Cory L. Stowers - Is an award winning multi-disciplined creative from Hyattsville, Maryland.

His resume includes credited projects in the fields of visual art, recorded music, film, scholarly writings and education relating to public art.

He began his art career as a graffiti writer in College Park in 1994. He cofounded the Double Down Kings, a graffiti crew which has hosted free instructional classes on graffiti art for the past twenty-years, and have contributed to more than 50 public mural commissions.

In 2015, Stowers founded ART BLOC DC, and was awarded the Public Arts Building Communities Grant from DCCAH, and used the funds to create the first interactive public mural in the United States. By utilizing a free use Augmented Reality application to make the mural “live” with video and audio content accessible via mobile device.

Stowers was honored in 2016 as the recipient of the DCCAH Artist Fellowship Award in the Literary Arts, for his academic writings on graffiti art and street culture. Stowers was honored once again as the recipient of the DCCAH Artists Fellowship Award in the Visual Arts, and the Mayors Award For Artistic Excellence in 2018.

In 2019 he and collaborator Jason Philp completed “PHYCOPHILLY”, in homage to the plight of the Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly. Located at 7400 Baltimore Avenue in College Park, MD, the work accentuates the center of downtown College Park, with a thoughtful narrative of conservation, and civic pride.