Born and raised in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Jonathan has returned home after receiving a BA in Film and Media Studies with a minor in theater from Lafayette College, to create projects that bring awareness to the DMV, highlighting all of its talents and raising it to the same standard as Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York as media meccas. Although a multi-media artist, Jonathan’s concentration is in both screenwriting and playwrighting, along with filmmaking, acting, and directing for both screen and stage.
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There is something about transforming a blank canvas into a beautiful work of art that has always intrigued me. I can say this was my first true love. I tend to live life in color. Meaning to appreciate all that comes with it. I’ve created many works within the field of art. From designing, sculpting, animating — you name it, I’ve tried it. I feel as though making art is my purpose in this world. The art I create is a reflection of my mind. My perception of people, feelings, and interests are released onto these mediums with no restraints.
Painting since a child, Marilyn Gates-Davis has over 40 years and counting as an artist. She has been working as a graphic designer for the past 30+ years, designing magazines, books, and print materials. She typically paints intimate portraits of friends and family members as well as iconic figures.
To counteract negative stereotypes, she chooses to depict the joy of the black culture through her paintings. Marilyn paints images that celebrate grace, strength, dignity and love of black people, often utilizing her art to share personal stories and childhood memories.
Im a Songwriter.i write lyrics play piano and teach. My tiktok is @music arnis styck kiyta
Nate Hudson is an experienced artist, with years of mileage in traditional art and recently transitioned to working in digital art full time. He likes to draw comic art, portrait work and, other various subject matters in order to enhance his skill set to do more professional work. He's grateful for the ability to create art and share it with others who can appreciate it.
Fire & Bliss is a platform that provides soulful, transformational art to patrons who seek an intimate space to be moved by art and engaged with the artists who create it. We built this platform to be a community and brave space for like-minded creatives who center racial justice and queer liberation in their work and their lives.
Currently, Darrelynne Strother manages online customer interactions with a government contractor. She works part-time as an afterschool teaching artist with elementary and middle school students in Washington, DC. In 2009, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a concentration in architecture and urban planning with a minor in studio art. She launched her art website; justd.art in December of 2018. The focus of her artistic discipline is drawing/mixed media which includes Sharpie ink blotting, metallic acrylic paint, alcohol ink, ink pen, and watercolor.
SOLE Defined is the Washington Metro area’s leading arts organization specializing in percussive dance – using the body as an instrument to create musical expression. Advancing styles such as Tap, Stepping, Body Percussion, Sand Dance, and Gumboot; this BIPOC led company infuses powerful skill to delight and inspire audiences. SOLE Defined was founded under the joint leadership of Ryan Johnson and Quynn Johnson.
My work is an ongoing exploration of my gay male identity. I am influenced by the impact of the AIDS epidemic during the '80s and '90s, internal and external homophobia, sexual desire, and growing old.
SSUUNA: Is a dancer, percussionist, singer, songwriter, storyteller, and recording artist from Uganda with a wide range of performing experience. Raised in a small village by grandparents, He found comfort in the Ugandan traditional music that was played at school. As a result, his musical influence was born, thus encouraged, natured, and reinforced by his elders through proverbs, stories, songs, dances, and instrumentation. This bestowed priceless cultural entertainment, which proved to be educational as well as alleviating of the poverty, hunger, hopelessness, and suffering that SSUUNA