Marianne Alberti
Washington DC
Pieces 26, 116
In 2023 I retired after 40 years in the hotel business with a skip in my step and a song in my heart and I never looked back. I know that my soul is an artist. Now I spend my precious time doing things that I love, and making art is one of those. I’m endlessly inspired by the strength, wisdom and empathy of women and girls. Our day is coming.
Deb Almond
Washington, DC · @debalmondart · debalmondart.com
Pieces 134, 139, 146, 151
Deb Almond is a Washington, DC-based artist whose work serves as a visual message of solidarity with women and girls. Her art is a direct extension of her core belief that a woman’s power to choose her own path depends on her education, health, safety, economic security, and freedom to express her true sexuality and gender.
Courtney Applequist
Potomac, MD · @courtneyapplequistart · courtneyapplequist.com
Pieces 53, 57, 77, 129
Courtney Applequist is an interdisciplinary artist based in Potomac, MD. Her work explores a range of media, with a focus on painting and drawing using architecture as a foundational framework and asserting a visualization of movement, time, and the debris as a consequence of it. With a deep interest in the use of portraiture, she is exploring the possibilities that form offers, including ideas of identity, and the relationship of materiality.
Ava Bagley
Silver Spring, MD · avabagleystudios.com
Pieces 2
Ava Elaine Hartwell Bagley began painting in earnest because she had an art teacher who told her “every day, do something great.” Ava’s work is informed by the Impressionists, post-impressionists, modernists, and regionalists, including Manet, Degas, George Bellows, and Andrew Wyeth. She favors bold colors, strong lines, and clear compositions to illustrate themes including queer intimacy and responses to the American political environment.
Born in San Diego, California, Ava and her family moved around the country until they settled in Boston in the early 1990s. From 1995 to 2002, Ava studied figure drawing, composition, and acrylic painting under Jim Chisholm at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. She also studied comic book illustration at the Art Institute of Boston and figure drawing from life models at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
Tara Barr
Alexandria, VA · tarabarrart.com
Pieces 87, 88, 95, 98, 112
Tara Barr began pursuing an art career in earnest after spending over a decade working in the technology field. She is an oil painter who creates fun nostalgic pop art inspired by her passion for history, technology, and design.
She has had the pleasure of exhibiting consistently all over the DC metropolitan area as well as across the country.
Tara maintains a studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. As a Torpedo Factory Artist, Tara has a strong interest in engaging the public in the creative process and encouraging everyone to dedicate time to creative pursuits.
Tara is an active member of local arts organizations and holds a B.A. in Art History from George Mason University.
www.tarabarrart.com, @tarabarr.art
Danielle Benyard
Washington DC
Pieces 137, 138, 169
Danielle B is a Washington DC resident and Mural artist. Her work can be seen throughout the city. She has a passion for bringing people together. Especially through the shared emotion in art. Reaching, as we all are, for a connectivity beyond the language barriers of words.
Amanda Buckley
Washington, DC · amandabuckley.com
Pieces 45, 65
Amanda Buckley creates oil paintings inspired by natures living presence. She is from Washington, DC where she currently lives and works. She has shown her work in group shows in galleries in New York City, and the Washington, DC area.
Diana K. Bulger
Washington, DC · @Dianabulger
Pieces 170
I live in Washington and paint watercolors. I have had five exhibitions and also do custom paintings of pets and boating scenes .
Brenda D Chandler
Washington, DC · brenda-chandler.pixels.com/art
Pieces 22, 23, 51
Brenda Chandler was born in Bronx, N.Y. Went to St.Augustine Catholic School where the nuns took us to great field trips such as Lincoln Center and The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. I Studied Commercial Photography at Grace Dodge Vocational High School
I Became fascinated with The Smithsonian Museums and became a intern at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum in my mid 50's while attending The University of the District of Columbia where I graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art with the concentration in Graphic Design.
Carla Chissell
Washington, DC · @Carlita_zing
Pieces 68, 71, 127
Carla Chissell is a self-taught mixed media artist based in Washington, DC. She creates
artwork, mostly portraits and figures in either in a bright colorful palette or a mix of black and white with a touch of metallics. She is particularly drawn to creating portraits that celebrate the African diaspora. She is inspired by the people that she has met in her
community and during her 30-year career working internationally and is passionate about increasing the representation of black people in art.
