Opening reception and panel discussion: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly”

About Angela N. Carroll

Angela N. Carroll has organized exhibitions that examine and celebrate Black identity and community memory, elevating artists and historical narratives in the Upper South. Her latest effort, Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade at the Brandywine Museum of Art, is accompanied by a monograph published by Rizzoli New York. As a scholar, Carroll has contributed critical writing to exhibition catalogues published by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center, Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and the CUE Art Foundation, among many others. Carroll intermittently teaches at American University, MICA, and UMBC.  

About Brianna Faulkner

Brianna “B.” Faulkner studied photojournalism at Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., before earning a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts, with a concentration in Photography and a minor in Creative Writing, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

Based in Baltimore, Maryland, Faulkner is a mixed-media collage artist whose work constructs layered narratives from found photographs, printed materials, paint, drawings, and archival materials. Drawing from personal experience, her practice explores millennial motherhood, sisterhood, womanhood, domesticity, memory, seclusion, resilience, and wonder. Baltimore’s neighborhoods
and architecture serve as both subject and intentional backdrop, grounding imagined scenes within familiar landscapes while blurring the boundaries between memory and imagination. Her work has been exhibited throughout the DMV region and featured as cover art for published authors. Her collages are also included in the collections of restaurants, churches, and other community spaces throughout Baltimore. Beyond her studio practice, Faulkner has facilitated creative writing and visual storytelling workshops for after-school programs, mental health organizations, and women’s groups.

She lives and works in Baltimore, where she continues to create narrative-driven collages that celebrate the complexity of Black womanhood and everyday life through intimate domestic spaces, layered symbolism, and imagined worlds that invite reflection, curiosity, and wonder.

About Jeffery Kent

Jeffrey Kent is an American multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, moving image, performance, and social practice. His work examines how histories of race, labor, power, and value become embedded within material culture, revealing the ways objects accumulate and transmit cultural memory. Working through bricolage as both methodology and conceptual framework, Kent reconfigures culturally charged materials—including texts from anthropology, medicine, and law, hand-picked cotton harvested by his ancestors, shredded currency, and domestic textiles—to expose the tensions between historical record, collective memory, and lived experience.

Processes of cutting, stitching, layering, concealment, and suspension function as acts of excavation and repair, allowing contradiction to remain visible rather than resolved. Material transformation becomes a means of questioning inherited narratives while exposing the social, political, and economic structures embedded within the object itself.

Extending beyond the studio, Kent’s practice includes building artist-centered platforms that cultivate dialogue, experimentation, and cultural exchange, positioning community engagement as an integral dimension of artistic production. His work is held in significant public and private collections and has been exhibited nationally. Kent serves as an adjunct professor at MICA, where teaching extends his commitment to material inquiry, critical discourse, and the cultivation of future generations of artists.

About Kim Rice

Kim Rice creates artworks that focus on the construct of race. She uses common materials and craft-based media as a meditation on systemic racism and the policies that affect American society today.

Crocheted, sewn, and linked together, Rice’s labor intensive art practice reveals the ways in which whiteness is woven into our everyday lives.
Rice earned her BFA in Sculpture and MFA in Printmaking from the University of Oklahoma. Her work has been exhibited at public and private institutions throughout the country including: the Alexandria Museum of Art, Fred Jones Museum of Art, Northern Illinois Art Museum, Delaware Museum of Art, Garrett Museum of Art, The Peale Museum and Prospect 4 Satellite. She has received multiple awards, including a Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant, and the McNeese Grant for Socially Engaged Practice.

Born in Kentucky, raised in California, educated in Oklahoma, loved in New Orleans, and now home in Baltimore, Kim’s work is influenced by her two children and the pile of books by her bed.

About Margaret Rorison

Margaret Rorison is an artist, projectionist, and educator from Baltimore, MD. Her work incorporates 16mm film, alternative photographic processes, poetry, and sound to explore her interests in portraiture, memory, and landscape. Her films have been exhibited at CPM Gallery, Miami PULSE Art Fair, Microscope Gallery, The Museum of The Moving Image, The National Gallery of Art, and The Walker Art Center. Her short films have shown at film festivals including Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Open City Documentary Film Festival, & FICUNAM in Mexico City. From 2012-2022, she directed Sight Unseen Screening Series, an experimental film series that brought contemporary filmmakers and curators to Baltimore to present their work. Rorison currently teaches filmmaking and photography and works as a freelance documentary cinematographer. She loves to spend her spare time running, biking, and gardening.

About Shan Wallace

SHAN Wallace (b. 1991) is a nomadic, award-winning interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and image-maker from Baltimore, MD. Her practice is rooted in a wide range of image-making techniques—including photography, film, collage, and in-situ installation. Working across collage, experimental video, and photography, Wallace investigates how images shift, degrade, and transform as they move between mediums. Using both found materials and her own photographs, she creates layered, fragmented visual artifacts that challenge and expand the possibilities of representation.

Her work is held in both public and private collections across the U.S., including The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, The Whitney Museum, and Johns Hopkins University, as well as various private collections.

SHAN lives and works in many spaces between Brooklyn, New York and Baltimore, MD.