Sara creates stoneware pottery by hand building. She delights as the clay takes shape from her hands. She loves to texture clay. She is encouraged when someone wants to live with a piece she has created. Sara has worked in local DC studios: Eastern Market Pottery, Glen Echo Pottery, Guy Mason Ceramics.

Sara is currently one of the four potters who are River District Potters in Sperryville, VA. Sara has participated in DC/VA workshops conducted by Jeanne Drevas, Michael Hough, Emily Schroeder, Liz Zlot Summerfield, Brent Thomas, Jayne Shatz, Lana Wilson, and Shanna Flieg.

In 2023 Sara assembled other local potters to share a working studio at the Jackson Art Center, which we are calling Georgetown Potters. We are in Studio 3B.

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Works in clay, exploring the different possibilities this material offers. Her sculptures include different ceramic techniques and clay bodies. A lot of her work is made in porcelain. Next to art objects she does small series of functional products for her label Rohbrand Ceramics.

Bettina studied ceramic design in Bern, Switzerland and Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated with the prize of honor from the Swiss ceramics association in 2009. Afterwards she worked in ceramic studios in Zürich, Tel Aviv, Cairo and Beirut. Since 2021 she lives in DC and is a member of Georgetown potters in Studio 3B

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Carol studied illustration at RISD, including studying drawing, water color, oil painting, egg tempera, and printmaking. Upon graduation, she went to work as an artist for Warren Platner, a well-known mid-century modernist architect in New Haven. She learned an assortment of other crafts such as gilding, silk-screening, model-making, working with plastics, welding and braising. She designed and painted numerous murals, decorative panels, wall-hangings and carpets for buildings and interiors designed by the firm.

She specializes now in painted furniture and murals, with a concentration in botanical subject matter. She works with architects and interior designers, and she currently teaches botanical illustration at the Corcoran School of Art and Design at GWU.

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The evolution of my painting has made significant leaps during many residencies at art centers and colonies, both in the United States and abroad. I prefer observing the ambient light and colors of a new place over a long period of time and responding to that experience through paint. I consider myself a process painter, with each new experience and technique adding to the previous responses.

In some paintings I synthesize the imagery into minimal shapes incised into the wet paint or drawn with Conte crayon. I arrange blocks of color to depict architecture and landscape. Gestures of the brush and knife are more or less visible, evidence of how quickly the paint is absorbed and dries on the canvas or paper.

Through the process of painting I relive sensations and memories, delve into archetypal imagery, and engage in formal investigations of composition and materials. The multiple transparent layers of paint correspond to the many-layered stories that are retold in color and light. Painting has allowed me to expand my fascination with the material world while being a spiritual pursuit, a meditative practice, and a link with the past.

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Stillness in action free and clear of clamor much is done in a quiet way.

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Tim Carrington lives in Washington D.C. and Washington, Virginia. His paintings focus on the experience of landscape -- observed, internalized, and inhabited. His landscape paintings, executed in oil, usually begin in plein air and are refined and completed in the studio. Figures placed in landscapes are derived from models, photographs or characters in master paintings, including some from panels in the Sistine Chapel. When people -- in paintings or in life -- inhabit a landscape they temporarily alter the surroundings, as they, in turn, internalize certain characteristics of the environment. He is interested in the ways people inhabit and are inhabited by a particular landscape. Meanwhile, unpeopled landscapes generously offer themselves up, at no charge, for observation, appreciation and memory. We might wander in and out of them all our lives.

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Elizabeth Casqueiro is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the human relationship with place through a vivid and playful palette inspired by the sunny geography of Portugal where she grew up. Geometry influences her artwork, as do scale and proportion. She gravitates to materials that stem from nature - clay, water, wood, linen, and cotton - and works in repeated layers of precision and loose gesture, reflecting the dichotomy between human intention and organic serendipity.

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Erika Cleveland is a healing doll artist. She is a graduate of the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts, with a fine arts focus. Cleveland’s dolls are also rooted in her training as an art therapist (Masters in Art Therapy, NYU, 1985.)

Cleveland uses the term “doll” in her work because she believes there is something unique about the word doll- humble, simple and yet powerful. Dolls have been around since the beginnings of humankind. They hold considerable power for us; they are our companions and they reflect us back to ourselves. Dolls can heal us physically, spiritually and emotionally.

