Marguerite de Messières is a Maryland-based multimedia artist working across painting, portraiture, sculpture, installation, and time-based media. Her work explores landscape, memory, and the relationship between individual and collective experience. She frequently creates community-responsive public art in collaboration with sculptor Tsvetomir Naydenov, combining painting, metalwork, and kinetic elements.
Cadence (Wildfire Suns)
I made this work in response the Canadian wildfires of summer 2023, when smoke turned our skies hazy red for weeks. I washed soot out of my air filters, froze the dirty water into discs of ice, and filmed them melting on the floor of my studio. I paired this with footage of a cornfield near my home that is now being developed. I have passed it since childhood. The work holds what felt familiar and fragile at the same time, touched gently by cataclysms far away.
The video is projected onto the paper relics of the process of melting the ice discs, with the watermarks and soot circles on them.
The video is projected onto the paper relics of the process of melting the ice discs, with the watermarks and soot circles on them.
Medium: video, paper, soot
Year: 2024
Details: dimensions variable, 36 seconds
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Donna S. Jordana has always created artwork, whether as calligraphy, acrylic paints, wall murals, or her newest venture in glasswork. Her avant-garde glasswork creations are based on the premise that from the broken, new creations are fused into beauty . Donna is self-taught except for calligraphy classes at Walter’s Art Gallery in Baltimore, MD.
Ive involved myself with music, especially a musicians art. so I took it upon myself to take the role displaying what music looks and feels like to me, my life is in detail within my music but tend to lean towards the pain and heart ache vibe while also telling a short story. Overall, Its Time!
Amina J. Allen is the creative force behind MotherEarthEssence LLC, a Black Muslim woman-owned art business based in Baltimore, dedicated to transforming mix media resin art through the enchantment of glow in the dark pigments and 3D resin wave textures. A mixed-media artist, henna artist, and innovator whose work merges woodworking, resin artistry, and functional design to create one of a kind art, to inspire connection, expression, and healing within the community.
A multi-disciplinary visual artist, Emmy Award winning producer and director Amy Oden is best known for her person-first documentary and multimedia work. Amy’s oil painting works are represented by the Lockhouse Gallery in Maryland.
Amy served as senior director of the video team at the Human Rights Campaign, where she produced and supervised the production of video content advocating for LGBTQ+ communities. Her recent project "Daniel Really Suits You” won the social impact award at TribecaX in 2025, screened at Sundance’s BrandStorytelling in 2025, and earned a 2024 Vimeo Staff Pick.