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I am a sculptor, collector, and explorer. I highlight the mundane and overlooked parts of life by repurposing found and post-consumer objects, united with natural materials and crafted elements. Chosen materials directly influence the design of my creations. I seek objects through an exploratory and spontaneous process. Much of my work is a diaristic process, a constellation of moments brought together, captured in an artifact representative of a specific time, place, or idea.

My practice is rooted in the interplay between architecture, design, and the human experience within urban landscapes. Living and working across the Americas and Europe has given me a multifaceted perspective that informs my approach to art. In Baltimore, I’ve found a city brimming with possibilities, offering fertile ground for exploring themes of transformation and identity. My work is as much about embracing the city’s layered narratives as it is about reflecting on my own experiences.

Allison Fomich of Tigerlillyshop Jewelry, creates unique mixed metal jewelry from nature specimens collected from her surrounding environment. Using traditional metalsmithing techniques she imprints botanical specimens into copper, brass, and sterling silver creating fossil-like impressions. Her cast nature jewelry line consists of small organic objects which includespecial tiny acorns, twigs, shark teeth and tiny shells in both bronze and sterling silver.

Anne Marie Rooney is a poet and artist living in Baltimore. She is the author of No Beautiful and Spitshine, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poetry has been the recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, and others. With artist Sam Sheffield, she creates poetic games as LORRAINE. Since 2010, she has been collaborating with painter Julia Rooney, using the U.S. Postal Service as a medium for art production, distribution, and exhibition.

In my sculptures, installations, and mixed-media works– I use ubiquitous domestic objects including carpet, PVC pipes, and wooden framing; to emphasize the uncanny within the familiar. I often begin with a foundation of research, digging into and deconstructing obscure histories, creating uncanny and surreal narratives from the bits and pieces left behind. A term I often circle back to in my practice, is ‘nostomania’. An outmoded psychological term used to characterize a harmfully extreme form of nostalgia; an unremitting desire to return home or go back to a familiar place exemplifies the affliction. A hyper-fear, horror, and obsession with the objects of home also characterize nostomania. Nostalgia in these circumstances is pushed to a perilous degree, and out of the control of the individual experiencing it. I view my work as a movie for one; an implied larger narrative abbreviated, displaced and contextualized within the structure of yet another narrative. The objects I see as de-contextualized movie props in terms of form and subject matter, but also self-contained units complete in their own existence– rather than secondary forms remaining from a larger whole. This idea of a world within a world, as well as the intersection of “high art” with the cheap sensationalism of pulp, pervades my work.

Armen Baboom was born in Tehran, Iran in 1970. He has taken delight in painting and drawing since his childhood. His artistic career started in 1987, when he entered Tehran’s School of Visual Art. He has spent many years of his career on figure drawing, especially portrait drawing. He has excellent technique in expressing himself. Eventually, he developed a serious interest in abstract art and found a new sense of comfort and enjoyment in it. He participated in 2 solo and 3 group art exhibitions in Tehran, Iran. He also participated in the following art exhibitions in Baltimore, MD: 1- Solo Art Exhibition, Reverb Club, 2017 2- Group Art Exhibition, Big Show Exhibition, Creative Alliance, 2019 3- Group Art Exhibition, 25th Big Show Exhibition, Creative Alliance, 2020 He tends to use sturdy and full compositions in his artworks. On the other hand, one of the desirable features of his work is using primary colors. The square and rectangle shapes are very visible in his artworks. He places a lot of value and importance in pleasure and enjoyment while creating his artworks.

Dr. Bonnie Lander is a multifaceted musician based in Baltimore, MD. Specializing in contemporary music, Bonnie performs internationally as an avant-garde soprano, violinist, and improviser. Currently, Dr. Lander works as curator and events manager at 2640 Space, as Assistant Director for the Community Chorus of Peabody, and manages a private online voice studio in the Bromo Arts District. Bonnie’s method as a teacher is simple: to free the voice of tension, hesitation, and pain through didactic technical exercises and fun repertoire choices including pop, rock, jazz, musical theater, classical, and avant-garde music.

Bryan Robinson is an educator, multifaceted media artist, curator of slickness and the owner of The Black Genius Art Show. Robinson’s creations set a simple yet bold appeal to each project/illustration. The use of BLACK lines mold the narrative of each individual canvas, and the GENIUS of it all is to understand that ART LIVES not just on a gallery wall but it exists in all we do.

Caitlin Gill is a mixed media artist living in Baltimore, Maryland. In exploring the divergence between craft and fine art and the implicit misogyny within the distinction between the two, Gill uses printmaking, sculpting, drawing, painting, collage, and fiber to create artwork that explores ideas of identity, femininity, and domesticity. By Evoking ideas of discomfort and repulsion, she encourages viewers to engage in the inherent violence exercised in the construct of the feminine.

