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Alfred McAdams

An abstract artist, Alfred McAdams works from real-life scenes to capture the essence of nature and experiences.



American Woodcrafters of Maryland

Since 1979 American Woodcrafters has been providing fine Custom Stairs and Rails to Estate Builders, Descriminating Architects and Designers in the Virginia, DC, and Maryland Area.



Amy Oliver

Amy Oliver makes functional hand thrown pots, beautifully stamped and functional slab work as well as hand sculpted masks and face pots. Her work shows the influence of her mentors in its focus on texture and design.



Andrei Kushnir

Andrei Kushnir’s work is unique in that he is a true plein-air painter; he carries no camera or drawing equipment. His gift is to absorb, and express, what is happening in the moment at the place he is painting.



Anne Gibson Snyder

Anne Gibson Snyder is the owner of Catepetl Art Studio. She divides her time between a Frederick County, Maryland studio and a Corolla, North Carolina cottage. She paints from life, often outdoors, necessitating inventive arrangements of bungee cords, old wooden ironing boards and other measures to accommodate wind and weather.



Antonia Walker

Antonia Walker has become known for her paintings of the Virginia countryside as well as images of Italy and France.



Carmen Howell

Carmen Howell is an abstract artist who paints, draws and sculpts in a variety of mediums.



Cindy Richmond

Cindy Richmond is a pastel and oil painter. She is also a published novelist and food writer. Though she no longer writes for a living, she is still captivated by food and finds herself irresistibly drawn to painting bulbous shapes.



Clay Givens

Using an air brush and other special finishes, Clay Givens practices the art of conventional fish taxidermy, creating finished pieces of beautifully colored fish in striking poses.



COMMUNITY KNITTING CLUB - Round Hill Arts Center

COMMUNITY KNITTING CLUB
This is a new club offered as a community service by The Round Hill Arts Center for those who love yarn and want to indulge their passion with like-minded individuals - be they beginners or old hands! Drop in with your knitting, crochet or spinning projects and plan a relaxing time to learn, [...]



Dana Thompson

Dana Thompson is a painter in oils as well as an illustrator in pen & ink architectural renderings, prismacolor and graphite pencil drawings.



Dave Moreland

Dave Moreland is a multi-media artist, with drawing, painting, and sculpture as his main focus. His subjects have a post-modern eclectic quality, ranging from art historical sources to personal narrative.



David Norton

A self-taught, full-time potter from Round Hill, Virginia, David Norton has been making functional stoneware pottery and ceramic sculpture for over 30 years.



DC GlassWorks

DC GlassWorks is a public access studio that is located just over the DC city line in Hyattsville, Maryland. Their goal is to provide the community access to hot glass working facilities, classes and to enhance the arts experience in the greater DC Metro area.



Don Black

Always interested in the shape of a painting, Don projects the mood and light of a subject in a loose style that takes advantage of the inherent qualities of watercolor and acrylic paints.



Elaine Elinsky

Elaine Elinsky is a contemporary, impressionistic oil painter who focuses on color, shapes and strong brushwork to capture the beauty she sees in everyday objects and local landscapes.



Eric Carter

Born and raised in West Virginia, Eric Carter’s travels across the United States has fueled inspiration for much of his work.



Eugene B. Smith

Eugene’s refined approach to watercolors includes wet-on-wet and dry-brush techniques. His subjects range from the nearby mountains and historic villages to the dunes and seascapes of coastal Carolina and Florida.



Ghyslaine Zimmerman

In the delicate art of egg painting, the artist begins with a raw white egg. Using heated beeswax, designs are drawn onto the shell, and the egg is placed in a series of dye baths.



Heather Self

Heather Self, a native of Loudoun County, studied printmaking at Pacific Northwest College of Art and Shepherd University. Her work is in various private collections in the United States and in Europe.



Homer Yost

Homer describes his work as “figurative humanism,” often based upon classical, Biblical or contemporary themes. He prefers to work directly from life when sculpting and drawing the human figure, portraits and animals.



iBeautiful

Handmade Jewelry by Artisans Mia Elliot and Joye Davis. Their passion is to bring sparkle and excitement to women’s’ everyday life.



