• Read more about Gretchen Schermerhorn

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.

• Read more about Airen Hall

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.

• Read more about Chelsey A. Anderson

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.

• Read more about Alison Baker

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.

• Read more about Susan Fitch Brown

Susan Fitch Brown has been making art or studying art all her life.  In childhood there were always trips to museums and she was often enlisted to make samples for her mother's art teaching.  As an adult a chance job led her to work for an art historian, organizing her reference work and researching and writing entries for an exhibition catalog.  She loved the research but slowly realized that she kept wanting to make art herself and use her studies to inform her work. Susan finds much personal reward in the work and the learning that are the constant companions of making art. 

• Read more about Bri Cooper, Mezzo Soprano

Award-winning classical singer, Bri Cooper is a talented Mezzo Soprano known for her captivating performances and powerful voice.  Over the years, Bri has honed her skills and built a reputation as one of the most talented and versatile mezzo-sopranos in the industry. She has performed in a wide range of productions, including operas, concerts, and musical theater productions. Her performances are known for their emotional depth, technical precision, and powerful stage presence.

• Read more about Gina Miller

I am a local Maryland artist starting out on my own after college. I am currently experimenting with mixed media using watercolor and digital art (Procreate) to convey images that blend visual hybrids of outer space and aquatic environment/wildlife.

• Read more about Archa

Archa Malhotra was born and raised in India and moved to the United States to pursue higher education. Growing up, she always had a keen interest in art and design which led her to earn professional degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture. After working for several years in the architectural design and construction management industry, she opened her home studio to delve into her passion for art. She loves making abstract paintings. Acrylics is her preferred medium, but she enjoys creating mixed media pieces using pen, ink, markers and pastels.

• Read more about Director

www.worddance.org WORD DANCE THEATER’S MISSION is to provide dance education through classes, workshops, partnerships, and performances that are embodied and expressive celebrations of life.  Our work preserves and cultivates the dance legacy of Isadora Duncan through a return to the body that encourages the strength, beauty, and right of freedom of each person exactly as they are.  Through creative educational experiences and performances, we embolden all genders, sexes, and identities to manifest well-being in today’s world.

• Read more about Renee Sandell

Bio/Resume  https://visualfitness4all.com/about-renee/