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Shawn ‘Q’ attended Berklee College of Music Alumnus (Jazz Composition/Music Education).  Shawn has been in demand as a multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger and music instructor for over thirty years. Sought out for his talents on guitar, bass, piano, percussion and the rubab and dutar, two instruments from his native Afghanistan, Shawn is known for his musical virtuosity, sensitivity, lyricism and spirited creative energy in the jazz tradition. His constant devotion to musical traditions, while at the same time striving to bring new energy and relevance to his live...

Amber Is a choreographer performer, arts-based researcher and creative artist based in Wilmington, DE. Amber has performed across the world and danced in several groundbreaking multidisciplinary productions, including “Same Stories, Different Countries” and “Women of Consequence”. She has also taught arts integration and presented arts-based research in Belize, Australia and South Africa.  Amber graduated from the University of Delaware (2020) with a Bachelor’s degree in Health Behavior Science with a minor in Disability studies.  ...

William Reid (He/Him/His) is an early career actor located just outside of Philadelphia. He has worked on film and stage in varying degrees and loves when he can connect with an audience through his character. Aside from his work on the stage, he has spent the past year developing a passion for working with youth in the performing arts. Most of his work has been teaching weekly acting classes or directing full-fledged productions of licensed musicals. His work as an...

Sharon Sable, originally from Atlantic City, found herself immersed in the teen pop world as a young recording artist for LaFace/Arista records in Atlanta at the age of 17. During this pivotal time, she recorded with and for many of the eras pop/R&B heavyweights such as Pink, Babyface, Mandy Moore and Boyz II Men. Sharon travelled to Italy and toured the US in support of these other artists, all while finding solace, inspiration and an insatiable appetite for the hidden musical...

Jea Street is a singer/songwriter born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. Jea was inspired to become a musician during his Freshman year at Morehouse College when he joined the Morehouse College Glee Club. Jea entered Morehouse to become a doctor, but was so inspired by the power of music he witnessed that he dropped all of his pre-med classes during his sophomore year and began to take music classes for the first time. After graduating from Morehouse with a Bachelor’s...

Kate Testa is a mixed media sculptor and installation artist based in Philadelphia whose work explores themes of the metaphysical and the occult while investigating how the art making process can transcend into a spiritual practice. Using a pallet consisting of wood, fibers, glass, metal and found object she creates sculptural collages, ritual objects and installations that play roles in her constructed sacred customs. In her work Testa challenges the viewer to question her beliefs in these object’s...

George Tietze is a local Teacher, Teaching Artist, Actor and Playwright in Wilmington, Delaware. He has been a Teaching Artist and Wolftrap Artist with the DiAE since 2002 and in 2013 completed his Wolftrap STEM training. George has been teaching and directing students of all ages in public, private and Head Start schools since 1994 and has been an Adjunct Professor of Theater at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware since 2007. Most of his stage performances have been with City...

Violinist Lisa Vaupel appears throughout the United States as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. She currently performs as Principal Second Violin of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and as Associate Concertmaster of Opera Delaware. Lisa is also a tenured member of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and plays regularly with the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, She also enjoys playing with the Broadway touring shows through the Kimmel Center Series, including playing most recently as Concertmaster for Hello Dolly and...

Christian is a University of Delaware student, artist, lyricist, poet, and activist in the Wilmington community. Christian plans on  graduating college in May 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in English and is pursuing a Master’s degree in the near future. His main goals are to become a college professor and to own a non-profit that focuses on inner-city children. Presently, Christian has worked on several projects that focus on youth in the fields of art, literature and music within education....

Shannon Woodloe is a photographer based in Wilmington, DE and full-time Digital Storyteller at the Delaware Art Museum. Photographing professionally for 7 years, her passion for photography is rooted in the rich family history and stories she found in her own family’s photographs. She is a Delaware Division of Arts 2019 Emerging Artist Fellow in Photography and her most recent  forward to sharing her most recent project “401” opened for exhibition in February 2020. https://arts.delaware.gov/iafrecipients/2019_iafs/shannon-woodloe/ ...