Printmaking Bio - Kini Collins has spent her life as an artist—martial, visual, literary. Day jobs to support those habits include event producer, bookstore manager, gallery assistant, community organizer, dog walker, nanny, teacher and office temp. Raised in central New Jersey in the 1960s she finally settled in Baltimore in 1998 after a whole lot of stops along the way. https://kinicollins.com/home.html
Jenny O’Grady is a book artist and writer who makes book sculptures out of beans and paper bags and fabric and whatever else she fancies at the moment. Jenny is editor of The Light Ekphrastic (www.thelightekphrastic.com), an online literary journal that since 2010 has paired more than 500 writers and visual artists from around the world to create new works online. Jenny has taught book arts as an adjunct professor in the University of Baltimore's Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program, where she earned her MFA in 2006. She received a b-grant from the Baker Artist Awards, and has been published in a variety of literary magazines. By day, she leads communications at UMBC. See more of her work at jennyogrady.com.