I am a director, performer, and cultural producer. I create plays, films, and ephemeral experiences in theatres, galleries, abandoned buildings, and the space in between.

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I’m a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and entrepreneur based near the Bromo Arts District. My work explores mental wellness, identity, and resilience through music, podcasting, and community storytelling. I run a grassroots recording studio and dream of expanding into a full creative hub that uplifts local voices, and create meaningful connections that contribute to the positive impact locally.

I am a former business executive who graduated from MICA in 2008. My goal is to render what I see and then experience as feelings in the medium that seems best to achieve that end. I use charcoal for instant gratification, watercolors for freshness (and also convenience), oils for depth, photography for exactness (with license to manipulate), and sculpture for tactility. All are intended to enlighten and please.

As a creative artist my work allows me to combine my passion for the arts, with my formal education as an art and architectural historian. I approach each blank canvas drawing from a vast number of influences based on Art, Architecture, Fashion, and Design. My medium of choice is oil on canvas, but I also experiment with painting found objects. These elements infused together bring an innovative and eclectic feel to my projects

As a black queer male born and raised in Baltimore, my mission is to utilize my artistic skills and resources to give other artists like myself , who may not have the space or opportunities, a chance to be seen, supported, and unapologetically themselves. To not be defined by their race, sexuality, or class but by their talent and art and the impact they could have on others.

East Coast-based artist Deja Richardson straddles between the lines of abstraction, mixed media, and conceptual art. Raised in Baltimore, Deja Richardson attended the Baltimore School for the Arts for stage design and theater. Obtaining the knowledge from her visual arts and stage design classes gave her the foundation she needed to grow, allowing her to open up to other forms of expression and design.

Solomon’s work is often figurative, and explores themes of queer identity as a transmasculine person. Over time he has built a painting practice that utilizes soft layers of transparent color and strong, fluid lines to build his images. In the past he has also explored sculptural ceramics, as well as pattern making and garment construction. Even when exploring other mediums, Solomon has a tendency to use shapes and forms that reference or are in conversation with the body.

Janet Little Jeffers is a Baltimore, Maryland-based artist specializing in digital photography. With a background in graphic design and interior design, her work explores intimate and abstract details in the natural and manmade worlds. She thrives on exploration, whether in her hometown or a remote destination. Janet’s work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the mid-Atlantic, on book and magazine covers, in film and video, and in permanent installations for institutions and businesses such as University of Maryland Medical System and Pharmaceutics International, Inc. She is also a sought-after judge for regional photography competitions and gives presentations on topics of photographic creativity and composition.

Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland (over west to be specific), Jerome Chester is a multifaceted artist who has been a creative for his entire life. Known for his witty and eccentric style, Jerome fashions the products of his spacious and unorthodox imagination into tangible idiosyncratic masterpieces for his as well as the world’s enjoyment under his artist brand, AlleyKidArt. Satirical in its nature, the brand, includes artistic merchandise and original artworks that: feature Jerome’s own colorful character line-up, promotes physical/mental health, address the social/political climate with its thought-provoking designs and quotes. An illustrator, painter, graphic designer, muralist, and much more, he is a self-proclaimed renaissance man; but his most valued task is raising two beautiful daughters, Journee and Makenzie.

Jess / Xin Lin is a graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker, and zinester based in Baltimore whose work is focused on abolition and anti-imperialism. They love punk & experimental music, diy art markets, playing around with printers, and a nice cup of oolong tea to get them through the day. Jess is one half of JESS JESS PRESS, a risograph press and comic magazine publisher; hit ’em up anytime you need something riso printed!

My name is Jess! I’m an illustrator and author who currently resides in Baltimore MD. My background in fine art printmaking influences my work as co-founder of JESS JESS PRESS, a Riso press dedicated to uplifting marginalized artists in the comic industry. The first issue of or magazine SICK FREAKS Magazine debuted at Riso Art and Zine Fest at Gallery Nucleus in 2025. In my personal work I love to explore themes of queerness and disability through sci-fi and high fantasy stories.

Jorgelina Lopez, a textile designer, along with her partner Marco Duenas, a cross-disciplinary wood artist, design and create handcrafted lighting and decor that value the traditional crafts of the past with innovative thinking. The name La Loupe, (a French word for the magnifying glass) represents the idea of curiosity and discovery and a symbol of observation and visual attention that they bring to their designs.

Julia Clouser is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, text, and video to explore themes of perception, memory, and place. She is best known for using imagery appropriated from her grandfather’s 8mm films shot in Florida throughout the 1960s and 70s; these films were shot on a camera that unexpectedly exposed the film outside of its standardized frame, creating moments existing only in the film’s margins. Julia’s approach to the materiality of images questions how we perceive or fail to perceive moments in their natural context.

