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We are so glad you are with us for the 2018 Baltimore Artist Retreat (BAR)!

As we forge ahead, informed by The Contemporary’s catalytic 2016 Artist 1 Retreat, we can’t help but imagine what will come out of our time together this weekend. What’s the best that can happen when 40 Baltimore-based artists

ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | from all disciplines and 15 regional/national arts consultants gather for two days of professional and personal development?

This weekend we invite everyone to lean into what it means to “retreat”. Take time to explore, practice, listen, and contribute.

As your retreat organizers, we have the great importance (and honor) of recognizing your experience, expertise and autonomy. To help us create the most optimal environment for the exchange of ideas, skill building and network weaving, we have started a list of “Shared Agreements” for how we will be with each other this weekend. We will crowd-source additional agreements with you on Friday.

WELCOME Shared Agreements 1. Share from personal experience. 2. Respect time limitations. 3. We are all learning.

Thank you for making your being at BAR a priority.

Special thanks to our Arts & Culture funding partner, the T. Rowe Price Foundation, our Coordinating Team, our Communications Maven, Lennette Abad, our Graphic Designer, Daniel Frumhoff, and the Panel that reviewed and deliberated over 180 artist applications.

On we go, Jess Solomon Senior Program Officer (’16 Artist Retreat Consultant)

Khadija Nia Adell Program Manager/ BAR Executive Producer (’16 Artist Retreat Alumna)

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The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation invests in innovative people, projects, and ideas that improve the quality of life in Baltimore and beyond; prioritizing community development; arts, culture and media; technology, science and digital equity; social justice; and education and youth development. The 2018 Baltimore Artist Retreat (BAR) Team

JANE BROWN 2

Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | President

JESSICA SOLOMON Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Senior Programs Officer

KHADIJA NIA ADELL* THE 2018 BALTIMORE ARTIST RETREAT (BAR) TEAM Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, BAR Executive Producer

LENNETTE ABAD BAR, Media & Communications Coordinator

BALTIMORE ARTIST RETREAT COORDINATOR TEAM Lee Heinemann* Morgan Dowty* Malcolm Peacock* Markele Cullins* *Alumni of 2016 Artist Retreat

SHAN WALLACE* Photographer Artists

DC, 2018). She graduated with a BFA in Fiber from the Institute College of Art in 2015 and from 3 2011-2013 she worked full time as a hand-sewing assistant for Nick Cave Art in Chicago, IL. She is a founding

ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | member of the internationally recognized Wham City Collective. She is an adjunct faculty member of the Fiber Department at MICA and has completed residencies and fellowships at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (2014, 2016), Penland School of Crafts (2017), The Elsewhere ABDU ALI is an independent music ANGELA N. CARROLL is an Museum (2017), and Ox-Bow (2017). artist, writer, and multimedia arts artist-archivist; a purveyor and In 2018 she was awarded the curator based in Baltimore. Ali has investigator of art history and culture Maryland State Arts Council Individual released five musical projects, all in Washington DC, Maryland and Artist’s Award in Crafts and was a

ARTISTS notable for their idiosyncratic blend Virginia. Angela is a contributing Sondheim Semifinalist. of punk, futurism, jazz, Baltimore contemporary visual art, performance Club Music, and rap music, with lyrics and film criticism writer for BmoreArt Website: Aprilcamlin.com yielding poetic uprise. Through their Magazine, Arts.Black, Sugarcane work as a rapper, curator, writings, Magazine, and Umber Magazine. and outspokenness via social media/ She received her MFA in Digital Arts interviews Ali, has been elected as and New Media from the University a radical underground Baltimore of California at Santa Cruz and music and cultural figure. Ali, was currently teaches within the Film and also the founder of Kahlon, an iconic Moving Image program at Stevenson underground party that radicalized the University in Baltimore Maryland. artistic climate and made space for marginalized musicians in Baltimore. Website: Angelancarroll.com Unapologetically black, gay, and queer, IG: @angela_n_carroll Abdu Ali’s work is bold, raw, and most importantly life-affirming.

Abdu has done several tours across the U.S. and Europe, and through APRIL DANIELLE LEWIS is an artist, their energetic visceral performances, organizer, curator, and community spiritualizing audiences, their has cultivator. In 2009, April earned a been anointed as a cosmic, punk, Bachelor of Science degree in art and soulful tempest on stage. They and design with a concentration in have shared stages with notable printmaking from Towson University music acts like the Sun Ra Arkestra, and an Associate of Arts degree Mykki Blanco, Busdriver, , in visual art from Anne Arundel Lower Dens, Blaqstarr, FKA TWIGS, Community College in 2006. and has been covered internationally by Complex, AfroPunk, Saint Heron, Website: Aprildaniellelewis.com Noisey, The Fader, Mask Magazine, APRIL CAMLIN is a weaver. Using Subbacultcha, Les InRocks, Tracks her loom, she creates complex woven Arte TV, and many more. Abdu Ali works that synthesize rigorous textile is working on an EP and a debut research with explorations of repetition, album, developing their new media rhythm, and intuitive mathematics. co-op drumBOOTY, and now their She is interested in using the involved performances are accompanied by processes embedded in cloth drummer Josh Stokes. fabrication to investigate labor and create opportunities for education and Website: Abduali.com reflection. Her work has been featured IG: @abdu__ali in group and solo exhibitions at Soundcloud: Abduali Current Space (Baltimore, MD, 2018), School 33 (Baltimore, MD, 2018), SPRING/BREAK (New York, NY, 2017), Artist-Run Art Fair (Miami, FL, 2015), and DC Arts Center (Washington, of ‘teaching gold-mah how to heal Arts Center, Laurel, MD and Hillyer herself.’and the co-creator of For Art Space, Washington DC. She Black Girls Considering Womanism was included in the two-person Because Is Not Enuf. Her exhibition “Adapt/Adorn” with Amy 4 work uses a womanist approach and Boone-McCreesh at Cody Gallery at centers women’s health and well being, Marymount University, Arlington, VA.

transformative / restorative justice She has trouble sleeping. ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | and intersectionality. She writes of the immigrant experience, of blackness, of Website: Bonniecrawford.com healing, of African women made from flowers breathing fragility.

