Jacqui Crocetta works in painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her socially engaged practice has aimed to bring attention to both the human condition as well as the environmental crisis, while celebrating resilience and the capacity for healing. She has exhibited her work regionally in venues such as Arts in Foggy Bottom, Adah Rose Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, MassoniArt, Maryland Arts Place, King Street Gallery (Montgomery College) and Otis Street Arts Project, and received frequent recognition in the Washington Post and East City Art.
Sumita Kim, an artist and Professor of Art at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, was born in Gwang-ju, South Korea. Growing up in Seoul with artist and journalist parents, she developed a deep appreciation for the power of art and language at an early age.
In the late 1970’s she came to the United States to continue her education, and in 1982, she was awarded a Master’s degree in film-making from the American University in Washington, DC. Subsequently, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of Maryland