Martin Askem is a self-taught surrealist artist and writer who has been practicing professionally since January 2009. Visit him at: www.martinaskem.com.
Former curator of Baltimore’s Stage 35 Art Space, Amanda Boutwell currently lives in Baltimore City, where she is studio assistant to painter Smadar Livne. Her work has been showcased throughout Baltimore, in places such as Maryland Art Place, Towson Framing Gallery and The Adornment Gallery. She maintains an updated web collection here: www.aboutwellart.com.
Zachary Crabtree is a Baltimorese prose writer, poet and contrebassist.
Ryan Donnelly’s biggest fear as a writer is that he's too happy. A native of Catonsville, Maryland, Ryan studied English at Virginia Tech before receiving his Masters Degree from the University of Rochester in 2009. Ryan returned to Baltimore in the fall of 2009 to teach writing part-time at the Community College of Baltimore County. He's looking forward to becoming part of Baltimore's art community and expanding his interests into film and performance art.
Gina Germ is an artist and illustrator living in Minneapolis. Visit her gallery here: www.mnartists.org/gina germ.
Sid Gold’s poetry and fiction has appeared in publications across the country. He currently lives in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Lindsay Ladd enjoys creating surreal and experimental images, regardless of subject matter or style. Lindsay lives and plays in Philadelphia.
Gregg Mosson is the author of Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River Press, 2007), a book of nature poetry, and a book of poetry of social engagement and witnessing, Questions of Fire (Plain View Press, 2009). His work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Cincinnati Review, and The Potomac Review, and he edits a journal, Poems Against War (www.poemsagainstwar.com). For more on Gregg, visit: www.greggmosson.com.
Simon O’Corra’s series of paintings, 'Constraint', were influenced from his experiences as a theatre designer where he witnessed two contrasting styles of performance; the complete replication of precise styles and their concomitant emotions as used by committed actors and the lip service paid by performers who feel that it is acceptable in a Victorian melodrama to lounge around on a sofa, made possible by their refusal to wear a corset. Simon now lives in rural France, and is a full time writer. His latest work, “Ruins in France,” a photographic monograph, is soon to be published.
Andrew Payton’s work has appeared in The GW Review, The Eudaimonia Review, Grub Street, and The Disappearing City Review. Native to Maryland, Andrew is a filmmaker and dedicated gardener, and hopes to enroll in a MFA program soon.
Edmond Praybe is a painter working in the Baltimore area. He received a B.F.A. from MICA in 2004, and has been showing his work around the city consistently since.
Born in Harbin, China, “SeaHawk” Wang-Radojcic was 8 years old when Mao Zedung died. Wang’s life and art are profoundly influenced by vivid memories and days of hardship in communist China. Ranked one of China's 10 best artists and a national art treasure by Hong Kong’s Ming Magazine, Wang currently lives in New York City with her husband, Mile Seca, also an artist.
Kenneth Yee (b. 1976, New York) is a painter and teaching artist living in Baltimore. He earned a BA in Advertising and Graphic Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (1998) and a certificate in the Post-Baccalaureate Program of Fine Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (December 2010), where he was the recipient of a merit-based scholarship. His paintings can be found in a variety of private collections in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Baltimore, New Orleans, New Jersey, Minnesota, Los Angeles and Berlin. Visit: www.kennethyee.com.