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I am examining the idea of making, in particular the making of hand-made objects in reaction to mass-produced objects.

Combinatorics. Randomness. Algorithms. They are my father, son and holy ghost. From 118 elements (and counting), we get all that we can see…including ourselves.

By using the tactile, seductive qualities of material I create a visual language that explores desire’s relationship with culture, exposing artifice and materialism as an integral part of cultural development.

Multi-disciplinary in my approach, I choose to respond in a way that privileges the “feminine,” a sensitive, materially responsive, holistic approach in contrast to the hard borders that typify a Western capitalist society.

Interested in how we emotionally, intellectually, and physically connect to materials around us, and the structures in place that guide these responses.

Everyday domestic life is filled with darkness. Not so much the usual nightmares and petty anxieties, but rather more simply, dark like a room with the curtains drawn.

My paintings are about these questions that I pose to myself in my attempts to paint in compliance or resistance to what I already know has left its imprint on me.

My art is influenced by my upbringing as a bi-racial female in Hong Kong, witness to regime changes, influx of new culture, and migration of families.

There is a palpable and finite tension within the skewed balance of humans and our surroundings; the structures and systems that shape, define, and encase us—economic, political, cultural, social.

Community Confluence is an installation that explores race, class, and the urban environment by way of the rivers beneath us.

The metaphor of the diversity of plants illustrates that it is a human construct to narrow the definition of normal.

I am creating a series of functional devices that will serve as a way to connect people through interaction in a gallery and outdoor setting

The Welcome Mat Project is a giant 40’ doormat, woven with spent bicycle inner tubes, created through a series of community ‘Weaving Bees’ held in East Baltimore.

My work consist of mixed media paintings on found objects, which are used to comment on social issues surrounding education, organized religion, addiction and mental illness.

The Pedicab Project records, preserves, & shares oral histories collected in communities through a series of pedicab rides physically operated by Michelle Nugent.

Culture Jam and a Biscuit is a campaign to interrupt the constructed realities of the mass media using digital tools and online community building.

Breastival Vestibule explores the process of “re-entry” for participants returning from intentional feminist communities back into mainstream culture.

We suffer and heal as steadily as we inhale and exhale; I search for balance through my artwork and through leading spiritual health workshops in East Baltimore.

Cycles is an arts and social justice project addressing women’s health
issues in East Baltimore neighborhoods.

Reloading the Canon: African Traditions in Contemporary Art aims to address the influence of African art on the Western Canon of Art History.

Stories inForm from the Baltimore American Indian Center focuses on contemporary forms of storytelling including collective publications, graphic novels, performance and documentaries.

An exhibit celebrating local outfit Globe Poster Printing Corp. and their iconic posters promoting African-American music in the golden era of R&B.

For her thesis, Deana Haggag has been directing Gallery CA located in the City Arts building, which houses 69 live/work spaces for artists.

Clifton Park Works, an outdoor site-specific exhibition in Clifton Park features new work to engage visitors with fascinating, yet largely forgotten history.

Perception & Ability is an exhibition at Evergreen Museum & Library that addresses the way imposed labels can limit our perceptions of an individual’s abilities.

EXCHANGE: a home-based artist residency, an experimental socially-engaged art project exploring the concept of home and integrating contemporary art into everyday life.

An exhibition linking Baltimore refugees to the pottery traditions of their home countries by exhibiting work made by refugee students along side traditional vessels.

@ the Trails allows the audience to explore the grounds of Cylburn Arboretum by using technology to create artfully interactive experience.

Explorations into queer theory through digital technology and design that play with embedded assumptions of gender and sexuality.

Test Kitchen for Change is a platform for engaging communities around the topic of healthy food systems.

Eat Yourself™ is a game for smartphones and tablets about a flying pig who eats himself in the pursuit of happiness.

b-xlab is a laboratory for our design process. We limit, disrupt and introduce rules for collaboration in order to create surprising results.

