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Jed Dietz is the founder of the Producers Club of Maryland, Inc., a nonprofit that promotes increased film production in Maryland.

Director and founder of the Maryland Film Festival, Jed oversees an organization that is responsible for the main film festival in early May, and over 50 screenings and special movie events during the year. Unique in the film festival world, the MFF devotes its Opening Night to Short Films under a special grant from the Baker Fund, and has launched a number of programming innovations to celebrate the movie art form in its broadest possible way. Known as an advocate for filmmakers, the MFF has brought over 500 filmmakers to Baltimore, ranging from Jonathan Demme to Bill Plympton.

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DONALD HICKEN has directed The Turn of the Screw, Betrayal, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Childrens’ Hour, Jacques Brel..., My Children! My Africa!, Watch On The Rhine and The Road To Mecca for Everyman Theatre. He has also directed at The Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, The Kenyon Festival Theatre, Round House Theatre, Rep Stage, and Pennsylvania Stage Company. For his production of The Glass Menagerie (a co-production of Everyman Theatre and Round House Theatre) Mr. Hicken received the 2001 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director of a Resident Play. The production also received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Play. He created and directed Steps in Time: Scenes From 1840 Baltimore fo...read more

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002).

She recently has focused on bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at...read more

Fletcher Mackey is a internationally recognized visual artist and educator. Born in Houston Texas, he received a MFA in painting from the California Institute of the Arts. He previously served as Cultural Programs Director for Project Row Houses from Houston, TX and currently is a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Informed by his interest and study of totemism in various cultures, in particular African, Native American and the Aboriginal people of Australia, his work challenges and reflects on the contemporary meaning of community arts....read more

Hailed as one of the world’s leading conductors for her artistic vision and commitment to accessibility in classical music, Marin Alsop made history with her appointment as the 12th music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. With her inaugural concerts in September 2007, she became the first woman to head a major American orchestra. She also holds the title of Conductor Emeritus at Bournemouth Symphony in the United Kingdom, where she served as the principal conductor from 2002-2008 and is music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California

In 2005, Ms. Alsop was named a MacArthur Fellow, the first conductor ever to receive this prestigious award. In 2007, she was honored with a European Women of Ac...read more

I am a musician, an actor, comedian, a journalist, who's work has appeared in The City Paper, and, "B," where I have a weekly column. I'm also host of The Ed Schrader Show, , and member of the Wham City art collective. I have toured the country performing comedy, and acting (i.e. Jurassic Park), and of course doing music. I recently performed in the Baltimore Round Robin Tour. I also have a continuing audio drama called A Family Affair, done in the style of 40's /50's radio drama, yet based on the comings and goings of a contemporary upstate New York family....read more

Jay M. Fisher
Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs
Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Jay Fisher has been a part of the BMA’s curatorial staff for more than 30 years. As Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, he concentrates on 19th-century and modern French prints and drawings having organized numerous exhibitions, including a catalogue raisonné on the prints of Théodore Chassériau, Félix Buhot: Peintre-Graveur, and The Prints of Edouard Manet. In he directed a project to catalogue the BMA’s 19th-century French drawings, published in 2005, The Essence of Line: 19th French Drawings in Baltimore. His more recent work has turned to the 20th-century focused on the ...read more

Peter Bruun has been an artist who for twenty years has based all his work on self-portraiture. He has exhibited nationally, including at Evergreen House Museum in Baltimore, the Berkshire Museum, the Williams College Museum, and the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Until it closed in 2003, Mr. Bruun was represented by Gomez Gallery in Baltimore.

In recent years, Bruun has combined paintings he makes with works and words of community members. Major community-based projects have included “Conversation Piece” (Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, 2000), “Wallpaper” (School 33 Art Center, 2000), “Being Seen 1-2-3” (Creative Alliance, 2001), and “Anonymous Requiem” (Villa Julie Gallery, 2002...read more