Introduction to Glassblowing - Loudoun Academy of the Arts Foundation

Students may choose from a variety of projects and will be encouraged to develop skills in molten glass with their chosen project. Introductory projects include small flowers, mushrooms, teardrops, marbles and icicles. Once a suitable mastery of the form is achieved, color may be introduced. Limit two students per workshop and schedule is dependent upon [...]



Jeffery Hall

Jeff Hall’s unique style combines past and present art forms to create a sense of mysticism and beauty which gives his art universal appeal among collectors.



Jennifer Bright Blazek

Jennifer Bright-Blazek is one of a very small and specialized group of artists with a talent for faux finishing and decorative painting.



Jo Fleming

Jo Fleming focuses on the environment, and her paintings are at once landscape and abstract.



Joan Gardiner

Joan Gardiner makes tiles for private homes and public places in the greater Washington, D.C. area.



John Noffsinger

As an artist and woodturner, John Noffsinger is continuously inspired by surrounding elements as well as the natural art within wood itself.



Jonathan Fisher

Jonathan Fisher has a studio in a small barn, that he shares with a white cat, in an orchard behind his house where he builds three-dimensional constructions called “structural reliefs.”



Judy Wengrovitz

Specializing in realistic watercolor painting, Judy Wengrovitz enjoys working in many styles and media. She teaches art classes, has been a guest lecturer, and conducts workshops throughout the United States.



Kathy Beynette

Before becoming a painter, Kathy Beynette wrote fiction and poetry, to which she credits her narrative approach to painting. Her work is often regarded as whimsical and fun.



Kurt Schwarz

Born in Washington DC, Kurt Schwarz became an oil painter, especially of floral still lifes. He has frequently exhibited with the National Horticultural Society.



Larry Ballard

Larry Ballard creates traditional Windsor chairs and furniture in his shop in Hamilton VA.



Leslie Mathis

While her preferred style is semi-realistic oil painting, Leslie Mathis works in a variety of styles and media. She enjoys using light and color to convey mood and emotion in her work. Her work has been showcased at the “Art at the Mill” show in Millwood, VA, The Shenandoah Arts Council and Salute Wine Market in Winchester, VA, and First Night Winchester.



Lynn J. Kanen

Lynn enjoys exploring the expressive qualities of pencil, acrylic and oil in a variety of subject matters. In 2001, she left a successful career in computer science and Web design to pursue her lifelong interest in drawing and painting.



Maggie Siner

Maggie Siner finds beauty in unexpected corners of the everyday world. Her play of light, color and brushwork expose the momentary nature of perception and the trill of recognition and visual discovery.



Malcolm S. Harlow

Malcolm S. Harlow is a largely self-taught stone carver with experience in the stone mills of Baltimore and a journeyman stone carver for the Washington National Cathedral. The new millennium continues to spread that old stone dust, as Malcom carves beautiful works from stone both large and small.



Margaret Alleva

Margaret Alleva is a true painterly abstractionist who does colorful and dramatic oils on canvas. She specializes in oil painting and has exhibited regularly throughout the Washington area.



Markow & Norris

American artists Eric Markow and Thom Norris met in 1994. The two started collaborating on organically inspired stained glass window commissions for the next decade. Over the years as glass flame work and glass fusing became more popular, Markow & Norris began several years of experimentation to develop handwoven glass.



Martin Fair

Martin Fair grew up in Loudoun County, and operates a business called Fairbuilt Guitar Company, where he and an assistant build and repair stringed instruments of all sorts.



Marvin Ford

Marvin Ford’s collection can be described as a body of work that reintroduces the viewer to overlooked beauties, controversial issues, hidden humor and realistic situations that we know exist but would like to dismiss.



Orly Ruaimi

Working in oil and acrylic, Orly creates vibrant, energetic paintings where dreams and current surroundings subconscious interpretations of healing energies. Her paintings have often been regarded as electric landscapes of nature and imagination.



Paté de Verre - Loudoun Academy of the Arts Foundation

Paté de verre…paste of glass. An exciting way to create small glass sculptures. Involving a percise clay model, to making an investment mold to finally placing vivid colors in positions within your mold. This is an old method to have control over creating sculptures in glass with exciting color placement.



Penny Hauffe

Painting out of her studio in Leesburg, VA, Penny spends her time alternating between portrait and mural commissions and teaching her many talented students.