With a foundation in music production and youth development, I utilize these skill sets to create professional and creative development programming for Baltimore city recording artists. My work spreads across multiple mediums including, performance art, video & film, song production, mixing & mastering and curriculum development. We were recently rewarded by the US State Department for the Blakwater Exchange Program, launching our pilot in 2021.

Katie Addada Shlon is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, performance, and installation to meditate on complex environmental issues.

I use a wide range of atypical material pushing mediums past their intended purpose, encouraging them to collide and react, not rejecting happy accidents and forcing incompatible materials to meet. My works are intricately layered referencing graffiti, landscape and color field. I work in fits of inspiration that has led to an expansive collection of unique series.

My work interrogates absence, instability, and the shifting boundaries of meaning. Having spent most of my career as a painter, I now pursue conceptual art that resists resolution—erasure, deferred presence, and the fragility of knowledge are central to my practice. Informed by poststructuralist thought, particularly Derrida and Foucault, my pieces engage with archival decay, linguistic slippage, and the politics of visibility. I currently crave silicone and pigment.

LieAnne Navarro is painter and multidisciplinary artist in Baltimore, MD, working abstractly and figuratively with oil and acrylic mediums. Her work is informed by urban and natural landscapes and people.

I love sharing experiences with friends and gifting them something special to remember. Photography is a great tool for that and I’ve realized how much fun it is, now I can’t stop!

I’m a multidisciplinary artist creating art across various media, from stained glass to oil painting to digital collage, watercolor and acrylic. The art I create is heavily influenced by my personal struggles and experiences. Through my art, I aim to explore the relationship between popular culture, fine art, idealism, my own identity as a gay person, and living in an age of hyperreality. In my stained glass art I love dense, complicated patterns. www.MichaelBruley.com

Michele Blu Is multidisciplinary artist born & raised in Balto City with a passion for art in many forms. Michel is the founder of Blu Treasures & Blu treasure Kemetic Yoga & arts, a handcrafted line of one-of-a-kind art, fashion, clothing, jewelry accessories and crochet that features creative textures, fabrics, color & paint. I also work with youth & at risk, a curator, musician & co founder of the experimental call & response band Kemetic Lullaby & Sound healer.

Large-scale and small-scale contemporary sculptor

Molly MacFarlane Palmer, MMacFP, is a muralist in Batimore, MD. She has started sharing her talents when she moved to the city. She has been drawing and painting for decades for personal enjoyment and comfort, but in 2024 she began sharing her talents locally in Essex, Fredrick, Baltimore, and D.C. From murals, to museums, and commissioned artwork, she has turned her passion into a career.

Najee H.F. is a multi-disciplinary artist born in New Haven, CT and raised in Northampton Massachusetts. She is a sculptor/designer, educator/learner, spiritual seeker and lover of community living and working in Baltimore, MD. Najee holds a BA in Theater Design/Wardrobe from Hampshire College and received her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2024. Najee has shown work in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and L.A. Najee is currently a studio fellow at the Bromo Seltzer Tower.

My work examines a need for excess in the wake of restriction. After 17 years compulsively whittling down the number of foods I allowed myself to eat, last year, at age 28, I was left with just one. As my food list shrank, my paintings ballooned: domestic landscapes crowded with health books and food wrappers and children’s toys, the paint itself bloated with glitter and candy and sea glass. The resulting work is kleptic and obsessive, adorned with shiny objects like a magpie’s nest. My paintings are a meditation on disordered eating in an age of overconsumption.

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From creating music records from top to bottom to DJing and performing on stilts, 7G Bümin takes his artistry to new heights with global intent. Born Oladele Kiambu, 7G has been producing tracks since 2010, and has worked with artists such as Jidenna and Mumu Fresh. With an innovative and Afrocentric sound, he has proven himself capable of creating fresh and expansive work in a constantly changing industry. 7G Bumin’s love for music catapulted his desire for other mediums of expression throughout the years such as DJing, audio engineering, and stilt-walking.

I am Pablo MACHIOLI, a self-taught artist born in Uruguay in 1976. My journey into the realm of art commenced in 2012, driven by a profound desire to delve into the transformative power of creative expression.

I create entities that materialize my relationship to health and the anxieties that surround it. Illness, including persistent struggle with identity and body dysmorphia, as well as maladaptive and destructive self-soothing strategies, manifests itself in my art as metaphysical and anatomical explorations. Fingers, organs, torsos, and other locations both inside and outside the human body become symbolic representations of sensations and moments.

As an artist, I believe that art is not merely a luxury but an essential element of our existence. This is because it can chronicle history, enlighten minds, and preserve knowledge for future generations. As such, art is a crucial component of our cultural heritage, a heritage that should be accessible to all.

Rebecca Marimutu is an interdisciplinary image based artist currently living and working in Baltimore MD. She works to address and remove the material, political and racial hierarchy of picture & image making.