• Read more about Lisa Mathias

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.

• Read more about Paul Lake

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.

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• Read more about Kathleen Wheaton

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.