Artists & Makers Studios 11th Anniversary!

Congratulations to Artists & Makers Studios in Rockville, Maryland on its 11th anniversary, which in gallery years is like 100 years.  The unique model for this amazing space, under the guiding hand of its hardworking owner and Executive Director, Judith Olivia HeartSong, had grown into other spaces in Oro Valley, Arizona, and in San Gabriel and North Hollywood in California.

We are delighted to be celebrating our 11th anniversary in March at our First Friday Gallery Opening! On March 6th from 5-8pm enjoy exhibits, open studios, food and drink, along with drawings for prizes. Come and join us and celebrate this ever-growing community now thriving in Arizona and California too! Please find embedded below and attached our press release, an image for your use, and a link to the same on our website to peruse. If there is anything we can do to provide more images or information – just ask.

https://artistsandmakersstudios.com/march-2026-11th-anniversary-in-the-galleries-with-rick-ruggles/

“Focus Pocus: Macrophotography” with Rick Ruggles

Mini-Solo for Patricia de Poel Wilberg

Artists & Makers Studios is pleased to host Rick Ruggles for the month of March and A&M’s 11th anniversary celebration. The exhibit will run from March 4th through March 25th, with a First Friday opening on March 6th from 5-8pm. Aiming his eye at the small details in everyday life, Rick explores the sometimes magical, often mysterious beauty in his field of view. 

The subject matter is not always obvious, and often mysterious. The simplest frequently pedestrian textures & colors and shadows & patterns, are captured by smartphone, capable of yielding surprising depth and clarity, with the potential for larger scale presentation than viewers might expect. 

Rick is captivated by the remarkable mundane in daily life. Rust, corrosion, failing paint, street structure, botanicals- all seem to seek Rick’s eye. He captures images in ways that are abstract, sometimes surreal, usually challenging the viewer to identify the subjects. His love of wordplay guides his offbeat choices for titles, doubling his delight, and hopefully that of viewers as well. 

Patricia de Poel Wilberg will hang a mini-solo exhibit in the Lounge Gallery. 

Enjoy the sculptural work of Francis Maduka Uduh in studio 11, along with nineteen Gallery 209 Member Artists exhibiting their latest work. 

Open Studios building-wide will welcome visitors to visit and learn. Shop and support local working artists, makers, and professionals. Light fare generously sponsored each month by The Chesapeake Framing Company.

• Rick Ruggles “Focus Pocus: Macrophotography
• Mini-Solo for Patricia de Poel Wilberg
• The 19 Member Artists of Gallery 209
• The Sculptural Work of Francis Maduka Uduh

February Reception

5:00pm – 8:00pm, Friday, March 6th, 2026

Artists & Makers Studios

11810 Parklawn Drive, Suite 210

Rockville, MD 20852

Meet the Artist Saturday, March 21st, 12:00pm-3:00pm

2026 Wherewithal Grants

From the WPA:

We're pleased to announce the 10 grant recipients for the 2026 funding cycle of Wherewithal Grants, providing financial support and peer mentorship for DC-area artists in areas of research and project presentations. Six artists and collectives have been awarded with research grants of $5,000 each, and four artists and collectives have been awarded with project & presentation grants of $7,500 each, for a total disbursement of $60,000 this cycle.

Research grantees: Gia Harewood, Jackie Hoysted, Brooke Jay & Chrystal Seawood, Christopher Kardambikis, Adriana Monsalve, and Kat Thompson.

Project & Presentation grantees: abdu ali mongo & Maleke Glee, Sobia Ahmad & Benny Shaffer, Ama BE, and Shariq Shah.

Over the next year, artists from this cohort will organize projects including: a multi-genre publication inspired by the Black queer body in motion; a three-day symposium bringing together a cohort of artists, filmmakers, and poets whose work probes land and film as reciprocal sites of encounter; a performance dinner; and an intergenerational cooking workshop. Others will conduct research around fascinating topics such as: soil memory, mycology, diasporic memories and language, and the history of DIY publishing in the 21st century.

Throughout the yearlong grant cycle, grantees will produce their work independently and in dialogue with one another, convening regularly as a group facilitated by Nathalie von Veh, Wherewithal Regrants Manager.

