Baker Artist Portfolios

"The Prettiest Place on Earth" is a collaboration between Lola Pierson and Alex Scally of the band Beach House.  Based on the country song The Streets of Baltimore, the plot follows two lovers who move from rural West Virginia to Baltimore.  She is obsessed with astronomy.  He just wants to build a life together.  Scally's original songs were performed by a four piece band, including members of Baltimore favorites Wye Oak, Lower Dens, and Oxes. "The Prettiest Place on Earth" played to sold out houses at The Load of Fun Theatre.

Work in progress. Short description of project below:

Live performance of The Great American Canyon Band at the Metro Gallery.

Resmi Kunjan Saraswathy (a.k.a. K.S. Resmi) is one of the only female vocalists from India who regularly creates work that involves traditional classical vocal style from southern India with a particularly American aesthetic of blending in with the cultural context of the USA. Her work with Ensemble Datura creates a unique American expression that has strong elements of South Indian Carnatic music, Arab, and Turkish music with an American jazz aesthetic for improvisation. Her work with percussionist N.

I've displayed photographs at Gallery 788 for the past five years. A requirement of showing work at the gallery is being present for a shift during your one month show. The gallery director, Eduardo Rodriguez told me I could do anything, and use the gallery however I wanted for my "shift". I decided to create a multimedia show, and I named it Instant Gratification.

The show, a recurring variety show, has featured many of the most talented performers, artists, musicians, magicians, poets and filmmakers in Baltimore.

Easy Street is a Gallery in downtown Annapolis and has the most magnificent collection of glassworks. The owners were kind to let me visit extensively to admire and photograph the art. I went back several times to try to capture the threatening octopus as it sought the swordfish.

Magic happens when music, dance and spoken word wraps and engulfs a space. An Evening of Artistic excellence is an annual concert series of Baker Artist Award winners. The first performance venue was the Enoch Pratt Free Library and for the past three years it has been held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Featuring Carl Grubbs (saxophone), Vincent E. Thomas (dance/choreographer), Adam Hopkins (bass), and Rob Levit (guitar), and Eric Allen (drums) from 2009 to the current artists awarded the Baker Award and B Grant winners.

Magic happens when music and dance wraps and engulfs a space. This is annual concert series of Baker Artist Award winners. Performance venue is the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Featuring Carl Grubbs (saxophone), Vincent E. Thomas (dance/choreographer), Adam Hopkins (bass), and Rob Levit (guitar), and Eric Allen (drums) from 2009 to the current artists awarded the Baker Award and B Grant winners. The evenings are filled with toe-tapping, thigh slapping, head bopping, engaging and intriguing improvisation of music, spoken word, and dance.

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), son of the famed Italian operatic composer Alessandro Scarlatti, was the private harpsichord tutor to the daughter of the King of Portugal. His student, Maria Barbara, the Princess of Portugal and later the Queen of Spain would be his sole employer for the last 30 years of his life. In his time as her teacher he composed some 555 solo sonatas for harpsichord. Surprisingly, all of these sonatas are linked in there structural design: that of two parts each of which repeats.