I'm an illustrator and filmmaker based in Baltimore Maryland. I'm a recent graduate of Towson University, and I love to create and design original characters and stories. My favorite part of the creative process is including my own sense of humor and personality into my work. I enjoy collaborating with other creative minds and working together to problem solve.
I am a musical performer who plays the guitar with interactive songs about many topics my favorite being songs about the Earth. I am also an Author of a story called Grandmother Moon Tells a Tale-How the Moon Got Up in the Sky. My programs are fun and educational and I can adapt to any age groups. I love the little ones and the elders and am a Wolftrap Artist as well as an Arts for Learning Teaching Artist. I have been on this adventure for over 25 years!!
Rosemarie (MiMi Zannino) Law has been a teaching artist with the MSAC since 1989, originally as a poet-in-residence, and additionally as a living history performance artist portraying the American poet, Emily Dickinson, and the American spy, Virginia Hall in one-woman dramatic shows. She has conducted creative writing and recitation workshops with over 10,000 students and teachers throughout the State, helping them create, recite and publish original poetry as well as compete in the national Poetry Out Loud Program.
Lawrence Lanahan is a journalist, radio producer, and performing musician in Baltimore City. He is the author of The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide, and his songwriting and composition can be found on recordings by his project Disappearing Ink.
Stephanie Guzman is a children’s author on a mission help children deal with difficult situations that arise at school. As a teacher, reading and gifted and talented specialist, she has seen firsthand the difficulties of growing up in today’s society. She loves to share her lesson focused, inspirational children’s book series, The Adventures of Oliver the Clownfish, with children through school visits, book signings and special events. Her series has been a USA Best Book Award Finalist and has won a DOVE award for family friendliness.
Leslie Bumstead is a poet, writer, and teaching artist in Maryland and DC. She currently teaches creative writing workshops for incarcerated adults in several Maryland prisons, poetry to non-speaking autistic teens and young adults, and literature, composition and creative writing to teens at community art space Rhizome DC. She co-creates distance-learning arts curricula for incarcerated people with artist Carien Quiroga. Her collection of poems, Cipher/Civilian, was published by Edge Books in 2005.
Lara Payne is an award winning poet, and has been a teaching artist since 2001. She works with students of all ages, often incorporating seasonal writing, nature, art and diverse writers into her curriculum.