Artist and illustrator focused on creating charming, serene, and surreal atmospheres through my work.
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
Bambi is an artist who uses make-believe to tell the truth, with the deepest respect for irreverence and sticky dance floors. In addition, Bambi is a damn good storyteller, the host at haus of bambi, and the recipient of the Washington Award in dance, btw.
Commissioned by Vogue, The Kennedy Center, The City of Alexandria and the Metal Hearts Cabaret in Boston, Bambi dances the line between the too much and the just enough. (duh)
Michael Lichtenstein is a practicing lawyer who enjoys cretaing art in various forms. He holds a B.A., M.A., Ph.D. and J.D., all of which have nothing to do with his interest in art. However, his mother was an artist and his youngest daughter Laynee is a graduate of SCAD.
Sabrina Mandell is the founding Artistic co-Director and Visionary Tornado of Happenstance Theater. She has written, produced and performed prolifically since the company was established in 2006. She was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress in 2017. As the company's Executive Director she has created and maintained a sustainable structure for operating the organization, and as the costume designer she has won two Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Costume Design. Sabrina performed for 10 years with the Big Apple Circus’ Clown Care Program in DC and Baltimore.
Faculty member at the Corcoran College of Art and Design for 21 years, Katie Dell Kaufman maintains a studio Takoma Park, MD, lectures, and holds art workshops and classes in the greater Washington, DC area. She has exhibited her work in the US, Great Britain, Lithuania, and South Africa. She is represented by Zenith Gallery in WDC. Kaufman has received three Montgomery County Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Awards for her work in assemblage and encaustic.
Yamini Saripalli is a disciple of the late gurus Dr.Vempati Chinna Satyam and his son, Sri Vempati Ravi Shankar. Yamini trained for over two decades under her gurus and the esteemed faculty at the Kuchipudi Art Academy - Chennai. She has also received additional mentoring from Smt.Vanaja Ayyalaraju and Smt.Kalpana Jayanthi, both senior disciples of Dr.Vempati. Yamini has performed with Dr. Vempati's troupe in the United States as well as throughout India.
Brendan L. Smith has shown his unconventional mixed-media artwork in many gallery exhibitions and alternative venues in the D.C. area. His Ghosts in the Machine series was featured in a solo exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum’s restaurant in Baltimore. He is a former member of the Sparkplug Collective and has won several grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Brendan also is an award-winning arts writer for several publications. He previously lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he showed his artwork in solo and group exhibitions across northern New Mexico.