I am THRILLED to announce that I have won a Baker Artist Award! I was in a group of amazing finalists and I am honored to have been chosen as the winner. Immense gratitude to the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA) and the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund for their work in supporting Baltimore artists.

Here is the list of awardees for each category:

Lynn Tomlinson: Film & Photography
Erin Fostel: Visual Art - 2D
McCormack and Figg: Visual Art - 3D
Kei Ito: Interdisciplinary Art
Don Lee: Literary Arts
Alex and Olmsted: Performing Arts

Each artist received the $10,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize, with Lynn Tomlinson receiving the $40,000 Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize, the largest art prize in the region. Awardees also receive various exhibition and showcase opportunities at major Baltimore institutions, which includes the biennial Baker Artist Awards Exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

You can view all of the winning portfolios here.

I am excited to be included in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise: The Phillips Collection Juried Exhibition. Drawing from 1,500 submissions, the exhibition brings together 48 artists from Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia whose recent work reflects, adapts, experiments, and resists in response to the contemporary moment. On view from August 1 through September 20, 2026.

The exhibition continues museum founder Duncan Phillips’s commitment to championing living artists, while underscoring the breadth and vitality of artistic practice across the greater Washington-Baltimore area. Drawn from an open call for work created since November 2024, Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise brings together artists of various cultural backgrounds, national origins, artistic training, and generations whose practices reflect both the challenges of contemporary life and the resilience that sustains creative expression.

Click here to read the press release and see the full list of participating artists.