Baker Artist Portfolios

Talbolt Johnson is an artistic visionary, dancer, dreamer, and advocate for human healing and development. Johnson's early adult life was poised for a career as a professional painter, only to discover the art of movement and dance, for over two decades in the Baltimore area and throughout the United States. With his travels, life experiences, training in cultural history and tradition, and commitment to community, Talbolt found himself playing a role in taking on the passing of the torch as a Griot in his local communities. Through his work with youth, as well as adults, Talbolt has discovered his own message with which to create lasting impact in the spaces he occupies. Through his art, dance, writing, and teaching, Johnson explores the functions of the human body, imagination, mythos, and space in unison. Working as a performance artist with numerous historical venues throughout Baltimore City, and as an educator in numerous parts of the Baltimore region, Talbolt has found a path of service to his fellow humans on the planet. His work contemplates and comments on the intersection between expression and identity, as well as inspires others to take on the call for transformation through self-introspection and development of meaning in life. He is an artist, philosopher, educator, and an avid student and servant of life and the human soul.