Yam Chew Oh is a multidisciplinary, multilingual artist and educator who explores notions of self, family, and circumstance through abstraction, language, and the everyday. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Asia, and Australia, and featured in Commotion, Lumina Journal, The Match Factory, Studio Visit, and Velocity. Oh is Faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he received an MFA in Fine Arts and teaches studio art. He is a writing tutor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a member of the international collective Atlantika. More at www.yamchewoh.com.
Caryn Martin is a Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist and educator. Martin received MAT and MFA degrees from Maryland Institute College of Art, and has taught color theory, two-dimensional design, and introductory time-based media classes at various institutions. She has shown her work at Catalyst Contemporary, Creative Alliance, Maryland Art Place, Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College, Anne Arundel Community College, School 33, Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, Gallery B in Bethesda, and the Delaplaine Arts Center.
Steve Wanna is a multi-disciplinary sound and visual artist whose work includes music, sound design for dance collaborations, sculpture, installation, photography, and works for mixed media. His work showcases the hidden, often ignored beauty he finds in chaotic and seemingly random phenomena. Abstract, experimental, and multimedia, his work is inspired by science, nature, and philosophy, often incorporating elements of controlled randomness—uncertainty is built into the process. Born and raised in Lebanon, he immigrated to the US with his family as a teenager.
I am an amateur photographer based in Southern Maryland. I love showcasing the local Southern Maryland beauty, from barns and wildlife to the hidden abandoned places. I post my favorite work on my instagram account @brialmont_photography, and have had several featured. I also have work exhibited in the St Mary’s Art Council Gallery in Leonardtown, MD.
Photography started out as a hobby to occupy the extra time I had after earning my MBA in 2016. It has become my passion, and I love sharing my work with folks.
Ileana Hernandez is a Mexican visual activist and 2019 graduate from the MFA in Photography and Related Media at Rochester Institute of Technology. Works from her thesis project My Dear Americans have been featured at The Nation’s blog and were shown at the 2019 SPE Media Festival and the 2018 Northeast Exhibition Tipping Points. A maker and a thinker, Ileana believes that art has the power to share ideas and make people care. She uses her art making as a form of activism.
Bambi is an artist who uses make-believe to tell the truth, with the deepest respect for irreverence and sticky dance floors. In addition, Bambi is a damn good storyteller, the host at haus of bambi, and the recipient of the Washington Award in dance, btw.
Commissioned by Vogue, The Kennedy Center, The City of Alexandria and the Metal Hearts Cabaret in Boston, Bambi dances the line between the too much and the just enough. (duh)
Beth Caruso works in a variety of media. Much of her artwork depicts aspects of the self and the body in relation to nature. The imagery in Beth’s artwork is bold and puzzling, as it prompts the viewer to continuously re-examine their perceptions in an effort to make meaning.
CeroMundo aka Estevan Palasquesea aka Cero aka Tio Chévere
Emcee, DJ, Visual Artist, Entrepreneur
“This MC is a joy to work with because of the skill level he possesses along with his uncanny skill of being able to write dope lyrics right on the spot. If he lived in NY or California he would be slamming the airwaves with top notch Latin Hip-Hop..no doubt in my mind”
– Mellow Man Ace (Godfather of Latin Rap, Cypress Hill)
Greetings, I am a visual artist based in Laurel, Maryland.
A graduated from Towson University in 2016 with a BS in Advertising and Art + Design. I have a wide range of mediums from digital to sculpture. I am currently focused on fluid art and oil pastel. I love getting inspiration from women and nature. I like earthy tones and bright pops of color.
Abstract art is such a fun and creative medium that in 2019 I started my own fluid art classes called Paint & Pour. I have hosted at The Remy in New Carrollton, Six Flags in Largo, as well as my own events.
Andy Dahl is an artist, filmmaker, and organizer with an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Dahl is an Innovation Fellow with the Warnock Foundation, and winner of the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Medial. He currently works as a community organizer focussed on connecting resources to undocumented communities in Southeast Baltimore as well as a public artist producing large-scale works focussing on theme “connection.” He has also worked extensively on community empowerment projects through the arts in New Orleans, Bolivia, Paraguay, and California.