Asthma + Design explores how graphic design and technology can improve and simplify health communications for asthma management.

Various & Sundry is a collection of products & tools for creative workspaces with a commitment to design, utility, & quality materials.

b-xlab is a laboratory for our design process. We limit, disrupt and introduce rules for collaboration in order to create surprising results.

Mathematical formulae are proof that beautiful patterns exist in our world – and yet, I still need to see these beautiful patterns with my own eyes.

I present an interactive way to teach, or lead the audience to feel the relationship of  reflex zones on their hands with related organs of their body.

Companion is a visual exploration into the ties that bind humane with canine – and how those relationships can be positively influenced by design.

Publishing-Stuff is a digital publishing endeavor and print-per-request bookshop exploring how we read in an effort to design better reading experiences.

My thesis is a about the story of Kiwi-Pedia, which try to reflect of young people of the current generation, in a humor and satire way, telling in a bitter-sweet graphic novel format.

The animated short film Mutual Tunnels depicts a mysterious spiritual journey of two characters in an imaginative world.

My thesis project is informed by the language, imagery, and stories of Eastern European Jewish culture, but re-informed and modernized.

I am writing and illustrating a children’s book about a friendly giant named Bernard.

eyra is an online illustration gallery striving to showcase beautiful and thoughtful illustration, adding to the greater cultural dialogue.

“Pretty Little Secrets” is a series of female dresses with illustrations on each of them that tell stories of the artist to her audience.

In my paintings, I create a balance between the structural and the gestural; the ordered and the entropic; the construct and the construction.

It is best to take pleasure in the fleeing and interposing that suspends inevitable capture.

I innately gravitate to the in between. Printmaking – Painting; Figurative – Abstract; Image – Object.

Ein Fisch ist das einzige Tier, das nicht weiß, was Wasser ist.

Through deep engagements with pattern and repetition I attempt to subvert my own perceptions in hopes that I may gain new insights.

Through painting, I investigate my position within society and attempt to answer my insecurities behind a history of unanswered progress.

These are not for the apathetic ones.

Time-traveling scientists study the natural world through participatory events and projects blurring fiction and reality. Join the Chronoecology Corps!

My work investigates ideas of home and our attempt to find our place in transient and surreal natural environments.

The intention of my work is to produce subliminal instinctual and psychological attractions through the vibrations of color and the “music” of spheres.

In this four channel synchronized video, I construct a world that conveys the stark loneliness and
alienation of a formerly prosperous and frustrated city.

I am investigating the essential components of visual signification in imagery and objects: the boundaries between something meaningful and something empty.

Using painting and photography, I translate portraits of women into an evolving narrative of a filtered reflection of modern ‘femininity’ and middle class America.

A meditation on the inevitable failure of mass media to document and adequately capture the human subject.

My work is focused on the investigation of space: environmental, virtual, psychological, and gestural.

My artwork explores contemporary psychosocial issues, nonlinear narratives, and absurdist humor.

I am interested in pointed shaped forms which are inefficient to fabricate, inconvenient and dangerous to use and structurally fragile.

My work deals with finding a balance with one personality who wants to emerge into the conscious mind while the other wants to keep her hidden within the unconscious.

My photographic work highlights subtle relationships between elements in seemingly isolated landscapes.

The line between Japanese-American is the bridge that binds my cultural, racial and national identities. My work explores the notions of being Hyphenated American.

Encasing is a series of photographs of relationships with images.

My photomontages are whimsical illustrations of an imagined story.

My work addresses space in photography through the compression and play on the expansive quality of the traditional aerial perspective.

My work is about the unique state between wakefulness and sleep, also known as Hypnagogia.

Color acts upon our emotional state. These chromatic phenomena are events to be seen, felt, and experienced in multiple circumstances of vision.

Instead of taking photographs, and presenting them as prints, I am the presenting the camera, not a camera that takes photos, but a camera that destroys photographs.

