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

Jackie Hoysted is an interdisciplinary artist exploring interconnectedness through immersive, participatory installations that bridge art, science, and ecological inquiry. Working across video, electronics, sculpture, performance, and social practice, she creates environments that reveal invisible relationships and foster empathy, reciprocity, and collective responsibility. Fungi are central to her practice. Jackie’s work evolved from growing mycelium into sculptural forms to developing installations that honor fungal intelligence without harm, translating fungal networks into DNA visualizations, 3D mappings, and generative systems that make soil ecosystems’ hidden intelligence tangible. Her approach is informed by contemporary mycology, Irish ancestral ecological knowledge, and frameworks by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Suzanne Simard, treating non-human beings as relational subjects. Since 2016, she has also co-founded ArtWatch, a DC-based artist collective focused on arts activism, producing exhibitions, performances, talks, and interventions that amplify artists’ voices and address social issues. Through research, collaboration, and participatory projects, Jackie’s work cultivates awareness of interdependence across human, non-human, and environmental systems.

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

Jun Lee (Washington, DC) is a printmaker who works in large-format woodcut, utilizing animals as metaphors to convey competition in our daily lives. Lee was awarded Arts and Humanities Fellowship and DC Art Bank grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities among several other residencies and fellowships including Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VA), Zygote Press (OH), Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory (OH), Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (MD), Montgomery College Takoma Park/Silver Spring (MD), Penland School of Crafts (NC), Lee Arts Center (VA).

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The Montgomery Art Association is once again partnering with Art Clinic Online to present another engaging and thought-provoking program.

The ACO Abstract Art Forum will take place on Saturday, February 7, from 10:30–11:30 a.m. via Zoom. Join featured artists Shanthi Chandrasekar, Claudia Aziza Gibson-Hunter, and Anne Marchand for a lively conversation on the current state of abstract art in the DMV region, as they share personal insights into their practices, processes, and paths through abstraction.

Art Clinic Online events are free and open to the public, made possible through the support of the Montgomery Art Association and generous sponsors like you.

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

Shawn Yancy is a multiple Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and a Washington, DC news anchor with more than three decades of experience telling other people’s stories. Through her art, she turns that same storytelling lens inward, using paint to explore her own lived experiences. She has been creating since childhood, drawn to color, movement, and emotional expression at an early age. Abstract art serves as both refuge and release from the heaviness of the daily news cycle, allowing space for reflection, honesty, and creative freedom. Working primarily in acrylic, her work explores joy, tension, resilience, and the complexity of life’s layers. She was recently honored to be a featured artist at American University’s Museum at the Katzen Art Center as part of the ‘Women Artists of the DMV: A Survey Exhibition’.

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

Sheila Crider, an artist based in Baltimore for the past three years, lived and worked in nearby Washington, D. C. for most of her career. She started her practice as an artist with The Original Response Handmade Envelopes and Books in art fairs and craft markets. In the mid 1990’s, she began responding to open calls to exhibit work made from the same hand dyed papers. In 2009, she was awarded the first of many public art projects. In 2022 and 2017 she received $10,000 fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her work is included in many public and private collections including Art In Public Places (WDC), The African American Museum (Dallas, Texas), The James E Lewis Museum (Baltimore, Maryland), The Library of Congress Print Collection, The State Department Print Collection, The DC Public Library Collection, Ranger Italia (Serengo, Italy) and The Mino Washi Museum (Mino, Japan).

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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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