In her work, Cleveland explores various themes through mythology, folk tales, religion, spirituality and her personal dream symbolism. A central theme is the power within the female body, including the way this power is deeply rooted in nature. Darker themes such as loss, sadness and fear alternate with the playfulness of fauns, forest creatures and elves. The dolls express the dualities of life in the way they shape-shift and transform, for example through the medium of the folk-art form called flip dolls. Like votives, amulets or talisman throughout history, dolls provide a focal point for healing and meditation.

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Frank Hallam Day, a fine art photographer based in Washington DC, was the winner of the 2012 Leica Oscar Barnack Prize as well as the Bader Prize in 2006, and numerous other awards, commissions and grants. His work has been widely exhibited and collected by the Berlinische Gallerie und Landesmuseum Berlin, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Kreeger Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Katzen Museum at American University, and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, among many others.

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After over twenty years of painting in a realistic style – figuration, portraiture and landscapes – my primary focus is now on abstraction with a style based on Russian Constructivism. This short-lived movement (1917-1921) was linked to industry, architecture and the applied arts. Artists, at that time, desired to sweep away all that had gone before in the First World War.

I find the formal qualities of Constructivism fulfilling in that I have some control over the structure of the picture. Geometric shapes are a main focus while lines drawn through the picture plane render object and ground on an even keel. This appearance of commingling and connection is of interest to me because it brings to the fore inherent meaning in my work that - all things are connected.

I enjoy using the strong pure colors found in nature and find that often my hand reaches instinctively for warm earth tones. This is no surprise to me as Cezanne has always been a great inspiration.

My process is one of layering oil paint – with brush or knife –

wet over dry or at times wet into wet. The lovely qualities of oil paint lend much richness and luminosity to my work. Their slow drying time affords me much needed time to ponder my next artistic step.

Most importantly, my desire is to see and reveal in my work the true essence of physical appearance be it animate or inanimate.

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Over the past twenty years, Lisa Gentry’s work has been widely collected across the country and has been featured in television series and film, including five seasons on the Fox Television series, “Living Single,” the Showtime Movie, “Circle of Pain,” and feature film “Making Mavis.” Her work has been in group and solo shows in Los Angeles galleries, including a group show at the M Hanks Gallery in Santa Monica, a solo show at the Vanek Collection and a group show at the Loyola Marymount Gallery. Lisa recently moved from Los Angeles to Washington DC where her focus includes a new series on “Art and Social Change.

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Inspired by Phi and the Uncertainty of Color

Challenging me are Euclid’s geometry, the periodic table, my degree from a design school, the phi ratio (A is to B as AB is to A), which is evident in the Parthenon, Notre Dame, and the Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13…), and simplicity. I consider the meaning of “work in progress” and “force for good”.

Teaching me on the unsettled issue of color are Joseph Albers "The Interaction of Color" (color is not objective, but seen in relation, 1963), Johannes Itten (the seven variations of color contrasts, 1921), Isaac Newton (prisms and wavelengths, 1666), Leonardo da Vinci (“Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling”, 1475).

Sculptures reside in office buildings, headquarters, and residences (including entry to Forest City Headquarters at 301 S. Water Street, S.E. Washington D.C., entry to Republic Properties 660 North Capital Street N.W., Evolent headquarters, Axelacare headquarters, or see at ColorHouse.com.

David Ibata, the Lisa Neher Memorial Studio (LNMS) recipient at the Jackson Art Center, is an American painter from the Washington DC metropolitan area. He received his education from the Corcoran College of Art & Design (BFA, 2008) followed by the New York Academy of Art (MFA, 2010). Since 2011, David has worked in museum education in affiliation with the National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery of Art. He currently serves on the Board of the Washington Studio School.

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Sherry Kaskey has both formal, university training in art (a BA from Carnegie Mellon University & an MFA from Geo. Wash. University) as well as experience as a copyist at the National Gallery of Art. She paints in watercolor and in oil a variety of subjects ranging from portraits, to landscapes and flower studies.

Former Assistant Director and official photographer of The White House Photo Office during the Obama Administration.

A Washington, DC based freelance photographer and native of the District.

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I am a self-taught artist and have been painting for the majority of my life. Originally from California, I now live in Washington, DC. I have had several shows in San Francisco and my paintings have been sold and displayed in the United States, Asia, and Europe. I am also a writer/illustrator of several childrens' books. Whether I’m painting, writing, or illustrating, I want to reflect joy in my work. We all need hope. We all need love.

I strive to evoke these emotions in my art. I want to capture the beauty that I experience in the simplest of things, especially of my immediate surroundings.These moments of happiness occur every day if we look for them. These moments are magical and I hope to capture them in my art.