KC Coleman
Washington DC · @hows.kc.doin
Pieces 109
I use the natural flow of watercolors to express the organic curves of the female form.
Aida Darmaah
Takoma, MD · aidaebrahimi.com/project/calligraforms
Pieces 80
I am an interdisciplinary artist and art educator. My creative process involves experimenting with art forms of photography, illustration, painting, ceramics, sculpture, and calligraphy.
Photography was my entry into artistic expression. The goal in those early days was to archive the details of my transformation as a teenager as well as my family’s new life in America. Photography became the means to collect our memories as arrivals in a new country.
My work later evolved to showcase the nexus of my sexual traumas, immigrant traumas, existentialism, geopolitics, and gender politics through the lens of distorted language. One of the harsh realities of immigration was, and continues to be, the loss of my native Farsi and not quite articulating myself in English. I navigate this disillusionment through visual mediums. Early works experimented with various configurations of Persian letters and calligraphy through handmade stencils and watercolor to create prints I refer to as “calligraforms.” These forms are visual vocabulary representing gestures, feelings, and states of being that I can’t quite put into words in any of my spoken languages. I expanded my practice using acrylic on canvas to create landscapes where the calligraforms interact, move, and narrate scenes.
In the last 7 years I found my voice by reworking traditional calligraphy into abstract figurative calligaforms to accurately reflect my thoughts and feelings, which I hope to continue in painting, and use in other mediums like ceramics and sculpture.
Sara Diani
Centreville, Virginia · Saradianiart.com
Pieces 118, 119
Sara Diani is an Afghan-American artist based in Northern Virginia whose work explores intimacy, femininity, and the emotional architecture of attachment. Through cropped figurative compositions, saturated color, and soft abstraction, she examines the body as a site of vulnerability, desire, and memory. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Washington, DC region and beyond.
Taylor Cuozzo Dronebarger
Washington DC · @tcd.art · taylorcuozzodronebarger.com
Pieces 92, 135, 152
My work explores what it means to encounter the natural world through layers of mediation. Increasingly, we experience landscapes on screens, compressed, filtered, and algorithmically shaped, long before or even instead of meeting them in person. In my paintings, I fragment and “glitch” atmospheric scenes to reflect this shift.
Stephanie Ervin
wandercolor.studio
Pieces 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 147, 153
Stephanie Ervin is a Washington, DC artist working in watercolor and colored pencil. Her work celebrates abundant femininity, superimposing female figures onto richly detailed landscapes in lush, maximalist color. Through Wander Color Studio she paints live at weddings, hotels, and restaurants. She is a co-founder of The Consortium, the women-led collective presenting Girlism.
Kate Fleming
Arlington, VA · kateflemingpaintings.com
Pieces 9, 73, 110, 111
Kate Fleming is a painter and printmaker based in Arlington, VA. Her work focuses on the everyday, often documenting suburban American landscapes through comprehensive survey-type projects. Kate is a resident artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington and she manages the printmaking studio at The Studios at Arlington Arts.
Erin Friedman
Bethesda, Maryland · @erinfriedmanart · erinfriedmanart.com
Pieces 47, 123, 142
Erin Friedman is an abstract artist based in Bethesda, Maryland, whose intuitive practice is rooted in emotion, process, and lived experience. Through layered paintings created with poured acrylics, oil sticks, and raw canvas, she builds richly textured surfaces that evolve through constant revision and discovery. Her work invites viewers to bring their own memories and emotions to each piece, and is held in private collections while being exhibited nationally and internationally.
