Born and raised in Singapore, Jia Le Ling is an interdisciplinary artist working between performances, sculptures, and installations that center around overcoming personal fears and being genuine about the various experiences he has with the people, materials, and events around him. Ling received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in December 2021.
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Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, Rob Lee is a podcaster who has been creating his entire life – including painting, writing comics, and poetry.
Sue Crawford (Baltimore, MD) was born in Santa Barbara, California and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art in 1998. Sue has since lived and worked in Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee. Sue moved to Baltimore in 2007 where she was introduced to the fields of painting restoration and conservation. The processes used in that work have informed her current art practice in technique, momentum and material.
Clare Banks is associate editor for Smartish Pace. A recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council Awards, her poems have
appeared in or are forthcoming in Boulevard, Poetry South, Poet Lore, and the Mississippi Review, among others. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and lives in Baltimore City.
To improve the quality of life for the residents of the Park Heights Community and Baltimore City residents by bringing innovated art programs to the schools, community organizations, and neighborhood/community associations,
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is the leading classical theatre company in Maryland, offering vibrant performances that blow the dust off of Shakespeare and delight its patrons. One of the six largest theatre companies in the state, CSC serves diverse audiences with funny, moving, rousing mainstage seasons, a vigorous education program that serves over 16,000 students annually in both theatre and the classroom, and a growing community engagement effort.
Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. He is the cartoonist of the Ignatz nominated comic series, The Gulf. Nguyen’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and Medium. He is the vocalist/pianist of the jazz trio, Superior Cling, and he is a digital media lecturer at Loyola University Maryland. As a 2021 Rubys Artist Grantee, Nguyen is working on a graphic novel chronicling his experiences during the ongoing pandemic. Nguyên lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, son, and terrier.
Baltimore Based Artist and Musician
M. Jane Taylor earned a Master of Arts in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and was honored with the program’s Outstanding Graduate Award for fiction, and she is a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council's Regional Independent Artist Award and MSAC Grants for Artists Award. She lives in Baltimore with her wife, Autumn, and their children, Angus and Maeve.
Chekwube O. Danladi is the author of Semiotics (Georgia, 2020), selected by Evie Shockley as the winner of the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Take Me Back, was included in the New-Generation African Poets: Nne boxset.