Resident Artists & Affiliates – MD

The results of my creative explorations are paintings (abstract and impressionistic), mosaics, and 3D sculptures. My art usually includes integration of recycled materials and old

My current painting style may have been influenced by my childhood art experience in Tokyo where I grew up.   Viewing woodblock art painted centuries ago

I make art to discover the joy that is within.  All the elements of nature’s patterns and beauty are ours to discover and celebrate. As

Ann is an outdoor artist, gaining her inspiration from the places she paints. The excitement in her work comes from the rapid, fresh brushstrokes and

Smooth silks… Warm wools… Color, Color, Color These are the tools that noted weaver and fiber artist Anne Sanderoff-Walker uses to create wearable fiber art,

Barbara is a plein air and studio painter, working primarily in oils. She is also a Teaching Artist at Art Works Now in Hyattsville, a

As a little boy Bill Johnson always answered the question “what do you want to be when you grow up” with a very quick “an

Brian Fisher’s art combines the rich history of master painters with evocative memories of a working class childhood.

Bridget Kuzma is a painter and Art Therapist. She completed her BA in psychology with a minor in studio art at The University of Dallas.

I am a mosaic artist, born in the south of France, having moved to the USA in 2001 from the Middle East in 2008. I

Catherine Nickle is a realist impressionist working in oil and pastel. She enjoys painting en plein air to capture the mood, textures and fleeting quality

Put simply, I paint because I find painting fun and challenging. I work in multiple media – watercolor, oil, acrylic, gouache and mixed media – depending on the subject and the visual impact I want.

Christina Hibbard is an abstract mixed-media artist, who recently turned her passions of painting and collage-making into a full-time gig after fifteen years of working toward eliminating violence against women and girls, teaching and coaching women.

Cindy Rivarde is an artist living and working in the Maryland Capital Region.  Her work focuses on connections and resonance in response to a sense

I am a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory with a major in flute performance. I worked as a freelance classical musician for over 35 years.

  I am a wedding and lifestyle photographer serving clients in the Washington DC area. I love to capture special moments for clients and I

I have been creating artwork since childhood. From a young age, I was fortunate to have been exposed to the great museums of the National

Art is Biography Dorothy McDonough McGeorge Dorothy McGeorge has most recently returned to the Washington area. Her paintings over the years have chronicled her surroundings

Elizabeth Matthews is an oil painter working in the New Romanticism style using dramatic landscape as a metaphor and setting to confront challenging life experiences. Matthews

Frank Mancino is a fine artist living and working in Silver Spring, Maryland, working primarily in charcoal, oils and acrylics. HIs work ranges from traditional

Glen Kessler has been awarded a 2013 Maryland State Arts Council Grant, two Elizabeth Greenshields Grants, and the Prince of Wales Fellowship. Glen is also a renowned teacher and mentor, and has taught avidly at both the university and community level for nearly two decades.

Helen Hanssen is a maker and craft person interested in hand-tool woodworking. Influenced by the work she did working in historic preservation and graphic design,

Originally from Pretoria, South Africa, I lived and worked in Cape Town from 1995-2022. I recently relocated to Maryland and have joined Artists & Makers

As a mixed media resin artist, I am compelled to create works that are functional and/or decorative. Influenced by colors and textures from living in

  Jamie Downs has been painting for over forty years.  For most of the time, her work has been a non-objective Jungian search of the

A seamstress for many years, I began weaving and dyeing in 1998. This has led me in many directions, most recently clothing, accessories and wall

I love to make art and learn about art-making by experimenting in my studio, by viewing and discussing art with others, and through living and

Jean Hirons works exclusively in the beautiful medium of soft pastel. She is a teacher of the medium and the author of Finding Your Style

Travel near and far introduced me to the joy of plein air painting.  My imagination responded to the challenge to study light, color, and design

I am a painter and graphic designer who has lived and worked in Washington, DC for over 37 years.  My paintings are about the moment,

I am an artist and author living in Gaithersburg, MD. When painting, I have worked primarily in oils, acrylics and water colors. I have been

Jody Sachs draws on her love for nature and science, inspired by nature and beauty in the simplest forms.

