Greta Chapin McGill, grew up to the African American music of Motown and Miles Davis. A Washington DC native, her memories of going to classical music concerts at the Constitution Hall with her father are among her fondest memories. She discovered color when, at the age of 10 her parents sent her to Saturday morning art classes. Here her life was transformed. …The smell of the oils was intoxicating to me…
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Originally from Wisconsin, Schyler is happy to call Maryland home. His favorite places to photograph are the urban scenes of Washington, DC and other metropolitan areas. A hiking enthusiast, he also enjoys photographing wildlife and landscapes.
I am LaShonda C. Henderson, a writer, poet, painter, and ethical technologist whose creative and technological endeavors explore the social implications of love on both micro and macro levels. Through poetry, novels, workshop journals, and daily reflections shared on social media, I delve into how love shapes our society and individual experiences.
I chose this form of art because it breaks a person down, down to detail, and builds them back up to something more beautiful than before.
Ceylon Narvelle Mitchell II is a professional flutist, arts entrepreneur, educator, and arts advocate in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska and a graduate of East Anchorage High School, he earned a Master of Music Education degree from Boston University and a Master of Music Performance degree from the University of Maryland, in addition to a Graduate Certificate in Multimedia Journalism. Ceylon will continue his education in the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) flute program at the University of Maryland in Fall 2019.
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
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