Named an indie creative that kicked ass in 2017 by Afropunk, Yahwon’s art ARIEL CAVALCANTE FOSTER is and organizing work has been featured a Brazilian-American multidisciplinary in TIME, The Nation, City Paper, artist, organizer and curator based Baltimore Sun, WYPR, Africa & Afro- in Baltimore, MD. She holds a BA Diasporian Art Talk and as the Women

from (2016) in in Africa and Diaspora columnist for ARTISTS Studio Art and concentration in Arts Ezibota. Yahwon currently serves Administration. Foster has exhibited as the Outreach Coordinator at work throughout the Maryland region Restorative Response Baltimore including at Area 405, Resort, Menial and was selected as a 2018-2019 Collection, Palacio del Sol, Hudson Peer2Peer cohort member for her Gallery and Corrin Gallery. Her work meaningful and critical transformative BONNIE JONES is a Korean- was mentioned by Baltimore Woman justice work in Baltimore. American improvising musician, poet, Makers Collective and is part of and performer working with electronic Goucher College Library and Special Bilphena Yahwon sound and text. She performs solo Collections. Foster is a recipient of the goldwomyn.com, Owner and Curator and in numerous collaborative Rosenberg Travel scholarship. She Pronouns: She / Her music, film, and visual art projects. has interned for The Contemporary “There’s really no such thing as Bonnie was a founding member of Museum (Baltimore, Md) and is the the ‘voiceless’. There are only the the Transmodern Festival and CHELA maker of Ritmo, a shop for body- deliberately silenced, or the preferably Gallery and is currently a member of printed textiles that hosts community unheard.” - Arundhati Roy the High Zero Festival collective. In workshops. Foster recently completed 2010, she co-founded TECHNE a residency in Sao Paulo, Brazil at Website: Goldwomyn.com www.technesound.org, an organization Casa Na Ilha (2017), a home for IG: @goldwomyn that introduces young female- artists to create site-specific work and identified women to technology- collaborate with the local residents focused art making, improvisation, and native islanders. and community collaboration. TECHNE’s programs are delivered Website: Arielcfoster.com through partnerships with grassroots IG: @arielcfoster organizations that share an aligned commitment to racial and equity. She has received commissions from the London ICA and and has presented her work extensively at institutions in the US, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Born in 1977 in South Korea Baltimore-based artist BONNIE she was raised on a dairy farm in CRAWFORD became interested New Jersey, and currently resides in in using electrical circuitry as an art Baltimore, Maryland. material when a problem with the electrical tissue in her own heart Website: Bonnie-jones.com required surgery. She received her BILPHENA YAHWON is a Baltimore MFA from the University of Maryland based writer, researcher, organizer Baltimore County and her BA in and womanist born in Liberia, West Studio Art from the University of Africa. Yahwon is the owner and Maryland College Park. Recent curator of goldwomyn.com, the author solo exhibitions include: Montpelier Artists

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BRYAN ROBINSON is a educator CARLA JOELLE BROWN was born COREY HUGHES is a Baltimore and mixed media artist born, raised in Baltimore, MD in 1976. She received based filmmaker creating short films, and superhero’d in Baltimore her B.A. in 1998, and M.F.A. in 2001, music videos, and publications floating Maryland. He has a background in film from the University of Maryland, between narrative, documentary,

ARTISTS (grasshopperphilms.com) , animation College Park, with a concentration and experimental tendencies. His and Business Marketing. Robinson is in printmaking. While attending work has been featured on Adult a self taught artist who operates in college, she began to question the Swim, The Fader, Vice, The Baltimore “The Random”. The blank canvas is contradiction of societal notions Sun, Afropunk, Sex Magazine, and just another portal to which his stories of beauty while taking courses in in galleries including Macao Milano, can be told. He compares his work to African American History and Art That That Gallery, and Blum & Poe. a mixture of the Mona Lisa and the History. As an interdisciplinary artist His short films have premiered at morning cartoons of the 80’s. she uses photography, printmaking International Film Festival Rotterdam, and film, to visually examine themes , Borscht Corp Robinson’s work thrives through of beauty, gender, race and family. Festival, and Locarno Film Festival, diverse mediums. He uses the Brown’s recent work focuses on her where he was awarded the Pardi di elements of traditional 2D drawings maternal grandparents and their Domani Special Jury Prize. , video installation, fashion, live direct influence on her life. In 2014, performance and to she received a Ruby’s Artist Project He graduated with a B.F.A. in Film + display his animated narratives. The Grants in Performing and Media Arts Video Arts from the Maryland Institute illustrations are inspired by what for Everyone But Two: The, Life, Love College of Art. He has participated in Robinson feels the universe presents and Travel of Benjamin and Frances international film workshops including before him through family, friends, Graham, a documentary film currently the NYU/FAMU 35mm Filmmaking society, conversation and the rhythms in development that will record the Intensive in Prague and Filming in of culture. Robinson uses simplicity artist retracing her African American Cuba with Werner Herzog. as his driving force to birth his vast grandparents’ journey by trailer, thru array of characters titled The Black the beginning in 1965. Website: Coreyhughes.info Genius Art Show. Robinson’s TBGAS In addition, Brown was a 2017 Docs-in IG: @coreyhughes2020 is a tool that inspires not just his Progress Fellow for the documentary own artistry but also the way art is and is currently a 2018 Chesapeake accepted within society. Regional Fellow (Environmental Leadership Program), to strengthen Under the motto “Create Everyday”, her leadership skills to use the film as Robinson has over 200 original a way to engage the community about illustrations, a collection of wearable the importance of being stewards for Garments and animated/film projects the outdoors and our natural spaces. in the works. Robinson currently works with school based programs, Website: Everyonebuttwo.com universities, youth groups, galleries, IG/FB: @everyonebuttwo art initiatives and community based organizations.

Websites: GrasshopperPhilms.com IG/FB: @grasshopperphilms We are a product of our past, and to Websites: Theblackgeniusartshow.com appreciate the moments that spake IG/FB: @theblackgeniusartshow into our greatness is as important as understanding our generational trauma. In coming to himself DEVLON E. WADDELL has also come to know the power in Baltimore their home, they explore the celebrating all the things that make dissonance between home, journey, him whole. And, in that, he harbors the and pain of diaspora through their responsibility of--through the merging music inspired by traditional Korean 6 of African textiles, vibrant finishes and music, Rhythm and Blues music of vintage furniture--curating pieces, and the Black diaspora as well as Korean experiences, that ushers others into tunes their dad loudly sung on family ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | a place of wholeness. The things that road trips. They are currently working Devlon makes, does, and creates are with the Red Emma’s Collective, a direct reflection of who he is and Fusion Partnerships, 0Zone collective where he’s from. They make tangible to create platforms for POC Artists, his connection to others. A native of and the North Avenue Knowledge Baltimore, MD, Devlon E Waddell is, at Exchange for free community base, a storyteller. workshops in Baltimore City. ERNEST SHAW was born and raised Website: KnotYouVtg.Life in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a product IG/FB: @knotyouvtg of the Baltimore City Public School System. Mr. Shaw earned a high

