Baker Artist Portfolios

Sasha-Loriene McClain is a Maryland based multidisciplinary artist whose work is informed by her inner-child healing journey, self-discovery, and search for home. Born to Liberian immigrants, Sasha-Loriene uses artmaking through storytelling to cultivate home independent of time, space, and location. Her practice explores mixed media figuration, surrealism, and abstraction, employing bold composition, texture, and personal subject matter to embody the human experience – the intersection of self, identity, and purpose.

Sasha-Loriene is a 2023 grant recipient of the Maryland State Council of the Arts and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts. She has participated in artist residencies in Maryland and exhibited in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Florida, and London, UK.

As the founder of Mahyue Studios, a community arts incubator centering healing, storytelling, and cultural exchange, and Black Girls Who Paint, a global movement supporting Black women and girl artists, Sasha-Loriene leverages her BA in Economics from University of Maryland: College Park and MPA in Public Management from American University to amplify her artistic voice and social-engagement on larger scales.