Jamaal 'Black Root' Collier is an emcee, beatboxer, poet, master teaching artist actor, and host. With over 20 years of experience, he incorporates all aspects of his artistry in stage performances, residencies, and workshops. He has a charge to challenge his listeners to think carefully and critically. Affectionately & respectfully known as Mr. Root, Jamaal has a gift for making natural connections and truly listening to the needs of the students and the teachers with which he works. He cares deeply about people and helping them to achieve.
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Founded in 1980, Black Cherry Puppet Theater has performed and presented puppetry-based activities to thousands across Maryland and the Mid Atlantic. The company is committed to the advancement of puppetry through collaborations with artists of other disciplines, presenting educational, as well as community-focused arts programming, and by sustaining a performance space that brings a very special theatrical experience to a growing and very diverse audience in “Baltimore’s coziest little theater.”
Kwame Shaka Opare is a classically trained West African dancer with an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland. At 14, he became a principal dancer with Kankouran West African Dance Company (Washington DC). As a young adult, Kwame Shaka moved to New York where he established himself as a dynamic instructor and choreographer. In the late 90s, he began touring with the Broadway show STOMP, in the lead role and as rehearsal director where he remained for 8 years.
Andrea Sherrill Evans (she/her) is an Arizona-born, Baltimore-based artist and educator whose work explores local ecosystems, seasonal cycles, and changing landscapes. As a means to interweave ideas and materiality, her drawings utilize handmade inks, charcoal, and paper created from flora foraged in her backyard and neighborhood, along trails and while traveling. Evans is a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Drawing, and the St.
Mina Cheon (천민정) (b. 1973, Seoul, South Korea) is a global Korean new media artist, scholar, and educator who lives and works between Baltimore, New York, and Seoul and exhibits her political pop art known as “Polipop” internationally. Being a part of the Korean diaspora, Cheon’s art results from a life-time of working with a postcolonial and comparative cultural lens and making contemporary art that is in historic alignment to appropriation art and global activism art, while focusing on North Korean awareness, Korean unification, and global peace projects.
Baltimore-based artists Shannon Collis and Liz Donadio combine their backgrounds in photography, digital video, and sound installation to create works that explore public spaces, uncovering details of their past, present, and possible futures. Collaborating since 2016, their work has been exhibited locally and regionally in museums and galleries such as Arlington Arts Center, Current Space, the Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, InLight Richmond, and the Walters Art Museum. Their print series Concrete/Complex is in the collection of the Albin O.
strikeWare members are Mollye Bendell, Christopher Kojzar and Jeffrey L. Gangwisch. Together, we work and play with virtual and augmented realities, time-based media, customized hardware, digital fabrication, and interactive media.
Saima Adil Sitwat is a writer and educator based in Baltimore City. Her work entails facilitating conversations on race, religion and identity politics.
Saima is the author of her memoir American Muslim: An Immigrant's Journey.
WombWork Productions, Inc. was founded in 1997 by three Black women – Kay Lawal-Muhammad, Rashida Forman-Bey, and Nataska “Walks on Water” Hummingbird – who as artists and mothers established a space to address the dearth of creative outlets for their children and Baltimore youth. To this day, WombWork’s primary constituency remains youth ages 5-18, and secondarily young adults ages 19 and older. WombWork Productions primarily operates in Central Maryland, specifically Baltimore City.
Mariah is a recording artist, singer and all around performer.
She was born in Baltimore, Maryland and moved with her family to France at the age of ten.
She attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Upon graduating, Mariah moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress. She appeared in television shows such as CSI, Rules of Engagement, and Scorpion and landed film roles alongside Justin Timberlake, Jean Claude Van Damme, and Dolph Lundgren.