Category: Resident Artists

Alla Borovskaia and Milana Borovskaia are a Maryland-based artist duo. Their artistic practice consists of creating large scale wall sculptural installations, wall and freestanding sculptures, and mixed media. They create their works using unique signature techniques, processes and combinations, which makes their works special and reveals the scale of the movement of color, shape and energy! Over the years, Alla and Milana have exhibited their art in Italy, Eastern Europe and in galleries in the United States.

 

Maggie King Johns is an artist and educator based in Washington, D.C. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art in 2014 from the University of Virginia and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University in 2020. She teaches drawing and painting at UMGC, College Park and IB art at Girls Global Academy in DC. Her work explores feminine identity and alternate realities through the structures of mapping, language, color, materiality, and symbols.

Robin Ziek began working with clay in college as an apprentice with a Danish potter. After a long career in history and architecture, she is very glad to come back to clay. Her work involves a combination of wheel and hand-built techniques.

Pamela Reid is a teaching artist and co-owner of Blue Thistle Pottery. She teaches at the Montgomery County Department of Recreation, Artivate in Silver Spring, MD, and Sandy Spring Museum.

Jean Fletcher was an economics professor at Gettysburg College from 1983-2014 and is now a professor emerita. One summer, on a whim, she took a ceramics class and found her true passion. Jean’s work emphasizes the synthesis of modern shapes and natural or traditional designs.