Radford Wine

Self-taught in the fine arts, Radford Wine became a full-time artist in 1991.He was formally trained in graphic design at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W.Va. and worked for many years as a freelance graphic designer.



Ren Crawford

Ren Crawford maintains a studio at her Shenandoah Valley home in Strasburg, Virginia. Her painting style is most often categorized as abstract expressionism, and she has exhibited and sold her abstract paintings into private and corporate collections across the globe.



Richard Busch

A former magazine editor, writer, and photographer, Richard has been a potter since the 1980s. Though he sells his work primarily from his studioby appointment, his pottery is also available to collectors through various galleries and juried exhibitions around the country.



Rick Steinberger

Rick Steinberger paints on very large canvases, creating larger than life works of art. While most painters primarily use a brush, Rick chooses to spend most of his time with a palette knife, yielding thick, broad strokes and allowing him to create visually interesting compositions.



Robert Sanabria

An early fascination with modeling the human form and direct stone carving developed and set a form language that has influenced Robert Sanabria’s work ever since. He manipulates segments of copper, bronze, or stainless steel to create facets and surface textures.



Ronni Jolles

Ronni Jolles, an artist known for innovation, has introduced a new art form. Paper – in its many colors and textures – is the essence of Jolles’s work.



Rulei Bu

Rulei Bu is an accomplished oil painter with a broad repertoire. He studied art at Shanghai University, China and taught drawing and painting there before coming to America.



Sheep Jones

Sheep Jones grew up in Maine. She studied art at the University of Maine at Portland/Gorham. Sheep works in oil and encaustic, and she has exhibited her paintings in several solo and group shows and galleries along the East Coast and in Eastern Europe.



Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre

Offering programs in musical theatre, acting, costume design, scenic and lighting design, and theatre for youth, the Shenandoah Conservatory is the school for the serious theatre student seeking superior instruction with artist teachers



Sherry Sanabria

For most of Sherry Sanabria’s career, the focus of luminous paintings has been those spaces and locales where people have experienced profound moments in their lives, places that seem to hold the spirits of those who inhabited them.



Stuart Putnam

Stuart enjoys meeting the challenge of creating unique and personal works of art for his clients. His work includes everything from bears, birds and other animals to statues, furniture and custom-pieces for clients.



Susan La Mont

Susan La Mont has exhibited paintings in regional and national juried shows in thirteen states and the District of Columbia.



Susan Makara

Susan Makara has been an artist her entire life. She has held a variety of jobs in artistic fields, and her work can be seen in private, public and corporate collections across the world.



Sy Wengrovitz

Sy Wengrovitz, an experienced woodworker, has produced a series of woodcarvings and sculptures that are a unique art form. They will instantly become the focus of attention for all to admire and enjoy.



Tatyana Schremko

Tatyana Schremko’s work is very much influenced by memories of people from every walk of life when thoughts are least observed, a moment of quiet. She has exhibitions in various galleries in the Washington DC area, and has received commissions for works in private homes as well as portraitures.



Tom Boley

A hobby woodworker all his life, Tom Boley became a woodturner in 1995. He founded Red Oak Hollow Lathe Works and has been a full-time custom woodturner since 2005.



Tom Neel

Working out of his home studio based just outside of Marshall, VA, Tom Neel left his automotive and fine art publisher career to pursue his dream as a full-time painter. He has been featured in numerous magazines and papers, and his art can be seen in many corporate and private collections.



Tricia Ratliff

Tricia Ratliff feels that enjoying fabulous color is akin to living passionately. From a dark, warm coffee tone to a lively green or electric red, she has focused her work on drawing out of passion in deeply pigmented realist oil paintings.



Trisha Adams

Trisha Adams lives in Leesburg, Virginia where she maintains a studio. Her study of painting focuses on the many aspects of color. Her style is loose and she enjoys the expressiveness of evident brushstrokes.



Vince Coates

Vince Coate’s art is a form of expression and personal awareness. Though the use of watercolors, acrylics and sculpture he explores the juxtaposition of vivid colors and untraditional shapes.



William Cochran

William Cochran’s painted illusions are usually disguised as part of the streetscape and reveal multiple layers of meaning. While viewers often find themselves touching the work to determine if it is real, it is the poetic levels of meaning operating within the work that most often touch the viewers.