Past Exhibitions and Digital Catalogues
Community Gallery
Whispering Canvas
February 16 – March 16, 2026
The solo exhibition by Rana Alsharaiha invited viewers into a vibrant, emotional journey through color and form. Featuring abstract portraits and other works, the paintings explored the raw, unspoken emotions hidden within the human face and places. Each piece served as a mirror, using bold palettes to reflect joy, sorrow, and the complex beauty of the inner world.
Community Gallery
SILENCE.
January 13 – February 13, 2026
The exhibition Silence. explored the power of quiet as a source of creative strength, reflection, and self-realization. Featuring multimedia works by Uduh Francis Maduka, the exhibition showcased sculptures and mixed media pieces created with wood, metal, clay, mosaic, and beads, reflecting the artist's commitment to authenticity, material exploration, and the discovery of self through making.
Community Gallery
GTDM Art Quartet
November 24 – December 28, 2025
Four artists, Greg Holmes, Terry Pellmar, Dave McCann, and Marian Gliese, joined together with different media and unique styles to showcase their creative vision.
Inside/Outside: Expressions of Identity
September 28 – November 16, 2025
During the 2024-25 school year, students in grades 7 through 12 at Sandy Springs Friends School explored the themes of cultural and family traditions through artwork. Through various media these young artists invited viewers to reflect on the customs and values that had shaped their own identities and communities. Each piece told these artist’s own unique stories and celebrated the richness of their culture while highlighting the common threads that unite us all.
ARTINA 2025: Upside Down – Inside Out
September 7 – November 9, 2025
In 2025, ARTINA, the ART IN NAture sculpture garden allowed members artists of the Washington Sculptors Group to present site specific works across the museum’s 7-arce grounds. Lead by arts professional Zoma Wallace, artists were challenged to reflect on the confusion of the present moment and navigate shifting paradigms with their creativity and curiosity. These efforts allowed artists to explore ideas of inversion and reorientation through sculpture, installation, performance, and sound.
The Garden of Inspiration by Alla Borovskaia
August 25 – November 21, 2025
This exhibition presented the vision of artist Alla Borovskaia, who combined traditional weaving techniques with their own contemporary methods to create sculptural artworks made of sheep’s wool. The exhibit offered a contemplative space that connected past and present while it served as a vessel that highlighted the lives and voices of local residents.
Great Truths without Division: Chinese Garden Culture in Contemporary Art
July 27 – September 21, 2025
This exhibition explored how contemporary artists reinterpret traditional East Asian Garden aesthetics to reflect themes of transformation, spirituality, and cultural exchange. Featuring painting and sculptural works by 32 artists, including faculty and students from the Academy of Fine Arts at Minzu University of China, this exhibit emphasized cultural diversity and invited public reflection on how tradition and innovation can coexist.
Community Gallery
Visual Verse: Recent works by Sara Caporaletti
June 16 – August 22, 2025
Visual Verse was a collection of works from mixed media artist Sara Caporaletti that referenced her own physical, emotional, and spiritual health in abstract ways to process and understand the myriad experiences. This exhibition highlighted hand stitched textiles, small sculptures and digital photography paired with poetry.
As Long As I Have Breath in My Body
All images courtesy of Camila Bryce La-Porte
April 6 – July 20, 2025
This exhibition displayed a collection of dolls in a variety of textiles accompanied by videotaped conversations with artists from IN PROCESS…, an African American women’s acapella ensemble, and The Village of African American Doll Artists. Members of these groups shared both their work and stories about their personal histories, creative process, the communities from which they emerged, and their works’ transformative and spiritual power.
Community Gallery
Music of Passion by Ahmed Alkarkhi
May 19 – June 15, 2025
This show explored how emotions permeate every aspect of our lives, being intertwined with memory, attention, perception, and decision-making and forming the backdrop to every form of art and literature through the paintings of Ahmed Alkarkhi.
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Nature Redefined by Beth Higgins
March 19 – April 13, 2025
This show celebrated the resilience of nature and the potential for renewal in discarded materials. By using a fusion of diverse materials, artist Beth Higgins created organic pieces with inorganic material in an effort to find beauty in the waste we create every day.
Testimony
James Brown Jr
Marcel Taylor
Jessica Valoris
Anne Bouie
January 15 – March 30, 2025
This exhibition presented the works of nine artists from Black Artists of DC, an organization dedicated to promoting the cultural heritage and contemporary practices of artists of African descent. These works, covering a wide variety of mediums addressed the range of African American history from family lineage and community history to social commentary and activism for the contemporary world.
