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.
I am an active resident of Baltimore City currently working with several, nonprofit organizations to lead art workshops and classes with young people. I am a visual artist and advocate. I am deeply passionate and supportive of Baltimore's DIY music scene. While I am very excited to begin bringing my community practice into that space, I am currently finishing my MFA in Community Arts at MICA, and looking forward to opportunities to showcase my personal art practice which is multidisciplinary.
Working in the industry for 10+ years now. I am a free-lance illustrator and multi medium artist. My works range from Pyrography to digital art. Graduating in 2013 with my BFA in Illustration I am currently on my path to further my education and experience in a tentative MFA program.
I am a Baltimore Born artist who shares and highlights experiences of racial, spiritual, gender, sexual, psychological, and trauma identity. I use my art as my voice and to create consecrated items as an ordained Iyanifa. I draw from a breadth of experiences that have shaped me such as being single mother & a disabled veteran.
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.
My artworks combine tradition and innovation, creating interactive art that transcends all boundaries. My work combines the elegance of wood with digital kinetic art, inviting viewers to experience art through multiple senses. As an expatriate adjusting to a new home while embracing my cultural roots, I find meaning and clarity in the complex role of life. My art goes beyond static sculptures, blending between wood and technology. Motors, sensors and augmented reality (AR) converge in my works, creating vivid stories in which nature, mechanics and digital realms come together.