school diploma from the Baltimore ARTISTS School for the Arts, a B.A. degree from Morgan State University, and an M.F.A. from Howard University. It is at these institutions that the artist began to develop the skills and techniques necessary to articulate the Black Experience through visual representation. Ernest Shaw is now a high school teacher in Baltimore and an adjunct professor at Maryland Institute College of Art. The artist’s GIANNA RODRIGUEZ is a visual paintings are a direct reflection of his and performing artist, dancer, experiences as an African American. choreographer, educator, and arts AMOROUS EBONY lures you into His choice of subject matter and manager living in Baltimore, MD. Her a sultry trance like the dance of a style follows the tradition of many practice is interdisciplinary, consisting summer night’s soiree. Amorous African American Figurative Painters of a social arts practice through her Ebony is a vocalist, actress, jeweler, such as: John Biggers, Charles White, work with Baltimore Youth Arts as bruja, teacher and radical artivist and Romare Bearden. It is the artist’s well as a personal performance and centering her work around the dream to continue to create artwork visual arts practice. She holds a B.A. freedom, empowerment, and self- that exhibits the Duality of the African from , where she expression of Black Womyn. With American Experience. focused on Latin American Studies, years of experience in cultivating Social Movements and Collaborative spaces of spiritual empowerment Website: Shawfineart.imagekind.com Art as well as a Masters in Education, and body positivity for Black Womyn, IG: @eshaw_art Art k-12, from Goddard College. she fosters growth and healing in the face of unchecked misogyny; Gianna has presented her work and and in her years-long work as an performed with various artists in the arts instructor specializing in African Northeast and Mid-Atlantic at venues Folklore for children in grades K-8, such as the Modern Movement Amorous continues the work of Festival (Providence, RI.), Southern dismantling white supremacy in our Vermont Dance Festival (Brattleboro, most vulnerable populations. VT), the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, R.I.), the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C.), Creative Alliance (Baltimore, MD), the , and the Baltimore Dance Invitational.

Website: Giannarodriguez.com EUNB1 is an angry asian jigglypuff who sings of diaspora blues. Born in Koreatown Los Angeles but calling Artists

medication that required needles in the stomach, Jason passed the time listening to podcasts. One podcast in 7 particular, “Startup”, inspired him to start his own podcast.

ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | A lifelong resident of Baltimore, Jason was tired of being asked the same question when he travelled and told people where he was from. He wanted to create something that portrayed Baltimore in a more positive light. Since then, Jason has published over 50 episodes of Local Color, held HANNAH WIDES is a Baltimore- Storyteller, Artist, Writer, Host MC, two live shows, moderated a panel based artist, furniture maker, fabricator, I am the Editor of Perverts of Color discussion for Creative Mornings and and the Manual Operations Manager Zine, a bi-monthly magazine about connected with his city’s black arts and at Open Works, a non profit maker kinky people of color! POC Zine is business scenes.

ARTISTS space in Baltimore City. They received dedicated to celebrating the diversity a BFA from the School of Art of of perversity in alternative sexual When he’s not editing audio, recording Cooper Union in New York in 2011 lifestyles including BDSM, Leather, in his closet-studio or changing and studied wood carving through an Fetish D/s & the rest! Tell a friend the batteries in his digital recorder, exchange program at its sister school (or 3) and get a copy! Perverts of Jason works in IT for a Managed in Japan, Kyoto Seika University. In Color Zine is currently open for Service Provider in the Baltimore 2012 Hannah received a certification submissions. http://www.etsy.com/ area. His interests include podcasting, in woodworking and furniture design shop/KinkArtBlack exercising, playing video games and at Yestermorrow Design/Build School making his girlfriend happy. One day in Vermont. Hannah’s work has been I’m a JAKI GRIOT, a storyteller who he’ll quit his day job and podcast full- exhibited in group and solo shows in is attracted to people with passion: time, and dreams of running his own the US and abroad. At Open Works, kinksters, artists, musicians, rebels, media company. Hannah oversees operation and witches, magical creatures, creative maintenance of the wood, metal, weirdos and intelligent troublemakers and textiles facilities as a full time for friendship and art. I’m building manager. Their work experience my communities, one person at a ranges from carpentry, cabinet making, time. If you are interested in joining art and museum fabrication, timber a community to create more framing, woodwork project and design media featuring kinky people of color, consulting as well as sculptural and visit my Patreon. furniture commission work. Hannah has taught woodworking through Website: Patreon.com/jakigriot youth mentorship and adult education IG: @JAKIGRIOT through various organizations in and around Baltimore. With an emphasis on craft and traditional tools spanning cultures and eras, Hannah synthesizes techniques of traditional and modern JENAHYE JOHNSON is a Baltimore wood carving and furniture making based Writer, Director, and Producer. with investigations in critical art, From as early as she can remember, gender, and economic theory, as the she has been drawn to the art of framework of their art practice. filmmaking and storytelling. She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she received her MFA in Filmmaking. In the Spring 2016, her first film, Eden premiered at the Maryland Film Festival and she has never looked JASON VAN SLYKE (or Jason V) is back. She is currently a Producer a podcaster living in Baltimore. Jason with Splashlight Studios and moving started “Local Color: A Baltimore forward, Jenahye hopes to continue Podcast” in the Fall of 2015, after a creating films for and about African car accident left him unable to walk, American and LGBTQ communities. drive or work for that entire summer. In between Netflix binges and Hyperallergic. She currently writes for The New Republic.

When she’s not selling books at Red 8 Emma’s Bookstore Coffeeshop, an anarcho-pacifist cooperative based

out of Station North, she’s serving as ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | a blogs editor for Full Stop, where she also writes a semi-regular column about the urgency of life.

