• Read more about Ann Bracken

Ann Bracken has authored three poetry collections, a memoir, serves as a contributing editor for Little Patuxent Review, and co-facilitates the Wilde Readings Poetry Series. Her poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, and her poetry has garnered two Pushcart Nominations. Ann’s advocacy work centers around paradigm change through the power of the arts in the areas of emotional wellness, education, and mass incarceration. 

• Read more about Shana Oshiro

Shana Oshiro, is an alumna of Morgan State University with a BFA in Vocal Performance and a former Miss Maryland. She has appeared with Opera Philadelphia in productions of Porgy and Bess and Margaret Garner and made several appearances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as a featured ensemble member. She performs with multiple music organizations in the DC Metropolitan area- -including Handel Choir of Baltimore, CAAPA Chorale, and IN Series Opera.

• Read more about James Gossard

James Gossard is an award winning Maryland film producer & director, poet, and playwright. He is also a screenwriter and fiction writer. His current project, DIVINE INSTINCT, a feature-length documentary about sculptor Gary Spinosa, was a 2023 Finalist in the Washington DC Independent Film Festival where it screened its World Premiere on March 1, 2023. Gossard worked as a freelance journalist in Montana, following the Border Grizzly Project and writing for wildlife journals. StoryPros named his screenplay, WHITE DUST, in its Top Ten Action-Thrillers.

• Read more about Lucinda Marshall

Lucinda Marshall is a mixed media artist working most recently in improvisational quilting, including a technique she has developed called Modular Improv Quilting.  Her quilts have been published in Uppercase, Quiltfolk, and Curated Quilts, and recently shown at the Chesapeake Arts Center.

• Read more about F.b.johnson

Painter | Writer | Photographer: F.b.johnson studied studio art and design under Ed Kerns, Curlee Raven Holton, and Bernard Tiernan as an undergrad in the early 1990s & worked under fellowship at the University of New Orleans towards an MFA as an abstract acrylic painter. A student of the world and his own mistakes, with 30yrs production experience, He resides in Baltimore City with the intent of adding his story to the greater tapestry of the city's eclectic past.

• Read more about Bert Speight

From a young age, it was clear Roberta's first love was art. At the age of 9 years old, her mom signed me up for after-school art classes. When she was 10, she entered a tv guide ad contest and was chosen for art classes but was unable to take them because she was too young to enroll in their school. As Roberta continued to hone her craft, Roberta became interested in experimenting with different mediums and techniques. As she entered her teenage years, she would get hired to draw murals on kids' bedroom walls. In high school, some of her drawings were in the school exhibit.