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.
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
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.
District5 is a daring, Washington DC-based wind quintet that specializes in new music and new transcriptions. They are recipients of a 2016 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant with composer Evis Sammoutis and have recently performed at "The REACH" at the Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, U.S. Department of State, Library of Congress, Barns at Wolf Trap, DC Kosciuszko Foundation, and the Anderson House. In 2014, they gave the U.S. premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's ROTARY Woodwind Quintet.
Shawn Smith from the DMV area. An artist working mostly with acrylics on canvas.
Prince George's County, MD Graphic Artist Broadie fell in love with art when he was a child in elementary school. The moment his teacher gave him a pair of scissors to start cutting shapes, he knew he wanted to create. He still remembers using cotton balls, popsicle sticks, paint, and glitter to create a snowman. He dreamed of having his designs on billboards for people to stop and stare. He was first introduced to digital art in 2005 attending Bowie State University, a Historical Black College (HBCU), majoring in Fine Arts.
Liz Lescault is known for her biomorphic sculptures. She worked for many years exclusively in clay first as a potter and then as a sculptor. She continues to work in clay combined with other media but is currently working primarily with extruded plastic filament. Liz also explores a variety of mixed media in her work.
Kendra Lee (b. 1987) is known as Kay Lee, is a multidisciplinary artist. She is a true Washingtonian, who currently resides in the Upper Marlboro, MD area. In 2011, she received her A.A. in Liberals Arts from community college, her B.A. in 2013 from the University of the District of Columbia in the Administration of Justice and in her M.S.A. in Business Administration from Washington Trinity University. Kendra has always had a love for the arts. As a self-taught artist, she learns through experiences and trying different approaches to her artwork.
I am a visual artist. Stained glass mosaics and oil painting are my areas of passion. No matter where I wander I always come back to rich skin tones, storytelling eyes and wrinkled skin. Period. Full stop.