Ann's profile
Ann Everton is a filmmaker and musician working from West Baltimore. Though she has been making video art since the late '90s, her current project is being part of the band Darsombra, with musician Brian Daniloski. In Darsombra, Ann plays synthesizer, percussion, and sings, but she's best known for creating videos to the band's long-format, cinematic music. Her process includes conceptualizing, directing, filming, editing, and producing said videos and projecting them live on the band during their performances. The band has performed far and wide since Ann joined in 2010; during the course of 800+ shows with Brian Daniloski in Darsombra, Ann has shown her work in 46 states and more than 22 countries.
Ann is a Baltimore native, and has always been drawn to visual art and music; as a young adolescent, she learned darkroom photography from her father in his basement darkroom. In her late teens and early twenties, she was a graffiti writer in Baltimore, and spent a few years delving into various unknown (to her) areas of the city, further buttressing her interest in her hometown. She attended college in Poughkeepsie, NY, at Vassar College; after her freshman year, she transferred to Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York City, to study art more deeply. She also studied art for a semester abroad at Goldsmiths College, University of London. While at college, she studied painting, sculpture, and printmaking, but her creative fire was sparked most by video art, performance, and installation art. She earned a BA in Visual Arts from Barnard in 2004.
To support her art-making process after college, in 2005 Ann became a licensed barber, and in 2017 a certified yoga instructor. She works sporadically cutting hair, and is also an employee of Baltimore City Rec and Parks, teaching yoga at her neighborhood rec center in West Baltimore--but her real job is being a member of Darsombra. The band performs 60+ times per year, usually doing 1-3 tours, both domestic and international. Ann is quite fond of travel, and of language: while in school, she studied six languages, and as an adult, she makes it her hobby to familiarize herself as much as possible with the language of the country she's performing in, be it Poland, Mexico, or Indonesia. Her other hobby is growing bismuth crystals in her basement lab.
Currently, she is working on a feature film to the music of Darsombra's latest album, 2023's "Dumesday Book", a 75-minute concept album about the band's experience of the pandemic from March of 2020 to May of 2021.
