Join us Saturday morning for a virtual Artist Discussion with Elzbieta Sikorska, part of The Art Clinic Online's artist discussion series.

Elzbieta Sikorska was born in Warsaw, Poland, and studied printmaking and painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. After leaving Poland and a brief stay in Germany, she moved to the U.S., initially settling in New Hampshire and later in the Washington, DC area, where she still lives and works.

Throughout her artistic life, she has explored various media. For the past twenty years, her focus has been working on and with paper. Her drawings have evolved from small pencil sketches to large-scale multimedia works.

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Join us Saturday morning for a virtual Artist Discussion with Chris Combs, part of The Art Clinic Online's artist discussion series.

Chris Combs is an artist based in Washington, D.C and Mount Rainier, Maryland whose sculptural artworks both incorporate and question technologies. His show Supercycle (IA&A at Hillyer, 2023) invoked cycles of hype, e.g. AI and cryptocurrencies. The Next Big Thing (MoCA Arlington Innovation Studio, 2024) recreated Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa with E-waste that reacted to visitors’ faces and movements. Outsized Effects (Gradient Projects, Thomas, WV, 2023–4) included the room-sized Allegheny Data Company, examining data mining through the visual lens of coal mining. Industry Standards (McLean Project for the Arts, 2023) featured 18 works of reclaimed industrial components, reflecting on surveillance and environmental destruction. Madness Method, a public art collaboration with David Greenfieldboyce, was part of 2021’s Georgetown GLOW. He has shown at VisArts, DC Arts Center, Rhizome DC, and other DC-area institutions.

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Join us Saturday morning for a virtual Artist Discussion with Gail Shaw-Clemons, part of The Art Clinic Online's artist discussion series.

Gail Shaw-Clemons is a printmaker, mixed media artist, and art activist. She was born in Washington, DC and received her BFA and Master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park MD, where she studied with Dr. David Driskell, Martin Puryear, and Thaddeus Lipinski. She spent most of her career in New York City, as an Instructor at the United Nations International School. Shaw-Clemons has a studio at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville MD and also prints at Bob Blackburn Printmaking Studio in NY. Shaw-Clemons has exhibited extensively, with many works included in public and private collections. She has been awarded many residencies nationally and internationally.  She is currently an adjunct professor at Bowie State University.

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Join us Saturday morning for a virtual Artist Discussion with Mark Karnes, part of The Art Clinic Online's artist discussion series.

Mark Karnes received his MFA in painting from Yale University in 1972 and his BFA in painting from Philadelphia College of Art 1971. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maryland State Arts Council as well as a Fulbright-Hayes grant for study in Florence, Italy. His work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally and can be found in numerous private and museum collections, including the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. He received a purchase award from the’AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters.   Karnes lives in Baltimore, MD, where he has taught drawing and painting at Maryland Institute College of Art since 1974.

My work is about looking at the things around me. The subjects of my pictures are usually familiar and immediate to me. I work from life. It is a response to the objects, spaces and people around me. I try to paint these subjects with an attentiveness to the particular qualities present in them. I attempt in my paintings and drawings to represent the beauty I see in the subject.

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We are thrilled to present an exhibition of paintings by Erin Raedeke, whose quiet yet powerful works capture the richness of perception through her nuanced use of color, light, and form. This show opens with a reception on Saturday, October 4th, from 6:00–8:00 pm, coinciding with other events at Glen Echo Park. The exhibition will be on view through November 9th, open Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00–5:00 pm in the Stone Tower Studio/Stone Tower 2 Gallery.

Raedeke received her MFA from American University in 2009 and her BFA in Painting from Indiana University Bloomington in 2000. She also studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Over the course of her career, she has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. In 2006, one of her self-portraits was included in the prestigious BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and in 2019 presented a major solo exhibition at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum in St. Augustine, Florida.

Beyond her studio practice, Raedeke has built a reputation as an educator and mentor. Since 2013, she has taught, led workshops, and given lectures across the United States and abroad. She has been a visiting critic at the Mount Gretna School of Art and a guest artist at numerous universities and colleges. Her teaching appointments include the Washington Studio School, The College of William & Mary, the Dulwich Art Group, and Black Pond Studio.

