Baker Artist Portfolios

A popular and successful project, “Building a Tiny Community in Mixed Media,” can provide a healthy outlet for expression, growth, and healing. I have been teaching “Building a Tiny Community in Mixed Media,” since 2018. As a provider of Expressive Arts, I developed my first tiny house art sessions for youth with severe emotional struggles in a Wraparound program with Family Preservation Services. I have taught the Tiny House Mixed Media classes for all age groups including children in HeadStart and K-12 to adult learners and Seniors 55+ in Montgomery County's Recreation programs.

This body of work was made for a site specific installation at the Walters Art Museum in the summer of 2024 in conjunction with the Sondheim Prize finalist show. The work is a collection of Cloth Napkin Samplers and site specific sculptural works 

Sometimes my mind gets going and I can’t stop thinking “what about trying this, what about trying that, is it going to work at all, is it a good idea?” And there’s no way to find out except by trying it. This series is about different well-known artists visiting Maryland, what it might look like and how I could represent that.  

Tablescapes are traditionally still life objects on a tabletop.  I wondered “But what if those objects were in motion?”  I began by creating motion around the objects, then the objects themselves became the movement in the composition.  Although seemingly tethered to the tabletop, the objects appear to have a life of their own, falling and moving across the tabletop.

I’ve always liked Victorian magazine illustrations, so I began including them in my painted paper collages. These royalty free illustrations helped me visually bring to life platitudes that we hear too often in normal conversation.  

I enjoy painting so much I remember mixing colors in kindergarten and being excited at all the colors I could create on paper.  Today I still paint blank paper as a thinking respite; it’s my doodling.  After collecting quite a few of these painted papers, I decided why not collage with them!  This series grew from finding the shapes and compositions in the papers that told a story for me.

Overhearing what people say and how they respond to abstract paintings in a museum is sometimes fascinating and sometimes funny.  This series is in response to my hearing these conversations in different museums.  All of the Museum Series dioramas in this section are 7” x 7”.

Wheatpastes and Sticker Art involving a chattering teeth toy. Text usually inside the mouth, reads: "Laughs Forever". Wheatpastes and stickers displayed in Baltimore and New York City. 

Artist intention to remind others to smile through the pain and imperfections presented in life. Sometimes presented (especially in social media) with jokes about Art, Artists, and the ability to laugh at one's self. Nobody's perfect. 

2017- Present 

This collection was painted and collaged to explore how shapes play off of each other.