Even as a child, Joyce was drawn to creating her own artwork. Coloring books were frustrating, because they only offered two pages that appealed to her, the blank insides of the front, and back covers. That love of creating continued through the GP Art program in High School, and the thrilling opportunity to attend Ringling College of Art and Design.
Creator • Wanderer • Alchemist • Healer • Teacher • Feeler
For Lauren, creating and sharing knowledge isn’t just a job, it is her life. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Maryland in 2020 and is a classically trained musician. You will often find her instructing art-related courses at area universities and arts centers, taking commissions for sculptures, prints, paintings, and graphic design, as well as consulting on large public art projects.
Joshua Tracy Glass has been creating handcrafted glass art in the Baltimore area for nearly 20 years. He uses traditional and modern Venetian and American glassblowing techniques to create hand-blown ornaments, pumpkins, paperweights, flowers, vases, bowls, lighting fixtures and custom commissions. Tracy's latest body of work consists of lifelike blown and hand sculpted glass fish. His inspiration comes from a connection to nature and the marine environments where he spends time fishing for various species of fresh and saltwater fish.
Yasi is a Mixed Media Artist. She is a photographer, painter, illustrator, Graphic Artist, T-Shirt and Hat Designer, Landscape Architecture Student, Video Editor, Animation Creator, and Writer. She is working on book publishing this summer in addition to NFT works. She has served in the military, was raised in Germany, and graduated with a Digital Design Degree in 2016. She has sold several paintings in Virginia while working for another artist.
Katie Macyshyn (she/they) is a performance artist and educator who has facilitated workshops, afterschool programs, and multimedia rituals in the DC metro area since graduating with honors from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University in 2013. Their classes explore the foundations of art through creative play and mindfulness. Macyshyn’s interactive performance work has been included in DIY venues and gallery exhibitions in the DC area including Rhizome DC, VisArts, and Transformer DC.
Naomi Rose Weintraub (they/them) is a Jewish, gender-queer, multi-media artist and educator based in Baltimore, MD, on the lands of the Piscataway and Susquehannock peoples.
They are currently working as the Community Artist-in-Residence at the Jewish Museum of Maryland.
Naomi’s art practice is interdisciplinary and focuses on themes of play, jewish ritual, queerness, anarchism, and ecology.