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Tracy Dimond co-curates Ink Press Productions. A 2016 Baker Artist Award finalist, she is the author of four chapbooks: TO TRACY LIKE / TO LIKE / LIKE (akinoga press 2018). I WANT YOUR TAN (Ink Press 2015), Grind My Bones Into Glitter, Then Swim Through The Shimmer (NAP 2014), and Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today (Ink Press 2013) - winner of Baltimore City Paper's BEST CHAPBOOK. She collaborated with Amanda McCormick on the performance, DID YOU COVER UP? a blend of I WANT YOUR TAN and Amanda McCormick’s & THE GREEN. She is a 2016 Baker Artist Award finalist.
Gregory Bannister is a prolific painter, who began pursuing his craft as a young man. He is so devoted to art that, when not working one of two jobs (including a night shift at BWI airport), or coming to the studio, Greg is constantly painting at home. He is excited to be now working in a community of creative peers at Make Studio, and to try new materials and techniques.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, I drew superheroes before studying Painting and Art History at Washington University in St. Louis. My study included a semester in Florence, Italy and continued into graduate school at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I currently live in Baltimore where I was a resident artist at School 33 Art Center from 2008 - 2011. I have exhibited in various states and was a finalist for Miami University’s William & Dorothy Yeck Young Painter’s Award in 2013. My work still addresses the heroic figure through mythology, American history & personal experience.
The daughter of a fine arts painter and historian, I have always had a penchant and appreciation for art. My love for art, however, was put on hold as I pursued a rewarding career as a professor of psychology. During that time, I would steal bits of time to experiment with styles and mediums hoping to one day give my art more focus. Since moving to Baltimore, I have benefitted greatly from studying painting at the Schuler School of Fine Arts. There I came to the realization that I missed doing art and wanted to pursue it full time. I am now devoting myself to my first love.
Stacey R. Salazar makes drawings, paintings, and artist books based on the relationships, language, and experiences of an everyman and everywoman. By combining personal observations and sensations with gestures of transformation, symbols of power, and compositional traditions borrowed from Renaissance and Baroque portraiture, Salazar imagines a mysterious potency in the contemporary everyday.
Mirlande Jean-Gilles is a mother of two, a writer and a visual artist. Her award winning ficiton and poetry have been published in various literary journals and anthologies.
Her vibrant collages are inspired by her Haitian heritage as well as the work of women and mothers all over the world.
In 2012 Mirlande was selected to be "Bearden 100" in collaboration with The Romare Bearden Foundation.
Eric Rivera Barbeito was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017. Rivera Barbeito integrates a multimedia approach to his practice that draws from a diverse field of processes to give visual representation to concepts relevant to the present condition between Puerto Rico and the United States.
Margaret Rorison is filmmaker, projectionist, educator, and curator from Baltimore, MD. Her work aims to support and preserve contemporary filmmakers and film culture. Her current work focuses on portraiture, memory, and the precarity and beauty of nature. Her work has been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, Miami PULSE Art Fair, Microscope Gallery, The Museum of The Moving Image, The National Gallery of Art, and The Walker Art Center.
Ryan Schmal Murray is an artist who creates conceptually-driven work that combines digital and physical media. His work addresses the search for meaning at the intersections of “high” and “low” culture and at the boundaries of different media.