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 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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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 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.

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

Originally from Washington, DC, Schroeder Cherry is a Baltimore-based assemblage artist and puppeteer inspired by music, travel, literature, and contemporary and historic events, both real and imagined. His works are mixed media, using wood, paint, and found objects.

He was a 2019 Janet and Walter Sondheim finalist, a 2021 Maryland State Art Council Independent Artist Award winner, and a 2023 Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellow. In 2024 he visited Salvador, Brazil  as a Maryland Arts Society of Baltimore Travel Grant recipient. He is featured in the 2024  PBS episode Play, by Craft in America. He is also featured in Bmore Arts’ 2024 publication, City of Artists.

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Join us Saturday morning for a virtual Artist Discussion with Claudia Aziza Gibson–Hunter, part of The Art Clinic Online's artist discussion series.

Ms. Gibson-Hunter is a mixed media artist who combines painting, printmaking, collage, papermaking, and assemblage in her work. She investigates themes of identity, agency, memory, and spiritual consciousness using acrylic paint, handmade paper, and colored pencil.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Aziza graduated from Temple University and received her MFA from Howard University. Ms. Gibson-Hunter has been awarded the Individual Artist Fellowship Program Grant, from the DC Commission of the Arts. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Institutes of Health, Washington DC Art Bank, the US Embassies in Liberia, as well as the collections of Montgomery County Maryland, Price Waterhouse Cooper., and American Express. Her work can be found in the Library of Congress in the departments of rare books and prints. She has created public works for Washington DC through the Department of General Services.

Ms. Gibson-Hunter is a member of the Black female collectives, Dandelion Black Women Artists, THOUGHT, and WOAUA. She is a cofounding member of Black Artists of DC, and has a studio located within the STABLE Art complex located in Washington, DC.

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

Eric Celarier was born, lives, and works in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland in 1991 and his Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati in 1997.
His most immediate activities include: participating in solo shows at Stone Tower Gallery at Glen Echo, Evolving Worlds (collaborating with sound artist Anne Burson), Artist & Makers, Living Mechanics, and NIH, Machine. He also exhibited in a two-person show, Super Natural, with Stuart Diekmeyer at Portico Gallery, a solo show, Future World, at Mosaic Arts Gallery, a group show, WOW Part 5. In addition to sharing his own art, he curated the Human Nature show at DC Arts Center’s (DCAC) gallery, and hosts Becoming a Professional in the Art World Series for Washington’s Sculptors Group.

Celarier writes for East City Art & the Washington Sculptor. He is a Washington Sculptors Group board member. He facilitated the Sparkplug collective DCAC and currently sits on DCAC’s visual committee.