Spring 2025

Cornelia Stokes's curatorial practice is rooted in Pan-African practices and kinship, focusing on building community through the arts and philosophies of the Black diaspora. Her approach aims to complexify the oversimplification of Blackness in mainstream culture, investing in opportunities to promote and explore the wide varieties of the Black experience. Stokes holds a B.A. in Art with a focus on Curatorial Studies from Spelman College and an M.A. in Pan-African Studies from Syracuse University, where her thesis examined the work of contemporary artist Amy Sherald. Stokes continues to research, curate, and consult under Emblazon Arts and co-curated NOT FOR SALE and RECLAMATION as an NXTHVN curatorial fellow. 

Spending time in Baltimore, she opened her latest exhibition, CoatTails: Celebrating Black Life Through Style, at Gormley Gallery and participated in Cohort 4 of The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a residency based in rest founded by artist Derrick Adams. 

2024 - 2025

Thomas F. James (b. Washington, DC, 1994) is a curator and cultural worker based in Baltimore, MD. Taking a critical-creative approach to exhibition-making, his practice has been described as one that blends the visionary with the quotidian. Grounded in an interest in curatorial practice as a tool for experimental critical discourse, James focuses on translating expansive ideas through storytelling, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and embodied, participatory forms of cultural production. His work seeks to create approachable yet rigorous engagements that foster intentional reflection, meaning-making, and collective learning as pathways to intellectual exchange and community building.

He holds an MA in Culture, Criticism, and Curation from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and a BA in Business Administration from Frostburg State University, with additional training in curatorial studies at the Unschool of Curating (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and in arts leadership at The New School.

James has curated exhibitions at institutions including the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, and The Phillips Collection; and he has held leadership roles including Inaugural Executive Director of The Last Resort Artists Retreat, Director of Visual Arts at Creative Alliance (Baltimore, MD), and Chair of Exhibitions at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center.

Image Credit: Anncey Ung

2021 - 2023

2020 - 2021

Sarah McCann is a Baltimore based curator, community artist, and consultant. McCann’s text-based mosaics, prints and multimedia artwork has been exhibited nationally and her most recent solo exhibition was on view at Enoch Pratt Light Street Branch in Baltimore in 2025. Since 2010 McCann has organized, curated and installed exhibitions and related programming from conception to completion. Her curatorial methodology poses questions to artists as themes for the exhibitions and often includes youth artists and/or a community component. Her most recent curatorial endeavor titled, “Before | During | Now” opened at the newly launched SBM Gallery in 2026. Sarah has facilitated public and collaborative projects and looks forward to continuing her work in Baltimore and beyond. McCann also works as a consultant and nonprofit professional. Her objective in this work is to improve visibility, expand connections, and build networks between artists, organizations, and communities. 

2020 - 2021

2019 - 2020

Allie Halo Linn is an artist and arts worker from New York and Baltimore motivated by collaborative institution-building, site-responsive practices, and crowd-sourced archives. They have collectively organized various artist-run endeavors—including Bb, a storefront gallery and project space; the Publications and Multiples Fair; the Artist-Run Art Fair; and the Spiral Bound Book Fair—alongside countless collaborators, and have curated exhibitions at spaces including Cardinal, the Menial Collection, SpaceCamp, and Resort, where their exhibition A Gentle Excavation was named one of the ten best Baltimore exhibitions of 2019 by BmoreArt.

Linn is a program manager at A Blade of Grass and has held positions at Recess, The Contemporary, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Analog Research Lab, and United States Artists, where they oversaw various fellowship programs and launched the digital publication Shift Space. Their writing has been featured in Software for Artists, The International Awards for Art Criticism, and Post-Office Arts Journal, and they have spoken on panels at NADA Miami and Artist-Run Miami. Linn holds a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Art History and an MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where they have also taught as a visiting professor.

Image Credit: James Bouché

2018 - 2019

Caitlin Gill received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from Towson University in 2010 and her MFA in Curatorial Practice and Art Criticism from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in 2013. After graduating from OCAD she was employed by Renaissance Fine Arts as an Arts Administration Assistant and eventually as Assistant Director and Event Manager. After nearly four years at Renaissance Fine Arts, Caitlin was awarded a position at the Delaplaine Arts Center as Community Outreach Coordinator where she increased outreach initiatives by 200% and partnered with organizations such as COIP (Children of Incarcerated Parents), Housing Authority, ARCH and the Frederick Center.

She is presently employed by Maryland Art Place (MAP) as the Exhibitions Director and MSAC Arts Directory Coordinator overseeing the MSAC Arts Directory and all MAP’s programming needs to include overseeing their partnerships and satellite spaces with Hotel Indigo, Zeke’s Coffee, Quinn Evans, and 410 Lofts. Gill is an emerging curator and mixed-media artist who exhibits regionally and the Founder of the Goxxip Girl Collective, an all female-identifying art collective based in Baltimore and XoXo Gallery.

Additionally, she is adjunct faculty and Gallery Director for  Shepherd University. She also  teaches at James Madison University (Art Appreciation); Prince George's Community College, and Howard Community College (Drawing and Art History).

Caitlin recently returned to Graduate School to pursue a second MFA in sculpture.