Baltimore based artist, James ALPHA Massaquoi Jr., is an emerging artist that works primarily with large drawings made with charcoal and pastels. Alpha was born in West African, Liberia, as the youngest of four to an upper middle-class family, where his father worked as a florist for the United States embassy to Liberia, and his mother was a Fashion designer with a small charcoal business. At age fourteen Alpha and his family moved to the U.S. seeking the "American dream".
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The Voice is an incredibly versatile creative tool. It manifests language, sound, and emotion. It emulates any sound in the environment. It reverberates in our own head when we vocalize, creating a dynamic feedback loop that can be a portal to deep inner discovery.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Molly is an actor, teaching artist, and director. As a Roster Artist for Young Audiences of Maryland, Molly performs an assembly program for elementary school students called: “Miss Molly’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Molly’s specialty is Shakespeare. She is a Resident Acting Company member at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in Baltimore where she acts, teaches, and is the Children’s Director for the annual production of A Christmas Carol. In addition, Molly is a frequent guest drama teacher and co-director at Roland Park Country School.
Christina Delgado is a Baltimore based photographer, designer, and curator. Her work revolves around a sense of self and identity as a Nuyorican born and raised in New York City who migrated to Baltimore as a young adult. Delgado’s work displays a passion and pride for identity in family and homeplace. It connects ways in which home, place, and family can be sights of pain & trauma but ultimately sights of healing, freedom, and self-love. She is the founder and owner of Tola’s Room, an immersive Puerto Rican home museum and culture space located in Northeast Baltimore.
Eric Cotten- He/Him. Consumed with the desire to help others I began my professional life as a critical nurse (1978- 2016). That career was parleyed into building a successful real estate business (1988-2016) focused on providing affordable housing in Baltimore.
Thanks to the real estate business, I came in contact with the production company for the HBO show THE WIRE (2002- 2008) and became part of their location team. The association with these positive encouraging creative people revived my long dormant creative writing side.
Arts for Learning Maryland (formerly Young Audiences of Maryland) is a nonprofit organization devoted to enriching the lives and education of Maryland's youth through educational and culturally diverse arts programs. Through Arts for Learning, professional teaching artists from all disciplines partner with educators, schools, and school districts to provide, on average, over 300,000 hours of learning in, through, and about the arts to more than 185,000 Maryland students annually.
Paige Orpin is an abstract painter and public artist born and raised in Baltimore, MD.
A native Baltimorean, Virginia Crawford has been writing poetry since the age of 11. She has shared her love of words with students of all ages across the state. Her recent full-length collection of poetry, questions for water, was published in April 2021. Previously she had also published a chapbook, Touch. Ms. Crawford earned her degrees in creative writing from Emerson College, Boston, and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Love Groove Music Festival was established in 2017 with a mission to uplift and promote young artists while offering networking and performance opportunities for all art medias. (lovegroovemusicfestival.com).
Founder and artist, John Tyler started Love Groove while in high school (Baltimore Design School) during a time when there were few opportunities for young Baltimore artists to showcase their original works. He also noticed young artists would rarely interact beyond genres and that few Baltimore artists were nationally known; something had to change.