Artists in Residence | Crow's Nest Bmore

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.

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.

MUSE DODD - Artist in Residence

Muse Dodd (they/them) is a Baltimore based, Transdisciplinary Artist, Filmmaker and DJ with ancestral roots in Southeastern Louisiana and North Carolina. They create work that moves, flickers, rattles, and shakes—stretching and condensing both time and space. Blackness is the center of their universe where they ask the questions ‘How do you remember and what do you choose to forget?.’ Their answer comes in the form of image making, performance ritual and facilitating spaces for collective dreaming.

They hold a B.A. in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse is a 2025 Rubys Artist Grantee as well as a Our Art Room Agency Fellow, a 2023 Theater Mitu Hybrid Arts Lab Fellow, the 2020 Corrina Mehiel Fellow, and a 2019–2020 Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellow. Through their work, Muse creates spaces of liberation for Black people—both in and out of frame.

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.

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).

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.

Animation Love Affair -- Artist Collective In Residence

Animation Love Affair is a newly established collective of Baltimore-based animators. Graduating together from MICA’s animation program in 2024, they learned from each other’s unique approaches to the medium. With goals to create alternative ways to explore the craft outside of industry, the group slowly developed Animation Love Affair.

These misfit animators work on personal projects, collaborations, and animation-centered events. The collective are currently studio residents at the Crow’s Nest but have long distance paramours across the USA. Together, they spread the love of animation as a practice, throughout the beautiful city of Baltimore & beyond.