Baker Artist Portfolios

Jada McAliley is a young and dedicated visual artist with a background in a variety of artistic mediums including graphite pencils, oil paint, and B&W film. The main concepts explored in her work are the complexities of her relationship with family and relationship with self, in relation to her black identity. She captures the small intimate moments shared with family members in her work. In works pertaining to her relationship with self, she depicts personal moments through the use of repetition of her figure and experimenting with translucency. She has just recently graduated high school (2024) from George Washington Carver Center A&T in Maryland. In high school, she practiced figure painting and photography. She will be majoring in painting at Maryland Institute College of Art for the next 4 years.