Community Gallery
The Materiality of Collage by Barbara Ziselberger
November 20 – December 20, 2024
In this exhibition Barbara Ziselberger delved into the material aspects of line, texture, and surface in her collages made of found material and handmade paper.
Community Gallery
Nature Inspired: Denise Marie Brown & Delia Mychajluk
October 17 – November 18, 2024
In this exhibition, artists Denise Marie Brown & Delia Mychajluk, displayed different ways of interacting with nature: from a distance taking in the whole landscape to an intimate, up-close encounter with leaves, petals and branches. Denise created art that encouraged the viewer to be in the moment, experiencing energy, peace, and joy. For Delia’s works, she demonstrated her beliefs that the natural world is a visual manifestation of Divine Creation: a place of wonder and healing with the drama of color, weather, life and death.
ARTINA 2024: A Point of View
September 18 – November 10, 2024
In 2024, the annual outdoor sculpture exhibition created in partnership with the Washington Sculptors Group invited artist to explore point of view as a concept or technique for sculpting illusion, presenting a view of reality, commenting on the fallibility of perception, offering multiple viewpoints of a concept, providing a historical perspective on a topic of choice, or any other way that best presents a point of view.
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Monday Painters: First Look by Margo Lehman & Lori Myers
August 15 – October 16, 2024
This exhibition displayed the work of two artists, Margo Lehman and Lori Myers, who paint together every Monday. Margo’s medium is usually traditional oil paint, sometimes taking a foray into the fiber arts. She created these works as testimony to nature’s beauty and explored her own spiritual journey. Lori’s works encapsulated her childhood memories of woods, creeks and more in her landscapes.
50 Years in Olney: Olney Art Association
August 4 – November 17, 2024
Olney Art Association's 50th Anniversary Juried Exhibition brought together a diverse group of member artists whose work depicted the quiet beauty and history of our corner of Montgomery County. These works included watercolor, acrylic, and oil paintings, comprising of still life, portraits, landscapes, and abstracts, alongside collages, sculptures, and photography.
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Observing the Garden: paintings by Erin Raedeke
July 1 – August 12, 2024
In this exhibition, artist Erin Raedeke painted from observation to explore the summer garden, both the fruits of what it produces, and its physical space.
A Paean to Paper
April 28 – July 24, 2024
In this exhibition, twelve artists displayed paper-based artworks that connect to cultural traditions, recycling, upcycling, and other diverse ways of manipulating paper as material.
Community Gallery
Beyond the Canvas: Ahmed Alkarkhi
April 15 – June 15, 2024
In this exhibition artist Ahmed Alkarkhi created abstract paintings of bodies of water.
Dreams of Earth Renewal: Neha Misra
January 7 – April 14, 2024
Dreams of Earth Renewal highlighted the role of immigrant art and cultural heritage in healing people and the planet. The exhibition showcased artist, Neha Misra’s original contemporary eco-folk art mix media paintings, eco-poems, and two site-specific public art installations – an indoor Earth mandala and an outdoor sacred tree grove installed on the museum grounds.
Glass Art & Paintings Reflecting the Liquidity of Both Media: Amie Hoeber
March 5 – April 5, 2024
This exhibition consisted of a collection of hand-blown glass and acrylic paintings on linen by local artist, Amie Hoeber. Amie’s paintings and glass work highlighted the movement and fluid qualities of both media.
Magic Moments
January 15, 2024
This exhibition displayed a collection of plein air paintings and studio drawings by local painter Roberta (Bobbie) Staat. Staat’s paintings showed locations from her travels both near and far as she captured everyday moments in oil paints and pastels.
Our Creative Community
September 22 – November 15, 2023
This exhibition, juried by Roberta (Bobbie) Staat, showcased the diverse talents of over forty Maryland-based artists.
ARTINA is an annual outdoor sculpture exhibition on the grounds created in partnership with the Washington Sculptors Group. Artists display works outdoors that are based on a particular theme and selected by a local juror.
Shanye Huang – Regeneration – Connection – Celebration
June – September, 2023
This exhibition displayed work created by Shanye Huang using simple craft material with contemporary conceptual expressions to create large-scale vibrant paper cut and painting installations that were filled with symbols and metaphors to facilitate meaningful conversions.