Kelly Irvine is an abstract, color field painter living and working in Baltimore, MD. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland where she studied graphic design and fine art. Kelly also studied painting at Yellow Barn Studios and Montpelier Arts Center in Maryland, as well as at the Washington Studio School in D.C. After working for over 25 years as a graphic designer and art director while painting in her spare time, she transitioned in 2019 to full-time abstract painting and freelance textile print design.
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Allie Press is a Maryland-born actor. She earned her BFA in Acting from Towson University, where she dabbled in makeup and costuming. Today, she's based in Baltimore City, working for Simpler Media Productions and working on launching her film-acting career. Her true loves are Shakespeare, boy bands, and her pup Hazel.
The Creative Alliance builds communities by bringing together artists and audiences from diverse backgrounds to experience spectacular arts and education programs and engage in the creative process. We provide support to area artists, promote Baltimore as a center for creative production, act as a positive force in our community, and advocate for cultural expression rooted in a sense of place.
Live Music & Performance | Classes | Festivals | Artist Residency | Cultural Events | Youth Arts Education
Ashley Elizabeth (she/her) is a Baltimore-based poet and winner of the 2024 Garden Party Collective Chapbook Contest. She is a Pushcart-nominated writer and educator whose work has appeared in SWWIM, Voicemail Poems, Rigorous, and Sage Cigarettes, among others. She is the author of four chapbooks, including red line and CHARM(ed). Her debut full-length, A Family Thing, is out now from ELJ Editions. Find her on IG and Twitter @ae_thepoet or her website aetheblkpoet.com Ashley lives with her parter and her cats. Note: Ashley is Black before she is anything else.
The Fashion Umbrella Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering growth in the arts, fashion, and education sectors. Through its initiatives, the Foundation aims to empower emerging designers, artists, and students by providing platforms for exposure, resources for development, and opportunities for professional advancement.
Committed to promoting creativity and community engagement, the Fashion Umbrella Foundation supports educational programs, fashion events, and workshops designed to cultivate talent, enhance skills, and inspire innovation.
OrchKids is a year-round, during and after school, music program designed to create social change and nurture promising futures for youth in Baltimore City neighborhoods. Under Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director/OrchKids Founding Director, Marin Alsop’s artistic leadership and direction, OrchKids is the cornerstone of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s community engagement efforts across the city. OrchKids was founded in 2008 with 30 students at one elementary school with seed funding from Marin Alsop and Founding Donors Rheda Becker and Robert E. Meyerhoff.
All Eyes Entertainment, owned by Baltimore-native Jay Konsciouz, is a platform for aspiring artists to get help being seen. Jay's long history of writing, recording and mixing his music, gives him an edge to help others who may not have access. If you enjoy his music, check out what he can do for you at alldouble.com 🔥🔥🔥
Chelsea Sherman, better known as Chelsea Monae, is a multidisciplinary creative entrepreneur; a collaborative music creator and arts administrator. Heavily influenced by artists like Lauryn Hill and Whitney Houston Monae aims to encourage her audience to evaluate the reality of living with and loving others through a social-political lens. She may be perceived as a genuine, shamelessly pro-Black, Baltimore-born woman who values intimate, hands-on creative processes.
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