“About 50 Feet” is about aesthetics based on personal space and environment.

These photographic objects are “memory containers” built to encourage an interaction with the viewer to experience their own memories.

My work challenges society’s widely accepted assumption of music being solely confined to the audible world.

An exploration of my encounters with dichotomies of the human condition using the visual metaphors of megastructures and ‘the street’.

Reaching the nihility of mind and absence of ego through the meditation is the goal of my work. It is about Zen through the trivial objects in our daily life.

Poetry Series is a visual translation of nineteen classical Chinese poems which Ezra Pound brought to western artists and poets.

My latest work examines the intersection of sculpture, dance, storytelling and music, thematically combining elements of science fiction and mythology.

I repeatedly reveal and simultaneously conceal my identities in my works.

“Cathedral” uses a combination of suburban and Gothic architecture to create a sacred space within the mundane and capture a moment both intimate and infinite.

Wanderers have imaginary roots; their true home is a timeless realm, a mythical stretch where everything is simultaneously estranged and familiar.

My work comments on how imitations substitute the genuine as they are produced as a copy of an idealized original. It glorifies today’s culture with faux products.

Horror Vacui is a video game that allows players to explore the dangers and triumphs of life within the mindscape of obsession.

The cave metaphor remains distorted in theory and representation; speleological science, feminism, and art critique this popular metaphor.

My thesis examines the politics of making contemporary functional pottery, looking closely at meaning in use and the importance of a movement deeply rooted in community.

My thesis explores the manner in which negative space surrounding an object or figure in a painting can elevate said object or figure into an abstract idea.

My MA thesis applies critical theory concerning the scopophilic gaze to Hans Bellmer’s doll photographs.

Relying on a lens of structuralism, my MA thesis examines and analyzes gay art in the U.S. before, during, and after the AIDS epidemic.

My thesis focuses on the binary relationship between the “ideal” and the “real” in relation to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and other aesthetic reflections.

Designing a Hub for Radical Collaboration and Social Change

Teaching multiculturalism in a monoculturistic society.

Social Design, Meet Social Science:  An Intersection.

Exploring the relationship between malnutrition and obesity among the teenagers in Baltimore and developing a creative design intervention.

Acknowledging climate change, this work aims to develop strategies and foster connections for existing, dealing and evolving with crisis.

Identifying a system of knowledge sharing that can clarify communication and best practices between urban farms across the US.

Design practitioner by day, theory junkie by night, debt-laden by choice.

My designs are an extension of my personality—adventurous, bold, communicative, and layered with details. I draw inspiration from nature, fashion, food, and music.

From the day that I was able to hold a crayon, I have always been passionate about the arts and thrived on being creative.

Chelsea designs the postcards, posters, gift bags, and invitations.

Ever evolving Graphic Designer / Illustrator.  Wants to use design to make a positive impact in society.

I like images. I like words and images. I like to see both.

A strong communicator, I enjoy thinking about how to convey a message to a particular audience. I am most interested in systems design and user interface design.

I’m a former journalist and art-history major. My work explores the nexus where words, text, and typography intersect with design’s formal—and playful—possibilities.

I relish the occasion to disentangle a problem through design. I take great pains in obsessing over balances and harmony and when appropriate discord and chaos.

I enjoy being a stranger in other cities. It has taught me how much a little thing can be precious.

Some people have jobs that support their lives and then others have lives that are their jobs. I am an other, supported by passion and drive.

Rachel Ventura is a Graphic Designer and a life-long Baltimorean. She strives to create eye-catching, fresh work to inform and delight the masses.

As a dancer of 21 years, I believe that many skills I have learned as a performer directly apply to my graphic design work.

I am a graphic designer of multiple disciplines and influences. I was born in Sudan, raised throughout the United States and have a previous background in public policy studies.

T.L. Bonaddio (informally known as Teresa and “T”) has built her life around books.

I’m a writer turned designer who strives to create compelling messages through both content and composition.