During her undergraduate career, she published a paper in the academic anthology Critical Insights: Civil Rights JERRELL GIBBS is a fine artist and Literature - Past and Present, in which KEI ITO is a US-based photographer Creative Community Fellow of the she wrote about colorism in African- and installation artist who graduated National Arts Strategies. He examines American literature about domestic from Maryland Institute College of his life-story and that of family and servitude. The book was published in Art (’16) with an MFA in Photography,

friends in order to conceive and February 2017 by Salem Press. following his BFA from Rochester ARTISTS engage in the multilayered experience Institute of Technology (‘14). of the African-American diaspora. His exhibition highlights include: Art Kei’s work addresses issues of in the hands of Men at the Reginald F. generational connection and deep Lewis Museum, Painted Matters at The loss as he explores the materiality Galleries at CCBC and Black Artists of photography as a medium. His of DC: A legacy of Excellence at The recent work deals with the tragedy and Gallery at Howard University. He also legacy passed on from his grandfather has a permanent collection in the who survived the atomic bombing of Harbor Bank of Maryland. Hiroshima, yet died from cancer, and Gibbs is renowned for his social the threat of nuclear disaster which commentary on issues such as is still present today. His photo- male identity, masculinity, politics, based installation take the audience stereotypes and social issues. on a journey of grief, remembrance, His passion for raising awareness and hope. Through his ritualistic on social issues that affect the KATELYN BROWN explores the image-making, the audience may community is transparent through black woman experience and its see how his family history grapples all of his artwork. His use of dialect marriage to the black community and with the legacy of nuclear weapons integrated with symbolic elements the world in broader terms primarily and power. Thus, his art serves as an from many different cultures is a way through digital portrait photography intermediary between the heritage of to encourage diversity while building and mixed media. Self-taught, Katelyn Kei’s grandfather and today’s nuclear social capital. Jerrell likes to leave began photographing as a means of climate as a memento. messages for deeper consideration. investigating self image. In her early work she yielded chiefly self portraits, His recent exhibitions include Website: Jerrellgibbs.com highlighting freedom and black beauty Afterimage Requiem at the Baltimore IG/FB: @Jerrell_Gibbs as major themes. Her influences War Memorial funded by the Rubys include Quazi King, Mickalene Thomas, Artist grant, an art billboard in NYC James Baldwin and Kerry James funded by 14x48.org art billboard Marshall; as such, Katelyn has begun organization, and Only What We Can to weave the vast definitions of black Carry, a solo show at the Hillyer Art womanness together with notions Space in Washington, DC. that are present but not limited to self love as a revolution, vulnerability, Website: Kei-ito.com naturalness and introspection, being IG: @kei.ito.art the needle and threads. Katelyn is currently experimenting with adding mixed media elements to her photographs using gold, silver, and copper leafing, paint and collaging. Katelyn currently lives in Baltimore, Md where she is attending Maryland KAILA PHILO is a writer based in Institute College of Art earning a MFA Baltimore. Her work has appeared in in Photographic & Electronic Media. The New Inquiry, The Baffler, VICE, and Artists

was awarded with international and self reflection. Through series of scholarships. Lucas has been living endurance, both mental and physical, in the United States since 2012. she has found ways to experiment 9 He has won awards and shown in with the isolation and collective several venues around the United consciousness within an audience. States, including galleries in Texas, Her performance pieces surround the

ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | Delaware, Baltimore, Washington DC themes of vulnerability and exposure, Philadelphia and New York. After using her body as a historical vessel completing his BFA in at the that inherently changes objects’ Maryland Institute College of Art, his context based on proximity and/or Painting practice explored Community interaction. One big part of the work is engaged art as well as advocacy dedicated to what the audience will put work in Annapolis towards criminal forward, and whether they’ll feel like Justice reform as well as immigration deconstructing the elements of her KRYSTAL MACK’S work focuses on reform, Lucas sought art to act as a identity, or decide to add onto what’s food at the intersection of emotion mechanism of hope, beauty and social already there. She echoes methods of and consumption. I approach justice. The outcome of his work has contemporary european & american comestibles, their creation, and becomes a system of natural paintings performance art with the injection/

ARTISTS experiences centered on them, as and sculptures that incite and perform substitution of her own body. It is tools for community building that can social reflection. important to reference the placement heal a variety of traumas. Viewing food of many of her performances as a through the lens of healing, allows my Website: Lucasnovaes.weebly.com critique of institution and where bodies work to juxtapose cultural exchange IG: @lteles300 like hers place in them. Lynn recently and storytelling with systemic power exhibited for Labbodies’ III Annual and oppression, self-care with blind Performance Art Review, and had a self-destruction, and womanism 3 day solo performance series for with feminism. Some of my past Platform Gallery’s closing exhibit. Lynn works include an experimental also previously fulfilled a fellowship at frozen desserts project, KarmaPop; the renowned Aperture Foundation the creation of Baltimore’s first food in New York City, and currently focuses vending tricycle, The PieCycle; and on facilitating community events conceptual pop-up dinners. I have as well as exhibited performances. assisted at the annual Icon Dinner at The James Beard House and was Website: Lynnhunterphoto.com named a “Woman To Watch” by The Baltimore Sun. I currently work and reside in Baltimore, Maryland. instagram.com/krystalcmack LYNN HUNTER is a Baltimore Website: Krystalcmack.com native and recent graduate from IG: @krystalcmack the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Photography. She holds a position at the Baltimore Museum of Art in the volunteer programing department and exhibits work throughout the city. Her photography and performance art, driven by a passionate awareness of social politics, black womanhood, and mental well being, speaks to a MCKINLEY WALLACE III is a pervasive conversation on race and mixed-media community artist minority perception in America and who creates narratives that frame beyond. Lynn’s presence as a local explicit depictions of oppressed artist has grown out of a commitment people deprived of bodies and faces, to her lower income Baltimore city demanding liberation from the elite community. Since an early arts in Baltimore City. He earned his BFA Born in 1994 in Sao Paulo city Brazil, education she has made work for in Painting from Maryland Institute LUCAS NOVAES was raised in Brazil local institutions, universities, and College of Art in May 2015. Within the in a family of artists, craftsmen and cultural centers. past few years, Mr. Wallace has worked musicians. After studying classical at various institutions, businesses, and music with Jose Egídio de Oliveria Currently her practice places focus on nonprofits in Maryland, including being and fine arts with Roberto Luiz de creating situations within exhibitions a muralist for NIKE, Inc., Spectrum Sá through high school; his work that foster empathy, as well as world Design Studios, and Jubilee Arts, and as a teacher for the Walters Art Yorker described my work on view White Plains, NY, they have 7 years Museum, Creative Alliance, and Young at the Museum. I have of design experience and studied Audiences. Mr. Wallace began working been awarded a 2011 Tiffany and a at the Maryland Institute College of at Access Art as a Community Arts 2009 award and a 2018 Art. As an artist they explore ideas 10 Collaborative Fellow two years ago Guggenheim Fellowship. surrounding blackness, queer sexuality through AmeriCorps and was brought and mental health through the use on a lead teacher in 2017. He now Website: Mequittaahuja.com of typography, pattern making, and ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | conceives, designs, and manages art publications. ndeyedesign.com education initiatives and is in charge Natalia Celine Arias is a multifaceted of class structure, core curriculum artist and designer from Miami, development, and identifying Florida. She received her BFA in learning objectives for its middle Graphic Design from Maryland school youth program. Institute College of Art, where she also focused on Sound Art, Illustration, Website: Mckinleywallaceiii.com and Video/Film Arts. With a passion for creative direction and exploring nostalgia, she dedicates herself to music, film, and pop culture while