An independent panel of four artists and curators reviewed 113 applications and are awarding 10 grants. The adjudication panel consisted of: Jenna Crowder, Writer and Editor (Washington, DC); Krista Green, Grit Fund Program Manager, The Peale (Baltimore, MD); Rex Delafkaran, Artist and Wherewithal Alum (Chicago, IL); and Sara O’Keeffe, Senior Curator, Art Omi (Ghent, NY). They evaluated each proposal based on the criteria of Artistic Impact, Context/Audience, Collaboration, Feasibility, and Budget.

Critical Ground: Art and Environmental Justice

WASHINGTON SCULPTORS GROUP

Critical Ground: Art and Environmental Justice

Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group and Glen Echo Park Partnership for the Arts

February 21 - March 22, 2026

Opening Reception:

Saturday, February 21, 2026, 6-8pm

FEATURED ARTISTS

Esperanza Alzona, Joanathan Bessaci, Nizette Brennan, Leonardo Bruno, Sally Canzoneri, Chris Combs, Dianne Crosby, Nicholas Femia, Billy Friebele, McCleary Gallagher, Tom Greaves, Xiang Gu, Raina Hatcher, Kankel Jadon, Jean Kim, Joan Konkel, Heidi Lippman, Cat Lukens, Jon Lundak, Jacqueline Maggi, Samuel Miller, Davide Prete, Radhakund Ramnarine, Jim Roberts, Ira Tattelman, David Whitmore, Janet Wittenberg, Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Juried by Tomora Wright Swann

JUROR & ARTIST TALK

Saturday, March 7, 2026, 1pm

Meet thirteen of the artists in Critical Ground in conversation with Tomora Wright Swann. Join us for a talk in the classroom on the third floor above the Popcorn Gallery.

More Information here.

What Passes Between Solo Exhibit by Clare Winslow

Everything that Rises, screenprint and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48

March 5 - 29, 2026 Opening Reception – Saturday, March 7, 2-4 pm Artist Talk/demo – Sunday March 29, 2-4 pm

Washington Printmakers Gallery is pleased to present What Passes Between, a solo exhibition by Clare Winslow, opening March 7. What Passes Between brings together works in screenprint and acrylic that explore threshold, suspension, and the space between states. Soft, mottled grounds laid down in acrylic create atmosphere and depth; screen-printing builds across them with precise, repeated detail — mesh, lace, grid. Ribbons, chains, orbs, and sweeping forms move through these layered surfaces, suspended between weight and weightlessness, clarity and dissolution.



Large canvases let these tensions breathe across expansive fields, while small panels distill them into concentrated moments. In the street-facing window, Through, an installation of repurposed transparencies from two decades of printmaking, offers a visual archive that traces a passage from documentation to abstraction.

Join them for the opening reception on Saturday, March 7, 2-4 PM to experience this distinctive body of work.

See the work here. The gallery is located at 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington DC 20007.

About the Artist:

Clare Winslow is a Washington, DC-based artist whose work investigates the shifting nature of time, perception, and memory through painting and printmaking. Working primarily in screenprint and acrylic, she creates layered abstractions that emerge through slow accumulation, tonal variation, and a deliberate interplay of surface and depth.

Winslow earned a degree in Fine Arts from The Catholic University of America and studied printmaking at the Corcoran College of Art. Her practice often incorporates experimental screenprinting techniques (including ribbon exposures, water disruptions, and overprinting without registration) alongside nontraditional materials such as polypropylene and wood. Rooted in sustained observation of the natural world, her work emphasizes transitions in light, texture, and rhythm, inviting reflection and attentiveness.

She is a four-time recipient of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County's Artists & Scholars Project Grant (2016, 2019, 2022, 2025). She has completed residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and in Orquevaux, France. Her work has been exhibited widely in the Washington, DC region and beyond, and is held in private collections across the United States. Winslow works at her studio in Kensington and at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville.

Asshole of the year: Jezabel Dabouis

If you watched the scam jurying at the Olympics,  it brought back memories of when the Soviet block judges used to screw all other athletes...

Jezabel Dabouis: fuck you!

The strange menagerie of sculptor Joan Danziger

It is behind its firewall, but the Washington Post has a spectacular three page spread on DMV legend Joan Danzinger.

It's a very good piece, and the kind of work that we wished the WaPo would do for area artists, maybe once every couple of years or so...

Read it here.

Woman sitting on a Mondrian Landscape

 This new painting will be at the next Affordable Art Fair in NYC this coming March!

Woman Sitting on a Piet Mondrian Landscape by F. Lennox Campello
32x40 inches - mixed media on paper