ROWAN BATHURST - Extreme Heat Fellow
Rowan Bathurst is a painter living and working between Baltimore, MD, and São Paulo, Brazil. Her practice centers on portraiture, primarily depicting women, drawing from her own photographs of close friends and incorporating landscapes and visual elements inspired by her time in rural Brazil and travels across continents. Beyond her latest exhibition, Bathurst’s recent work explores the connection between present-day women and prehistoric artifacts, particularly Venus figurines and ceramic antiquities. Inspired by these archaeological pieces, women's history, and humanity’s intrinsic relationship with nature, her paintings radiate warmth, sisterhood, and a profound sense of lineage. They invite a reexamination of how figures are portrayed in art, one that conveys confidence and tranquility while embracing vulnerability. Nature and history are fundamental to the human experience, and her work encourages viewers to reflect on the narratives we inherit and carry forward.
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Bathurst earned her BFA in Painting and Art History from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018. Her work has been exhibited and collected both locally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. In 2022, she was nominated as a participating artist for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Alongside her studio practice, she engages in public art and mural work worldwide, contributing to projects such as the Walls off Washington Festival, Beira Festival, and Brush Mural Fest.
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Kei Ito is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is centered around utilizing the conceptual framework of photography to visualize the invisible. Mainly employing camera-less photographic techniques, performance, and artifacts, Ito creates large-scale installations and a variety of photographic projects that excavate hidden histories. As a third-generation atomic bomb victim living in the US, Ito employs his generational history as a series of case studies that often applies the language of monuments and memorials, initiating a journey of healing and growth while inviting audiences to explore nuanced social issues and honor the memories of those lost to both historical and contemporary tragedies.
Ito's artistic contributions have been widely recognized and exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions. His pieces are held in institutional collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Norton Museum of Art, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Eskenazi Museum of Art, and Georgia Museum of Art.
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ANGELICA ELIZABETH JONES - Artist in Residence
Angelica Jones is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her works often utilize the capabilities of various mediums to create images of Black figures. Growing up in High Point, North Carolina, Angelica was surrounded by Black History - She was raised near the birth of the Sit-In Movement and was brought up enveloped by a tight-knit community of Black women. As a painter primarily working in portraiture, she infuses the “mundane” experiences of the people around her with the dream-like qualities. Angelica’s work serves as an open archive that documents experiences of her community and personal battles with poverty, mental health and marginalization.
Connection and community drive her practice and as her subjects are often queer black people who I’ve found camaraderie in throughout the years. She places black figures in works that honor their hurt, power, and personhood. This desire has traveled with her to Baltimore, and her art continues to act as a space to find ways to navigate our current realities - that has meant exploring escapism, glamor, connection and most recently, grief. Her work has been exhibited in various group shows in Baltimore, D.C and North Carolina.
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SOPHIE MAGUIRE - Artist in Residence
Sophie Maguire is an artist and landscape architect. Her practice focuses on storytelling, intimacy between the human & nonhuman, landscape as theater, and the meaning of resiliency. Sophie works through many mediums including, but not limited to, cooking, drawing, collage, embroidery, performance, writing and, most recently, small metal work.
As a designer, Sophie has worked on projects (built and unbuilt) for institutional campuses, public parks, residential sites & gardens, forest restoration, set design and public art installations. Sophie currently practices landscape architecture under the name Princess Pine with longtime friend and veteran gardener, Emily Drury. The studio's practice focuses on ecological horticulture and design of rural landscapes throughout New England.
Currently, Sophie teaches in the department of Landscape Architecture at Morgan State University. Sophie is currently at work on an experimental performance/installation about the cultural history of ‘invasive’ plants (coming in 2025).
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RACHEL STEIN - Extreme Heat Fellow
Rachel Stein is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Baltimore, Maryland, who aims to activate the mind and body through immersive installation that encompasses video, photography, soundscapes, and interactive sculpture. Her interest in the connection between tactile experiences and inner states of being has inspired her to consider ways of reframing the body in relation to everyday materials, particularly synthetics. Rather than trying to return to a pristine world, her work provides alternative ways of being-with the waste and pollution that we inherit. She invites viewers to question their own consumer reality and relationship with pleasure through sensory stimuli.
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Rachel received her MFA in Studio Art at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2024. Her work has recently been exhibited at Towson University, Maryland Hall, and DoodleHatch Interactive Art Museum. She is a recipient of the Leslie King Hammond Fellowship from Maryland Institute College of Art and the Secondary Art Educator Award from the Maryland Art Education Association. As an extension of her art practice, she teaches high school art and photography in Howard County. She enjoys hosting Slime Club every week with her sensory seeking students.
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TARA YOUNGBORG - Artist in Residence
Tara Youngborg's installations, video works, and electronic and interactive works are rooted in questions of how our technological processes reflect human experience. By using techniques of jpeg compression (in which a jpeg image becomes recompressed each time it is re-saved as it tries to find places where it can combine colors to save file space), data sonification (where numeric data is turned into computer-generated tones), machine learning algorithims, and video and audio field recordings from specific sites, Youngborg creates experiential installations where space, time and memory are compressed, layered, and translated.
Youngborg’s work asks viewers to spend time decipering and unpacking meaning to the point of discomfort in order to consider the assumptions that underlie the ways these technologies are built and discussed, and the ways they work hand in hand with systems of power. She has shown her work across the United States, internationally in Australia, and always on the web.