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Terrell McDermid resides in Washington, DC and spends much of her time in nearby Rappahannock County, VA located in the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains. She was raised in Winston-Salem, NC, a community with a thriving arts scene that inspired her love of the arts from an early age. In recent years Terrell decided to try her hand at painting and took a beginning class that changed the course of her life - she has been painting almost constantly ever since. Her primary focus is still life painting – fruit, flowers, household objects, consumer products, small antiques – anything that captures her interest and tells a story. She also enjoys the challenge of painting landscapes ranging from the rural Virginia countryside to the occasional urban scene. Whenever possible she paints from life rather than photographs, and her work is generally painted alla prima, wet into wet, often in one session.

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Rosaline Moore is a contemporary oil painter whose work includes landscapes, interiors, figures and still life.

Her work is influenced by the places she loves and the things she loves to look at. It is painterly in style and combines a fascination with light and space and a keen sense of color. She enjoys ambiguity of space and lets her imagination enter the work in a playful way. Her paintings are both intimate and joyful.

Born in New York City, she grew up on a farm in Stamford Connecticut. Her Grandfather, Herman T. Schladermundt, was a professional artist whose work can be seen at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. From an early age Moore has spent her summers in Maine where she now works for part of the year. Her extensive travels in Europe, the Far East and Mexico have also influenced the flavor of her work.

She graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts and studied drawing at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC. In 1979 she received her Master of Fine Arts in painting from American University. She taught at the Studio School in Washington , has shown widely and is represented in many important collections

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I joined Jackson a decade ago while talking Corcoran School continuing ed classes. An artist friend and I attended a spring JAC Open Studios, put our name on the waiting list and never looked back. I am currently painting landscapes. I find the horizon empty and soothing.

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Long-time resident of the Jackson Art Center, Elizabeth Naden works with oil paint to create still lives on canvas. She lives in Maryland and joined Jackson art center in 1998, after taking drawing and painting classes at American University and the Washington studio school. Her recent focus has been on working directly from visual perception, focusing on light and everyday objects.

Mixing media to express a landscape of deep feeling, Deedy Ogden’s paintings and photography transcend language to start new conversations. Playful, serious and always seeking, her unique and often ingenious work reflects a restless imagination and compassionate curiosity about the human spirit. Routinely commissioned to produce original work for a variety of clients, Deedy is also proud to have many of her personal explorations purchased and hung in private homes around the world.

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I appreciate haiku, the Japanese poetry that aims to catch small moments in nature. I try to channel a similar mindset as I work, reflecting on the subtle aspects of the natural world. When I first pick up my brush, I stop, breathe, and settle my mind in order to be open to the fluidity, transitory effects and sensuous quality of the world outdoors.

I use acrylic paint, colored inks, watercolor pencils and graphite in my work. Marks, drips and spatters are all part of the kinetic energy I feel when outside. I welcome the unexpected, and give paint, ink or pencil the permission to find its own way across the canvas or paper — a kind of push-pull between myself and my medium as we take turns finding the right path.

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Karen is an image-maker whose work encompasses documentary film and photography. A pioneer in bringing arts to underserved communities, she developed workshops for at-risk children, women experiencing homelessness, and justice-involved residents. Karen is the recipient of numerous grants, including recognition from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Her award-winning documentary, “In Lorton’s Darkroom,” shares the story of men who took control of their prison narrative through photography. Her current project, “Where I Do My Time,” follows the hopes and struggles of the formally incarcerated as they navigate the lethal intersection between race and the Carceral System.

Karen’s photography captures celebrities and decision-makers, as well as street scenes in India, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the fragile wetlands of coastal Virginia. Her love of teaching and the high desert have taken her to Northern New Mexico where she leads photography retreats.

She has been invited to speak at the Society for Photographic Education, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Photofest NYC, and Art & Social Concerns, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. Her work has been included in anthologies of art and culture, most recently in Art Forum.

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It all began long ago when I received my first camera for Christmas when I was about 7 years old -- it was a Kodak Instamatic with those flash cubes that snapped on top! OK, so I'm dating myself just a little bit, but over the course of my life, whether I was on vacation, trying to snap just the perfect photo of one of my children, dragging the camera out at family gatherings or maybe photographing my latest culinary masterpiece, I've always looked at the world through the lens of a camera.

I'm so excited to explore with you how I can turn your moments into memories -- life is full of experiences worth preserving through photographs.

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I am a Washington, DC artist. My paintings reflect the joy, excitement and exhilarating high that have enveloped me since returning to my love of art after nearly twenty years.

