Illinois native transplanted to the Washington DC area in 1982. Began a second career in the visual arts as a representational oil painter after a long career as an engineer in the US Navy submarine service and the nuclear power industry. Completed the Compass Atelier Master Artist Program in March 2023.
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A recognized leader in chamber music and contemporary music advocacy, pianist Elizabeth G. Hill has led and performed in the D.C. area’s most prominent ensembles, and is known for her work as a performer, educator, and lecturer. A highly-regarded artist, she has performed lecture-recitals and concerts across the United States and in Europe, including for the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Center for Jewish History in New York, The Music Center in Los Angeles, and the Robert-Schumann-Haus in Zwickau, Germany. She currently performs in numerous ensembles within the Washington, D.C.
Nancy Sausser is an artist, curator, and writer living and working in the Washington D.C. area. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from the University of Washington, in Seattle, and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Kenyon College. Her sculpture, executed primarily in low-fire ceramic, has been exhibited most recently at International Art and Artists at Hillyer, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Greater Reston Arts Center, and in Ankara, Turkey through the Department of State's Art in Embassies Program.
Art By Shayna is a newly formed glass studio in Silver Spring, Maryland. Born in Massachusetts, Shayna Heller attended Boston University School of Visual Arts, where she majored in graphic design. In the design field for forty-four years, Shayna retired from managing a creative graphic arts team at a national research corporation.
I'm inspired by nature and the landscape to create images drawn from my dreams and subconscious. I see the world as a magical place of surprise and mystery. I invite you to take a journey into my world of ambiguity and magic. Pablo Picasso once said “Anything you can imagine is real.” Find the magic and mystery in the world around you. Get inspired.
Biography
David actively practices his art and continues to hone his skills and vision by studying with professional artists at nationally known educational providers such as Santa Fe Workshops and Maine Media Workshops.
Gretchen Schermerhorn is currently the Artistic Director at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, an art center dedicated to the contemporary creation of hand printmaking, papermaking, and the art of the book, in Hyattsville, Maryland. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University, and since then, has completed artist residencies at The Women's Studio Workshop in New York, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, Seacourt Print Workshop in Northern Ireland, California State University and the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Florida.
Airen E. Hall creates original mixed media illustrations for people who appreciate child-like wonder and believe in at least a little bit of magic. Her primary sources of inspiration are folktales, nature, and the beauty of ordinary life. She often has a paintbrush in her hair and always has lots of tiny pieces of paper all over her floor. Airen lives and works in the Wheaton neighborhood of Silver Spring, MD. She sells her work locally and online and is open to taking private commissions.
Chelsey A. Anderson (she/her) is an artist scholar who lives and works in Montgomery, Maryland. She makes paintings and drawings that cue the environment, body, spirit, and reference human-made systems that are meshed in an illustrious world of signifiers and personal narratives. Anderson’s work is concerned with questions about how systems impact each other and how an individual is positioned within the collective.
Fascinated by the art of Gabriel Munter and Hans Hoffman since childhood, Ms Baker has been creating paintings in a fauvist style for the last 60 years. she is also strongly attracted to collage, jewelry and quilt making. She resides in Takoma Park with her artist husband James Colwell in a Victorian era house they continue to restore.