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A.C. Warden
Cherchez La Femme Productions Focus: Cherchez La Femme Productions produces a variety of media, from film and video to radio and the web. We work independently as well as under contract to museums, corporations, non-profit organizations, and broadcast ...

Alex Martin
Born in Brittany, the Celtic province of France, raised mostly in rural North Carolina, and a traveler through Spain and Latin America now living in Mount Rainier, MD, Alex has always sought to create music that expresses his unique confluence of world ...

Andrea Chastant
Medium: dance Focus: I create and perform dance for the air and for the ground that addresses that can be understood by a wide range of audiences.Biography: Andrea Chastant graduated from the University of Maryland with degrees in dance and Spanish. ...

Bill Beverly
Biolgraphy: Bill Beverly wasx born in Michigan, and has taught in Ohio and Florida. Bill has lived in Maryland since 1999. His book, On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America, published by University Press of Mississippi, was published ...

Charles Reiher
Charlie uses acrylic, ink, and collage to create abstract paintings. His work is organic, full of motion and flow, and emphasizes color, line and texture.

Cheryl Edwards
Cheryl D. Edwards was born in Miami Beach, Florida. She began her studies in art during 1990 in New York City in a class at the Art Student League taught by the late, Ernest Crichlow. She has been living in Washington, DC for the past 15 years. Cheryl ...

Cynthia Gossage
Medium: crafts, fold life/traditional arts Focus: My work ranges from traditional quilting, patchwork, and applique to small multi-medium pieces incorporating embroidery, beading, applique, and found objects. Target ages: adults/young adults ***note: ...

Daniel Burkholder
Medium: dance Focus: My work focuses on the relationship between improvised dance and music. I create dynamic performance work that combines the formalism of choreography and the spontaneity of improvisation. Biography: Daniel Burkholder is the ...

David Berard
Focus: I collect fictitious countries from various media sources and design flags for them. Biography: David Barard was bord in Washington DC. Berard has lived most his life in Prince George's County. He majored in studio art at UMCP, graduating in ...

Deborah Ager
Biography: Deborah Ager's writing has appeared in The Georgia Review, the North American Review, Quarterly, West, and elsewhere. she has been awarded residnecies in MacDowell Colony and VCCA and publishes 32 Poems Magazine. She is a life transition coach ...

Dolly Pomerleau
Medium: pottery Focus: My focus is a pottery and social justice. I am a co-founder of Potters for Peace. I have been proficient in reduction firing science 1998. Biography: Dolly Pomerleau has been maing pottery since 1980. Dolly attended her first ...

Donna D'Aquino
Medium: jewelry, metal smithing Focus: I am a jeweler and metalsmith. I work in both precious and non-precious metals. My work varies from small functional jewelry to larger sculptural pieces. Biography: Donna D'Aquino was born in Newbugh, New ...

Donna D'Aquino
Medium: jewelry, metal smithing Focus: I am a jeweler and metal smith. I work in both precious and non-precious materials. My work varies from small functional jewelry to larger sculptural pieces. Biography: Donna D'Aquino was born in Newburgh, ...

Ellyn Weiss
Ellyn Weiss is a painter, printmaker and curator, with studios in Mt. Ranier and Truro, MA. Her most recent solo show, in October, 2009, at the Nevin Kelly Gallery in Washington,DC,featured paintings in tar. In September, 2010, she will exhibit a series ...

Emily Greene Liddle
Emily Greene Liddle was born and raised just outside of Baltimore, MD before moving to Washington, DC in 1999 to attend college. She graduated cum laude from the Catholic University of America in 2004 with a dual bachelors degree in Fine Arts and Art ...

Jean Lee
Medium: jewelry Focus: Most of my work is stained glass jewelry. Glass is the focus of many pieces, which are embellished with beads, found objects and recycled items. Biography: Jean Lee graduated with a background in clothing design but has 25 ...

Juan Beck
Medium: Furniture Focus: I design and build custom furniture. I also do built-in furniture and millwork for architects and homeowners. Biography: Juan Beck started in the building trades as a laborer-carpenter, finish carpenter-cabinet maker. He ...

Karen Hampton
Karen Hampton (MFA 2000) is a mixed media textile artist whose work is steeped in oral history and is an expression of the narrative. A storyteller at heart, she imparts conceptualized tales about the “other” in society. She views herself as a vehicle ...

Laura Schandelmeier
Focus: I create movement based solo and company works that draw from physical, thematic and structural experimentations. My partern, Stephan andI are committed to creating works that reflect our individual and shared experience of contemporary culture ...

Laurel Victoria Gray
Medium: dance, folklife/ traditional arts Focus: Ancient, traditional and contemporary women's dances of various Silk Road cultures in Cenreal Asia and the Middle East. Biography: :aurel Victoria Gray is an internationally recognized scholar, performer, ...

