Taurean Washington was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1985. He received his BA in Studio Art from Hood College in 2012. Washington has exhibited in the US and abroad including shows at Laguna Gallery, in Laguna Beach California, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center in Frederick MD, Hood College in Frederick MD, and several other venues in the DC/Maryland Metropolitan area. His work has been reviewed in The Baltimore Sun, The Frederick News Post, and featured in the Howard County Dragonfly Arts Magazine among other independent blogs and internet publications.
I am a cross-disciplinary visionary who creates, curates, and directs creative content. My special interest is instigating participatory art projects.
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Rae Red (Rae Hample) they/them, is a multimedia performer, teacher, and runs a community art and organizing space out of their home in Baltimore, MD. They imbue their projects with playful sincerity while examining ideas of perception and transformation, often through the lens of trans futurity. They use movement, technology, animation, and poetry to explore many subjects having to do with metamorphosis and queer potential. Red is originally from Albuquerque, NM where they developed their love of live performance, and nature with its queer, sexy, and violent rhythms.
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.
After 3 decades I’m still excited to witness how art making changes us, how a whole space can become welcoming and inspiring, how all humans, regardless of their age or socio-economic bracket , are deeply impacted by the process of creating. So I’ve led hundreds of mosaic mural installations, mural creations, taught classes, workshops, and retreats in schools, libraries, senior centers, jails, and my home. I’m an artist who explores consciousness, growing myself into a more kind human who understands we’re part of nature.