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Kathleen Wheaton was born in Germany and grew up in Pasadena and Pola Alto, California.  She graduated from Stanford University in 1979 and later recieved an MFA from Boston University.  She began publishing short stories- in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and Sequoia- and then moved to New York, where she worked in the library of the New Yorker. In 1986 she moved to Madrid to write and edit a guidebook to Spain for the publishers of Insight Guide.  She then was sent to write on Buenos Aires, Argentina, wher she met NPR Reporter David Welna, whom she later married.

• Read more about Lauren Cook

Lauren Cook's artwork is informed by her rural heritage, her appreciation of nature, her curiosity about human cultures both ancient and contemporary, and how these interests converge as the world deals with its own environmental and civil sustainability. Her creative life is also strongly influenced by her work as an art educator and the exchanges of teaching and learning that take place with her students and colleagues.  Her art has been exhibited in group and solo shows and through the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. Department of State.

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My work has been shown in galleries in Washington DC, Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia, New Haven, CT, Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as in various online exhibitions.   I taught visual arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for sixteen years.    I was the Art Director at both American Film magazine and Américas magazine (Organization of American States) and have produced graphic design work for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sackler Museum of Asian Art, the United States Information Agency, Amtrak,and Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, among others.   

• Read more about LILIANE BLOM

A cultural nomad with many roots I have lived my life at the intersection of cultures. Serendipity brought me to Rockville where I now live and create art.  A multi-media artist with a background in photography and trained in classical oil painting, I have been moving into installation art over the last decade. I transform my photo-based images into interactive and immersive installations often environmental in scope. Playful, they unapologetically appeal to our sense of wonder and invite the viewer into a contemplative space.

• Read more about Ravi Raman

Ravi Raman likens his arrival in America at the age of five to television going from black and white to high-definition, forty-foot tall, 3-D IMAX. Inundated by American pop culture – television, movies, literature, fashion, art, and especially music – he consumed all of it with such a voracious appetite that its influences still permeate each of his paintings.

• Read more about Eric Gabriel

I'm an artist working and living in Silver Spring and Washington, D.C.. My art is very drawing-focused, experimental and highly-detailed. My inspirations include pop surrealism, video games, sci-fi and fantasy, the aesthetics of graphic DIY art, and most of all, improvisational creativity and a love of playing. I sell pieces and make art on commision- if interested contact me at ethegmc@gmail.com. Thanks!

• Read more about Violet Red

My name is Violeta Barcenas. I am a Self-taught Nicaraguan mixed media artist and illustrator. I try to combine colors, patterns, and words to create pieces that inspire and bring joy. Violet Red is my dream.