• Read more about Amber

Hello, I am Amber Jones. I am from Baltimore, Maryland. I am the Visual Artist and Owner of Keiota Studio LLC. Keiota Studio is my handcrafted gift shop. I truly believe in self-improvement. That's why I sell self-care products, stationery to help customers plan their goals, and artwork to beautify their homes and offices. I have three children and I own a dog. Some of my interests include gardening, roller skating, and horseback riding. I feature my interests as subjects in my artwork.

• Read more about Jerm Jr.

Born in DC. Exercising my God-given gifts to create art.

• Read more about RayKay Studios

My name is RayKay Keefer, and I am a college graduate, illustration major and communication design minor. Heavily influenced by the art scene in my hometown, Baltimore MD, i have always taken interest mark-making. With an early interest in figure forms and fine art, I began my creative journey through higher education. From there I find that I am happiest creating detailed works that allude to a larger topic. Using a variety of traditional and digital media, I utilize both illustration and design to convey informative messages and stories.

• Read more about Caryn Chavarria

Caryn Chavarria is a Latina artist who grew up in Silver Spring but currently resides in Rockville. She specializes in drawing, painting, digital art, and photography. She is a high school art teacher at Rockville High school, where she teaches digital art, photography, and ceramics. Her work will be featured in the Wheaton Arts Parade promotional material. 

• Read more about Raul Aguilar (Héctor D' León)

Raúl Aguilar with the artistic name Héctor D'León, was born in 1973 in Estelí, Nicaragua, is a multifaceted artist and engineer. Influenced by his uncle, painter Donaldo Altamirano, and his father, a lawyer who first career was industrial design. He began formal art training at age 12 at the "Casa de la Cultura." Educated under the Jesuits at Central American High School, he developed a passion for literature and initially pursued "Arts and Letters" at UCA before switching to electronic engineering at UNI.

• Read more about Suryah Studio

Brian Suryah (b. Baltimore 1996) is a Baltimore-based transdisciplinary artist whose work explores the power of practice through the use of ritual, art and design to explore ancestral veneration, ethnobotany, collective liberation, diasporic anthropology and cultural archiving. The direction of Brian’s work is a direct response to an upbringing that lacked cultural context and a disconnection from the people and places that brought them to their place in the present.