Join us for an opening reception in the Popcorn Gallery. Glen Echo Glassworks presents a group exhibition of blown and fused glass artwork. Light refreshments and beverages available.

Featuring artists: Paul Swartwood, Michaela Borghese, Ian Kessler-Gowell, Mark Hill, Carol Hurwitch, Michele Rubin, Ian Schmidt, Amy Snyder, Phil Valencia, Karen Wilson, and Janet Wittenberg. 

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When: Saturday, December 6, 2025, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

What: Georgetown University history students who participated in a Clara Barton focused course in the Fall of 2025 will share the results of their new research. They conducted this research as students and as volunteers for the National Park Service. A lead speaker will be followed by three panels of three student volunteers who will discuss their research and answer questions from the audience. The work of the student volunteers will help connect people to Clara Barton National Historic Site (NHS), a park-site that will soon benefit from a renovation project. If not already closed for renovation, the Clara Barton NHS which is adjacent to Glen Echo Park will be open before and after the symposium. Free parking is available for this free event and no reservations are needed. With questions please call 301-320-1410 or e-mail kevin_patti@nps. gov.

Where: Ballroom Back Room

Join us for an exhibition of paintings by Yellow Barn Studio Founder & Director Walt Bartman, open November 9 - November 10.

Walter Bartman is Founder and Director of the Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery, and has created each of our other studios. Walt teaches landscape, still life and figure painting classes and workshops, here and abroad. His career spans four decades. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Art History from American University and he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Belgium and Holland. His philosophy of painting centers on personal interpretation and the unique approach to the ordinary. For him, a great painting includes all the arts. He works with all levels of students and challenges them to ‘see’ more. Walt’s own work is representational in subject, but with an abstract approach to seeing and expressing his thoughts on canvas. He is a colorist and he shares his knowledge with his students.

Join us for an Artist Talk with Walt Bartman in conjunction with his exhibition New Work: Paintings by Walt Bartman, currently on view in the Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery. Bartman is Founder and Director of the Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery, and has created each of our other studios. Walt teaches landscape, still life and figure painting classes and workshops, here and abroad. His career spans four decades. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Art History from American University and he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Belgium and Holland. His philosophy of painting centers on personal interpretation and the unique approach to the ordinary. For him, a great painting includes all the arts. He works with all levels of students and challenges them to ‘see’ more. Walt’s own work is representational in subject, but with an abstract approach to seeing and expressing his thoughts on canvas. He is a colorist and he shares his knowledge with his students.

Join us for the Opening Reception of Glimpses of the Sky and Other Scapes: An Exhibition in Memory of Jacob by artist Ann Schlesinger.

Ann teaches painting and drawing with an emphasis on composition, perceptual observation, color and surface.  Her philosophy is simple – the visual arts should be visually compelling, pulling you in and making you see!  Ann has a BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Virginia, an MFA in Painting from American University, and had a year of postgraduate study at the Fine Arts Academy in Munich, Germany.  Awards include a Fulbright Scholarship in Painting, the Annette Kade Fine Arts Fellowship, the David Lloyd Kreeger Award, and the Art Prize from UVA.  Ann is an Adjunct Professor of Art at Georgetown University, and has taught extensively at area schools including the Yellow Barn Studio, AU, Maryland, NVCC and the Smithsonian.

Invitation from the artist: 

Please join me and my family for Glimpses of the Sky and Other Scapes, an art exhibition in honor of my son Jacob.

The show’s opening will be Saturday, October 26, from 4 – 7 pm at the Yellow Barn Gallery of Glen Echo.
This will be the fourth exhibition in honor of my son, Jacob, who passed away in October 2020. Each year since his passing, our family has had an art show in his memory at the Yellow Barn Gallery.

Stop by for some great music, refreshments, and to see my most recent pieces.

This show will consist of paintings, drawings, photos and other tributes, and it will be a celebration of life through art – an opportunity to remember Jacob and keep his spirit alive. Proceeds from sales will be donated to the Jacob Schlesinger Lustig Fund for the Homeless, created in his honor. As many of you know, Jacob cared deeply about the homeless, and spent time with homeless communities across the country and abroad. Since its creation, this fund has contributed to eight local charities.

I hope to see you there:) If you cannot come, please consider a donation to this cause. You can read more about Jacob and the fund here.
www.jacobfundforhomeless.com

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

Susan Stacks is an artist living and working in the Washington D.C. area. She makes use of layered mark-making and rule systems to stack ruminations on value, labor, illness, community, and safety. These thematic overlaps use the material of stationary supplies, the structure of atmosphere, and an identity obscured by malphorisms.

Stacks received her MFA from the University of Michigan. She is represented by Adah Rose Gallery.

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

Originally from Chicago, Adjoa Jackson Burrowes is a mixed media artist, author, and educator that has been practicing and expanding her art in the Washington D.C. area and beyond. She is a graduate of Howard University (BFA in Printmaking) and the Corcoran School of Art at The George Washington University where she received an MA in Art Education. Her recent awards include a Printmaking Fellowship (Virginia Commission for the Arts), Art Bank Grant award (D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities), and a 2nd Place Made in VA exhibition award from the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. Burrowes has published several children’s books, including Grandma’s Purple Flowers and has exhibited nationally and internationally including the Holding Ground: Artists’ Books for the National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition in 2023. Burrowes has collaborated with institutions such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, presented on her art practice and themes around cultural history at various others including the Biblioteca de San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. Burrowes works on paper can be found in collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, and the Art Colle Museum of Collage in Plemet, France.

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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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