All Young Audiences artists are highly skilled professional teaching artists that have completed a rigorous interview and audition process. They are evaluated and selected annually based on their artistic excellence and ability to connect with young people.
* - Artists with this symbol are MSAC approved! MSAC funding may be available!
‡ - Artists with this symbol have arts integration training through YA’s Teaching Artist Institute! |
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* Caryl Henry Alexander
Visual Artist
Visual artist and educator, Caryl Henry Alexander has been commissioned to create murals, sculptures, site-specific installations, and paintings. She has exhibited throughout the United States and at the American Cultural Center in Ibadan, Nigeria. Caryl has offered successful, arts integrated programs since 1986 and also lectured at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she taught West African YORUBA Art and Culture and Mixed Media painting. Since relocating to Maryland, Caryl has been active in the art education community, offering arts integrated residencies in schools throughout the state and teaching at the Maryland Artist Teacher Institute. Her joy is to design and actualize creative school-community collaborations.
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*‡ KATHERINE DILWORTH
Felting Artist
Katherine brings the centuries-old art form of felting to your school. Comprised of sculpting loose wool into solid shapes or murals, felting is an ideal, hands-on type of medium for broadening your students’ perception of visual art. Katherine has been working with fibers and fabrics and integrating them into her art for almost 20 years. Her work has been sold in galleries throughout the United States and is included in two books on fiber art.
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*‡ JOHN IampIeri
Screen Painter
Master screen painter, John Iampieri has been hand painting screens for businesses and homes for many years. Influenced by the traditional methods used by Baltimore screen painters, his work has been exhibited throughout Maryland. John’s screens have been in feature films as well as several TV commercials, magazines, and papers.
In 2010, John’s successful screen painting workshop at Pocomoke Middle School was included in a feature on “The NBC Today Show,” with Anne Curry. In addition to sharing the history, tools and techniques used in this art form, John strives to teach students how works of art can express ideas, feelings, and meaning. John’s passion for screen painting is evident throughout every step of the project’s process. His programs can connect to any class curriculum from 1st grade and up with small screen projects to 60’ long screen murals which, as a legacy program, stay at your school for years to come.
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*‡ Herb Massie
Visual and Clay Artist
Herb Massie is a co-director and arts instructor at Baltimore Clayworks, and a community arts activist who has a passion for connecting art with community. His art work has been featured throughout Baltimore and at the World Trade Center. While Herb is a professional artist best known for his functional and sculptural clay works and mask making, he is also an experienced educator, facilitating workshops in various recreational and PAL Centers, libraries, museums, and schools for more than twelve years. Herb is a master of engaging people of all ages in the art-making process, and is dedicated to helping students reach their full potential through the arts.
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*‡ Amanda Pellerin
Visual and Clay Artist
Amanda Pellerin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art, and her Master of Fine Arts from Towson University. Amanda has had a passion for arts, especially clay, since being introduced to the medium at the age of 15. She specializes in mosaic murals and handmade tiles, and has worked in the community arts program at Baltimore Clayworks. Amanda has worked in collaboration with the Ronald McDonald House in Portland, Maine, with pediatric patients at Maine Medical Centers, and community centers and schools throughout Maryland.
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NEW! DANYETT TUCKER
Illustrator
Danyett Tucker is an author, illustrator, and
passionate community artist with a BA in Fine
Art from Morgan State University. In addition
to teaching art and illustration in schools,
Danyett partners with Community Law in Action
to teach illustration to juveniles in the Baltimore
City Juvenile Justice System. Danyett’s work has
been featured in several exhibitions. She is also in
the process of writing and illustrating a graphic
novel entitled “A Fly Girl’s Travel Journal.”
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* - Artists with this symbol are MSAC approved! MSAC funding may be available!
‡ - Artists with this symbol have arts integration training through YA’s Teaching Artist Institute!
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