Joan Rosenstein received her B. S. in Painting from Skidmore College and her M.F.A. in Painting & Printmaking from The University of Michigan, where she held an Art Department Teaching Fellowship. Before joining the faculty at Montgomery College in 1967, she was Acting Head of the Education Department at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
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Jazz vocalist Christiana Drapkin has been performing on the East Coast for thirty years. Now living in Rockville, MD since moving to the area from Brooklyn, NY in 2008, she’s established some fine collaborations with the excellent local musicians in our DC Metro area. In her singing, Christiana pays close attention to a song’s lyrics, and loves to launch into her joyful scat improvisations. She feels deeply immersed in the rich traditions of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae, as well as in the Vocalese fireworks of Anita O'Day, Jon Hendricks, and Annie Ross.
I am a designer, artist, craftsperson and teacher who currently creates artist jewelry. I enjoy experimenting with new materials and techniques and playing with color.
Teresa Sites studied English and Studio Art at Georgetown University where she received her BA in 2006. She earned her MFA from George Washington University in Painting and Drawing in 2010. Her artwork explores the question: What if everyday surroundings, filled with rhythms and repetition, could suggest that our lives are filled with music? She is a current resident artist at Artist and Makers Studios in Rockville, Maryland. Her artwork is in private collections, the collection of the Brooklyn Art Library, and has most recently been featured on ARTSLANT's "Under the Radar."
Judy Kelly is an adjunct professor at Montgomery College. She enjoys bicycling, walking, running, the movies, theatre and many other activities. She, of course, enjoys writing. She has published her first novel, That Ever Died So Young, a Finalist in the Somerset Literary and Contemporary Fiction Award for 2014. She will soon publish her second novel, Blessings and Curses. Her presentation on the Importance and Purposes of Dialogue at the Mid-Atlantic Fiction Writers Institute and Montgomery College was extremely successful.
Born in 1967 Russia. Graduated from Stroganov Art academy in Moscow in 1992. MA in fine Arts ( murals) Participated in various exhibitions in USA, Russia,Israel, UK. Italy, Netherland. Award in international minitature painting contest om 2007 and as a young painter of the year in Israel in 1996( Israeli Artist union) Paintings were exhibited in such galleries as Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery,Washington DC, Teatron Gallery in Jerusalem Israel, Frangulian Gallery in Paris, France. My painting was acquired by Warner Music for decoration of their head office, by Jeffrey Sweetbaum, Len Blavatnik.
Alexandra Slezak began her creative journey in Maryland, USA, studying the traditions of photography and charcoal drawing, but after experiments with art and consciousness, found catharsis in creating mixed-media paintings and found-object sculptures concerned with sustainability.
I began putting color and tone on canvas as a teenager in Chevy Chase, Maryland. I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, then continued my studies at the Corcoran College of Art and the Winter Palace Studio in Georgetown.
I grew up surrounded by beautiful pieces of art, with four generations of accomplished artists in my family. My first lessons started at age four where I was taught how to draw perspective and horizons from my Grandmother, and I have been painting ever since. I continued my studies through college where I grew and evolved as an artist with a BFA from the University of Maryland. I continue to take many different types of art classes, several times a year. I love to learn about new media, techniques and get new ideas.