Sheila Dee Godlock
Fairfax, VA · sheilagodlock.com
Pieces 3, 4, 25
My name is Sheila Godlock and I am a full time Mixed Media Sculptor currently working and living in Fairfax, Virginia. When I discovered sculpture in November 1999, I discovered my life’s work and passion. It was as though a light bulb ignited my entire life and I began living with purpose and meaning. I took my first sculpture class at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA in January 2000 and primarily studied under Chuck Johnson. Mr. Johnson not only taught me human anatomy but also emphasized the importance of expressing emotion sculpturally. I’ve also studied anatomy and sculpture techniques under Patrick Birge at Reunion Studios in Washington, DC. I started primarily working with paper clay in April 2016; this medium allowed me the flexibility of working with various materials to create and design sculpture pieces that are whimsical and fun. I currently rent studio space at Workhouse Arts Center, Studio 510B, Lorton, VA
Margery Goldberg
Washington, DC · @zenithgallerydc · @margeryegoldberg · zenithgallery.com/artists/margery-goldberg
Pieces 130, 132, 133, 161
For over 50 years my obsession for wood has not waned. I think of trees as our ancestors and family. I have created over 600 works of art and sculptured furniture and have showed Nationwide and have sold piece all over the world. There's been dozens of videos done about me and hundreds of articles. I refer to myself as a lady with a chain saw! It's very hard to sum uo a 55 year carreer in a few sentances.
Maggie Gourlay
Rockville · maggiegourlay.com
Pieces 74, 121, 122
Maggie Gourlay is a fiber artist, printmaker and papermaker working with natural pigments and dyes, Her work reflects a reconnection with nature and its ephemerality. Gourlay's recent exhibits include Paper as Politic at GMU Exhibits Fairfax, and the Biennial Maryland at UMUC. Gourlay received an MFA from Towson University and is represented by Adah Rose Gallery.
Mathilde Grant
Washington DC · m3th1ld3.art
Pieces 163, 168
Mathilde Grant (M3th1ld3) is a Washington, DC–based digital artist whose work explores memory, time, transformation, and the systems we use to make meaning. Drawing on photography, generative processes, symbolism, and art history, she creates contemporary "temporal artifacts" that move between the physical and digital. Her work has been exhibited in Washington, DC, and New York.
Marcia Green
Washington, DC · fineartamerica.com/profiles/marcia-green
Pieces 141
Marcia Green is a third-generation Washingtonian who attended DC public schools. Her interest in art was nurtured through various art classes she took during grade school years. Later, she attended UDC, majoring in fine arts, where she earned her BA degree. Currently, her focus is on creating art in ways that highlight and preserve nature.
Lindsay Gressard
Washington, DC · @el.a.gee
Pieces 150
Lindsay Gee is a DC-based artist and emerging large-scale muralist whose studio practice takes a much smaller view, using the meticulous precision of colored pencil to zoom in on the twists and turns of an imagined inner world. Rendered in bright, candied color and shot through with surreal detail, her imagery is at once joyful and foreboding. A childhood obsession with candy surfaces throughout, drawing an eerie line between sweet nostalgia and the more insatiable hungers of consumption that follow us into adult life.
Catherine Douglas Moran and T. E. Gross
Washington, D.C. · @designsbycdm
Pieces 8
A mother-daughter artistic duo using the family tradition of embroidery for thought provoking art. Designs by T.E. Gross and hand embroidery by her daughter, Catherine.
Trisha Gupta
Silver Spring MD · trishaart.com
Pieces 60, 63, 75
Trisha Gupta is a contemporary artist, community activist, and educator. Her Indian-American heritage heavily influences her work, and she explores themes of mental health and immigration.
Trisha's dedication to preserving traditional folk art and fine Indian printmaking is a cornerstone of her practice. After being trained in the Western tradition of woodblock printing, she returned to Ahmedabad to delve into the art of Indian Woodblock carving. She has since made it a part of her practice to teach Asian printmaking processes like Indian woodblock printing and viscosity, sharing her expertise with institutions such as the Smithsonian, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and Pyramid Atlantic.
Martha Holmes
Annapolis, MD · @quarkonia
Pieces 28, 29, 30, 82, 101, 102
Martha Holmes is a biomedical scientist and artist living in Annapolis. She uses watercolor paints, with pen and pencil. Her paintings employ color and patterns to explore internal themes, such as anxiety, depression and shame, as well as external issues such as aging, environmental loss and degradation, technology and culture.
