Drawing is active seeing. Making art is a way to be an active participant in life. Showing these images to you completes the cycle. My imagery combines life events with visual experience in a multitude of medias and dimensions. Making art is my consistent passion and a means for survival. Vision and experience builds up an energy within that needs
Jake Muirhead earned his undergraduate degree at Hamilton College in northern New York and his MFA in Printmaking from George Mason University. He also studied drawing and painting at Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy. He currently teaches drawing at Montgomery Community College and intaglio printmaking at Anne Arundel Community College. Jake has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship
NK von S is a self-taught portraitist, a satirist, and a craftsperson whose work probes what it means to be human. She has nurtured a child, a garden, and her beasts in Takoma Park, drawing family here like aliens to the mother ship. She relishes the challenge of wresting the instantly cognizable from the unfamiliar. If you are interested in
Katie Jett Walls is a Washington DC based artist working primarily in acrylic and mixed media painting and collage. Her practice is centered around a belief that engaging in art is deeply beneficial to the mind and spirit. In addition to creating her own art, she leads classes in collage for beginners so that others can access the benefits of
I am a Brooklyn-born artist with a very urban sensibility and a proud transplant to Takoma Park. My work spans a range of paintings, mixed media, collage, drawing, and hand lettering. I work very slowly when doing artwork and I like to experiment with streetscapes, faces, coffee mugs, belonging, and solitude – or, sometimes, just the weaving together of words,
Rainey found her passion for art when going through a health crisis in 2020. Her mission is to use art to heal (both herself and her audience). Inspired by nature, music, and expressed emotions, she uses paint and textiles for her interpretations. She moved to Silver Spring, Maryland in August 2023 and is excited to be joining the vibrant art
The reality of what we call the natural world, and our connection to it, or lack of connection, form the base of awareness that compels Leflore in his art. Reared in the insular backwoods, and bound to nature by a culture influenced by “hill people” and the Choctaw, Leflore is compelled by the natural world to be aware of its
I studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and received my BFA at York University in Toronto. I was a successful Conceptual and Installation artist in the late 70s in Canada. After a significant hiatus as breadwinner for my family, I reopened my studio in 2018 in Takoma Park. In 2019, I completed a juried residency at Cuttyhunk, MA, as
Susanna is s a self taught artist and was one of the original members of the Takoma Artist Guild in the 1980s. She has resided in Takoma Park since 1977. Raised in Zurich, Switzerland she completed a 4 year apprenticeship in intaglio photo-retouching, . At the time scanners were not used yet in the printing process and all color corrections
Suzanne Bartlett is best known for her heavily sculptural, textile paintings and assemblages of vintage quilts and dresses, paper, castings, lace and antique pattern. Tissue are combined to evoke women’s work themes of survival. Treasures and talismans are collected and assembled in layers to sculpturally tell the story, carefully, exposing stitches, instructions, and handmade elements that were the history of