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Philip Ravita

One of the Mid-Atlantic’s most versatile and sought-after bassists, Phil Ravita leads Ravita Jazz and appears with many other jazz and classical ensembles and orchestras. He is also a college professor and host of a weekly radio program on WMTB 89.9 FM. Tune in Mondays at 7 PM EST.

Ceylon Mitchell

Dr. Ceylon Mitchell II embodies the 21st-century arts leader as a contemporary classical flutist, curator, educator, and entrepreneur. On a mission to celebrate Black and Latine voices in classical music, his diverse repertoire spans from classical to living cultural traditions across the Americas. An avid chamber musician, Dr. Mitchell leads his own music collective, Raíces Negras, a Baltimore-based music collective celebrating Black and Latine voices across the Americas with chamber music repertoire spanning from contemporary classical music to contemporary Pan-American jazz.

Page S

I love creating lines and squiggles and scratches that appear in my works. The forms take their shape, and I follow along. My work consists primarily of images/drawings created with pen, watercolours, and markers, and in my larger works, I use oil or acrylic paints; in the video, I use Stop Animation.

Eli MC

I am a character animator & filmmaker. I have professional experience in freelance and personal projects. My knowledge as a working artist has grown through the principles of appealing design.
My work consists of feature-length films, short films, documentaries, advertisements, & theater production. I would love to work on your next project.

Robert Stephonson

JustRo is an immersive visual storyteller and mechanical engineer who utilizes multiple mediums to execute his works of art.

Mateen Milan

Baltimore native Mateen Milan is a performer, teacher and advocate of music that uses the bassoon as a tool for impactful, thoughtful and inspiring musical experiences. Mateen serves as an orchestral, chamber and solo musician throughout Maryland and beyond while serving as a teaching artist for institutions such as the Peabody Preparatory, Baltimore Symphony Orchkids Program and Yale Music in Schools Initiative. Mateen sees music education as a vital tool in developing youth and communities and seeks to create equitable learning environments for students to flourish in.

Jill Orlov

Originally trained as an architect, my design process always began with tiny concept models. My architecturally inspired artwork goes back full circle, I now build miniature vignettes in metal and found objects. Still an architect at heart, my work is still the built environment…just miniaturized.

Abigail Lucien

Abigail Lucien is a Haitian American interdisciplinary artist. Working in sculpture, literature, and time-based media, Lucien’s practice addresses themes of (be)longing, futurity, myth, and place by considering our relationship to inherited colonial structures and systems of belief/care.

James Williams II

James’ works focus on themes of cultural identity and social relationships and consists of large-scale oil paintings and sculptures. Artifacts from popular culture: vintage comic books, their bright color palettes and stylized figures; newspaper advertisements, selling items with distinctly dated promises; and finally, children books, with their lasting moral lessons inspire his work.

Nekisha Durrett

Nekisha Durrett  is a mixed-media artist invested in foregrounding issues of Black life while creating a space where fantasy, imagination, and history converge. Durrett creates both large-scale and intimate installations that aim to make the ordinary enchanting, while summoning subject matter that is often underrepresented or overlooked in our day-to-day lives.

Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Finalist: Kyrae Dawaun

Kyrae Dawaun maintains a practice centering on the human dependence on inorganic matter and nonhuman existence and explores these geological transactions as they implicate human relationships. His approach to his work is influenced by his avid studies, speculation, and experience around architecture, hospitality, and the fluid and fickle nature of language.

O’Malley Steuerman

“My favorite word is VAST. Not only has it become my life’s motto—it is my mission as an artist. To be VAST is to stay gentle, courageous, and true. To create space for others to do the same”.

I create and participate in work that is Queering the system and structure of theatre.
Challenging all that interact with it to question and engage their relationship
to self.
As a trans person I feel I’m engaged in an ongoing state of transition, to seek, to find, and to never completely know the answer…
For it is in the definitive where authenticity is lost.
I believe that through showing up to my craft, collaborators, and the stories we tell with radical authenticity, community is created and little by little culture shifts
To be VAST.