Katty Huertas
Washington, DC · kattyhuertas.com
Pieces 32, 55, 78, 93
Katty Huertas is a multidisciplinary artist born in Bogota, Colombia and based in Washington, D.C. Influenced by magical realism, Colombian folktales, and the relationship between the natural and the man-made world, Huertas creates surrealist figurative work that deals with immigration, identity and environmental justice.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries across multiple cities, including New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Austin, and Bogotá, Colombia. Through her practice, she has also participated in public art installations. In 2023, Huertas completed a mural in Washington, D.C., as part of NoMa in Color. Her latest public art installation, incorporating projection and animation, is currently on view at the K Street underpass in Washington, D.C.
Katie Hunter
Washington, DC
Pieces 16
Katie Hunter is a multidisciplinary artist using a variety of materials and styles. Katie focuses on still lives and inspiration from her community greatly inform her art.
Sarah Jamison
@sarahjanejamison · sarah-jamison.com
Pieces 5, 24, 70, 125, 156
Sarah Jamison is a fine artist based in Washington, DC. Her drawings, paintings, and mixed media work reflect, confront, and dignify the female and mortal experience, using her own photography as reference. She received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art + Design and has had solo exhibitions at IA&A at Hillyer, Latela Curatorial, and Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. She teaches at Washington Studio School and Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, and is a co-founder of The Consortium.
Michelle Kondrich
University Park, MD · michellekondrich.com
Pieces 64, 162
Michelle Kondrich is a an award winning Illustrator and Art Direction living in the Washington, DC area. She specializes in editorial illustration that gives a narrative feel to even the most conceptual ideas.
Deborah Lash
Washington, DC · deborahlash.com/artwork
Pieces 1, 36, 56
I combine photography and textiles in my work to explore ideas around memory and family history, and I often bind my work with safety pins. I am drawn to the storytelling nature of portrait photography, the historical legacy of various fabrics, and the flexibility of safety pins, able to accommodate any change. I work in these three mediums to interpret the ever-changing nature of our internal narratives.
Susan Lefler
Alexandria, VA · @susan_lefler_studios · susanleflerstudios.com
Pieces 58, 62, 79
Susan Lefler is an artist and printmaker living in Alexandria, VA. Her work comes from a practice of slow, careful observation, finding inspiration in everything from natural textures to everyday functional design. Susan’s prints highlight the simple, often-overlooked design in the spaces and objects we live with every day.
Alexandra Lemke
Washington DC · @xandlemke
Pieces 89, 90
Lemke is an Artist and Landscape Architect from the DMV. She is inspired by the world around her - both built and natural. She works primarily in collage, colored pencil drawing, and sculpture with recycled or found materials.
Naz Locke
Washington, DC · @thedistrictdoodler
Pieces 69, 126
Naz Locke is a self-taught mixed-media artist based in Washington, DC. Drawing inspiration from local nature, urban architecture, and her background in photography, she explores tonal value, color, and texture through daily practice. Naz began her artistic journey in 2021 as a creative outlet during the pandemic. Since then, she has expanded her technical skills through her studies at the Washington Studio School while continuing to develop a distinctive artistic style. She now dedicates her free time to creating, experimenting, and sharing her work with the local community.
Lourdes Lopez-Isa
Potomac, MD · @sketchesbylourdes
Pieces 13, 14, 15
Lourdes Lopez-Isa is a self-taught watercolor artist and urban sketcher based in the Washington, DC area. After thirty years practicing corporate law, she turned to art full time in 2026. She sketches around the world and with the Urban Sketchers DC chapter and teaches classes and workshops where her main goal is to introduce people to the joy of art and help give beginners the confidence and skills to start sketching. Her favorite subject is the natural and architectural beauty of Washington, DC.
Sarah Bell McLean
Washington, DC · sarahbellfineart.wixsite.com/my-site-1
Pieces 120, 124
Sarah Bell McLean creates large-scale landscapes using thousands of small black-and-white oil paint marks. From a distance, Sarah’s paintings may appear abstract, but as the marks interact, they gradually become recognizable forms. Through a physical process of methodical labor and careful observation, each work translates an encounter with the landscape, serving as an immersive record of time and attention. Up close, the paintings reveal a record of the artist's hand; from afar, they evoke the expansiveness of the sublime, transforming the concentration of momentary observation into a monumental experience.
