Julie Jankowski is a visual artist and educator living in Baltimore. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA) from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA) in painting and printmaking from Ball State University, Muncie, IN. She also studied painting and drawing at Indiana University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Baltimore, MD 21202
United States
I love creating to make the world a better place. I've enjoyed Art since I was 8 years old. While other children were drawing stick people I was drawing and painting life like art.
This love of art influenced me to pursue a commercial art track in high school and a graphic design degree in college.
Today, I am a teaching artist and have taught art in after school and summer school programs throughout Baltimore, Maryland. I enjoy painting, creating art with my hands, making handbags & teaching art lessons.
Work and Education Samuel Burt is a composer in Baltimore, Maryland and professor at Goucher College and Johns Hopkins. His activities include conventional and conceptual composition, improvisation, and electronic music. M.M. Composition and M.M. Computer Music, Peabody Institute and B.Mus, University of Georgia. He studied with Lewis Nielson and Christopher Theofanidis.
An avid performer and educator, pianist and composer Joshua Espinoza balances his time sharing music on the stage and off. As a performer, Joshua has played with renowned artists including Warren Wolf, Paul Bollenback, Miho Hazama, John D’earth, Mike Pope, Kris Funn, Todd Marcus, Chuck Redd, Ryan McGillicudy, Eugene Goss, and Gail Wynters, and on national stages including Piccolo Spoleto (Charleston), The Jazz Kitchen (Indianapolis), Blues Alley, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Keystone Korner (Baltimore), and the DC Jazz Festival.
I am a life-long learner. My professors have described me as a "watercolor master," but I am competent in acrylic, oil, and my favorite media is pastel.
Liz Miller is a second-generation fine artist. She creates hair sculptures, sculptural paintings, wearable art, performance art pieces, and film. Her films capture community members and herself performing while adorned with hair sculptures for meaningful transformative movement rituals. The concepts embodied in her work are social justice themes centered around the black experience in America; utilizing both history and Afro-futurism simultaneously balanced within. She considers her work to be a part of a broader black liberation strategy employing black joy and serious play.
The music of composer Judah Adashi, grounded in the classical tradition and imbued with soul and pop influences ranging from Nina Simone to Björk, has been described as "beguiling" (Alex Ross, New Yorker), "elegant" (Steve Smith, Boston Globe), and "impassioned" (Will Robin, Bandcamp). His most recent work is focused on the interplay between art and activism, guided by a belief that the creation and performance of new music can bear witness to injustice, bring together diverse constituencies, create space for empathy, and serve as a call to action.
Composer David Smooke (b. 1969) currentlyresides in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches music theory, rock music history and music composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, and is the faculty advisor for Peabody's new music ensemble Now Hear This.