Mikela Thrasher is the owner of Sunshine Kids Entertainment, which is an arts-focused entertainment company serving the greater Baltimore area. She is also a Resident Teaching Artist with Arts for Learning Maryland.
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Baltimore, MD 21202
United States
My childhood and early adult life, was spent traveling the world with my wandering parents. England, Papua New Guinea and Ireland were some of the countries we lived in for extended periods of time, and where I went to school (including 4 years of art college in Ireland).
In 1986 I moved to Baltimore and started a career as a decorative painter. Murals, commissioned paintings, portraits as well as stenciling and faux finishing, have kept me very busy and traveling for the past 37 years.
Anna Child (b. South Carolina) is a Baltimore-based painter whose abstract work investigates the generative potential of doubt and ambiguity. Her process-driven practice treats painting as a form of visual thinking—intuitive, unstable, and rooted in the aesthetics of uncertainty. Through layering, erasure, and reversal, her work resists resolution, inviting viewers to engage with what is contingent, unresolved, and in flux.
The Compound is an artist-run nonprofit organization located in Baltimore City. We support individual and collective production within experimental cultural, social, and urban space sharing. Prioritizing affordability and sustainability, we provide quality spaces to Baltimore’s artists and artisans. The complex of spaces that makes up the Compound includes local small businesses, individual artist studios, event spaces, and an experimental communal living space for artist-residents of the Compound.
Visual artist with a focus in fusing wearable art concepts with luxury streetwear.
Duo Sorolla has been captivating audiences for over a decade, bringing together new and exciting works alongside the great masterworks and rediscovering lesser known pieces for cello and piano. Duo Sorolla has interpreted a wide range of music including most of the standard repertoire for cello and piano, as well as neglected works, especially music by women and composers of color. Duo Sorolla’s recitals bring together varied works that explore new and traditional approaches to expression, and the Duo enjoys guiding audiences along each program’s unique journey.
Crystal Shackelford is a multidisciplinary artist who blends acrylics, charcoal, oil paint and collage to make abstract and realistic pieces of art for the purpose of inspiring the innate artist in us all. Crystal believes art is one of the healthiest forms of expression and encourages through her work, the courage to create and express our individuality on canvas and or recycled items.
The Black Genius Art Show is a flagship brand housed in Genius Guice Studios, an art gallery based in Baltimore, Maryland. The organization was originated in 2014, and it focuses on showcasing the work of emerging and established artists of color. The aim of the organization is to provide a platform for underrepresented voices to be heard and to celebrate the creativity and ingenuity of black creatives.
I created this profile on behalf of my child, Kaylin Ali, who is an actress, singer, and dancer in Baltimore City. My mission is to stay informed about all of the artistic opportunities available to her and assist in managing her budding acting career. Kaylin has experience in stage performance and film. She studies acting at the Baltimore School for the Arts and she aspires to join Howard University's theater program upon graduation.