Judy's professional background includes an MA and an MFA in 3D design/sculpture. Over 35 years in public art installations and construction management have provided skills critical to any significant public art project. Her public artworks are on college campuses, city parks, county parks, community centers, and private developments. Judy has worked with developers, city officials, county officials, federal agencies, and departments in the USA.
16Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County https://www.creativemoco.comSuzan.Jenkins@creativemoco.com(301) 565-3805
801 Ellsworth Dr
Silver Spring, MD 20910
United States
National Players is America’s longest-running touring theatre company and the signature outreach program of
Olney Theatre Center, a Helen Hayes Award-winner and one of two state-designated theatres in Maryland. This distinctive ensemble stimulates imagination and critical thinking by producing classic plays and literary adaptations in invigorating ways for audiences of all ages. National Players serves all corners of Maryland and the country, and the ensemble performs for a diversity of audiences from students to the general public, the elderly, and the incarcerated.
The museum is a catalyst for community building by allowing opportunities for community-driven creative engagement in a range of cultural arts. We provide the environment and inspiration for artists and community members to create and host events, performances, activities, and exhibits that engage, stimulate, and bring people together.
I am a self-taught artist, inspired by life. They say the eyes are the window to the soul. And I believe that to be true.
I define my work as an opinion to express, which is created to invoke the thoughts, emotions and impression of the viewer. Because art is subjective, I create so the viewer can effortlessly engage with the art. I create original abstract, expression, modern, realism and contemporary works of art.
Adele is a poet/teacher living in Silver Spring, MD. She received her BA & MFA in English Literature/Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. She's a professor at Montgomery College, Teaching evening classes for UMGC, and is a poet in at the Arts in Education Program with the Maryland State Arts Council. She's been published in Gargoyle, So to Speak, The Maryland Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, The Lucid Stone, Scribble, and more. Books: Refracted Love, Freshwater Pearls, The Moon Lighting, & Look Ma, "Hands" on Poetry (collection of creative writing workshops for students).
Leila Cabib is a professional cartoonist, illustrator, and animator. Her clients include The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Gannett newspapers, Time-Life Books, and many other publications and organizations. She has written and illustrated two nationally syndicated comic strips. She has been teaching cartooning in after-school programs for 29 years and cartooning and animation as an artist in residence in elementary, middle, and high schools (grades 2-12) for 20 years. Her students’ animated videos have been honored with several national awards and shown at international film f
Young Artists of America at Strathmore (YAA) is a non-profit educational organization offering world-class musical theatre training to young performing artists in a professional and nurturing environment. Our students perform fully orchestrated works of musical theatre in state-of-the-art venues such as the Music Center at Strathmore, where we are an Affiliate. Through the creative process, we give students skills and confidence to “find their voice” on the stage and in life.
John Morogiello has been a teaching artist in Maryland since 1997, offering residencies in playwriting for students in grades 3 and above that integrate curricular subject matter with performance and dramatic story-telling. His plays (including Engaging Shaw, Blame It On Beckett, and The Consul, The Tramp, and America's Sweetheart) have been produced off-Broadway, in Europe, and at some of America's premier regional theaters. John is also the artistic director of Best Medicine Rep Theater Company in Gaithersburg.
Why are we here?
To entertain. To bring joy. To foster community and learning through shared laughter. To lighten our shared burden of existence for a short while.
Why comedy?
Broadly defined and properly presented, comedy encompasses all of the human experience. It can make us laugh and make us cry. It can bring joy and it can bring anger. It makes us think and makes us forget. It exalts and ridicules. It can divert, and it can focus. Comedy levels life’s playing field.
Why theater?
Kiti Gartner & the Drifting Valentines is a band out of Washington DC who play western swing, rockabilly, old country and some jump blues. Their influences include music from the 1940s and on, including almost everything that came out of The Quonset Hut and RCA Studio B in Nashville, Sun Records and Bakersfield. Kiti Gartner (vocals and rhythm guitar), Zachary Sweeney (lead guitar), Steve Wolf (upright bass), Brian Alpert (drums).