• Read more about Kristen Jeffers

I’m, a Greensboro, NC born, D(M)V area based queer Black femme-presenting, busyish, transit-adjacent possibility model for Black folks who are at least queer-affirming if not queer themselves to make their own clothing, home decor, and other art and crafty things to reclaim ancestral knowledge and power and nurture the planet.  

• Read more about Luke Gover

I am a self-taught landscape photographer from Bel Air, Maryland.

• Read more about Alex Dahdah

Alex Dahdah is a multidisciplinary artist with an MFA in Multidisciplinary Art and a BA in Filmmaking. His practice spans diverse media, including filmmaking, video art, graphic prints, and conceptual projects, delving into themes of nationhood, belonging, family dynamics, and personal emotional reflections. Through his work, Alex explores the disconnections and ironies embedded in societal systems, engaging with cultural narratives, abstraction, and the intersections of personal and collective memory.

• Read more about Steven Xavier Lee

A Baltimore native, Steven Xavier Lee is the author of ‘The Story of Mr. Thomas Carney - A Maryland Patriot of the American Revolutionary War’, the first book written on a heroic Maryland African American soldier of the War for Independence.  It is an allegory for adults, in the format of a storybook for youths.  The breadth of his writing includes spoken word, poetry, diverse articles in history, art, and environmental conservation. 

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• Read more about Schaun Champion

Schaun Champion is a multidisciplinary visual artist, director of photography and instructor. Using both digital and analog visual tools, Schaun explores the histories and myths humans tell themselves through portraiture, fine art and cultural documentary/archival works—creating intentionally cinematic and honest imagery influenced by the threads of classic films, music, themes of nature, and nostalgia while illustrating the drama within the familiar.