
Anastasia Walsh A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Angela Lacy A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Anita L. Albertson A&M1
What is Art? To me, art captures something essential about life. “Art makes life bearable. It isn’t a luxury. Like our capacity for understanding, and

Ann Corbett A&M1
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 Schaefer A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Anne Sanderoff-Walker A&M1
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 Mandel A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Barbara Ziselberger A&M1
As a painter working primarily in acrylics and Chinese ink, I am inspired by Chinese calligraphy and American graffiti. I employ gestural brush strokes and

Bill Johnson, Affiliate
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 A&M1
Brian Fisher’s art combines the rich history of master painters with evocative memories of a working class childhood.

Brigitte Messali A&M1
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, Affiliate
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

Cathy Hirsh A&M1
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.

Cecelia Laurendeau A&M1
At an early age I began to go beyond coloring and ventured into drawing and painting. The moment I uncapped my first tube of oil

Christina Murray A&M1
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 A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Colleen Darkow A&M1
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.

Damien Carter A&M1
I am a wedding and lifestyle photographer serving clients in the Washington DC area. I love to capture special moments for clients and I

Deborah Brisker Burk, Affiliate
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

Dorothy McGeorge, Affiliate
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

Elaine Boucher Burch Taylor, Affiliate
Biography B.A. in Fine Art, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts B.S.C.S. in Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia Study Art at Boston University, Harvard University,

Elizabeth Davison A&M1
Every individual should have access to art and culture in their daily lives. It’s our goal to provide a medium between art enthusiasts and the

Elizabeth Matthews A&M1
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

Elody Crimi, Affiliate
Elody Crimi is an alumni graduate of the Washington School of Photography and is an accomplished commercial and fine arts photographer, specializing in landscape and

Frank Mancino A&M1, Gallery 209
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 A&M1
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 Woodworks A&M1
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,

Inge Burman A&M1
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

Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Affiliate
EDUCATION & TRAINING Howard University- MFA Painting Spring 2012 Jackson State University – School of Liberal Arts Degree: Bachelor of Art in Art; May 2004

Jamie Downs A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Janet Barnard A&M1
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

Janet Fox A&M1, Gallery 209
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, Affiliate
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

Jeanne Powell A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Jennifer Howard A&M1, Gallery 209
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,

Jim Hoehn A&M1, Gallery 209
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 A&M1
Jody Sachs draws on her love for nature and science, inspired by nature and beauty in the simplest forms.

John Dennis Murphey A&M1
Hi! I’m John Dennis Murphey. And yes, I’ve started using my middle name, Dennis. There are just too many other rascals out there with the

Josh Scott A&M1
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

Judith HeartSong A&M1
I have been working as a professional artist for more than thirty years now, after a public school education in which my focus was completely

Kate Bramante A&M1
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

Katherine Janus Kahn A&M1
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.

Kathleen Litz A&M1
Kathleen Litz is a painter and mixed media artist who teaches enriching children’s classes and workshops from her studio at A&M1 Parklawn.

Kathy Moore Wilson, Affiliate
I love to draw more than just about anything, and I draw and paint nearly every day. I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil, but it took me years before I considered doing it full time.

Korey Richardson A&M1
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 A&M1
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

Leslie Kraff A&M1
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.

Linda Cohen (In Memoriam 2018)
Linda was a treasured member of the A&M family. Her dedication to, and love of her practice, lives on in our hearts. “I love the

Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe A&M1, Gallery 209
Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe is a classically trained artist with extensive studies in art history. Her work is recognized for minimalist, methodical patterns, squares, and self portraiture.

Lori Anne Boocks A&M1
About Lori Anne Boocks lives in Maryland and earned a BFA from Old Dominion University in 1992. Her work is included in private collections in

M.E. ~ Marion Edith and Raymond Paul A&M1
Creative HeadSpace A place for Design Thinking and Research Storytelling Documentary & Experimental Filmmaking Podcasting M.E. ~ Marion Edith Corcoran College of Art, BFA George

Maralyn Alpert A&M1
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.

Marcia Bhorjee A&M1, Gallery 209
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 Polcawich A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Marian Osher A&M1
Marian Osher had double vision until she had an eye operation at the age of four. With “new eyes” she delighted in a world of

Naan Pocen, Affiliate
Naan is a mixed media artist and jeweler. I am first of all and always will be an artist, but I am also a mother

Norma Schwartz A&M1
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 de Poel Wilberg A&M1
Having traveled extensively, Patricia works in glass, mixed media, and sculpture who skillfully incorporates hand drawn elements into her work. School of Art at the

Patricia Zannie A&M1, Gallery 209
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 A&M1, Gallery 209
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.

Pauline Jakobsberg A&M1
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.

Phyllis Gordon A&M1
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.

Pooja Campbell, Affiliate
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,

Rebecca Ravenal A&M1
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 A&M1
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 A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Sara Hitchcock A&M1
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,

Sue Fierston, Affiliate
I like to work in series and I’m in the midst of white-line woodcuts based on Yosemite National Park, where I’ll have my second arts

Syreeta Herbert A&M1
Fashion should always SPEAK SANS SPEECH! Syreeta C | Fashion is an edgy, yet sophisticated brand that specializes in couturier services. It was created to

Tamra Spievogel, Affiliate
Tamra is an artist who paints with glass creating slumped and molded forms that are sculptural and sometimes functional.

Terry Svat A&M1
I am artist and a printmaker in Washington DC area. I have been creating art my entire adult life. My prints hang in Argentina, Chile,

Tony Ventouris Photography A&M1
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 A&M1, Gallery 209
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

Victoria Hanks A&M1
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