emphasizing strong ties to diversity ARTISTS in the entertainment industry within her work. She currently resides in Baltimore, MD where she actively MICHELLE ANTOINETTE NELSON explores design as the Graphics and aka LOVE the poet is an artist, Video Coordinator for Johns Hopkins innovator, and Founder of Brown and University School of Nursing. She also Healthy, a non-profit global health performs spoken word poetry and and wellness initiative for people of music as her alter ego, CELINE. color. She has appeared on CNN Live, CBS WJZ-TV, and Fox 45 television as Website: Ndeyedesign.com a multifaceted career creative who’s MEQUITTA AHUJA dedicated over a decade of her life’s I paint painting. I constantly work to innovating for social justice, rediscover painting through studying authoring books and plays, writing its diverse conceptions across time arts education curricula and providing and geography. I am obsessed with platforms for artists and entrepreneurs little things like Goya’s calling card to explore and discover the true clutched in a magpie’s beak and nature of their work. Michelle is also Zurburan’s cartellino on a painting the Founder of BE FREE Fridays, the of the crucifixion. I am motivated by longest running monthly open mic in big ideas such as innovating within Baltimore, co-curator, and host of The formal painting conventions and Red Bull Amaphiko US Festival. subverting contemporary taboos against “didactic” or “precious” art. Website: Brownandhealthy.com My central intention is to turn the IG/Twitter: @brownandhealthy artist’s self-portrait, especially the NATALIA CELINE ARIAS is a woman-of-color’s self-portrait, long multifaceted artist and designer from circumscribed by identity, into a Miami, Florida. She received her BFA discourse on picture-making, past and in Graphic Design from Maryland present. By positioning a woman-of- Institute College of Art, where she color as primary picture-maker in also focused on Sound Art, Illustration, whose hands the figurative tradition is and Video/Film Arts. With a passion refashioned, I knit my contemporary for creative direction and exploring concerns, personal and painterly, into nostalgia, she dedicates herself to the centuries old conversation of music, film, and pop culture while representation. My works have emphasizing strong ties to diversity been widely exhibited. Venues in the entertainment industry within include Brooklyn Museum, Studio her work. She currently resides in Museum in Harlem, , Baltimore, MD where she actively Minneapolis Institute of Art, Crystal explores design as the Graphics and Bridges, Baltimore Museum of Art N’DEYE DIAKHATE is a Video Coordinator for Johns Hopkins and Grand Rapids Art Museum. multidisciplinary designer, artist and University School of Nursing. She also “Whip-smart and languorous” is how communications manager based performs spoken word poetry and the July 24, 2017 issue of the New in Baltimore, MD. Originally from music as her alter ego, CELINE.

Website: Nataliacarias.com Artists

in Baltimore where she teaches as an Adjunct Professor at Stevenson University’s Theatre Department. 11 She is deeply dedicated to creating performance and constructing live images that unearth the unspoken of

ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | and question the taboo. Her recent works include Masjid Al-Munfaletat (The Mosque of Loose Women), an immersive performance experience that follows the re-imaged lives of three ‘martyr’ women: Loujain Hathloul, Dina Ali Lasloom and Qandeel Baloch.

As a Healing Artist, NICOLETTA A graduate of the American Film Website: Sarabahermez.com DE LA BROWN puts energy into Institute, PHILL BRANCH recently developing works that communicate directed Searching for Shaniqua; his with her core and to others about documentary about the impact names

ARTISTS the beauty of existence. She is an have on our lives. The film won the interdisciplinary artist; sculptor, HBO Best Documentary award at the filmmaker, performer. Her work is 2016 Martha’s Vineyard African- about light, connection, love. She American Film Festival. fabricates sculptural installations and objects, and creates performances Phill was awarded a prestigious that are meant to communicate Lambda Literary Emerging Writers introspection. She is motivated by the Fellowship in nonfiction. He was idea of the collective oneness; that all featured in the award winning is interconnected. Her process begins anthology For Colored Boys Who with self-examination; healing the Have Considered Suicide and has residual wounds from past traumas. performed personal essays in shows To Nicoletta, art means hope. She across the country. Phill is a writing SCHROEDER CHERRY: Paintings makes because she aims to heal. professor in the Department of English with Objects on wood She draws inspiration from nature, at Howard University and faculty at A native of Washington, D.C., Dr. science, modern philosophy, and D.C.’s Story District. Schroeder Cherry is an artist and ancient spiritual rituals. She combines museum educator. He has held techniques in fiber manipulation, Website: Phillbranch.com museum positions in Chicago, casting, alchemy, accumulation, and Twitter: @phillbranch Washington, D.C., New York, Malibu new media. Her goals are to capture Film: Gumroad.com/l/shaniquafilm and Baltimore. For 8 years he served memories and facilitate moments. at The Institute of Museum and She aims to achieve vulnerable Library Services, first as Deputy self-awareness. Part of her process, Director for Museums, and later as before rendering, is to read as much Counselor to the Director. He currently as possible. Typically drawn to teaches museum studies to graduate researching and examining the ideas students, and resides in Maryland. behind topics such as social sculpture The artworks are mixed media and the performative body. Nicoletta assemblages on wood, often is deeply embedded in everything incorporating found objects. Keys that she creates. She tries with and locks represent tools of access. every finished work to have others Watermelon images reference the leave with a piece of her, yet she African diaspora (in a positive way). always remains whole. Although the works tend to have narratives, there is no one story, as Website: Vidamagica.love viewers bring their own experiences to IG: @vida.magica.love SARA BAHERMEZ is a Yemeni- each piece. Emirati experimental and interdisciplinary designer, director, performer and educator from Abu Dhabi, UAE. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from NYU Abu Dhabi, she moved to Baltimore to pursue an MFA in Theatre from Towson University as a Fulbright Scholar. Bahermez is currently based 12 ARTIST RETREAT 2018 |