Johnnie Gins works in silver, gold and copper to create wearable art from jewelry to metal purses, mezzuzahs and playful tableware. She collaborates with glassmakers and

I once was a zombie. Maybe not technically, but pretty close. I was cognitively impaired, groaned a lot, had no short-term memory, and shuffled from

I come from an artistic family. My mother is a retired art teacher and printmaker. My daughter is also an art teacher, as well as

In the three decades that I have been maintaining a studio and making serious art, I have found myself doing many different things in many different media. But as my studios have become smaller, I find that space is a powerful informer of the things artists make.

Summary of Juried Exhibitions and Awards Solo Shows • Fall 2022: Parade Project, Abington Art Center (Jenkintown, PA) • Spring 2023: Parade Project, Links Bridge

I am a mixed media artist from Prince George’s County, Maryland. I earned a BA from the University of Maryland College Park. My practice includes

Laura-Leigh Palmer is chief and only creative at asap graphics+interiors360 a boutique marketing firm for small and medium businesses and organizations. She takes the company

Lauren Cook’s artwork is informed by her rural midwestern heritage, her deep appreciation of nature, an insatiable curiosity about diverse human cultures both ancient and

Everyday life is riveting to me. I feel it is important to be aware of the daily vignettes that weave their threads throughout the fabric of our lives. They become a large part of our life stories.

I paint primarily in watercolors but also work in acrylics and other water media. I have been creating art, in one form or another, for as long as I can remember.

Picking up the strands of art interests from fifty years ago has been an adventure and a surprise. After retiring in ’07 from teaching, I

Margaret is a mixed media sculptor creating vessels, wall art, and wearable works.  Her creations incorporate decades of exploring the strengths and nuances of a

Naan is a mixed media artist and jeweler. Naan Pocen is a multi-media artist born in Jos, Nigeria. Although a trained Journalist, she has spent

Norma Schwartz, born in Argentina a few months before the end of World War II, was involved in social and political issues during a harsh dictatorship. She emigrated to Spain, where the hope for a new democratic era was starting to emerge, then moved to the United States where she pursued a new passion: sculpting.

Patricia Zannie, an award winning collage artist and former Art instructor at the School of Art and Design at Montgomery College.  Rather than selecting either

Patrick Sieg’s studio practice is focused on representational portrait and landscape paintings. A consistent theme in his work is a focus on sources of light.

The hand pulled print has been Pauline Jakobsberg’s method of expression for the past 35 years. Her works are in several private collections around the world and have been widely exhibited in the US and Europe, including two solo exhibitions in the Czech Republic.

With silk as her canvas, Phyllis Gordon creates hand painted, one of a kind scarves, scrolls and framed art. Working mostly from her own photographs, combining her love for color and fabric, Phyllis finds silk painting addictive and exciting.

My figures co-habitat a world filled with nature and colour – because that is how I see myself. Essentially nature. The subtleties, complexities, the curves,

I have been making pottery for over twenty years. More recently, I began designing and creating mosaics, from small decorative pieces to large installations. In

Richard Svec worked for five decades in the Graphic Arts industry. After retirement, an affinity for fine arts, in particular the Impressionists, began to emerge. That matured into his own interest in learning how to draw and paint.

Sandra Pérez-Ramos is a Puerto Rican artist and community art leader working in the DC/MD area. Inspired by Design from the 1950’s – 70’s, global folk

Artist’s Statement: the process of creating art keeps me grounded, stops time, knows no bounds, ideas become tangible and filled with light, while I learn,

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Born into a family of contractors, Tony Ventouris has been surrounded by architects, developers, and artists since an early age and has naturally developed a

Vicky Surles is an award-winning realist artist, working mainly in watercolor and color pencil, focusing on portraits, still life and landscapes. She’s a member of

hankifer@earthlink.net www.victoriahanksfineart.com www.instagram.com/victoriaallenhanks Victoria Hanks studied painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking at New York University and Brooklyn College, earned a BFA at Montclair State University