Chyna has been a competitive artist since the age of 5, and she was selling custom paintings to her community by the age of 10. Throughout high school, she continued to develop her skills through lessons from professional artist mentorship, and workshops; and even enrolled in a pre-college program at the prestigious Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). At just 16 years old, Chyna taught herself digital design and quickly secured a job as a graphic designer at Damon Foreman's Music Academy, where she honed her craft and created her first professional advertisements.
Rejjia Camphor is a Transdisciplinary Eclectic Artist, Organizer and Teacher from Baltimore, Maryland. She currently serves as a Creative Writing Instructor for Writers In Baltimore Schools, a Baltimore Youth Film Arts Fellow at Johns Hopkins and is the Founder of the environmental community project, Sister Stream Catcher. She earned a BA degree in Creative Writing, Visual Culture and Women’s Studies from Hampshire College in 2020.
I am an oil painter who paints landscapes and floral compositions. I also create my own hand painted jewelry and my own clothing line characterized by large floral prints.
Dr. Diana Baird N’Diaye is a multidisciplinary artist, folklife researcher, curator and transcontinental arts advocate who combines decades of experience both as a researcher and curator of African and African diaspora expressive culture. She considers her teaching as a vital aspect of her participatory art practice. N’Diaye’s art training began with sewing and needlework instruction from her Caribbean great aunts; In high school she became a student of African American couturiere Zelda Wynn Valdes, and worked as a mender in her mother’s dry cleaning store.
Fascinated by the art of Gabriel Munter and Hans Hoffman since childhood, Ms Baker has been creating paintings in a fauvist style for the last 60 years. she is also strongly attracted to collage, jewelry and quilt making. She resides in Takoma Park with her artist husband James Colwell in a Victorian era house they continue to restore.
Kendra Lee (b. 1987) is known as Kay Lee, is a multidisciplinary artist. She is a true Washingtonian, who currently resides in the Upper Marlboro, MD area. In 2011, she received her A.A. in Liberals Arts from community college, her B.A. in 2013 from the University of the District of Columbia in the Administration of Justice and in her M.S.A. in Business Administration from Washington Trinity University. Kendra has always had a love for the arts. As a self-taught artist, she learns through experiences and trying different approaches to her artwork.
Lauren Amanda Garrett (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist. Ancestor work and spirituality inform Lauren's overall process. She primarily braids music, visual art, poetry, with media that includes beadwork, photography, and experimental performance art. Lauren is Federally enrolled with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. She also embodies ancestral bloodlines of Celtic, Nordic, and Teutonic origins. Lauren's first four original "Indigenous Flower Fairies" paintings are on display at the Fort Bridger State Historic site in southwestern Wyoming.