• Read more about Katrina Nicole

Katrina Griffis, is a Maryland-based artist that captures the beauty of Black women through contemporary art. Katrina aspires to create art that sparks conversation, celebrates Black beauty with art that focuses on our visage. Katrina is a passionate advocate for social justice and representation. A self described AI Collaborative Artist, Katrina embraces all the positive aspects of the controversial practice of using generative art in the visual art world. Her artwork is a fusion of human creativity and artificial intelligence, which allows her to craft  unique and innovative artworks.

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• Read more about Amari-Grey

Amari-Grey (she/her) is a curator, educator, and postdisciplinary artist. Her practice considers generational memory, gender, technology, and land cultures through experimental writing, performance, installation and social practice. She holds a BA in Art, Film, Visual Studies from Harvard University. She is a 2024-’25 BRIC Contemporary Art Resident and has completed residencies/fellowships with Sundress Academy for the Arts, Brooklyn Poets, Wendy’s Subway, and Mellon Foundation.

• Read more about Caroline Creeden

Caroline Creeden is an interdisciplinary artist from Maryland. She has a MFA in Studio Arts at Towson University, BFA in Fibers and a MA in Teaching from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

• Read more about sammi

Art should be both beautiful and truthful.  I am a newly emerging acrylics painter and love exploring many media options and techniques.  As a transgender female, my inspirations and topics stem from my life experience and the experiences I am involved with in my community and family.  The range of techniques is continuously evolving for me and I have worked with the multimedia of painted shells hot glued to an acrylic painting, multiple painted canvas board on painted larger canvas and scarf for detail, and now acrylic hand painting shoes.  Topics range from modern religious, landscapes, natu

• Read more about Ed Siu

Ed Siu, received his bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in the summer of 2000. He’s been making art for a few decades amassing a body of work that is diverse and autobiographical. Each piece is part of a meta-narrative about love, sanctification, and the creative process; like puzzle pieces, they fit together and tell a story over time. My art incorporates a range of techniques and Biblical narratives through abstract imagery Take a look at my website: www.edsiu.com  

• Read more about Stephane Calvin

Based in Silver Spring, MD near Washington, DC, Stéphane Calvin is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in Haiti and France. Stéphane’s artwork weaves her diverse cultural influences into visual narratives that explore themes of social justice, cultural alienation, and the passage of time. She employs a diverse range of media, from acrylics and watercolors to collaged paper and mixed media, finding joy and solace in a slow and tactile creative process.