My working impasto style includes a variety of different mediums including acrylic, graphite, gesso, pastels and watercolors that infuse my paintings with vibrant color, movement and free expression reflecting the love and appreciation of life I experience every day.

2019 and 2020 have challenged me in ways unexpected, including a life-threatening illness in my family. I have channeled these feelings of powerlessness into a new sense of openness in my art. The gift of accepting situations beyond my control has opened a door to painting with abandon, transforming difficult and even terrifying experiences into a positive and creative outlet for my emotions. The result is a new series of work that is alive, confident and playful.

As a self-taught artist living in Georgetown in my native Washington, DC and a resident artist at The Jackson Art Center here, it is very rewarding to be a member of a thriving artistic community.

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Originally from Washington, DC, Alexandra Silverthorne holds a Master of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art (MECA) and an undergraduate degree from Connecticut College with a major in Government and minors in Art and Philosophy. Since 2010, she has taught photography courses at American University, Montgomery College, and the University of the District of Columbia. She has taught additional courses through MECA’s Continuing Studies program and was an Artist-In-Residence at Phelps A.C.E. High School in 2017. In 2009, Silverthorne co-initiated the MFA Alumni Residency Program at MECA and served as the Residency Coordinator until 2013.

Silverthorne has exhibited throughout the DC area, including solo shows at BlackRock Center for the Arts (Rockville, MD), harmon art lab (Washington, DC), Heineman Myers Contemporary Art (Bethesda, MD), and Warehouse Gallery (Washington, DC). She received a fellowship to travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan for the 2004 annual World Conference Against A&H Bombs. She has received numerous grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities as well as one from the Puffin Foundation. Her work can be found in regional permanent collections, including the John Wilson City Hall Building (Washington, DC), District Art Bank Collection (Washington, DC), and Montgomery County’s Works on Paper Collection (Silver Spring, MD). She is based in Washington, DC.

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I like to challenge myself with new concepts and materials that I can develop into a series of thought-provoking artworks. Whimsical treatments and bold colors are hallmarks of my work. Among my influences are my travels, childhood experiences, and spiritual quests. The artworks of Elizabeth Murray, Milton Avery and Marc Chagall have inspired me to try new and different approaches in a variety of mediums.

I received a BFA and MFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art (MICA). After selling my ceramic sculptures and working full-time as a Career Development Specialist in colleges and universities for over 25 years, I moved to Munich Germany and studied abstract painting with a local recognized artist and took art workshops in France, Italy and Hungary. These experiences reawakened my love of painting. From 2006 -2020 I created abstract paintings as an artist member in my studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. For the past four years, I’ve returned to 3-D work and created a number of mixed media sculptures — "African Dancer” below. In 2023, I was invited to lend my painting, “Unfurled” to the Arts in Embassies program where it resides for two years in the residence of Ambassador William Duncan in San Salvador. My work has been shown in juried shows in the US, Europe and New Delhi, India.

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I was a textile and ceramics art student until I switched to engineering, and then later in life picked back up acrylic painting and pottery. I helped develop programs at the Randolph County Community Arts Center Elkins, WV where I lived for 20 years, and developed their pottery studio from scratch in a donated building.

After returning to Dupont Circle, I was excited to once again be a part of an artist community, so I joined the Jackson Arts Center. I spend equal time throwing pottery with “Georgetown Potters” in JAC Studio 3B and acrylic painting at home or on retreat. Until retirement (soon!), I produce for my family and friends, charity auctions, and accept occasional commissions.

My passion for pottery was fostered by my 25 year career as a diplomat living and working (and potting) across the globe. I draw inspiration from the traditions of Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean and see pots as containers of form, color, and texture. I am interested in experimenting with different clay bodies and techniques and am currently working with slabs and coils. The potter's metier is a balance of technique, creativity and chance. And, like life, pottery rarely turns out the way you think it will.

For years I have attended JAC open studio events, and felt at home here. I am grateful to have the opportunity to join this creative community. I am located in Georgetown Potters, Studio, 3B.

Elyse Wolf is a signature member and five-year Merit Award recipient of The Colored Pencil Society of America. She received a B.A. in Art from UMass Amherst and went to the Art Students League in New York for two years on a Ford Foundation Scholarship where she studied with Morris Kantor and Theodoros Stamos. After moving to Washington, D.C., she took classes at the Corcoran Museum School Open Program with William Christenberry and Brockie Stevenson.

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