Faculty

Jenny Beech (she/her)

Jenny fell in love with clay as a high school student in Silver Spring, MD, and decided that she wanted to pursue ceramics as a career.

Nan Bevan (no pronouns shared)

Nan Bevan creates luminous interior landscapes with glass.

Xiaosheng Bi (he/him)

Xiaosheng Bi was born in Xi’an China.

Helena Cervantes (she/they)

Helena is a Guatemalan-American, multimedia, lowbrow artist, born and raised in Washington D.C. and now residing in Maryland.

She pursued Illustration at Montgomery College and then went on to earn her B.F.A. in Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Their work spawns a sense of strangeness by combining pop culture elements such as horror and cuteness. She creates reoccurring characters with these elements who embody Monstrous or Otherness. Much of the inspiration for their work is science fiction, fantasy, the uncanny valley, post-humanism, and Otherness. Helena brings these characters to life through sculpture, paintings, and illustrations.

When she’s not making monsters, Helena enjoys tabletop gaming, cosplay prop making, baking, and watching anime.

Helena currently participates at local craft fairs, and conventions along the east coast, and sells her work online.

https://nenamagica.carrd.co/

Robert Devers (he/him)

Robert Devers is an artist with a multi-faceted practice that includes ceramics, sculpture, painting, and photography.

Carla Duran (she/her)

Carla Duran is an artist living in Germantown, MD. She was introduced to all forms of art as a child

Emily Eisinger (she/her)

Emily Eisinger earned her BFA from The University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP).

Janet Greer (she/her)

Janet Greer has made nurturing creativity and curiosity part of her mantra for life.

Sharon Gude (she/her)

Sharon Gude is a native of Montgomery County, growing up in Bethesda and spending a large part of her childhood on her grandparent’s farm in Rockville.

Ann Hobart (she/her)

Ann Hobart has been a professional potter and teacher of pottery for more than 40 years.

Michelle Izquierdo (she/her)

Michelle Izquierdo is a locally- based artist who was born and raised in Montgomery County and earned her BFA from the University of Maryland.

Hiral Joshi (she/her)

Hiral Joshi was born and raised in India, and moved to the US some years back.

Maven Kahn (she/they)

My heart is often most absurd. I play with music and I play with words, I

Ellen Lafferty (she/her)

Ellen Lafferty teaches both adult and children’s classes at VisArts.

Kate Lanxner (she/her)

Kate Lanxner has more than 25 years’ experience as an art educator for all ages and has illustrated five books.

Robin Markowitz (she/her)

Robin Markowitz started her art career in a college glass course,

Roza Matlin (she/her)

Roza Matlin is a self-taught artist and muralist from Russia, currently living in Maryland.

Michael Metzner (no pronouns shared)

Michael Metzner is a ceramic artist currently living in Frederick, Maryland.

Gary Moomau (no pronouns shared)

After working in a pottery studio for a semester, I took my first pottery class in 2013 at Anne Arundel Community College and was hooked.

Nina Moyer (she/her)

Nina was born and raised in Montgomery County.

Sarah Sater Murray (she/her)

Sarah is a self-taught artist who enjoys acrylic painting as well as working with a wide range of mediums,

Marzieh Narenji (she/her)

Marzieh was born and raised in Tehran, the capital of Iran, and moved to the U.S. some years back.

Kelsey Nieto (she/her)

Kelsey Nieto is a freelance artist born and raised in Maryland. She graduated from Montgomery College in 2014 with a Studio Art Associates and is

Richard Nussbaum (he/him)

As a third generation stained glass artist, I have designed and executed both religious and secular commissions, utilizing traditional stained glass techniques