My name is Tsedey, I'm a filmmaker & journalist. I’ve covered topics on Lifestyle & Wellness, Mental Health, Human Rights, Fairtrade, and Entertainment. I’ve hosted panel discussions to raise awareness about human rights issues and mental health illness in our community on the Tadias Magazine platform. Back in 2009 I Produced a Reality TV show, 30 Day Health Challenge, and received the Producer of the Year and Most Innovative Program of the Year award from the Nation’s Capital TV station, also known as DCTV in 2013.
Career photographer and filmmaker with an BA in Journalism/Photojournalism from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and an MFA in Film from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Currently works as a documentary photographer/videographer/video editor with an international humanitarian organization based in Baltimore, MD which has her traveling internationally to cover programs and events. Melissa lives on the Eastern Shore, inspiring her to produce personal photo and film projects.
Mike Parks is a multidisciplined artist from Cumberland, MD. His work focuses on the interaction of technology and humanity.
Gayane Minasyan is a painter and collage artist whose prolific work focuses on showing the beauty of women and portraiture. She first turned to art to help relieve the stress and loneliness of disconnecting from social life, losing a dear friend and watching her native country of Armenia enter into a war, all during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and has quickly turned her work into a statement about the power of art to share messages of hope, faith and beauty.
Irene V. Martinelli
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” said Pablo Picasso.
And, so it was with Irene Martinelli. She has spent a lifetime of creativity as a writer, a clay artist, a photographer, and then suddenly something unthinkable happened. She turned 70. With no time to waste she threw herself into freeing her mind of the dust of everyday life.