Laurie Breen
I work in multiple media (acrylics, charcoal and mixed media) in an expressive, abstract manner. Sometimes my pieces are purely abstract. Sometimes they represent real objects, landscapes or figures. I also create bright, colorful, sophisticated artwork ...

Leila Holtsman
For the last decade, Leila Holtsman has created mixed-material sculpture, site murals, and ceramic objects for private clients and exhibitions. Born in Washington, DC, Holtsman spent ten years of her early life in the deserts of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, ...

Lesole Z. Maine
Focus: To reflect the unique moevement vocabulary and choreographic style inspired by African heritage. Biogrpahy: Lesole Z. Maine founded the non-profit organization "Lesole'ss Dance Project" in 2003. The company creates and performs work that highlights ...

Marcia F. Freeman
Medium: dance, bodywork teacher, American Sign Language dramatic interpreter Focus: I am a dancer, choreographer, teacher, actress, and body worker. I use the Alexander Technique and the Normal Function Technique. I am an America Sign Language interpreter. Biography: ...

Michael Brehl
Medium: metal, copper, silver, gold jewelry Focus: jewelry design Biography: Michael Brehl has been a metal smith for over 20 years. He does small to medium size work in copper, silver, or gold using jewelry and traditional silversmith techniques. Services ...

Mr. Dennis Reed
studied at the Arts Student's League, Studio Museum and Brooklyn Museum Art School in NYC B.A., Journalism, L.I.U. M.A., English, V.C.U. writer and abstract expressionist Teaching Positions William and Mary Morehouse Virginia Commonwealth ...

Mr. Normon Greene
In my artistic studies, I draw inspiration from a number of periods including Cubism and Futurism. I greatly admire the expression of Marcel and Raymond Duchamp, Henry Moore, and Umberto Boccioni. In my own art, I strive to honor the human form through ...

Mr. Udoh Opiotennione
Udoh Opiotennione, was born and raised in St. Louis Mo. and California. Udoh has been involved in music for over 30 years. After receiving a Music Education/Performance degree for Howard University, began a career as a musician / educator. He currently ...

Mr. Yvon Fleurival
ARTIST BIO Haitian Born Yvon Fleurival is a cultural educator and tradition bearer. Through his work, he seeks to emulate the internal synergy of a dreamer and an abundance of sounds and colors to create a rhapsody exemplifying the spirit of Haitian ...

Patrick Roberts
Pat Roberts designs and produces wood handcrafted lamps, clocks and boxes mixed with unusual materials such as pebbles, tile and dyed metals. His time spent in Europe as a teen gave him a love for clean lines and timeless style. Designs For Living ...

Peggy Dillon
Medium: crafts, fold life/traditional arts Focus: I create "functional" and decorative art in the form of quilts that can be used for warmth or decoration, and painted furniture and bowls that can be functional or decorative. Biography: Peg Dillon ...

Red Dirt Studio
Red Dirt Studio is is a graduate school with no grades, a collective work environment, a critique group and a business-of-art incubator. It’s an exhibition space, a site for visiting artist workshops, and informally, a craft center for neighborhood ...

Robert Croslin
Medium: jewelry Focus: In my jewelry, I strive to bring total satisfaction to all my clients with designs that cannot be found at any jewelry stores or shopping malls. I create wearable art that can be symbolic and meaningful to those who wear them. ...

Robin Bliss
Focus: I design, fabricate, and install displaysfor retail, corporate, and residential evironments. Specializing in retail display and design, holiday and special event decorating. Biography: Robin Bliss has been a free-lance display artist for the ...

Sade Dennis

Sayuri Miyazaki
Focus: English and Japanese poetry. Custom made traditional Chinese stone stamps. Biography: since 1985, Sayuir Miyazaki has offered numerous peotry readings in support of Japanese environmental groups and anti-nuclear activists in cooperation with ...

Sylvana Juliet Christopher
Focus: My focus is to dance for choreographers that create stimulating works. Biography: Sylvana Christopher is a native to Washington DC and dances for the Arts United of Washington, Bowen McCauley Dance Company and Cesel Mason Performance Project. ...

Todd Kilman

Tom Cardarella
By vocation and avocation I have always been technical/left-brained -- number and word puzzles, mathematics, science and engineering, computers -- although an underlying visual orientation gave me a preference for beauty and elegance in graphs, programs, ...

Wilcox Morris
Medium: painting, mask-making, collage Focus: expressionistic mask and folklore depictions of the Caribbean Biography: Wilcox Morris holds a BFA from Howard University and a MBA (international marketing). He is the founder and president of Studio 15 ...

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