Artist Profiles

Baltimore-based jazz photographer Jeffrey Kliman says he is “aglow” and “a happy camper.” That’s because in October, University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Library celebrated its newly purchased archive of Kliman’s work — over 52,000 negatives, 3,000 slides, 2,300 prints and proofs, and 1,000 contact sheets — primarily black and white images of jazz musicians, taken from 1986 to 2014. | Read more>> Read More

Lionel Lyles was born in Boulder, Colorado but his family moved to Baltimore when he was two years old. His mother worked for 35 years at Coppin State doing accounting in the Management Science department, while his father worked at Morgan State in the planning department. | Read more>> Read More