Sharon J. Burton is an artist, art curator, author, poet and certified creative coach and Founder of Spark Your Creative based in the Washington, DC area. She is a visual artist whose preferred medium is collage and mixed media and has exhibited her art in galleries, art venues and other settings across the country since 2007. Sharon has curated a number of art exhibitions in the Washington, DC area since 2006 and has served as an art consultant for novice art collectors.

To learn more about Sharon, and her artwork, please visit her website and Instagram.

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Sara received her BFA in ceramics from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford and her MFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in both juried and invitational exhibitions and has work in both private and public collections. Her professional experience includes positions such as studio assistant, ceramics department technician, resident artist, as well as instructor. Please find attached my responses as well as a few images of my work. To learn more about Sara and her work, visit her website and instagram @s_prig.

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Blending family memories with current experiences, Elizabeth Kendall creates simple, graceful sculptures. She works with lush white porcelain, raw wood, rigid steel, or vibrant glass. Her abstract wall pieces and vessels are both delicate and strong, simple and complex. Of her award-winning work she says: “The shapes that emerge are a conversation between my hands and the material. They are both bricks and windows--puzzles that are influenced by the space they inhabit, and by the people that experience the work.

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Erika Whitney Young is a Baltimore City based street photographer, creative writer and community advocate. Her photography captures everyday moments with artistic intent, exploring the intersection of realism and abstraction in urban environments. She embodies a passion for storytelling that blends vivid imagery with emotional depth. Her work spans narrative nonfiction, poetry and essays that often explore themes of healing, transformation, and the unseen magic in everyday life. She has shown an unwavering commitment to social equity, grassroot organizing and empowering underrepresented voices. With a background in legislative advocacy and years of hands-on experience in local initiatives, she now works to build stronger, more inclusive communities through civic training and art education.

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Peter T West is a fine arts photographer and lifelong resident of Maryland. His photographs take on an often unseen perspective, emphasizing subjects that may otherwise be passed by. An avid traveler, Peter has photographed locations all around the world.

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Yewande is an American Nigerian visual artist, curator, and social practitioner using her creative practice as a means for community care. While her first career as a healthcare administrator lends to her expertise at the intersection of health, wellness and racial justice, her Nigerian heritage and Southern upbringing lend to her love of storytelling. As such, Yewande’s work celebrates, reframes, and even reimagines narratives that have been inadequately or falsely delivered in the past. Through direct social and community engagement, which often informs her work, Yewande typically centers the layered experiences of Black folks— most often women and children— highlighting joy, resilience, and shared humanity. Within her work, Yewande marries first-hand narratives with vibrant colors, reimagined yet familiar imagery, and attention to naming in order to highlight our connectedness and drive meaningful dialogues that promote healing and redefine the human experience.

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Aleni Antalis is a multidisciplinary artist and small business owner based in Annapolis, MD. Fueled by experimentation, Antalis’ work explores the complexities of being a human in today’s society and the vital relationship between mental health, science, and nature. Antalis would describe her work as deconstructed self portraits.

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Ant LaVorgna is an interdisciplinary artist, body painter and photographer based in Baltimore, MD. His work explores themes of pop culture, the body, and contemporary politics. LaVorgna’s process is characterized by playful experimentation, shining through in his bold color choices and striking mark-making.

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Liana Owad is an artist working with traditional and contemporary mediums to create sculptures and works on paper. Her work explores the domestic space and addresses the ideas of comfort and confinement in the home. She focuses on certain objects from or habits of routine daily life in her sculptures, prints, and drawings. She finds the physical manipulation of materials and learning new fabrication methods the driving force of her work.

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CamCurated is a Maryland-based visual artist whose work celebrates the richness and spirit of Black American culture. Working primarily in acrylic on wood, he explores texture, rhythm, and form to create paintings that feel both grounded and expressive. The natural grain of the wood gives his pieces a tactile presence, allowing color and light to interact in dynamic ways that bring each subject to life.

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Blending painting, sculpture, and photography, Lillian Chun’s solo show Disassociations explores the tension between stillness and overwhelm. Using found objects, remnants of photographic prints, fabric, old paintings, 3D printed pieces and intuitive mark-making, these layered pieces reflect on the psychological residue of burnout and the invisible labor that often consumes women’s inner worlds.

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