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Red Studio is an artist owned art gallery dedicated to the promotion of national and international interdisciplinary artists. Our mission is to foster creativity and art excellence and provide space to upcoming and established artists. Our vision is to be the voice of people with artistic vision in a multidiscipline environment including professional and leisure artists. All successful artists start somewhere!
Founder Shara Banisadr is an interdisciplinary international artist who works in several areas, as opposed to a more traditional artist who works in only one medium. She is artistic director of Red Studio, a visual artist, an exhibition organizer, teacher at Montgomery College in The School of Art + Design, as well as a teaching artist at Guy Mason Art Center.

Montgomery Art Association members have the opportunity to meet a large variety of artists at our meetings and exhibits, from beginners to professionals, with a wide range of styles and sensibilities. The membership fees are kept low to encourage emerging artists to join and be part of a supportive creative community. MAA recurring shows include the June Friendship Heights Village Center Show and the “Paint the Town” Labor Day Show in Kensington. Brookside Gardens and Sandy Spring Museum are other venues where Montgomery Art exhibits.

Debi Hammack specializes in illustration and sequential art, specifically storyboards and comic books. She wrote and illustrated the comic book A'pertua (published online by Dakuwaka) and teaches private comic book art lessons.

Lynette works in printmaking, sculpture and book arts focusing on relationships and interactions between people she encounters in life.

Tatiana is an artist with the main focus on artist books where she brings together various printmaking techniques such as monoprints, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and letterpress.

My art is influenced by colonial art and views of provincial aties in South America

Greater Washington area friends and partners in art who help each other to improve our skills in painting and related disciplines and try to enrich the visual arts in the region. There is an emphasis on watercolor, but we do other media as well. Serious recruits in all such fields are always welcome. Classes and workshops are also offered.

"Life Map" is a fun and personal chart, that was designed to be "fill outed" individually; it provides a quick overlook of a person's life! Also it clearly shows where a person stands in time. I.E.: If you are 30 years old, you are as long as a lion live and you are one year in the planet Saturn!

Kaltoum A. Maroufi is an internationally accomplished and recognized artist, designer and educator. Her pluridisciplinary artistic oeuvre is very broad encompassing nearly all of studio art, primarily painting in oils, frescoes and tempera (specializing in realism, trompe- l'oeil, and faux effect) and also Art Book, Sculptures and Hyper-realistic portrait drawing commissions. She is also a recognized muralist and paintings restorer. She earned a Fine Arts Master degree in France at l'Ecole Nationale d'Arts Decoratifs de Nice and also holds a Ph.D in Philosophy and History of Ideas from Nice Sophia-Antipolis Universtiy. She is a lecturer at Montgomery College where she teaches Trompe l'oeil techniques, Drawing and Portrait; Her studio and gallery - K.A. Maroufi Gallery - is located in the historic antique district of Old Town Kensington (3766 Howard Ave. #101).

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