Ric Garcia is a Cuban-American painter and digital printmaker. His work is a sampling
of visual information from various sources that are combined into a new expression of
Americana, inspired by his bi-cultural experiences. His pop art style paintings are a
meditation on identity and explore language, hero worship, gender and Latino culture as
subject matter.
Garcia exhibits in the DC metro area and has been part of exhibits at American
University, Katzen Art Center in Washington DC, and The Smithsonian’s Aviation
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Hoke S. Glover III was born in the Bronx, NY in 1970. His parents moved to Lanham, MD.
Shortly thereafter. He attended private schools in Prince George’s County and graduated from
DeMatha Catholic High School in 1988.
He then attended the New School for Social Research in New York and graduated undergrad
from Bowie State University. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Maryland in 1997
where he studied with Stanley Plumly, Michael Collier, and Merle Collins.
In 1992 he founded Karibu Books as a vending operation with locations at Bowie State
Born in Busan, South Korea, Patti Kim immigrated to the United States on Christmas, 1974.
Convinced at the age of five that she was a writer, she scribbled gibberish all over the pages of
her mother’s Korean-English dictionary and got in big trouble for it. But that didn’t stop her from
writing. She is the author of A Cab Called Reliable, Here I Am, and I’m Ok, to which she is
currently writing a companion novel called It's Girls Like You, Mickey to be published by
Atheneum summer of 2020. Kim earned her BA in English Literature and MFA in Creative
Krista Schlyer is an artist living Mount Rainier, Maryland. Her
focus is long-term projects exploring landscape level ecological and human social relationships. Her subjects have included the US-Mexico borderlands, the Anacostia River watershed, the longleaf pine ecosystem and the Caribbean Sea. Schlyer’s work has been published by the BBC, Orion, The Nature Conservancy, High Country News, Newsweek and others. She is the author of
three books including Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall, winner of the
Nanna Ingvarsson is member of SAG-AFTRA, and an Equity Membership Candidate (EMC).
She has worked in Washington, DC-area theater for more than 30 years, appearing in more than
50 productions.
Nanna was nominated for a 2016 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress – Helen
Production for her work as Eileen in the Scena Theatre production of The Cripple of Innishmaan.
In 2015, she was nominated for two Helen Hayes Awards in the category of Outstanding Lead
Actress – Helen Production for her work in both The Amish Project at Factory 449, and
Erika Rose is a Helen Hayes Award winning actress, nominated three times for Best Actress.
She is a proud native of Prince George's County. She attended Lewisdale Elementary School,
Nicholas Orem Middle School and High Point High School before continuing her education at
The University of Maryland, College Park where she studied Theater and Performance.
Erika has worked as an actress for 18 years in the DMV. You may have seen her at Round House
Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Imagination Stage, The African Continuum
Working at the intersection of art, culture, and politics, Ann Stoddard is an interdisciplinary artist who explores underlying connections across media, including video, installation, electronics, animation, sculpture, site-work, as well as painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking. Ann Stoddard makes art that explores space- the space around and between us, the biosphere, the noisy public space of political debate, and the cultural landscape in which art can reveal connections and challenge divisions.
Frankie Ghee
Bio 2019
NINA Q. ALLEN IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST WHO USES THE LANGUAGE OF THE OCEAN TO SYMBOLIZE MATRILINEAL HEALING (DIVINATION) & AFROFUTURISM. HER WORK USES MOON WATER, SCIENCE, AND COLOR TO SYMBOLIZE GROWTH, REBIRTH, & ANCESTRAL MAGIC IN TWO CHANNELED (PHYSICAL EXISTENCE VS. SPIRITUAL PRESENCE) REALMS.
THE INTERIOR/EXTERIOR OF THE WOMAN'S ANATOMY IS ESSENTIAL TO CLEANSE AURAS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE.
*ALL-CAPS ARE USED INTENTIONALLY TO BRING THE ENERGY OF EPITAPH STYLES AT CEMETERY/MEMORIAL SITES.
Lydia Peters is an artist local to the DC Metro area, originally from Trinidad and Tobago. Lydia came to the US to perfect her craft by studying Art at Howard University obtaining her BFA. During her studies, Lydia became inspired by the AfriCOBRA and Cubism movements. Elements of each can be found in many of her works. Lydia is an American of Afro-Caribbean descent and aims to incorporate her culture and life experience into her artworks. When not creating new works, Lydia works to keep art alive through the next generation by teaching art at elementary schools in her community.