Maggie Morris
Washington, DC · @themaggiemorris
Pieces 27, 59, 81, 103, 104, 105
Maggie creates photos that feel familiar even when you weren't there, backed by a decidedly human-first approach. As primarily a wedding photographer, the idea that "relationships make you rich" is at the core of her philosophy; it informs how she operates behind the camera during heartfelt ceremonies, boisterous dance floors, and every little moment in between. She's DC-based but quite literally always running around.
Lindsay Mueller
Arlington VA · @lindsaymuellerart · lindsaymuellerart.com
Pieces 11, 31, 66, 144
Lindsay Mueller is an artist fascinated by the layered relationships humans have with outdoor spaces, especially those shaped by American tendencies to romanticize nature. She creates paintings inspired by local fragments of landscape, often incorporating sculptural elements in her process. Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she now lives and works in Arlington, Virginia. Mueller holds a BFA in Painting and a BA in Psychology from Boston University and an MFA in Visual Arts from American University.
Sarah Muse
Takoma Park, Maryland · @Smuse_Creative · smusecreative.com
Pieces 33, 38, 44
Sarah Muse (aka Smuse) is a Washington, D.C.–based artist and designer whose work is rooted in a lifelong love of painting, illustration, and visual storytelling. With a background in studio art and more than a decade of experience across arts organizations and corporate brand creative teams, she brings a strong sense of color, composition, and narrative to her fine art practice. Her work celebrates the character of everyday places and objects through vibrant color, expressive mark-making, and a playful sense of nostalgia.
Nil Navaie
North Bethesda, MD · art4development.net/artspacebynil
Pieces 12, 42, 43, 171
Nil Navaie is a creative ecosystem strategist, curator, One Health communications practitioner, and mixed-media artist, and founder of Arts for Global Development, based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Her transdisciplinary practice explores how arts, culture, creativity, behavioral science, and communication can catalyze human and ecological development and meaningful social change. An internationally active strategist and author, Nil brings more than 20 years of experience developing purpose-led, human-centered initiatives across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Nami Oshiro
Falls Church, VA · namioshiro.com
Pieces 83, 157, 164, 165
Nami Oshiro is an Okinawan-American artist who was born in California, raised in Florida, and currently lives and works in the DC-Metro area.
Oshiro makes drawings and paintings around feelings of disconnection as part of the Okinawan diaspora, augmented by having been raised in an American doomsday cult. Her work has been described by viewers as "bizarre," "unsettling," and "very upsetting to my friend Daniel."
Kelly Posey
Silver Spring, MD · kellyposeyart.com
Pieces 6, 49, 54, 85, 113, 136, 167
Kelly Posey offers a personal reflection on the world, drawing from the source materials of National Geographics magazines from the 60's to the last publications in 2024. Her recent body of work attempts to create a journey to re-contextualize the visual and cultural information contained within its pages.She combines the experimental quality of encaustic painting and circular arrangements to generate experiences of adventure.Through the deliberate juxtaposition of these disparate visuals, Posey aims to forge new narratives, meanings, and perspectives, inviting viewers to reconsider established understandings of our planet.
Jen Saavedra
Washington, DC · jensaavedra.com/jen-saavedra-art-works
Pieces 34, 39, 41
I am continuously creating and exhibiting figurative works based in photographic, installation, and mixed media work that explores the subliminal alignment of Discovery, Fear, and Love through identity in the reality of women who cross ethnicities sexual identity and economic backgrounds. I produce works that create a connection between the viewer and the viewed by mirroring moments of all types of women in their most comfortable spaces.
This ongoing body of work is an intimate conversation of the relationship between two women as life partners as they navigate elements of sexual identity, age, space, technology and time. I document my partner’s everyday challenges of her POTS, and EDS medical conditions while discovering her full identity of coming out as a lesbian to family and friends in her late 30’s. I also document myself as a hispanic lesbian who has been through coming out as a lesbian in my mid 20’s, what it means to be so in the evolving acceptance/rejection of this identity in current culture, the trials of dealing with navigating medical insurance, rising costs, being a caregiver and the relationship of both of us reflected in each other through photography, projection and light panel installations.
