• Read more about James Howard

I am an amature painter and wood worker.  I enjoy creating animal silhouettes and artwork on reclaimed pallet wood.

• Read more about Liz Spencer

Liz Spencer is an Annapolis, MD based artist and expecting to recieve her BA from St. Mary's College of Maryland in May 2019. She is a commissions-based artist who works in all mediums, particularly in acrylic paint and pen & ink. She is a prospective tattoo artist as well as a pet portrait artist, and is looking to start larger projects such as murals and other community projects. 

• Read more about Briah Ryan

• Read more about Brooke Lamplough

Brooke Lamplough desires to pursue photography professionally and explore installation work further. She has photographed multiple weddings and has worked as a student photographer for Integrated Marketing. She loves to photograph abandoned buidlings and nude photography because of their intimacy. Walking into another person's history is very personal and has stories waiting to be told. Nude photography is very raw and can show the vulnerability or power of the female nude. She creates large scale charcoal drawings with frantic strokes.

• Read more about Meki's Tamure Polynesian Arts Group

Aloha and welcome to Meki’s Tamure Polynesian Arts Group, Inc.! We were founded in 1969 by Meki & JoAnn Toalepai who were performers at Baltimore’s most famous tiki restaurant – The Hawaiian Room in the Emerson Hotel. Meki is an immigrant from Western Samoa performing across the United States in the early 1960s when he met JoAnn who was a Baltimore native that practiced hula as a hobby. They met when Meki’s group had a contract with the Emerson Hotel to provide entertainment. The Hawaiian Room closed around 1970 and the Emerson Hotel was demolished in 1971.

• Read more about Robin Gilliam

Robin M. Gilliam is a mixed media abstract collage artist in Annapolis, Maryland, who specializes in creating to get her zen on. She paints and weaves found objects into mixed media collages and journals and is a teaching artist at Maryland Hall. Robin achieved her BA in art and psychology from Goucher College in 1984. She has spent the past 30+ years creating to heal from life’s challenges, such as sexual assault, addiction, spouse battling opioids and stage 3 head/neck cancer, and aging parents with cancer and dementia (both passed now). 

• Read more about Rion Amilcar Scott

Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of the story collection, The World Doesn't Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019). His debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016), was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Rumpus, among others. He lives in Annapolis, MD with his wife and two sons.

• Read more about Ping Shen

Ping Shen is a trained artist who specializes in using traditional Chinese Gongbi painting techniques to create contemporary artwork inspired by her rich life experiences in China and America. Using various brush sizes and shapes on Chinese rice paper, her expressive watercolors feature portraits, figures, animals and flowers. Ping’s work builds a bridge between traditional and contemporary by showcasing ancient painting techniques and mediums in a modern and simply beautiful way. She creates artwork that evokes feelings of happiness and pleasant emotion.

• Read more about Paula Chase

Paula Chase grew up on a healthy diet of Judy Blume, Mildred Taylor and Francine Pascale. Admiring authors of such differing styles resulted in a forever love of children’s fiction of every variety. In 2006, she put finger to keyboard and created her own world of characters. The result was her debut YA novel, So Not the Drama, the first in a five-book series about a multi-cultural group of friends navigating the highs and lows of high school. Growing up, Paula never thought about the lack of characters of color in popular fiction. However, when

• Read more about LeJea Williams

I was born and raised in Maryland, and in 2016 I graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art earning a BFA in animation. Though I came in with a background in 3D animation and modeling, I ended my program focused on cut paper stop motion. I fell in love with both working with my hands and the meticulous act of making the puppets and moving them bit by bit. This experience has come to influence my work through to today. I take my fascination with the feel and pattern of paper and use it to create paper-craft illustrations and the occasional animation.