Film

Steve Bleinberger

Steve Bleinberger is a highly respected creative professional with decades of experience in the fields of graphic design, art/ creative direction, and film production. In addition to concept development, he has collaborated with multiple commercial film directors as a story/shooting board artist.

His creative work has garnered multiple awards from local to international creative competitions as well as everything in-between, including being named to Ad Week’s prestigious Creative All-Star Team. He is currently a participating exhibitor and instructor at several art clubs and organizations in the Maryland/Pennsylvania area.

Tim St. Clair

Tim St. Clair is a freelance sound designer and post production audio mixer who works with many video production companies in and around Baltimore. His portfolio includes television series for Discovery Communications and advertising campaigns for clients such as United Way of Central Maryland, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Toyota. To compliment his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, Tim achieved a master’s degree in audio sciences from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he recorded and mixed many classical and jazz performances. In recent years, he has taught audio courses at Towson University and Loyola University of Maryland. When he’s not in the studio, he spends time exploring the city and the surrounding countryside with his wife and two sons.

Cucillo Consad

Cucillo Consad is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and editor. His work includes broadcast television and independent documentary short and long form projects. His clients include A & E, TLC, Discovery, Travel Channel, OWN, Microsoft, Intel, the United Way, and several other corporations, nonprofits, and agencies.

Leslie Gray

Leslie Gray is a multimedia artist and has taught weekend workshops with Johns Hopkins’ Baltimore Youth Film Arts program. She has also worked as an art director for short independent films.

Kat Navarro

Kat Navarro is the stop motion animation teacher at BSA for the Charles C. Baum Film and Visual Storytelling Department and is the assistant arts technologist at the Center for the Collaborative Arts and Technology. She has a background in interdisciplinary art and a passion for combining traditional mediums with tech. Kat encourages personal narrative in storytelling and innovate approaches in creating and exhibiting animation. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Animation.

Thomas Ventimiglia

Thomas Ventimiglia has been at the Baltimore School for the Arts since 2006. He teaches screenwriting in both the Charles C Baum Film and Visual Storytelling department and English in the Academic department. His fiction has appeared in magazines such as The Baltimore Review and The Potomac Review. In 2014, he co-directed The Founders, a documentary about the making of the BSA. He is a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellow at Johns Hopkins and a graduate of New York University.