AfroLatina artist, Jaz Erenberg painted her first mural in 2017 and immediately knew that if she could find a way to engage the community around her, the mural could be that much more impactful! Over the last 6 years, her practice has grown through collaboration with communities to build creative ways to make them feel seen and heard throughout the process. Using workshops and events, communities have become an integral part of how she creates public artwork.
David ‘DEZ’ Zambrano is an artist in the DMV area, originally from Los Angeles. DEZ has made his mark in the sneaker community as one of the best custom sneaker artists in the world. He does this for a living having worked with companies like Adidas, Under Armour, MLB, NFLPA, NBAPA, and professional athletes from almost every major sport. This does not take away that DEZ is also an incredibly diverse artist, specializing in canvas art, murals and more. His first love for art began at an early age, was cultivated at home, and exploded when he watched the classic hip hop movie Beat Street.
Nora Howell is a fiber and performance-based sculpture artist and art administrator living in Baltimore, Maryland. In her art, Nora uses a mix of ceramics and soft sculpture to develop a visual language to illuminate and stimulate dialogue around themes of motherhood, racial identity, community, power, and privilege. For 8.5 years Howell was the Program Director of Jubilee Arts, a community-arts program in west Baltimore that uses art as a tool for building community and changing the future.
Here Lies A Bridge
Here Lies A Bridge is a visual poem which is a part of a collaborative, interactive multi-media Map project made as a final for the BYFA Spring 2021 Living Out Loud: Poetry, Multi-media, and Public Engagement workshop involving the mapping of personal stories by emerging writers around Baltimore. Learn more here: https://www.filmartsbaltimore.org/living-out-loud
Medium: Visual Poetry
Year: 2021
Details: 59 Seconds
Rejjia Camphor is a Transdisciplinary Eclectic Artist, Organizer and Teacher from Baltimore, Maryland. She currently serves as a Creative Writing Instructor for Writers In Baltimore Schools, a Baltimore Youth Film Arts Fellow at Johns Hopkins and is the Founder of the environmental community project, Sister Stream Catcher. She earned a BA degree in Creative Writing, Visual Culture and Women’s Studies from Hampshire College in 2020.
Catrice Greer is a poet, literary artist, mental health advocate, arboretum docent, and a Maryland Master Naturalist in training. She is a 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominee, a 2022 Storyteller Foundation/Rainbow Fund full scholarship recipient for the Her Spirit/Story Summit writer’s conference, and a 2022 Yellow Arrow Publishing Writer in Residence.