URSULA W. POPULOH is a native VALENTINA IGNACIA CABEZAS- WHITNEY FRAZIER is an of Germany. Born during World SENA (b. 1994 Rancagua, Chile) interdisciplinary artist, educator, War II (1942) she has experienced is an interdisciplinary artist and and activist living in Baltimore City, poverty and deprivation. After fifty community organizer based in MD. She completed her MFA in

years of work in many different areas Baltimore, Maryland. Her interests lie Community Arts at the Maryland ARTISTS and professions she retired in 2009. at the intersections of sustainability, Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2013. In 2011, after spending a year of social change, identity politics and Since relocating to Baltimore 2002, personalized studies in Europe, she cultural equity with a keenness to Frazier has developed her community returned to the U.S. determined to aid in the creation of communal arts practice in neighborhoods fulfill her lifelong dream of attending spaces that encourage inclusivity throughout Baltimore City. Her most college. In spring of 2012 she applied and collaborative work. She is an recent project in Darley Park (East at Maryland Institute College of Art organizing member of Press Press, a Baltimore) involved local residents (MICA), was accepted, and graduated collective publishing initiative with an who participated in a series of design summa cum laude with a Bachelor understand of publishing as an act to workshops to reinvision a series of Degree in Fine Arts (Fiber) in gather a public. Recently, she aided in abandoned lots. Over the past 5 years, May 2015. Since her graduation she the organization of the Roots & Raices Frazier worked in partnership with has created her art, had her first Festival, a platform in which Latinx the Neighborhood Design Center and solo show at School 33 in Baltimore artist participate to create spaces other community organizations to (2017) and performed many times as that promote love and positivity for raise funds to create several puppeteer in a variety of venues. immigrants and encourages civic outdoor murals, play equipment and engagement. Valentina received a an amphitheater which includes Her work about the history of BFA from the Maryland Institute three sun sails designed by the Darley Baltimore, an extensive project of College of Art in 2016. Park Seniors. embroidered and appliqued panels, was exhibited at Maryland Art Place Currently, Frazier is painting large show ‘Waving and Wavering’ in the scale abstract murals commissioned Spring of 2018. A submission of by local institutions, teaching an embroidered and appliqued quilt courses at MICA and the Baltimore ‘Blowing in the Wind’ was accepted Montessori Public Charter School, and shown in a group exhibit ‘Wonders raising her daughter and advocating of the Wind’ of the Chesapeake for arts in Baltimore schools. Whether Climate Network in May of 2018. she is creating murals, videos, or performances, Frazier believes that Ursula hopes that with her active life through a collaborative process art she can inspire others and prove that has the ability to transform lives and age should neither prevent you from strengthen our communities. going to school nor should it have any impact on pursuing your dreams.

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2017, he co-founded the gallery and studio complex Cardinal in the Bolton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. He 13 previously worked as an adjunct professor at Point Loma Nazarene University and as Manager of Public

ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | Programs for the San Diego Museum of Art for 6 years. As a curator, he has organized shows at the San Diego Museum of Art, Southwestern College, Helmuth Projects, the Walters Art Museum, Cardinal, and Maryland Art Place.

ADAM HOLOFCENER is a Baltimore ANDREW SIMONET is a writer native who has let his passion for art and choreographer in Philadelphia. and community guide him throughout From 1993 to 2013, he co-directed his career. He entered the legal Headlong Dance Theater, creating

CONSULTANTS profession as a practicing sound artist dances like CELL (a journey for one and musician fascinated by copyright audience member guided by your cell law and the myriad issues facing his phone), and This Town is a Mystery artist colleagues. This perspective (dances by four Philadelphia families uniquely positions him to work with in their homes). He left Headlong creators of all types. He ensures that to focus on writing; his debut novel, they are able to receive the business Wilder, will be published by Farrar, and legal help that they need to Straus, and Giroux in November 2018. support themselves and their families. In 2006, he founded Artists U, an In addition to his work at MdVLA, incubator for helping artists make Adam also teaches a course on ANA TEMPLE RODNEY sustainable lives, with programs in Entertainment and Sports Law at the Owner/Director MOMCares Philadelphia, Baltimore, and South University of Maryland Francis King Carolina. He wrote Making Your Life Carey School of Law and maintains a Ana is a doula, author, yogi, Reiki as an Artist, an open source guide to sound art and performance practice. Master and healer based in the living as an artist. He has received Baltimore metropolitan area. Ana a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, an Website: Adamgholofcener.com has been practicing holistic healing Independence Fellowship in the Arts, modalities in and around Baltimore a Bessie for Choreography at the for the last 10 years. As the director of New York Dance and Performance MOMCares, Ana provides postpartum Awards, and residencies at Yaddo, doula support to Black mothers with Ucross, Marble House, and Hambidge. a child in the Neonatal Intensive Care His performance work has been Units in hospitals around Baltimore. supported by The Creative Capital As a Reiki Master, Ana uses her Foundation, National Endowment knowledge in herbalism, crystal for the Arts, Pew Trusts, Rockefeller healing, aromatherapy, and sound Foundation, Japan Foundation, and healing to support clients through New England Foundation for the Reiki healing sessions. Ana is a yoga Arts, and produced by Dance Theater instructor that provides body positive Workshop (NYC), The Kyoto Art yoga classes throughout the city Center, P.S. 122 (NYC), Central Park including Creative Alliance where she Summerstage, The Jade Festival co-curated a show on trauma and its (Tokyo), The Philadelphia Live Arts ALEXANDER JARMAN is a DJ, artistic expression late in 2017. Ana Festival, The Massachusetts Museum artist, educator, and curator living in currently runs a mindful program for of Contemporary Art, and the Portland Baltimore, Maryland. The opportunity youth in the Sandtown-Winchester Institute for Contemporary Art. to make art is just as important to community. As an Elevation Award him as the responsibility to serve winner, Ana has created safe and the art community well. Jarman healing spaces throughout Baltimore is currently Manager of Adult and city for women and families in Community Outreach Programs Baltimore including a monthly healing at the Walters Art Museum, Board series at the Impact Hub. Member at Intersection of Change, Volunteer Teacher at Jubilee Arts, IG: MOMCares_Baltimore and Member of the Motor House FB: MOMCares Program Advisory Committee. In Youtube: The Rising Mama 14 ARTIST RETREAT 2018 |

CARLA DU PREE DEANA HAGGAG is the President ELISSA BLOUNT MOORHEAD, Literary Artist & Consultant, State Arts & CEO of United States Artists, a artist, curator, and programmer has Ambassador, Speaker national arts funding organization created public art, exhibitions, and Carla Du Pree is executive director of based in Chicago, IL. Before joining cultural programs for the last 25 years.

