I am a multi-passionate creative entrepreneur, cheerleader and champion for humans wanting to make the world a better place:)
I am a digital marketer, podcast host and voice actor (hence the name "Audio Candi"), with aspirations to have a feature role in a major animated studio film.
I also create Ai-generated art and patterns and am on a mission to help more African-Americans learn to embrace, leverage and dominate the Ai space.
B.Lyte is a “Spiritual Activist.” Using music, poetry, and lyricism to express herself. Newly emerging in the music scene her genre is a combination of hip hop, spoken word, and soul. The subjects of B.Lyte’s rhymes touch on self love, mental health, social justice issues, affirmations and challenging the status quo. B.Lyte identifies as a human solely interested in spiritual connection. It’s all love.
Elizabeth English is an artist and designer who lives and works in Baltimore MD. She has a BA
from Bard College and an MFA from George Washington University. Her professional
background is in architectural, furniture, and fashion design. In the studio, she is questioning
how design principles can be brought to fine arts practices. The studio work is interdisciplinary,
and works across textiles, sculpture and printmaking.
Elizabeth has lectured on the conceptual impacts of changing technology on the built
“I see Black people as art.”
I am a mixed media artist, educator, and photographer based out of Washington, D.C. I combine striking black and white photography with acrylic paint or fabric and upcycled frames as canvases. My artwork not only features my students, but celebrates and honors them as living pieces of art. My art is about them; the photography is them. The subject matter is always them. I like to connect them, placing them in Black history. There’s something beautiful about connecting the past and the present and teaching them visually in that way.
Shaawan Francis Keahna (b. 1997) is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Minnesota Ojibwe and a Meskwaki descendant. His visual art has been to the Miikanan Gallery at the Watermark Art Center, All My Relations, Giizhigen Artists Incubator, the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The short film “a place on the edge of breath,” which he co-produced and was featured in, won best documentary at Bushwick Film Festival. His words are in Same Faces Collective, Tension Literary, Hoxie Gorge Review, Unstaged, and too many others to list here.
Mygenet Tesfaye Harris is an Ethio African American artist whose work is inter- and multi-disciplinary. Her artistic journey flourished during her undergraduate and graduate studies at the MICA. Her imagery is based on her story of migration and adaption fueled by her birthplace of Ethiopia and her Eritrean bloodline. Mygenet's exhibition of Wax & Gold is from three series reflecting her origin and life. The Ethiopian phrase “Wax and Gold” refers to many unseen complexities and Symbols below the surface.
I am an artist and creative technologist based in Silver Spring, Maryland, with a passion for experimentation and community.
I love to work with interactive forms, from performing music shows, creating installations, binding books, to developping games.
I am also very excited about discarded objects and ephemera.
Mr. Roswell's Neighborhood (MRN) is the electronic music project of Aaron Auslander (pseud.) from Baltimore, Maryland. The project is focused on the creation/production of instrumental electronic music that incorporates creative aspects of experimental as well as contemporary music. The music features fast beats and high frequencies with alternating patterns and rhythms hosting unique sound designs and layers of warped kick drums, detuned arps, and bitcrushed melodies.