AnaYelsi Velasco Sanchez
Washington DC · @brwneyedamzn · avsgallery.com
Pieces 52, 76, 100, 145, 166
AnaYelsi Velasco Sánchez is a Venezuelan-born contemporary abstract and figurative artist based in Washington, D.C. Working primarily in acrylic, her work moves between vibrant portraits, symbolic figures, and intuitive abstraction, using bold color, layered paint, texture, and mark-making. Her work explores justice, liberation, mental health, and identity, with color and experimentation serving as forms of resistance, healing, and reflection.
Kelsi Schaffer
Frederick MD · @kelsi.schaffer
Pieces 106, 107, 108
Kelsi is a mixed media artist based in Maryland. This series of collage portraits is inspired by roman statue iconography as a play on tarot archetypal characters.
Ania Siniuk
Greenbelt,MD · @ania_sini · aniasiniuk.com
Pieces 21
Ania Siniuk is an illustrator and designer based in the DMV who loves capturing people and moments that radiate strength, confidence, and authenticity. Her work is defined by vibrant color palettes, bold patterns, and graphic, expressive figures that celebrate individuality and empowerment.Through her work, she aims to inspire others to see the power within themselves and the world around them.
Makeda Smith
Washington, DC · @sioceramics
Pieces 94, 131
Makeda Smith is a ceramic artist whose sculptural practice explores abstraction through material experimentation. Working intuitively with clay, she creates forms that balance structure and spontaneity, inviting viewers to engage with texture, movement, and the expressive possibilities of the medium.
Madeline A. Stratton
Washington, DC · @madeline.a.stratton · madelineastratton.com
Pieces 46, 50, 84, 86, 96, 97, 140, 143, 149, 154, 158, 159, 160
Madeline A. Stratton (b. 1987) a multidisciplinary artist and educator originally from Memphis, TN, currently living and working in Washington, DC. In 2018, she completed her Multidisciplinary MFA in the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art. She holds an MA in History of Art and the Art Market from Christie’s Education and a BA in Studio Art and History of Art from Vanderbilt University. She has exhibited in group exhibitions throughout the United States including the Kreeger Museum, as well as solo exhibitions in Washington, DC.
Marisa Stratton
Washington, DC · @marisareads · marisastratton.com
Pieces 61, 72, 99, 114, 115
Marisa Stratton is a painter whose work explores contemporary portraiture in the context of screens. Marisa holds a BFA in Communication Arts with a minor in Painting + Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has shown in multiple group exhibitions including Virginia MoCA, (Virginia Beach, VA), Hamiltonian Artists (DC) and the Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE). Stratton has been featured in New American Paintings and currently teaches painting at Georgetown University.
Tejasi Thatte
University Park, MD · @tejancy
Pieces 37, 48, 67, 155
Tejasi Thatte is an artist based in the DC area that specializes in figurative drawing and painting. She likes to express on the canvas what lies beneath the figure.
Juliana Vallejo
Front Royal, VA · julianarte.wixsite.com/arte
Pieces 35, 40
Juliana is a Colombian artist living and working in the Shenandoah valley. She receive a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Mary Washington. As part of her practice she has completed artist residencies in Italy, Mexico, and the United States, and her work has been exhibited in both North America and Europe.
Rachel Wallach
Washington DC · @rachelwallach
Pieces 7, 148
Rachel Wallach (@rachelwallach) works in a kaleidoscope of media.
She sculpts vibrant fantasy creatures out of felt and rhinestones that leap from wall mounts or hang from ceilings, usually glowing in the dark.
In collaboration with her husband (Mike O’Brien, @redtablepress) Rachel has recently taken up screen-printing. Together, they print Rachel’s bold folk-art inspired designs on wood panels and paper.
Milan Warner
Washington · @milan.warner
Pieces 117, 128
Milan Warner (b.1998) is a multimedia artist based in DC, primarily working in sculpture and installation. Drawing deeply from her formative years, Warner’s work explores the interplay between memory and personal identity. She is currently a long-term resident at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Arlington, where she is continuing to develop an expansive and materially rigorous body of work.