Since 1991 The Face Paint Lady has delivered over 100,000 face to face art experiences for children and their families. She is locally recognized for face painting and interactive performances with the public. She leads groups of all ages in communal classroom settings using tailored art interactives that raise funds, awareness and create community.
LEANING TOWARD THE SKY @ U.S. Botanic Garden (Trailer)
Come curiously explore the lush and abundant living collection of the USBG Conservatory as never before with Orange Grove Dance's transformative site-specific choreography and design. Performed among the Celebrating New American Gardens exhibit and elsewhere in the Conservatory, Orange Grove Dance illuminates and further reveals the richness and wonder of life cycles in plants, people, and mythology through dynamic dancing, an original sound score, and vivid projection design. Step into the Garden for an evening of discovery that exists at a special place within yourself; that place where, if you stand still for a moment and listen, you can hear the heartbeat of the universe aligning with your own.
FAITH (Eleisha Faith McCorkle) is a fine artist and cultural producer whose work unifies the notions of resilience and reconstruction. FAITH uses storytelling and the process of collage to communicate the layered multidimensionality of the Black experience through creating large-scale scrolls, cooking and sharing soul food, and curating immersive experiences. FAITH’s work serves as purposeful interventions as Blackness is investigated and venerated through space, food, power, spirit, and magic.
I am a graphic designer, trained in its fundamental aspects of Drawing, typography, color usage, photography, grid and layout usage which emphasizes the strength of design, and communicate the purpose of the design. Trained at one of the premier design schools, and one of the original Graphic design programs in the country.
Living within a short car drive from Washington D.C. means that I’m asked a recurring question from every new person I meet: “What do you do?” Answering that question is challenging and varies depending on whom I’m talking to. Some days I’m an illustrator, others I’m an art director, graphic designer, pattern maker, or muralist. The truth is that I am all of these things, hence the name Three Ring Studio.
Tonya Blue Shelby also known as Shelby Blue began creating mixed media collage art in 2017 after experiencing physical burnout and systematic bullying from the school system she worked for. Collage art became her space of refuge and peace at the end of the middle school workday. Her collage portraits tell the narrative of the societal and emotional ills women face in the workplace while triggering the choice of change and healing. Tonya has exhibited work in three solo art shows in Baltimore, and two virtual art exhibitions during the pandemic.
Black L.U.V. Festival (25th Anniversary)
It was a privilege to help shoot the 25th anniversary of the “Black L.U.V. Festival” with our partners at 1015 Multimedia. This event was a celebration of Love, Unity and Vision; featuring some amazing musical talents and familiar household names based out of the Washington, DC Area. This was their largest attendance to date. Here is a highlight video of the festivities.
Be sure to visit their website blackluvfest.com for more info.
Be sure to visit their website blackluvfest.com for more info.
Year: 2022