Baker Artist Portfolios

Joseph Williams, widely known to collectors and friends as Melku is a rising self taught artist based in Baltimore,Md. Melku has been creating art from a young age and after graduating from IADT with AA degree in Computer Animation he begin to develop his art and style with charcoal and pastels drawing inspiration from portraitures that taught him fundamental skills that would later benefit his artist life. Melku’s art is Afrocentric based primarily drawing his inspiration from the RasTafari culture that reflect African and spiritual subjects, the voice projected throughout his paintings has been connecting collectors to nature, cultural pride and understanding. As a full time artist Melku primarily works with acrylic paint and explores pyrography, murals and digital art while developing a new series of paintings for his first solo exhibition in 2025