CityLit Project. She’s featured regional USA in February 2017, she was She is currently a principal partner at CONSULTANTS and transnational authors at festivals, the Executive Director of The TNEG film studios, (along with Arthur workshops and produced award- Contemporary, a nomadic and non- Jafa and Malik Sayeed) which creates winning programs: the daylong CityLit collecting art museum in Baltimore, films and time based-installations. Festival, HoCoPoLitSo’s The Writing MD, for four years. In addition to her Life. Excerpts of her work include leadership roles, Deana lectures She co-founded Red Clay Arts in NYC Callaloo, The Spirit of Pregnancy, and extensively, consults on various art where she curated/produced over 20 “Words” on MPT’s Artworks. She’s initiatives, contributes to cultural exhibitions and multimedia projects spoken on national platforms for publications, and has taught at including; Random Occurrences, a Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Lucille institutions such as Johns Hopkins multi- venue exhibition; Cat Calls Clifton, National State Arts Agencies, University and Towson University. (Street Harassment project) at St. National Women’s Studies Association, She is on the Board of Trustees of Ann’s Warehouse and the NYC and Association of Writers & Writing the Detroit Institute of Arts, Maryland Museum; Practicum, the inaugural Programs. She’s the recipient of a Institute College of Art and Common experimental series at BRIC; Rubys Artist Grant, an MSAC Award, Field, as well as on the Advisory FunkGodJazzMedicine, the multi-site Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Council of Recess. She received her project in partnership with Creative and Poetry Foundation fellowships. MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Time; Art in Odd Places, an outdoor She edited the most sought-after Maryland Institute College of Art and performance and visual art installation; issue of Shooting Star Review in a BA from Rutgers University in Art and Flux Festival, an installation of its 14-year history. She’s written/ History and Philosophy. time based, visual and performance produced two plays, was general work. She served as curatorial advisor manager of American Visions, served Website: Dhaggag.com for The Contemporary, board member on Maryland’s OMOB Selection IG: @dhaggag for The Maryland Film Festival, and Committee, county/state judge for as a Public Art Commissioner in NEA’s national poetry competition, and Baltimore City. She is the author of P NEA’s Big Read. With a Masters from is for Pussy, an illustrated “children’s” JHU, she’s a former adjunct professor, book. She is currently directing active on three boards, serving on a documentary film entitled The three more in an advisory capacity. Terribles and projection installation called As of A Now, for which she was Website: Citylitproject.org award The Ruby Award prize and The Website: Msac.org Saul Zaentz Innovation Fellowship. She IG/Twitter: @darkndifferent was awarded the United States Artist Website: Baltimoremagazine.com/ Fellow grant for 2018 for film. search?q=carla+du+pree Website: Tneg.us Consultants

has met with several award-winning authors including Margo Jefferson, Naomi Jackson, and Angela Flournoy. 15 Well-Read Black Girl’s mission is to increase the visibility of Black women writers and initiate meaningful

ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | conversation with readers. Glory has worked as a creative strategist for over 10 years at start-ups and cultural institutions, including the New York Foundation for the Arts and The Webby Awards. Currently, she is the Publishing Outreach Specialist at Kickstarter, where she helps GEORGE CISCLE GEORGE SCHEER is an artist- writers use the platform to build Curator-in-Residence, Emeritus,+ organizer and director who fosters community and find support for Founding Director, Curatorial Practice creative communities at the their creative endeavors. MFA, MICA intersection of aesthetics and social

CONSULTANTS + change. George is the co-founder and IG: @wellreadblackgirl Founder, The Contemporary Director of Elsewhere, a living museum George Ciscle has mounted and artist residency set in a former groundbreaking exhibitions, created thrift store in Greensboro, NC. Other community arts programs, and taught projects include Kulturpark, a public fine arts and humanities courses for investigation of a Soviet amusement close to 50 years. He trained as a park in East , and South Elm sculptor, studying with Isamu Noguchi. Projects, a curated series of place- For 15 years he developed high school based public art commissions for interdisciplinary curriculum and work- downtown Greensboro. George holds study programs for the emotionally an MA in Humanities with a focus disadvantaged. In 1985, he opened on critical theory and visual culture the George Ciscle Gallery where he from Duke University and a BA from promoted the careers of young and the University of Pennsylvania in emerging artists. Political Communication. Currently, he From 1989-1996 Ciscle was pursuing a PhD in Communication and the founder and director of The Performance Studies at the University JESSICA STAFFORD DAVIS is Contemporary, an “un-museum,” of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, writing the founder of The Agora Culture, a which challenges existing conventions about the cultural economy of ‘place’ multi-cultural web-based business arts for exhibiting art in non-traditional in art and urban policy following the platform that connects artists with a sites focusing its exhibitions and 2008 financial crisis. diverse array of new and experienced outreach on connecting artists’ works collectors. In addition, The Agora with people’s everyday lives. From Culture presents Art on the Vine that 1997-2017 , as Curator-in-Residence includes a four week artist residency at Maryland Institute College of and an art fair that takes place on Art ,he continued to develop new Martha’s Vineyard. She serves on the models for connecting art, artists, and Advisory Council for George Mason audiences by creating the Exhibition University School of the Arts and is Development Seminar, Curatorial a member of ArtTable, a leadership Studies Concentration and the MFA in organization for professional women in Curatorial Practice. the visual arts.

GLORY EDIM is the founder of Well- Read Black Girl, a Brooklyn-based book club and digital platform that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature & sisterhood. Her book club Kimi Hanauer is an artist, writer, and “Best Artist 2015.” Additionally, cultural organizer originally from REWIND received “Best Solo Show Tel Aviv and based in Baltimore. In 2015” and “#1 Art Show of 2015” her practice, she is dedicated to two from Baltimore City Paper, reviews 16 goals: first, to cultivate models and by The Huffington Post, Artnet News, methodologies that can serve as Washington Post, The Root, and The

utopian alternatives to our current Real News Network. Rucker has ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | realities, and second, to develop received numerous grants, awards, networks and spaces that can and residencies for visual art and translate these alternatives into music. He is a 2012 Creative Capital concrete experiences. She is the Grantee in visual art as well as a 2014 founding editor of Press Press, a MAP (Multi-Arts Production) Fund publishing initiative that aims to Grantee for performance. In 2015 he shift and deepen the understanding received a prestigious Joan Mitchell JOYCE YU-JEAN LEE is an of voices, identities, and narratives Painters & Sculptors Grant as well artist working with video projection, that have been suppressed or as the Mary Sawyer Baker Award. In technology and interactive installation. misrepresented by the mainstream. 2016 Paul received the Rauschenberg Her artwork examines how mass Kimi’s work has been exhibited Artist as Activist fellowship and

