Baker Artist Portfolios

As an artist I have been interested in sharing my knowledge and love of self-expression within East Baltimore.  Developing community access through my non-profit partnership with Fusion as Madeira Street Axis, I have broadened my reach to include youth and adults in teaching local art classes at MAXgallery.  An interesting development has resulted in the parents who bring their children to Saturday's Child class have participated and added to the program through their own inventive ideas.  MAXgallery donates programming space and professional expertise for MSA's programs.

In 2013, I first participated in Baltimore's Artscape Gallery Network as a gallerist. exhibiting other artists' work along with my own. This was the beginning of MAXgallery, www.MAXgallery.us, a new exhibition venue for Baltimore artists. 126 N. Madeira Street, with its new identity, continues to be my primary living/working space. In the 2015 Artscape exhibition, "Cross This Line", I presented emerging artists partnering with established artists.

2015 saw the beginning of ESW (East Side Works) a workforce development program for inner city residents.

A native of California, I moved to Maryland more than 40 years ago, at which time I began to paint seriously, first in watercolor and subsequently acrylic and mixed media.
Active in the DC art scene as a member of Studio Gallery from 1991-1997, I am now a resident here in Baltimore, where I was represented by Montage Gallery from 2003-2010. I have work in private collections in California, Florida, New York, D.C., Virginia and Maryland, including 18 paintings in the George Meany Center for Labor Studies formerly in Silver Spring, MD.
I was instrumental in the creation of Passageways Artist Studios in Riverdale, MD and a participant in the formalization of the Artists' Gallery in Columbia, MD before moving to my current studio in Baltimore.
After working for others for 50 years and raising a family, retirement in 2011 came as a welcome relief. My work continues to evolve as I become more immersed in the culture of Baltimore, associate with other artists and generally become more attuned to the life of an artist.