Artists-in-Residence
At Making Space Bmore, we believe that collaboration is key to fostering lasting change. Our Long-Term Artists-in-Residence are at the heart of our work, creating opportunities for artists, activists, and organizations to come together and drive social impact.
In the summer of 2025, we launched the Third Place Artist Residency, a six-to-eight week opportunity encouraging artists to explore the concept of the Third Place—a space for artistic expression, collaboration, and community exchange that exists between home and work.
Residencies are currently by invitation only.
Long-Term Artists-in-Residence
Making Space Bmore has partnered with a select number of projects that share our commitment to creativity, activism, and social justice, providing access to space, resources, and support.
Current Resident Artists and Organizations
B’more Taiko | Islam & Print | JESS JESS PRESS | Rafiki Morris | V Walton
Past Resident Artists and Organizations
Making Space Bmore: NoMüNoMü
Open Studio DC: The Sanctuaries
Learn more about our history of collaboration with artists and community organizations here.
The Third Place Artist Residency
Launched in 2025, this residency invites artists to explore the concept of the Third Place—a space for artistic expression, collaboration, and community exchange that exists between home and work. Participating artists present and create in our multipurpose community lounge, experiment with new practices, and investigate the role of art in transformative social change. Artists also activate the space and engage community through public programming.
Past Resident Artists
Long-Term Artist-in-Residence
Islam & Print
2023 - present
Islam & Print (I&P) is a print fellowship created by Dan Talib Latif Flounders and Safiyah Cheatam. I&P aims to champion diverse Muslim experiences and strengthen career readiness by building a network of regional, emerging visual artists of all mediums through a six-month screenprinting fellowship. I&P strives to prioritize relationship building in cohorts of three to co-work, critique, and produce a collection of print editions that will culminate in a group exhibition of the cohort’s work.
Learn more at Islam & Print.
Long-Term Artist-in-Residence
JESS JESS PRESS
2024 - present
JESS JESS PRESS, owned and operated by Jess Lin and Jess Lipinsky, is an emerging press dedicated to uplifting marginalized artists in the comics/magazine publishing industry. They strive to provide publishing opportunities and high quality printing services for underrepresented creatives in the Baltimore community, allowing them to build their platform in an increasingly censored industry while staying local, keeping our arts district vibrant and creating additional sources of revenue for Baltimoreans.
Learn more at JESS JESS PRESS or follow @jessjesspress.
Long-Term Artist-in-Residence
V Walton
2024 - present
V Walton is a Maryland based artist and educator working across disciplines in sculpture, installation, and video. Their work illustrates the societal and interpersonal dynamics that build and break us down simultaneously, making multi-layered connections between clay[terra], nature, and the body.
Learn more at Victoria Walton Studio or follow @victoriawaltonstudio.
Long-Term Artist-in-Residence
Rafiki Morris
2024 - present
Rafiki Morris is a multi-disciplinary revolutionary cultural warrior, who has spent all of his adult life organizing for the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP). Rafiki presents the African Revolutionary imperative through public speaking, painting, poetry, philosophy, political commentary, fiction, non-fiction and daily revolutionary practice. Rafiki openly claims to have an opinion about everything and fearlessly explains capitalism, imperialism, racism, zionism, patriarchy and all aspects of the African Revolution in common language and clear uncompromising terms. He passionately promotes Pan-Africanism and works to organize African People all around the world.
Follow @morrisrafiki.
Long-Term Artist-in-Residence
B’more Taiko
2024 - present
B'more Taiko seeks to foster community and fun through the art of "kumi daiko," or Japanese group drumming. Grounded in Japanese and Japanese-American traditions, but now practiced all around the world, taiko offers a unique form of music-making and physical activity that's accessible to all. They offer classes, workshops, and outreach activities in Baltimore City.
Contact them at bmoretaiko@gmail.com.
Third Place Artist-in-Residence
Hannah Atallah
Summer 2025
Hannah Atallah (born Washington, DC 1994) is a visual artist who draws on her Palestinian-Lebanese-Irish heritage. With a focus on large-scale public art projects and installations, she prioritizes the incorporation of community and relevant cultural contexts in her practice. Atallah has painted murals and exhibited work in the US, Mexico and Jordan. She has been the winner of nearly 20 grants and awards, notably with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Baltimore Convention Center, and DC public schools. Her work has been acquired in public and private collections internationally.
Learn more at hannahatallah.com or follow @hannah_atallah.
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