Baker Artist Portfolios

Sherry Insley is a mixed media artist working primarily in photographic and light sensitive processes to explore themes of temporality. Her current work, Ghost Forest, documents the emergence of this environmental phenomena along the Mid Atlantic coastal areas, and the evolving landscape due to climate change. She utilizes light sensitive materials in both historic and contemporary ways to document and preserve these investigations. Interested in the physicality of photography, other recent works include Temporality, exploring how image making can manipulate and influence the experience of time. Recent solo exhibitions include What Remains at Cotyledon Arts, Temporality at Gallery Blue Door, and at the Delaware Center for Inland Bays, a non-profit that engages in the education and protection of critical watersheds. Sherry Insley is the 2024 Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Travel Award winner, and is a 2023 MAEA Art Educator of the Year nominee. She received the 2023 Juror’s Choice award for Maryland Federation of the Arts American Landscapes Exhibit. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from UMBC and MICA. Currently, she is an art educator at Carver Center of the Arts, a nationally recognized audition based magnet public high school. She can be found in Baltimore City most of the time, and at the salt marsh the rest of the time.