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.
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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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Josh Sinn is a Maryland-based photographer and educator who received his BFA in Photography at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Working primarily with film, he enjoys documenting all aspects of life, especially focusing on people and their environments. Baltimore has become the central character in most of his work, with photos detailing his relationship with a city home to beauty, joy, and pain.
Maurice Carroll is an experienced composer and producer who has worked with artists who have been awarded Grammys, Grammy nominations, Stellar Awards, and others who have chart-topping songs. Such artists include Michelle Weeks, Michelle Shellers, The Floacist (Formerly of Floetry), Ruff Endz, Kevin Powe Jr., Carolyn Malachi, and Andros Rodriguez. As an 8+ year voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammy's), Maurice has performed in several states including Maryland, Deleware, New York, Florida, GA, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Lost my son through gun violence 2019. My life never been the same. I started attending a group Mother of Murder Sons weekly. I started out with mosaic & weaving on sticks. The group stopped. I started coloring books, than I decided to teach myself how to paint on canvas. I also decorated sticks, anything that I can turn into some kind of art I did. Whenever I do art I would tell my son let's do this make a beautiful piece of art and we did.
HDK Productions is a company that serves the community through multiple festivals during the summer that showcases the arts.