Awura-Adzua Cumings is a self-taught mixed-media artist of well over 16 years. Born in Jamaica Queens, New York, but groomed in Baltimore City. She began with formal art education, and decided she didnt want to be confined by the rules and concepts of an art school curriculum. Affectionately known as "Raj", in Charm City. her art is heavily saturated graphite desgins, deep contrasts, evocative hues, with a subtle influence of the dark arts, through her trade in body modification. It appears that her work often has elements of symmetry, and organic flow to them. Finding paralles in obscurity.
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Raised in a Nicaraguan household in Miami and inspired by her new home of Baltimore City, Jessy DeSantis is a self-taught artist creating meaningful, vibrant work. She explores her multi-cultural and biracial background, along with the complexities of identity. Her work is inspired by a connection to nature and community, and seeks to pass on stories of heritage to her children.
Hers is a proud celebration of identity, culture, and belonging.
Valerie Aleta Smith - Currently lives and work in Baltimore, Maryland
Valerie Smith is artist working primarily in oils on canvas, bottle art, cigar box art and shoe art. She often employs bold and bright colors in her surrealism style of painting.
EDUCATON:
Graduated: Professional Institute of Commercial Art – 1984
Studied: RETS Electronics and Architectural Design School; Maryland Institute of Art (fine Art);
Towson University College of Art
SOLO EXHIBITS:
2009 - Joe Squared Restaurant
2013 – Padonia Stations Restaurant
2013 – Towson University, Department of Chemistry
I’m Anna Sellheim, a cartoonist, artist, and educator based in Baltimore, MD. I earned my MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2016. My work primarily explores themes of health, trauma, and the healing power of art. My comics have been published by The Nib, Oni Press, and Seven Days (Vermont’s Alternative Weekly Newspaper). I’ve also contributed to several anthologies, including the Eisner-nominated Comics for Choice, which raised over $30,000 for the National Network of Abortion Funds.
Tillman is mostly a self taught designer, illustrator, and painter. She loved art and photography classes in middle and highschool, but thought that this was ultimately, time wasted. There wasn't much of an emphasis or appreciation of art or culture growing up and spent most of her time preparing to be a good wife someday through ladies small groups at church. Tillman has always been artistically expressive and has always loved music (an accepted art form, as long as it was godly).
Juried Artist: Group Show, Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA), “Small Works”, Artists’ Emporium, Havre De Grace, June 2018, June 2019
Juried Artist: Group Show, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Winter Member Show, 2020, Maryland, Small Works, 2018, Lowe House Gallery Show Exhibition, 2017, Fall Member Show 2016,
Juried Artist: Group Show, Interfaith Gallery, “As Seasons Turn”, Columbia, MD, May 2017 to July, 2017
Juried Artist: Group Show, Cuba 2016, Crystal Moll Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2016
Kailey Barthel is a visual artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Born in Milwaukee, WI, she received her Bachelor’s degrees in both Fine Arts and Latin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her MFA at the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA in Baltimore, MD. After graduating, she was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center for their January 2019 session, and was the Fall 2020 Artist in Residence at the historic James Castle House in Boise, Idaho. She currently lives and works in Baltimore.