attorney in New York, he began taking evening classes at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, he decided to pursue his passion full time and enrolled in Academy of Art University in San Francisco, receiving a BFA in Illustration in 2009 and an MFA in Studio Art from Towson University in 2017.
Once upon a time a silversmith, always an art lover. Now neckwear designer creating sculpture that is wearable art.
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.