Baker Artist Portfolios

Baltimore-native, Nia Celeste, is an interdisciplinary community and collage artist whose practice bridges photography, creative writing, film, and abstraction through an intuitive and layered approach. She creates to learn, to heal, to self-reflect and ponder and uses mediums as tools of introspection to investigate selfhood, faith, and the human experience. Guided by intuitive inquiry, mood, and process, Celeste's work explores life as a process of constant grief and evolution with the need to identify, understand, and cope with the influence of our mind, will, and emotions in our past, present, and future. As a community artist, she educates, commemorates, and repairs by placing historic value on personal stories of grief and evolution needed for inner and community growth. Celeste integrates the agency of creative entrepreneurship and community arts to disrupt old structures, discover new systems of care, and foster hope in Baltimore and beyond.