Singer/songwriter/multi instrumentalist Nicole Saphos’ musical identity can be categorized somewhere between jazz and indie rock. Upon graduating from Temple University in 2012 with a Jazz Performance degree, the Los Angeles native relocated to DC, and began her professional music career in earnest. To date, she’s released two critically acclaimed albums, Tiptoe [2016] and Buzz & Bloom [2018], and has performed at venerated venues such as The Kennedy Center, Rockwood Music Hall, and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.
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Sisi Reid is a Black and Queer artist from Wheaton Maryland, who practices theatre for collective liberation and healing. She is an actor, playwright, director, spoken word performer, facilitator, teaching artist, and an arts administrator. As an actor, Sisi has performed with The Smithsonian's Discovery Theatre, Theater Alliance, and Young Playwrights’ Theater, LiveArt DC, Mosaic Theater, Pinky Swear, and Convergence Theater. As an applied theatre practitioner, she has facilitated theatre workshops in prisons in Michigan, Virginia, and Brazil.
An award winning violinist, a graduate of Moscow and Oberlin Conservatories and the Juilliard School, Tatiana Chulochnikova has been praised by the press for “fiercely pointed” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “fine performances” (The Washington Post). In recent seasons Tatiana appeared as a soloist with orchestra, recitalist and concertmaster with leading early music ensembles throughout the United States.
Alex and Olmsted (Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas) is an internationally acclaimed puppet theater and filmmaking company based in Maryland. They have toured at festivals in Denmark, South Korea, and Canada, and have performed at numerous venues within the United States.
Singer-songwriter Rui Fu specializes in improvisational and impressionistic interpretation of Chinese ethnic musical traditions, and modernist portrayals of ancient Taoist meditative musics. She has collaborated with musicians from over 20 minority tribes in experimental performances that explored the natural pace of the breath in relation to the gravitational tendencies of the body, and the musical direction that arises spontaneously as a result.
I started working with fused glass in 2002. I was a resident artist at the Art Glass Center (AGC) at Glen Echo, Maryland from 2010-2011. In 2011, I built a fused glass studio in my home where I teach classes, design and produce my glasswork, and have a home gallery. I was a member of the The Waverly Street Gallery, a co-op gallery located in Bethesda, Md. from 2015-2018. The gallery features local contemporary artists working in a wide range of media.
Susan J. Goldman, artist, master printmaker, curator and filmmaker, is Founding Director of Printmaking Legacy Project ®, (PLP®) a non-profit based dedicated to the documentation, preservation and conservation of printmaking practice and history. She is curator for Forward Press: 21stAmerican Printmaking, PLP®’s premier 2019 major national print exhibition for the greater Washington DC community, at the American University Museum, Katzen Center for the Arts.
I grew up with a love of the arts. As a young girl I would stitch garments and accessories for my dolls. My sister and I would frequently draw classroom and other scenes on the same sheet of typing paper. She drew many desks and students and details quickly, while I hovered over the details of a single garment, carefully filling in the print on a skirt or dress of the one student I had managed to draw.
During my career as Professor of English Literature, I also followed my passion for drawing and painting. I took lessons where I lived and finally settled in Bethesda, MD. Retired from teaching in late 90's and dedicated myself entirely to painting, studying with various teachers and at the Compass Atelier program. Have been gallery represented, had exhibits and sold widely.
Erwin Timmers is co-founder and co-director of the Washington Glass School, where he teaches glass, lighting, sculpture, and metal work.