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Nana BagdavadzeNana Bagdavadze is a Georgian born classically trained American artist. She earned MFA in Painting and Pedagogy from the Academy of Fine Arts, BFA in Painting from Nicoladze Fine Arts College in Tbilisi, Georgia, and 3-year studies at the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. She is a working artist with the wide variety of shows throughout the world. Her work is on display in numerous public and private collections in US and Europe. Nana has taught classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Seattle Art Museum, Pratt Fine Art Center, UW Experimental College, Bellevue Art Museum, Frye Art Museum in Seattle, and at the Hill Center Washington D.C. and workshops in France. Currently she lives in Washington D.C. Her work can be seen at: nanabagdavadze.com
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Carol BarshaCarol earned her BFA Cum Laude in Painting from Boston University College of Fine Arts, and her MFA in Painting from the Boston University College of Fine Arts and studied with Philip Guston and James Weeks. She works in many media including charcoal, ink, watercolor, and pastel, focusing on the distillation and transformation of her studies of the natural world. Carol has exhibited throughout the region, including the National Institutes of Health, Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Katzen Museum at American University and McLean Project for the Arts. Carol led the workshop “The Imaginary Landscape” in conjunction with her show Les Fleurs du Livre at MPA in February 2016, and taught Watercolor: Evening Alfresco at MPA Summer 2016. http://carol-barsha-trvp.squarespace.com/2016/1/19/the-big-vine
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Rula BrockRula Jones Brock has been working in the Visual Arts for over fifteen years, curating, exhibiting, and teaching at various notable institutions, including the Brooklyn Children's Museum and the Corcoran College of Art + Design. She holds a B.A. From Marymount College, NY, NY, 2000. Recent accolades include an illustration published in the Huffington Post, inclusion in a group exhibition, “Art and Politics,” at the Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ and a student curatorial project at Goodwin House Gallery, Falls Church, VA. You can view her portfolio at http://rulaportfolio.com
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David CarlsonDavid has taught design, drawing, and painting for 24 years at Marymount University and has been an adjunct faculty member at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. His paintings, digital video and digital photographs are included in national and international collections, both private and corporate. Since 2000 his digital videos and video collaborations have been exhibited in venues including Senegal, Egypt, South Africa, the Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey, France, and the U.S. He has shown at the McLean Project for the Arts. David teaches the Drawing & Painting Studio at MPA. http://davidcarlsonart.com/index.html
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Naomi ChungNaomi earned her BFA, Magna Cum Laude, in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches drawing and painting as adjunct faculty at both Marymount University and Montgomery College. Naomi teaches Drawing and Painting to both adult and youth students at MPA. www.naomichung.net
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Christina GirardiChristina studied Art History, Italian, and Studio Art at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN, concentrating in painting and printmaking. She studied abroad for an academic year in Rome, Italy and lived in Milan as an au pair, teaching English and art classes. She has been recognized in local plein air competitions, and her work is featured in private collections and commissions in the Washington, DC area. Christina teaches Drawing and Painting at MPA. www.christinagirardi.com
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Kristin Reiber HarrisKristin teaches Photoshop and iPad animation workshops at MPA. Kristin is an animator, media producer, writer, educator and exhibiting artist, and has exhibited at McLean Project for the Arts. She earned a BA in Fine Art from UCLA and MFA in printmaking from George Washington University. With a focus on fine art, drawing, and printmaking, she also designs and produces media content for education and business and teaches kids and adults how to become animators and savvy media content creators. Currently she creates iPad apps for young children that are illustrated with images/objects from museum collections. Her education experience includes Lynchburg College, Maier Museum of Art, Fairfax County, and Northern VA Community College, and she has won awards including the CINE Golden Eagle Award and iParenting Media Award. KristinReiberHarris.com – Fine Art iArt4Kidz.blogspot.com – Kids, Art & Technology http://www.kristinharrisdesign.com/ - Animation
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Arthur Kwon LeeArthur Kwon Lee is a Korean American painter best known for his large scale paintings on repressed archetypal subject matter. His influences go across the board from his relationship to the Jung Society of Washington and a life commitment as a competitive martial artist. Lee has been awarded by George Washington University, The Overseas Korean Foundation, the Korea Memorial Foundation and the Korean Artist Association of US. Along with a myriad of murals along the East Coast, Lee's paintings are symbolically evocative whilst making oblique references to the archetypal mythos, the luminous colors, gestural expressionism and movement tie into his passion for portraiture and psychoanalytical imagery. Arthur Kwon Lee is also an instructor at the Bullis School (Potomac, MD) and works out of RONIN浪人STUDIO (Adams Morgan, Washington DC) on the corner of 18th and Columbia Road, NW. www.ArthurKwonLee.com
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John Francis MurrayJohn is a contemporary artist who works primarily in oil. His subject matter includes figure, landscape, still-life and portraiture. Murray was educated at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. In 1991 he studied at the John Michael Angel Studio in Florence, Italy. Upon graduation, he became one of four banknote designers at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where he drew presidential portraits and worked on currency designs for 16 years. He was on faculty at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, and is the co-founder of the Bridgeview School of Fine Art in New York with his wife, Lena. John has exhibited in many venues including the International Art Expo in New York City, the Strathmore Museum in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he won Best of Show Alumni Award in 2002. Major commissions include portrait of Supreme Court clerk Suiter, religious mural for the Jesuit Chapel at the Georgetown University and historic restoration of the dome of the Hispanic Gala Theater in Washington DC. http://johnfrancismurray.com/
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Marise RiddellMarise completed her MFA at Catholic University and has studied with a number of prominent Washington, DC artists. She also completed work at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in computer art, digital video, and 3D animation. She was an adjunct professor of Drawing, Digital Imaging and Photoshop at the Corcoran College of Art + Design and has taught at Catholic University. Her work has been shown nationally and is in numerous private collections, and has exhibited at McLean Project for the Arts. Marise teaches Drawing, Figure, Yupo, Mixed Media, and Photoshop classes at MPA. http://www.mariseriddell.com
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Kerry VoslerKerry brings the classical-atelier based Vosler Young Artists’ Studio to MPA for the first time in August 2016. She has taught drawing, portrait, figure and plein air painting for many years. She teaches regular classes and workshops at the Kerry Vosler Studio & Atelier in Tampa, Florida and nationally. She received her formal art training studying directly with master instructors, including Daniel Greene, Robert Liberace, Lois Griffel & Judith Carducci. In 2010 Kerry founded the Vosler Young Artists’ Studio, A Classical Atelier for children under eighteen in Tampa, Florida. Kerry has been the Florida Ambassador for the Portrait Society of America since 2005. In 2012 she was appointed faculty to the Portrait Society of America’s Annual Portrait Academy, Miami, Florida. Kerry is also a board member of the Southern Atelier Classical Art School in Sarasota, Florida. www.vosleryoungartistsstudio.com
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Lubna ZahidLubna works in watercolor and silk, and finds both to be quite similar. With over 30 years of painting and teaching experience, these mediums allow for a certain type of wondrous fluidity and animation which she finds exciting and challenging. Lubna belongs to The Potomac Fiber Arts Guild, Washington Calligraphers Guild and Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery. She currently teaches watercolors at the Reston Community Center and The Art League in Old Town Alexandria. She has participated in various Fine Art shows for many years in upstate NY and after moving to Virginia in 2011, she show cases her work in McLean, Great Falls and Old Town Alexandria. Lubna teaches Calligraphy and Decorative Lettering, Watercolor, and Botanical art classes at MPA. www.elzyart.com
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