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.
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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.
Soprano Keesun Kwon, a McF'ami Artist, received her doctoral and masters of music degree from the Catholic University of America. She received her bachelor of music degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, she studied at the Columbia University. She was invited to perform at the Italian embassy and the Korean Embassy for the Christmas Concert. Ms.
Organist Diane Luchese freelances as an organist/choir master in the Baltimore region. As a concert artist she has performed recitals throughout the east coast, with early music [medieval to Bach] and contemporary works as her primary focus. Her 2015 recording released on the Raven CD label, Light and Dark and In Between, was conceived to serve as a time capsule capturing a sample of the present world of the pipe organ, featuring representative contemporary music played on four different styles of pipe organs in Baltimore City. This CD has garnered positive reception.
Born in Qingdao, China in 1981, Yameng Wang fell in love with the classical guitar at a young age and began studying with the leading guitar professor in China, Professor Chen Zhi, when she was 10 years old.
Originally from Kobe, Japan, NAOKO MAESHIBA performs, choreographs, directs, designs, and teaches, all from the body's point of view. Her childhood in rural Japan brought her close to the life cycles of living creatures and the atrnosphere of places and people. This environment had a profound influence on her perceptions.
Maeshiba has been creating solo, duo, and ensemble performances in traditional and nontraditional venues since 1998. Rooted in the minimalism of traditional and contemporary Japanese theatre as well as improvisation and surrealist art, her work strives to awaken the
K'aree Lymon is a local emerging Baltimorian Visual Artist. Born and raised in Baltimore City. His main mediums of choice are always either fabrics and paints or pencils and make-up! Ideally seeing the world between two lens begin Art and Fashion it's important that his works depict both elements developing a deeper meaning amongst self.
Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves are choreographers, performers, filmmakers, and mixed media designers. They are groundbreaking artists who bring virtuosic athleticism, mesmerizing design landscapes, and powerful imagery to their work. They have been making work collaboratively for over thirteen years as the Artistic Directors of Orange Grove Dance, a dance, design, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive, performer-operated design.
Christopher Bowling has been creating art for over almost 40 years, focusing on sculpture and drawing. His main media is graphite, colored pencil and fine-tipped markers for drawing and metal, wood and found objects for sculpture. He worked for several years as an elementary school art teacher in Harford County, MD as well as substitute teacher in Seattle, WA. His drawings are mostly of animals, filled with various random objects - recently he is using iconic Baltimore/Maryland landmarks and objects.