Chao Tian is a Chinese dulcimer musician and improviser. Her dexterity has led to her breaking down barriers and working across creative genres. She delves into innovative techniques and sounds of the Chinese dulcimer, crafting new sonic landscapes through improvisation.
Nikki Brooks was born in 1975 in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in Spotsylvania County, VA. She is a multi-disciplinary artist that works specifically in installations and assemblage that are infused with digital and audio elements, paintings, sculpted text, and collage spaces. These works encourage the viewer to connect in forms of writing, storytelling, and shared dialogue through workshops that focus on diversity, inclusion, truth- telling and lament.
Tima Aflitunov is a visual communicator based on Planet Earth. His artwork is often driven by imaginative ideas and concepts. When Tima is not illustrating or designing, he enjoys writing, literature, exploring language and history. For Tima, as an immigrant in a foreign country, art became a key to the language barrier and an important outlet for self expression.
Born and raised in New York City, USA, 1990. She is a self-taught artist, designer and a poet. she has decided to pursue her education in the Engineering discipline. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Avionics Technology, in 2014 at Vaughn college of Aeronautics and Technology, NYC.
Khristian Weeks works primarily with phenomena - sonic, visual, kinetic, and situational - as distinct from the making of objects. His background is in music, first as an instrumentalist and improviser, eventually exploring composition and sound installation. Weeks earned a bachelor's degree from The New England Conservatory of Music in 1995 (and he has a BM to prove it), but not before taking a few years off of this schooling to re-examine his life-trajectory...to live a little. In 1990, he found a job caring for infants.
b. 1974 Nova Scotia, Canada
Eric is an abstract "automatist" artist who works in a loose abstract gestural style throughout all his media, including stone. His paintings and other 2-D works are largely made without any plan other than to keep a constant reverence for composition and open mind. Often his compositions remain non-objective, but spontaneously works will evolve to become abstract figurative forms using a technique of layering paint.
Rahne Alexander is an intermedia artist and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2021 graduate of the Intermedia+Digital Arts MFA at UMBC, and a 2021 Baker Artist Prize Awardee. Her works in video, performance, music, and painting have been exhibited across the U.S. and around the world, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, and MIX NYC. She performs music as 50’♀ and as the front woman of the rock band Santa Librada.
Lynn Cazabon is an artist based in Baltimore, MD and is a Professor of Art at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Artist James Nyika paints the glowing atmosphere of cities across the world. As a child growing up in Kenya, he found art materials at the student bookshop and also borrowed just about every art history volume from the British Council library in Nairobi. "I checked out the same books over and over just to stare at the art, to try and understand how it was created," says James. With family encouragement to study engineering, James moved to the U.S. and immersed himself in science studies at Boston University.