4Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Artshttps://www.promotionandarts.orgbopacommunications@gmail.com(410) 752-8632
10 E Baltimore St
Baltimore, MD 21202
United States
Every day I work with motivated and positive individuals that break their chains and rise above their self-imposed limitations. I know how hard it is to accomplish goals, that those with family supports may take for granted. It was Archimedes who said, ‘Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand and I can move the earth.’ My name is Emanuel W. Holley when I was an at-risk youth I received support from loving and caring people along the way. It’s my duty to give back through art and use my voice to speak healing into the world.
Martinique Pates is an artist as well as storyteller. In 2015, she earned her degree in Journalism at Columbia College Chicago, where she also took courses in visual culture, photo-journalism and visual journalism. Originally, a Chicago native, she relocated to Baltimore in January 2016 for a job opportunity and has been there ever since. While trying to find her voice as a writer, she found herself exploring visual art with the usage of acrylic paint. Throughout her life, drawing has always been in the background.
Andrea is an artist and actress living in Baltimore, Maryland. She's worked for companies like Aden and Anais, Cosmopolitan and the New York Historical Society, and been in movies like Boyhood and Mistress America. Currently, she runs her own business, the codex club, which makes custom and handmade home goods, gifts, and clothing.
Born in Pendleton, Oregon, Jerry Allen Gilmore earned a BFA in fiber and painting, a minor in both art history and creative writing/poetry from Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, and an MFA in painting and drawing from Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
Jasmin was born in Baltimore and developed a passion for fine arts at a young age. She went on to attend George Washington Carver Center for the Arts and Technology, in Towson,MD, where she studied drawing and painting. Here she developed a traditional style of painting and developed a passion for creating portraits. In 2007 she won a Gold Key/ Regional Award in the Scholastics Art and Writing Competition for an oil painting.
Folk art and patterns, history, the environment, and landscapes make up the wide breadth of Magan's work. A painter at her core, Magan is an artist of diverse interests spanning from work with natural materials, to wearable art, to digital design.
Von Vargas is a multi-faceted Music Creator. He is a Hip Hop artist, multi-genre music producer, songwriter, musician and DJ. He’s passionate about creating hip-hop music that highlights solutions to social ills that plague America’s inner-city communities. A champion of justice for uplifting and betterment. Von is most recently responsible for creating music cues for the Peacock TV Original Series “True Stories".
Currently studying interdisciplinary sculpture at M.I.C.A.