Joanathan Bessaci is a French-born artist whose work explores memory, identity, and human connection through unconventional materials such as vintage photographs, postcards, and road maps.

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Sophie Bouwsma (she/they) is a textile artist based in Washington, DC. She creates using thrifted materials and makes use of both text and imagery. Their work is informed by their background in music and peacebuilding and is infused with vibrancy, depth, and social commentary.

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When creating pieces that are aesthetically self-sufficient and true to my visual language, my hope is to also challenge viewers to think beyond what is immediately perceptible. Each of my works tell a story as I approach my craft with a life-long learning lens. The media and techniques often change based on my project, but my curiosity and passion to create remain the same.

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David Carlson’s complex, abstract paintings have a unifying, spiritual quality. His work delves into the intersections of time, energy, spatial tension, and unknown circumstance. His work is represented in numerous collections; private, corporate, national and international.

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In a society and a profession that demands constant care and vigilance, I created a space where every choice is valid. My designs are fast, replicable, and never precious. I’m drawn to found canvases and am inspired by the stochastic, yet intention-built, nature of industrial manufacturing. Opting to work with damaged and expired materials brings a history and invites a sense of weightless, constraint-free creation. The Box welcomes viewers to step back from the overt chaos and to discover their inner calm.

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Throughout his creative career, Joseph Cortina has pushed the envelope of technology and art to tell stories. His experience in art making ranges from painting, sculpture, immersive media and film production. For the last 25 years Joe has been the guiding creative force of Cortina Productions whose immersive and interactive installations include the Spy Museum, The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, National Museum of African American History and Culture, 5 Presidential Libraries, and the Muhammed Ali Center.

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My technique is an unusual combination of permanent pigments and repeated soakings in water. The entire drawing is completely immersed several times during the production process. Each image is then worked in both its wet and dry states. Cities have a unique sense of place, and each building has its personality. I think of these drawings as stage sets waiting for actors. 

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My work explores color as a language of shared human expression—an abstract reflection of diversity, connection, and coexistence. Whether on canvas or in sculptural form, my process is rooted in intuition, spontaneity, and a deep exploration of the expressive power of abstraction.

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Melanie's papercut work has appeared in over a hundred exhibits throughout the country and internationally, including more than 20 solo exhibits.    She teaches at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington and US Arts Center and serves on the Arlington Visual Art Studio Tour board and the Guild of American Papercutters exhibition committee.  She earned her MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Born in Washington, D.C., to a musician/educator and technology professional, Zane Killgo grew up in the D.C. metropolitan area alongside his older brother. His upbringing in diverse neighborhoods throughout the region profoundly shaped his artistic vision and continues to fuel his creative practice today.

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Antony creates sustainability focused sculptures from repurposed materials, challenging us to examine our complicated relationship with technology. His 20+ years in Arlington include volunteering with AFAC, MGNV, MCA, and as a founding member of the Langston Boulevard Alliance.

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Molly F. McCracken is a northern Virginia teaching artist whose colorful artwork expresses feelings and emotions through process-driven, mixed media collage. She uses intuition, enthusiasm and humor in her artwork and classes. Find her at artistmolly.com and @mollyfmccracken.

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Austin D. Morris and Beth Hansen are multidisciplinary artists based in Washington, DC. Collaborating for the past three years, the duo explores the intersections of nature, its oddities, and human interaction with the environment. Their collective practice centers on printmaking, while also drawing on a range of mediums to create work that highlights both the beauty and strangeness of the natural world.

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Jeans. Bleach. Cut. Wash. Dry. Wood, nails, hammer. Denim fibers. Acrylic. Becomes… Ocean. Forest. Planets. Mosaic. Passion. Life. Washington. 2024! Echoes. Becoming. Drift. The next time you wear jeans, think of another in theirs; how those everyday threads tie us closer together. Nolan is an artist from Arlington, Virginia.

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I paint to give expression to the joys, rhythms, and meaning I find in life, in community, and in nature. I weave in the colors, patterns, textures and symbols of indigenous communities to honor their experiences of joy and of horror, of connection and of fragmentation, of exploitation and of belonging. I hope my art inspires you.

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Rogers mixed media works explore internal and external landscapes through sensory experience and materiality. Growing up in Chicago’s shifting industrial environment, a foundational aesthetic was planted by observing the city’s continual cycles of creation and destruction. Her work continues to combine traditional materials with constructed surfaces, collage, fiber, and raw building materials- often at immersive, human scale.

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Ursula creates large scale mixed media works with a message, and has been dumpster diving since childhood, rummaging in recycling bins, and convincing her friends and family to save their “pretty trash” for 2 decades for raw materials.

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I design and build custom furniture from my workshop studio right here in Arlington, Virginia. Yes, really, bespoke furniture in Northern Virginia. I use local hardwoods to build sustainable furniture. All furniture can be customized for you – size and wood species.

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Jill McCarthy Stauffer is an Arlington, VA based artist and arts educator. Stauffer creates multimedia installations that explore the transmutation of the natural environment through digital documentation, artificial replication, and memory.

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Recently retired Arlington Public Schools art teacher, Victoria Walchak formally trained in the fine arts at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC.

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Shaylin Wallace is a Jamaican-American artist from Wilmington, Delaware, now based in Washington, DC. She is well known for creating surrealistic collages in Photoshop and abstract illustrations in Procreate. Her works of art embody the divine connection between humans, nature, and the universe. She uses art as a way to connect and communicate her innermost thoughts and emotions.

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