A. Moon is an experimental film and video maker whose work has screened in 13 countries on three continents. She has been the recipient of awards from the Princess Grace Foundation and numerous film festivals. In recent years, she has also been a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, a fellow with the Center for Asian American Media, a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award winner (x3), a Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Ruby Awards grantee (x2), and a Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist (x3).
Bobby Blazek is a multi-media artist working and currently residing in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. His work focuses on macabre storytelling through paintings, comics, and illustrations. Blazek combines biological, technological, and religious imagery while emphasizing color contrast, movement, repetition, and texture in order to convey narratives pertaining to marginalized bodies in the current state of the world. Currently he is at MICA majoring in General Fine Arts, minoring in Illustration and Sequential Art.
Joe Kraemer is an award winning filmmaker, artist and writer based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He received his M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts at Temple University and his B.F.A. in Film from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. His films have exhibited at film festivals and conferences both nationally and internationally. His most recent film, Just Another Day, was nominated for a regional Emmy Award, received numerous industry accolades including a Gold Telly Award, and reached over 7 million views on YouTube in the three years since its debut.
Tyler Yvette Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily works with text, photography, and video. She blends children’s motifs, autobiographical, current, and historical narratives to discuss the aftershock of colonialism and the troubling foundations that underlie most of Western society. Tyler was raised in Austin, TX and Atlanta, GA. She studied at Davidson College from 2010 to 2016. After graduating with a B.A. in Studio Art, she attended Oglethorpe University for post-baccalaureate studies. In 2020, she earned her M.F.A.
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.
Nikki Brooks was born in 1975 in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in Spotsylvania County, VA. She is a multi-disciplinary artist that works specifically in installations and assemblage that are infused with digital and audio elements, paintings, sculpted text, and collage spaces. These works encourage the viewer to connect in forms of writing, storytelling, and shared dialogue through workshops that focus on diversity, inclusion, truth- telling and lament.
Tima Aflitunov is a visual communicator based on Planet Earth. His artwork is often driven by imaginative ideas and concepts. When Tima is not illustrating or designing, he enjoys writing, literature, exploring language and history. For Tima, as an immigrant in a foreign country, art became a key to the language barrier and an important outlet for self expression.
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.
Khristian Weeks works primarily with phenomena - sonic, visual, kinetic, and situational - as distinct from the making of objects. His background is in music, first as an instrumentalist and improviser, eventually exploring composition and sound installation. Weeks earned a bachelor's degree from The New England Conservatory of Music in 1995 (and he has a BM to prove it), but not before taking a few years off of this schooling to re-examine his life-trajectory...to live a little. In 1990, he found a job caring for infants.