Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Timothy Horjus moved to Baltimore to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where he received a Post-Baccalaureate certificate. Timothy continued his education at the University of Maryland College Park, where he earned his M.F.A. in May 2010. While he was there he also received the Ann Truitt Fellowship, as well as the David C. Driskell teaching award.Timothy now divides his time between teaching at MICA, working in his studio practice, running his construction company, and spending time with family.

Ernest Shaw’s work definEs the duality of the African American experience, exhibiting this dichotomy through an array of media and concepts. The most prevalent aspect of Shaw’s work is his use and understanding of color and the figure. The figure in Shaw’s work is a continuation of a rich history of African and African American figurative art, and his use of color demonstrates a deep level of understanding of rhythm taught to him by several West African drum instructors. Shaw has lived most of his life in Baltimore, and comes from a family of visual and performing artists. Ernest is a product of Baltimore City Public Schools, where he graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he currently teaches.

Will Shanklin is a Baltimore-based, self-trained artist who began drawing and creating at the age of 4 and has never stopped. His work is a vibration guided form of automatic drawing, polished and perfected with highly technical detail work. The result is a rich and vast world of colorful characters living and breathing within a psychedelic and surreal landscape, and an epic, complex storyline threading it all together. This “vibrational art” technique has led to the exploration of a huge array of styles and mediums, but within his signature look.

With an interdisciplinary approach to drawing, and projects ranging from site-specific drawing installations to video experimentations, Jowita Wyszomirska expands beyond the two-dimensional surface to explore edges of tangible and intangible of what cannot be seen with a naked eye. Her works on paper are often based on satellite imagery, maps, and weather data, as well as her own physical experiences of the landscape. To capture the motion and stillness of nature, her large-scale drawing installations provide multiple viewing points to sync the movement of the viewer’s body with the art. There is no one spot to take it all in and with every step, something changes or new things are revealed.

Terence Hannum is a Baltimore-based visual artist and musician who has used cassette tapes in his music (both solo and with the band LOCRIAN) and now as his material and subject in his visual art. He has an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches Art Foundations at Stevenson University outside Baltimore.

Elli Maria is a Latinx, mixed-media artist based in Baltimore. She experiments across different mediums - blurring the lines between photography, painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, installation, and more - to explore themes of time, memories, identity, and trauma. Her distinct visual language is inspired by personal narratives/emotions, nature, & science. She invites viewers to explore imagery that is ambiguous and evocative while constructing their own meanings and interpretations.

Magnolia Laurie was born in Massachusetts and raised in Puerto Rico. She received her BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, and the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. Magnolia’s work has been supported with grants from the Creative Baltimore Fund, the Maryland State Arts Council Grants, the Belle Foundation, and a Mid Atlantic Creative Fellowship. Magnolia lives in Baltimore, MD, and is an Associate Professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

Alfonso Fernandez is a painter born in Mexico City, currently living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Fernandez’s paintings are social, psychological, and personal investigations in which he brings to light the idea that borders can be blurred and overlapped in order to reconsider the associative societal labels assigned to us. Since moving to Baltimore, Fernandez says his paintings have evolved in response to navigating a new and unfamiliar city, taking on abstraction in the wake of unrest, representations of societal memory, and figuration through the loss of identity. Each of these artistic investigations are grounded in his experience of moving from Mexico to the United States and an effort to balance different cultures and languages, while handling the contested spaces of ethnicity and assimilation.

Born in Augsburg, Germany, many of Ben Marcin's photographic essays explore the idea of home and the passing of time. “Last House Standing” and, “The Camps”, have received wide press both nationally and abroad. More recently, Marcin has been exploring the myriad structures of the urban core in series like Towers, Street, Stairwells and Museums. His photographs have been shown at a number of national galleries and venues including the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Delaware Art Museum; The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA; The Center for Fine Art Photography in Ft. Collins, CO; The Photographic Resource Center in Boston; and the Houston Center for Photography. His work is also in several important collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art.