• Read more about Paige Hirsch

I am a self-taught painter, collage and stitch artist.  I have sold my pieces regurlaly at Eastern Market in Washington, DC,  Fenton Steet Market in Silver Spring and other high profile art shows in the Washington, DC area.  I moved to Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore in August 2017. Other Opportunities included: RAW, Spectrum, Baltimore, 2015, group show Space 7:10,  Silver Spring, 2016, solo show Artist and Makers Studios, Dec 2015, solo show   My pieces have been featured in the Washington City Paper, and were featured in a collection on Saatchi Art Online.    

• Read more about Taha Heydari

Having recently completed his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Taha Heydari works full time in his studio in Baltimore. Originally from Tehran, Iran, Heydari grew up with an integral relationship to Persian miniature, and trained from the age of twelve in this school of painting. What he gained from that level of study is apparent in his current work. Taha uses his minutely detailed paint application to create a surface which appears to be about the addition of material and image. However, Heydari’s application is much closer to functioning as a method of

• Read more about Nicole Marie Dyer

Nicole Dyer lives and works in Baltimore, MD. She received a BFA in Drawing from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013, and studied abroad at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland in 2012. Her solo exhibitions include Stevenson University, Owings Mills, MD; Casa Corval, Van Nuys, CA; and Annex 2E, Baltimore, MD. She has participated in two-person and group exhibitions including Terrault Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Savery Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; LVL3, Chicago, IL; and Field Projects, New York, NY. Residencies include

• Read more about Rachael Uwada Clifford

Rachael Uwada Clifford is a writer, poet, and Cave Canem Fellow, at work on her first collection of short stories and her first poetry collection.

• Read more about Karen Warshal

Karen Warshal is a classical artist living and working in Baltimore City. Her primary interests are the figure and portrait, and her most recent paintings depict people in interior spaces, evoking narratives that are sometimes easy to read and other times ambiguous or enigmatic. She derives inspiration from the Old Masters, but also from the models themselves. She always works from life and claims that one of the great things about painting people is the dynamic that exists between the artist and her model. Karen Warshal received her B.A. from the University of

• Read more about Giulia Piera Livi

Giulia Piera Livi is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting and installation.  Her immersive rooms employ hyper-cohesive color and abstract forms to work out ideas of multi-functional art objects and curated domesticity.  She has exhibited both nationally and internationally with notable shows at the Delaware Contemporary Museum (Wilmington, DE), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Governor's Island Art Fair (NY), Mono Practice (Baltimore, MD), Guest Spot @ the REINSTITUTE (Baltimore, MD), Untitled Space (New York, NY), VAE Gallery (Raleigh, NC), and Walter Otero Contemporary Art (

• Read more about McKinley Wallace III

McKinley Wallace III is a painter and draftsman whose art depicts strength expounded by the oppressed and an educator dedicated to cultivating people-oriented environments that foster inclusive community building and high-quality learning. Wallace received a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). His studio work has obtained both local and national attention, including solo exhibitions at MICA, Jubilee Arts, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and, later this year, Gallery CA and Creative Alliance, as well as group

• Read more about Elizabeth Dickinson

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is a writer and editor based in Baltimore who has written articles, essays, and short fiction for The New Yorker.com, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Southern Review, McSweeney’s, PANK, The Little Patuxent Review, and The Atlantic, among many others. Her writing has been recognized by Best American Essays and nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes. In 2018, she was a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. Dickinson’s writing has been supported with fellowships and

• Read more about Lucas Southworth

Lucas Southworth's short stories have recently appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, TriQuarterly, Conjunctions, Willow Springs, and many others. His first collection, Everyone Here Has a Gun, was chosen as winner of AWP’s Grace Paley Prize (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013). He teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland.

• Read more about Marion Winik

Marion Winik Longtime All Things Considered commentator MARION WINIK is the author of The Baltimore Book of the Dead, First Comes Love, and eight other books; The Big Book of the Dead is forthcoming in fall of 2019 from Counterpoint. Her column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has received the Best Column and Best Humorist awards from Baltimore Magazine, and her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere. She is the host of The Weekly Reader radio show and podcast, based at WYPR, the Baltimore NPR affiliate.