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Elder-in-Residence & Artist-in-Residence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This residency program supports local Baltimore artists in the creation of public art installations, artist talks, and archival research. One Elder in Residence and one Artist in Residence is chosen each year to engage in joint-teaching experiments with non-arts faculty, investigating the synergies between arts practice, justice, public health and social sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past Resident Artists<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2024-2025<\/h2>
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Dr. Walter Gill – Elder in Residence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Walter (Wali) Arthur Harris Gill was born in Greenville, Mississippi. He received his public education in Jefferson City, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. He was the first African American to graduate from the previously all-white and all-male Baltimore City College High School in 1955; and is in the school\u2019s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gill earned a B.S. and received his R.O.T.C. Commission from Morgan State College in 1960.  For 20 years, he was a university administrator or professor at four universities: Bowie State University, Morgan State University (where he was the first faculty hired for the Telecommunications Department in 1978), the University of Nebraska (where he received a recommendation for tenure), and Millersville University. Dr. Gill is a Life Member of the Morgan State University National Alumni Association and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jamal Moore – Artist in Residence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jamal R. Moore is a native of Baltimore, Maryland who is a multi-instrumentalist, composer\/performer and educator. His background includes California Institute of The Arts (M.F.A. 2012), Berklee College of Music (B.M 2005), Eubie Blake Jazz Orchestra (2000) under the direction of Christopher Calloway Brooks, and the historical acclaimed Frederick Douglass Sr. High whose notable alumni include Thurgood Marshall, Cab Calloway, and Ethel Ennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some notable luminaries Jamal has worked and recorded with are Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Nicole Mitchell, Archie Shepp, David Ornette Cherry, Tomeka Reid, Dr. Bill Cole, DJ Lou Gorbea, George Duke, Sheila E, David Murray, JD Parran, Ras Moshe, Hprizm, (Antipop Consortium) Tatsua Nakatani, Hamid Drake, and the late Yahyah Abdul Majid (Sun Ra Arkestra). He is an affiliate of The Pan African Peoples Arkestra of the late Horace Tapscott, Black Praxis of David Boykin, and member of Konjur Collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamal currently leads his own groups, Akebulan Arkestra, Napata Strings, Black Elements Quartet, Organix Trio, and Mojuba Duo. \u201cAs musicians we are healers of humanity and have a responsibility to cleanse disease through positive tones, frequencies and vibrations. Music is the nucleus and universal language of the oversoul, mind, body and spirit,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

2022-2023<\/h2>
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Living History Fellow (Elder-in-Residence)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Deborah Mason<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. Deborah Mason, affectionately known as \u201cMama Debbie,\u201d directs the Sankofa Children\u2019s Museum of African Cultures, and was one of the first female journeyman carpenters in Maryland. During her time as an Elder in Residence, she worked with HBCU Oral History Fellow Dana Green to curate her life history archive called, \u201cBaltimore through the Eyes of Deborah Brooks Mason.\u201d  She also served as a co-curator for “The Colors of Pontella Mason” exhibition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Community Arts Fellow (Artist-in-Residence)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Brinae Ali<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexandria \u201cBrinae Ali\u201d Bradley was born and raised in Flint, Michigan and is an interdisciplinary artist who believes in using the power of the arts to transform the conditions of the human spirit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brinae has served as the artistic director of Tapology, Inc. in Flint, MI, Fourth Wall Arts Salon, and Sound and Movement, LLC in Philadelphia. She has also partnered and served as a teaching artist with organizations such as Ping Chong and Company, NJPAC, Moving History in Baltimore, and the Apollo Theater Education Department.  She has also received awards for Best Short Play at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival for her one woman show \u201cSteps\u201d and the Vox Populi Independence Music Award for \u201cDestination Forever: Vol.1 EP.\u201d Her broadway and off-broadway experience include Shuffle Along<\/em> and STOMP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her time as an Artist in Residence, Brinae Ali worked diligently on The Baby Laurence Legacy Project<\/em>, an archival\/performative process that has birthed an integrated work of jazz tap dance and jazz music that investigates and celebrates the artistic and social influences that \u201cBaby Laurence\u201d Donald Jackson had on the culture of Tap Dance and Jazz Music. Currently, Brinae is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory, co-creator of a work in progress with trumpeter Sean Jones called \u201cDizzy Spellz\u201d, a member of the Baltimore Jazz Collective, and cultural ambassador for diplomacy through the lense of Hip Hop culture as an artist in residence with Next Level-USA  in partnership with the U.S. Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs, the University of North Carolina, and the Meridian International Center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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