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.
Katie Delaney (they/them) is a non-binary artist from Silver Spring, MD. Their work explores the relationships between surrealism and story telling through gendered materials and methods of making. Delaney received their BFA from Towson University in Sculpture ‘20 and is an MFA candidate at the University of Delaware. Their work has been selected in the NextFab 5.0 Juried Exhibition as well as the Delaplaine National Juried Exhibition 2019. They have exhibited solo at the John Fonda Gallery.
Desiree Thaniel was born and is based in Baltimore MD. She specializes in multimedia materials such as acrylic paint, oil paint, soft and dry pastel, and fabrics. After graduating Baltimore City College High-school, she continued her studies at Maryland Institute College of Art and is currently a student at Morgan State University. Her work is based on her experiences in personal growth, mental health and spirituality.
Chyna has been a competitive artist since the age of 5, and she was selling custom paintings to her community by the age of 10. Throughout high school, she continued to develop her skills through lessons from professional artist mentorship, and workshops; and even enrolled in a pre-college program at the prestigious Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). At just 16 years old, Chyna taught herself digital design and quickly secured a job as a graphic designer at Damon Foreman's Music Academy, where she honed her craft and created her first professional advertisements.
After earning his BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art, Jeff’s professional career has been broad reaching, from nationally recognized Illustrator, to prolific fine artist and respected art theorist, and pedagogue. As a freelance illustrator and designer since college he has worked for many of the largest corporate, institutional and editorial clients nationwide.