Mike McKee is an art-making museum professional using various art techniques to explore time, space, and the interwoven roll these elements play through out life. Mike is making constructed paintings that use a mandala-like format transposed with individual iconography and found materials.
Multifaceted artist born and raised in Baltimore, MD. Clothing design has been a major focus within the last 10 years with accompanying interest such as music and art. Creating has been a passion of mine since I can remember. I see no limit in the ways of self expression . One of my goals is to inspire those near and far to follow their dreams no matter what or how long it takes to accomplish. Small wins take you a long way.
Chung-Wei Huang is an award-winning film director who was raised in a small town in Taiwan and is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her creative work focuses primarily on narrative films and dance for the camera videos. Her thesis film, Midnight Carnival (2018), was premiered at the Asian American International Film Festival. In 2021, her second narrative short film, Buck, premiered at the LA Shorts International Film Festival. Chung-Wei's next short film, Squeegee Boy, supported by the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, is currently in film festival submission.
Unseen Majority
Medium: Documentation of unseen mold spores taken from Annapolis
Year: 2022
Details: 41 seconds
Fertile Faces (Self-Portrait)
In ‘Fertile Faces’, participant interacts and contributes to the work with their unseen microorganisms. After taking their Polaroid portraits and collecting samples from their bodies and living environments, I reconstruct their images with the microorganisms they live together. Each person’s unique microbiome transforms their photographs into a new reality. While making the hosts’ microorganisms visible to our eyes with distinct colors and forms, the unseen inhabitants’ interactions and their natural form create a new identity of the artists.
Medium: Mold spores on Polaroid
Year: 2021-Ongoing
Details: 38 seconds