Special Issue: The Baltimore Ekphrasis Project

We are pleased to share the work of the following Baltimore-area artists and writers who participated in The Baltimore Ekphrasis Project, a special collaboration between LED Baltimore and The Light Ekphrastic.

See the work from the LED Baltimore Art Board (presented March 16-April 12) here.

Congratulations to all who participated!

Elinor Abbott – Dear Ethan Hawke; Snooze Button
Carlton Anderson – Rain; Traveling
Amy Arthur – Lonicera Japonica; Bud Scar
Baltimore Hoop Love – Play; Of Light And Water
David Beaudouin – A Natural Bent; After “Sweet Talk”
Jennifer Bishop – King; Untitled
William Brown – Pain & Wisdom; Dwelling on the Past
Jacob Budenz – Earth Is the Target,/We Are the Trigger,/Ashes! Ashes!/We Don’t Fall Down; Pastel Witch
Dottie Campbell – Dragon Dreams; Queen Calafia’s Morning Mirror
Dayna Carpenter – Untitled; Colliding Coasts
Se Jong Cho – Window; Teeth
Juliana Converse – Boy the Wonder and Olivia Have a Drink; Sea House
Caryn Coyle – Detour; Discarded Roses
Matthew Clarke Davis – Sweet Talk; Conflict Fruit
Marlayna Demond – Untitled; Fleeting
Tracy Dimond – Lost Time and Gloves; Maintain Effervescence
Jim Doran – Sea House; The Room of Indefinite Holding
Edward Doyle-Gillespie – Queensbury Rules; Far From Enoch
Christian Elder – Floating Island in the Galaxy; Untitled
Aurora Engle-Pratt – Homeward; Salt White
Cheryl Fair – Transcendental Homelessness; Genes/Jeans
Katie Feild – (snowfall); (open)
Sylvia Fischbach-Braden – Big Top; Season of the Heart
Jared T. Fischer – Pork Mama Vaping; Hippo Piggy Flies a Kite
Fitz Fitzgerald – Sun Papers; LED
Eric D. Goodman – Places; Wisdom and Pain
Juliette Goodwin – Camera Morte; Rowhouse Dream
Alina Grigorovitch – On the Hill of Trees; Out From the Secret World
Tracy Hauser – After Night; Cinder
A. J. Hayes – Winter; The Greatest You on Earth
Matt Hohner – Of Light and Water; Pulse
Lorraine Imwold – Rail Grind; Untitled
Dave K. – Your Parents Still Have Sex; Shut Up You Idiot Pt. III
Ashlie Kauffman – from Isamu Dreams of Flying; Just like a lighthouse sitting in a dark, distant universe
Sanzi Kermes – Daddy Long Legs; Symmetry
Dylan Kinnett – Kite; Conversation at the Jubilee Cafe
Leonard Kogan – Parallels; Endogenous Throb
Minás Konsolas – Broken Mirror; Untitled
Kevin Krause – On a Morning Run at Druid Hill Lake; For Tityrus
Judith Krummeck – A Fancy; My bellwether
Seola Lee – Popped, My Helium Heart; The Door
Dara Lorenzo – Always in One Place and Not the Other; I Saw You
Kate MacKinnon – no more blue skies 3; I Have Not Forgotten
Kat Malone – 4 Silent Things; Untitled
Howard Markman – Welcome to Smalltimore; Between the Glasphault and the Stars
Mandy May – Red; Dawn Thaw
Anthony Moll – Orpheus with the Awkward Foot; His Grace
Tim Nohe – Candles for Faust; The Little Owl Seamstress
Nicole K. Ostrowski – Bliss; Passion
Erin Ouslander – The Donautilus; Young Ethan Hawke Wants to Give You This Kitten
Carly Richmond – Amaryllis; Nestled
Maggie Robbins – Living Roam; Water More
Heather Rounds – Huberta; Untitled
Magan Ruthke – What Mykonos is Made Of; nerves like wires
Bob Schofield – The Sky is No Longer Where I Left It; Space Garden
Whitney G. Schultz – Public Displays of Affection; Prayer for Moath
Laura Shovan – Symmetry; Daddy Long Legs Speaks
Mary K. Skeen – Paradise Lost; Listen
Anna Slesinski – Planting; Until Now
CarlaJean Valluzzi – A Trick of Twilight; Contraposto
Gregg Wilhelm – Jutting Out; Arithmetic of an Argument
Beth Williams – Way Out; The Gravity of the Situation
Edward Williams – Mt. DeSales; Boxer of Queensbury Rules
Rupert Wondolowski – Spring Makes Me Small; Untitled
Matthew Zingg – For Sure We Are Two Human Beings; Untitled
Mychael Zulauf – Untitled, Untitled

ARTIST and WRITER Bios