Kelly Walker is an American born, self taught artist who continues to study at the ‘School of Life’. She found her way to Baltimore, Maryland by the age of 18 where she has lived ever since. Walker absorbs the beauty, chaos and reality of Baltimore City channeling it into her work. The dichotomy of Kelly Walker’s world translates onto her canvases as she paints in fits of inspiration which has led to an expansive collection of unique series, committing spontaneous reflections of her mood and emotions to canvas. Walker’s abstract paintings demonstrate the techniques, textures, and patterns she employs as a professional decorative painter. She pushes mediums past their intended purposes, encouraging them to collide and react, not rejecting happy accidents and forcing incompatible materials to meet. Utilizing a wide range of atypical materials, her works are intricately layered, calling reference to landscape, graffiti and color fields.

Walker’s artwork has been featured extensively at venues both in and outside of the Baltimore area, including the Rosenberg Gallery, Silo Point, Gallery 1951 in Los Angeles & Las Laguna Art Gallery in California and the Delaware Museum of Art. Walker works out of her studio and home situated within the historic cultural arts district of Mt. Vernon and the Bromo Arts District.

Albert Schweitzer is a visionary artist who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. Although classically trained, his paintings are imbued with the naive, raw simplicity, and energy that one would associate with outsider art. As a student, Albert studied with Grace Hartigan. This association with Grace Hartigan has created a lasting influence on his work. Born in Wisconsin in 1967, Albert now lives in Baltimore. He received his BFA degree in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1990. He received an MFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He studied under Grace Hartigan at the Hoffberger School of Painting, graduating in 1995. Albert exhibits frequently in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, DC, with work in many private and permanent collections.

Laura Amussen creates projects that tell a story. From large-scale, site-specific installations to intimate sculptures, video, mixed media, photography, and performance, Amussen’s work is layered and emotionally expressive in its density, and has been exhibited both locally and nationally. In 2006, she received her Masters of Fine Art from Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she was awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship and Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Since graduating Amussen has been an active participant in Baltimore’s local art scene. She is an educator at Towson University and the Maryland Institute College of Art as well as an independent curator. She was the director of exhibitions and curator at Goucher College for over ten years.

Educated as an engineer, Tracy Barwick created artworks that have evolved and matured over time. Her hometown roots began in Dayton, OH, but she now calls Maryland/DC her second home, finding that there is really no other place on earth with such an eclectic vibe of arts, museums, history, and culture. Her artistic narrative is simple: personifying emotions, beliefs and social concepts through ethnic patterns, shadings, and mediums across the full spectrum of color.