media and visual culture shape internationally and is held in the the Smithsonian Artist Research CONSULTANTS notions of truth and understanding collection of the Whitney Museum Fellowship, for which he is the first of the “other.” Her project about of American Art. artist in residence at the new National Internet censorship, FIREWALL,​ Museum of African American Culture. garnered backlash from Chinese state authorities in 2016​ ​and​ ​recently Residencies include MacDowell exhibited at in NYC and Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Ucross the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway. Foundation, Art OMI, Banff Centre, Joyce’s​ artwork has been shown Pilchuck Glass School, Rauschenberg around the world and written about in Residency, Joan Mitchell Residency, The New York Times, The Washington Hemera Artist Retreat, Air Serembe, Post, ​ Huffington​ Post, ​ Hyperallergic​ Creative Alliance, and the Rockefeller and ArtCritical. She is the recipient of Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Italy. In 2013-2015, he was the Robert Council; Asian Women Giving Circle; W. Deutsch Foundation Artist in Franklin Furnace Fund; Maryland Residence and Research Fellow at the State Arts Council; and The Walters Maryland Institute College of Art. Art Museum. Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Marist PAUL RUCKER is a visual artist, He was most recently awarded a 2017 College and serves as a trustee for , and musician who John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a The Contemporary in Baltimore, often combines media, integrating TED Fellowship, and the Arts Innovator championing professional services live performance, sound, original Award from the Dale and Leslie to artists in the region​. compositions, and visual art. His work Chihuly Foundation. is the product of a rich interactive Website: Joyceyujeanlee.com process, through which he investigates This fall, Rucker’s work will be featured Website: Firewallcafe.com community impacts, human rights at the Institute for Contemporary Art issues, historical research, and at Virginia Commonwealth University basic human emotions surrounding in its inaugural exhibition, Declaration. particular subject matter. Much of his current work focuses on the Prison Paul Rucker is a iCubed Visiting Arts Industrial Complex and the many Fellow embedded at the Institute issues accompanying incarceration for Contemporary Art at Virginia in its relationship to slavery. He has Commonwealth University. presented performances and visual art exhibitions across the country and Website: Paulrucker.com has collaborated with educational In Light of History: institutions to address the issue of Inlightofhistory.com mass incarceration. Presentations Rewind Exhibition: have taken place in schools, active Rewindexhibition.com prisons and also inactive prisons such as Alcatraz. KIMI HANAUER Artist, Cultural Organizer, Writer + His largest installation to date, Founding Editor, Press Press REWIND, garnered praise from Baltimore Magazine awarding Paul Consultants

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Attorney and Art Consultant, WENDEL PATRICK has been WHITNEY HARDY is a social SCHWANDA ROUNTREE, places referred to as “David Foster Wallace entrepreneur and cultural producer. contemporary art in museums and reincarnated as a sound engineer” She is the founder of Young Arts private collections, domestically and by Urbanite Magazine and as “wildly Patrons and the Young Collectors

CONSULTANTS internationally. She currently serves talented” by the Baltimore Sun. He has Contemporary Art Fair and as Consultant for the Joan Mitchell been referred to by XLR8R magazine Conference. In addition to her Foundation. She has also served as “a hip-hop producer that could leadership roles, Whitney lectures as Advisory Board Member of the easily make any fan of Squarepusher, extensively on entrepreneurship, Spelman College Museum of Fine Boards of Canada, or Madlib flip consults on various arts initiatives Art, Advisory Panel Member of out.” In the February 2018 issue of and activations, designs high-impact CulturalDC, Executive Board Member Baltimore Magazine, Wendel Patrick programming for non-profits, and of the Porter Colloquium on African was named one of 30 Baltimore contributes to various cultural American Art, member of ArtTable, Visionaries, calling him “one of the publications such as Vice and and Advisory Board Member for most influential and omnipresent Americans for the Arts. Currently the 30 Americans exhibition at the figures in the local arts scene”. The residing in Memphis, TN, she is on the Corcoran Gallery of Art. alter ego of classical and jazz pianist Board of Directors for ArtsMemphis Kevin Gift, Wendel Patrick is rapidly and River City Capital Investment, Schwanda has curated several art making a name for himself as a as well as on the policy council exhibitions including ones during producer to be recognized. With five for education non-profit Seeding Miami Art Basel and the DC Jazz solo albums to his credit, on which Success. She received her Masters Festival. She has spoken on art panels he played every instrument, he is in Accountancy from University of at institutions and galleries, such as equally at home behind two turntables, Tennessee Haslam School of Business. the Corcoran, the Phillips Collection, beatboxing, improvising, or playing the National Museum of Women in a Mozart Concerto on stage with an the Arts, and Rush Arts Gallery in New orchestra. He is a co-founder of the York. She has served as Contributing Baltimore Boom Bap Society and Writer for the International Review on co-creator of “Out of the Blocks”, the African American Art. Edward R. Murrow award winning documentary radio program that has Website: Rountreeart.com aired on WYPR, NPR and The BBC. Mr. IG/FB: @Rountreeart Patrick is a recipient of the 2015 Baker Artist Awards’ Mary Sawyers Baker grand prize, and was a professor of music at Loyola University Maryland for eleven years. He currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University and at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he teaches “Hip Hop Music Production: History and Practice”, the first course of its kind to be taught at a major traditional music conservatory anywhere in the United States. ARTIST RETREAT 2018 | SCHEDULE 18 Main Lobby Jubilee Jubilee Jubilee HarvestDining Hall Deck Outdoors LOCATION HarvestDining Hall Beit Midrash Jubilee Jubilee + Vineyard Orchard LOCATION Lobby Jubilee Jubilee Harvest Dining Hall Jubilee Main Lobby Jubilee Main Lobby

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(Young Arts Arts (Young (CityLit (CityLit Andrew Simonet Andrew and administrators and administrators Adam Holofcener Adam Schwanda Rountree Schwanda (The Agora Culture, Culture, Agora (The Wendel Patrick, Patrick, Wendel Andrew Simonet Andrew Deana Haggag assigned sessions assigned sessions (Well Read Black Girl), Girl), Read Black (Well Andrew Simonet Andrew lead by lead by led by led by Carla Du Pree Carla Whitney Hardy led by by by led by (Baltimore Clayworks, MICA MICA Clayworks, (Baltimore lead by lead by . Glory Edim facilitated by by facilitated (Elsewhere), and (Elsewhere), . (Press Press), Press), (Press Jessica Stafford Davis Stafford Jessica “Strategic Planning: Building a Balanced, Balanced, Planning: Building a “Strategic “Long-Term Financial Thinking for Artists: Artists: for Thinking Financial “Long-Term

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