I am a ceramic artist based in Silver Spring, MD.
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
Steven Barker has been a theatre-maker and educator for the last 25+ years. He holds an MFA in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University (ASU), and a BFA in Theatre Education and a BS in Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
Jessica Phillips-Silver, PhD, is a music neuroscience scholar, speaker and artistic creator. Her work explores how music arts promote optimal brain growth and healing—especially through rhythm. Dr. Jessica is the creator of the new children’s musical production Finding Rhythm: A journey through the musical brain, which tells a story of the biological origins of human rhythm, and teaches children how rhythm grows their brains and helps them find the source of their individual power… and connection. Dr.
With nature as her muse, Ellen creates textural atmospheres and vibrant landscapes using subtractive and additive techniques. She has exhibited locally and does commission work for private collectors, interior designers, and corporate clients. In her unique retail bus/mini-mart, you will find Ellen’s fine art paintings, prints, jewelry, magnets, and cards, as well as her one-of-a-kind stone fairy houses.
Caryn Chavarria is a Latina artist who grew up in Silver Spring but currently resides in Rockville. She specializes in drawing, painting, digital art, and photography. She is a high school art teacher at Rockville High school, where she teaches digital art, photography, and ceramics. Her work will be featured in the Wheaton Arts Parade promotional material.
Leslie Bumstead is a poet, writer, and teaching artist in Maryland and DC. She currently teaches creative writing workshops for incarcerated adults in several Maryland prisons, poetry to non-speaking autistic teens and young adults, and literature, composition and creative writing to teens at community art space Rhizome DC. She co-creates distance-learning arts curricula for incarcerated people with artist Carien Quiroga. Her collection of poems, Cipher/Civilian, was published by Edge Books in 2005.
Raúl Aguilar with the artistic name Héctor D'León, was born in 1973 in Estelí, Nicaragua, is a multifaceted artist and engineer. Influenced by his uncle, painter Donaldo Altamirano, and his father, a lawyer who first career was industrial design. He began formal art training at age 12 at the "Casa de la Cultura." Educated under the Jesuits at Central American High School, he developed a passion for literature and initially pursued "Arts and Letters" at UCA before switching to electronic engineering at UNI.
Recalling the charm of a bygone era, the Arts Barn is a beautifully renovated stable that once housed horses on the former Tschiffely estate. Today, the Arts Barn is part of Arts on the Green, the City’s home for visual & performing arts. In addition to a 99-seat theater, the Arts Barn offers rotating art exhibits, artists-in-residence studios, a gift shop featuring artist-made items, and an active schedule of visual & performing arts classes, workshops & camps for children & adults.
The Civic Circle uses music and the arts to empower young students to understand and participate in democracy, inspiring compassionate, informed, engaged citizens. Through in-school assembly shows and after-school workshops with teaching artists, students learn seven civic skills we call "steps to democracy." These are: civility and respect (Listen!), news literacy (Learn!), voting (Choose!), service-learning (Join!), advocacy (Speak!), organizing (Act!), and public service (Lead!).