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.
Dakota began practicing magic illusions at age 15, and had her very first live performance after only 6 months of training. She has studied with and under greats such as Jeremy Tan, Alex Pandrea, Bill Gross, Denny Haney, and Baltimore's own Spencer Horsman. With charisma reminiscent of Copperfield and visual style akin to Dan Sperry and Criss Angel, she has wowed audiences for nearly twenty years across the country.
I have written, performed & recorded music with Odd CamP, Solaris Guitar Trio, FingerPaint and as a soloist. My works for dance have been performed in New York, Richmond, Philadelphia and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC. I recently released my third solo guitar release Fences, Frames and Alleys. All three solo guitar releases may be found at https://patricksmithguitar.bandcamp.com
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Nazarene Maloney is a young artist who has dedicated herself to making her passion for classical music her career. During her primary and secondary education, Nazarene expressed a deep affection for music; specifically, singing. After earning her Associate’s Degree in Music from Prince George’s Community College, she continued on to Morgan State University where she flourished participating in Opera @ Morgan, with roles as Papagena (W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte) and Maria La O (Ernesto Lecuona's Maria La O).
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.
Hilary is a self taught oil painter that specializes in portraiture.
A D.C. native who lives in near Shady Grove in Derwood, A. Z. Minichiello plays soothing acoustic background music on Rizzetta hammer dulcimer #60 since 1975.
Though based in Annapolis, Maryland, I travel for about 3 months per year and have been to over 50 countries; my photography is closely linked to my travels. I've had a lot of opportunities to exercise my interest by virtue of having lived in both the Netherlands and Hawaii, both exceptionally photogenic places. In my travels I try to capture a sense of place as well those evocative moments that form our strongest memories, from landscapes to candid street portraits. Travel photography of this sort has multiple goals: a documentary one and an emotional one.
Dani Allora aka ThatSingerChik is an talented singer/songwriter and lyrical storyteller from Washington, D.C. With a foundation in gospel/Christian music, she became a part of the DMV’s Go-Go culture and has been a member of multiple locally based bands and groups such as Mambo Sauce and the all-female band, Bela Dona. Dani has shared the bill with many accomplished artists such as CeCe Winans, Johnny Gill, Eric Benet, Doug E.