I am a military veteran who loves all things arts and crafts.
17Prince George's Arts and Humanities Council https://www.pgahc.orginfo@pgahc.org(301) 772-8943
1801 Mccormick Dr
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
United States
Ms. Reed is an international award-winning fiber artist. She is also a Speaker, Coach, Advocate, and a survivor of domestic violence. Her passion is to inspire healing with art, promote world changes and support others. Ms. Reed’s work is currently on exhibit throughout the United States and abroad. Ms. Reed has received many prestigious art awards. She is the recipient of the Gold Award in the 2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum’s Annual Juried Exhibit.
The Prince Georges Contemporary Ballet Theater is a classical Ballet organization that has a focus in classical training for Black and Brown youth in Prince Georges County and the DMV region.
Ashley Davenport is a freelance graphic artist born and raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland who recently relocated back to the Mid-Atlantic coast, from California. Her artistic abilities were recognized early and as she became of age, her aspirations were to pursue a career as an artist. Sketching and illustration led to her interest in painting, which has remained an ongoing pastime. Winning her 1st blue ribbon award as a first grader attending Thomas G.
Noelle is a multidisciplinary latine artist who works primarily in ceramics out of her home studio in Hyattsville, MD. Her work explores latinidad in diaspora, precolombian folkways, mestizaje, and motherhood. She holds an MA from Georgetown University and BA from Oberlin College.
Hey! My name is Mikayla but I go by Aylakay. I do multiple kinds of art including, Digital, Photography, making handmade items, and sometimes paintings. As an artist, I love capturing moments that others can feel they are a part of. I love trying new things when it comes to my artistry and aspire to give myself the freedom to show true emotion through my work.
Dr. Diana Baird N’Diaye is a multidisciplinary artist, folklife researcher, curator and transcontinental arts advocate who combines decades of experience both as a researcher and curator of African and African diaspora expressive culture. She considers her teaching as a vital aspect of her participatory art practice. N’Diaye’s art training began with sewing and needlework instruction from her Caribbean great aunts; In high school she became a student of African American couturiere Zelda Wynn Valdes, and worked as a mender in her mother’s dry cleaning store.
Lenora Yerkes, a comics artist as well as a painter, draws on both low and high art traditions in creating unreal landscapes and the figures that live in them. Always narrative and often sequential, her paintings rely on metaphor and archetypes to tell disquieting, moody stories about family and the individual.
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland is an integrated arts laboratory where artists, arts scholars, students and arts administrators collaborate to spark inspiration and build a better future for the arts. As an intellectually curious and socially conscious community, The Clarice leverages creativity, scholarship, innovation and community engagement across the arts to foster expression, generate curiosity and inspire a greater good.