Raedeke’s practice is deeply rooted in the act of observation, often transforming seemingly ordinary subjects into images of extraordinary resonance. Her sensitivity to subtle tonal shifts and her masterful compositions invite viewers into moments of stillness and reflection.

For more about her work, please visit her website: www.erinraedeke.com

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Join us Saturday morning for a virtual Artist Discussion with Elaine Wilson, part of The Art Clinic Online's artist discussion series.

Elaine S. Wilson’s direct, light-filled landscapes reveal the specific nature of a place through repeated encounters with a site.  She values slow looking to discover what is going on there and to find its unexpected lyricism.  She often chooses sites related to issues of displacement, disruption and inequity.

Wilson holds her MFA in painting from Yale School of Art and her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis School of Art.   Her work is in the collections of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Library of Congress, The University of Michigan Office of the President, Washington DC Artist Bank, Herman Miller, and Cigna Corp. as well as numerous private collections.

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Join us Saturday morning for a virtual Artist Discussion with Gregory Ferrand, part of The Art Clinic Online's artist discussion series.

Gregory Ferrand received a degree in film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1997 and promptly headed off to Buenos Aires, Argentina to teach English to business people. While living there he kept an illustrated journal in which he experimented with different media and recorded his observations about the culture and people around him. In doing so, he came to understand two things about himself: 1). that he was a painter and 2). that he was fascinated by the subtext of human interactions. He returned to the States in early 2000 and began painting seriously.
 
Gregory pulls on influences as wide ranging as comics, Mexican muralists, and 1950’s fashion to create paintings that reveal the beauty of living. His background in film is evident in the strong use of narrative he employs to tell stories about characters and situations that do, have, and will exist; gently unmasking the psychological or emotional state of the subject, inviting the viewer to share and/or identify.

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Join us Saturday morning for a virtual Artist Discussion with Mary Early, part of The Art Clinic Online's artist discussion series.

Mary Early lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Galerie Im Ersten, Kloster Schloss Salem, Kunstlerbund Tubingen, the American University Museum, the Sun Valley Museum of Art, Freight Gallery, and WAS Gallery, among other regional and national galleries.

Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, over the last two decades, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record. A large-scale installation of beeswax wax lines is currently on view in Radius: Land Form at the Delaware Contemporary Art Center through August 24.

Early is the director of HEMPHILL Artworks, Washington, DC, and serves on the board of Washington Sculptors Group (2006 – present) and has served on the board of Hamiltonian Artists (2015-2024). She handles the work of contemporary artists and artists’ estates, working with living artists and artists’ heirs on long-range planning, and with private and institutional collectors to build and manage significant collections. She has a special interest in public art and community engagement, career development for emerging artists, as well as the materials and processes of contemporary sculpture.

Join Glen Echo Pottery for a slide presentation by David McDonald of his work! McDonald is a nationally known potter who lives and works in Syracuse, NY. His work is inspired by his investigation of his African heritage. Looking at design sources in the vast creative tradition of the African continent, he draws inspiration from the many ethnic groups of sub-Saharan Africa and the myriad examples of surface decoration, whether in pottery, on textiles, the body or in architecture.

Join us Saturday morning for a virtual Artist Discussion with Becca Kallem, part of The Art Clinic Online's artist discussion series.

Becca Kallem (b. 1980) is a Virginia-based artist and educator. She grew up in the DC area. Some of her most foundational memories include visiting the NGA and Phillips Collection with her mom, and how her elementary school art teacher would have the class draw a giant carp preserved in formaldehyde. She received her MFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire, a BA in Art and Spanish from the College of William and Mary, and completed education coursework through UVA and Virginia Tech. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries including Hillyer Art Space, the DC Center for the LGBT Community, and the Bowery Gallery in New York.  She has had residencies at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Chautauqua Institute, and a Fulbright fellowship in Madrid, Spain. After 15+ years teaching elementary school art for Arlington Public Schools, she now teaches high school painting and drawing at the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia.