Join us for a virtual Artist Talk featuring artist Marilyn Gates-Davis, moderated by The Black Art Today Foundation. Recipient of the 2024 Park View Artist Award at the 53rd Annual Labor Day Art Show, Gates-Davis' painting titled DC Back in the Day was selected for the award by show juror Amy Kaslow, owner of Amy Kaslow Gallery. In her current solo show, Pieces Of A Dream, the artist explores the interplay between cherished childhood memories, personal loss, and the symbolic language of dreams. 

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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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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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