Baker Artist Portfolios

Alex Garove is an artist-educator based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work is informed by the natural world and relies heavily on arts-based research. Through her artistic process, Alex has explored interdisciplinary connections between the history of scientific understanding, museology, colonialism, botany, and entomology. The resulting artwork fuses a variety of media and techniques including installation, fabrication, digital processes, time-based media, and natural materials. On a normal day in her studio/office, you may find a snakeskin in her flatbed scanner, flowers pressed under stacks of books, insects preserved in alcohol, and a die-cutting machine fabricating vector-based papercuts.

As an art educator, Alex’s pedagogical and artistic practices are heavily linked. Alex completed her thesis on arts-science integration in 2022 and is interested in how students and artists construct understanding through artmaking. She is inspired by working in an artistic community with her colleagues and students; one of the many things she loves about teaching is that it keeps her artistic practice fresh.

After serving in the public school system for 11 years, Alex is currently a lecturer in the art education department at Towson University and an adjunct faculty member in the art and design department at the Community College of Baltimore County. She has bachelor’s degrees in fine art photography and art education, and a master’s degree in art education. Alex has exhibited and presented work at local, statewide, and national exhibitions and conferences.