From nothing to art in less than 2 minutes each!

Spring to Green showcases artwork from visual arts and fiber artists. The artwork displays fiber painted and stitched with shades of green; weavings with a touch of green and visual arts accenting springtime and the greening of the season.

Pam Eisenmann’s clay work has been fun and gives her a chance to invent. Being process-oriented, she likes to see what develops in the exploration and manipulation, often approaching with a view toward sculptural and whimsical elements.

Puppy love is many things. Love of pets, new love, young love, fun love, not so serious love. The artists in Building 10 sharing their ideas about love for the Valentine season. Come and see, you might find a perfect gift of art for your Valentine.

Most artists are recognized by their signatures, and by their “signature styles.”

Muhulakshmi wanted to explore people's stories, their bonds, their passions, and their lives. Asking the questions: “What is it that we have closest to our hearts?” “What makes us who we are?” In this exhibition, she hopes to look at what makes everyone unique and bring out their story and their essence in her work.

As the new year begins, the artists of Building 10 will present work that reflects their thoughts and imaginings of time.

Winter White is the theme of Building 6’s group show. On display, artists exhibit winter white landscapes, birds in the winter and the color winter white in fiber arts projects.

Since receiving my MFA, at the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art, I work within the processes of series, creating bodies of work that are ignited by ideas.

Come enjoy all the bling of the season with the Glasshouse Artist’s Winter Bling Showcase. Features seasonal, functional, wearable, and just beautifully glass blingy artwork by 11 glass artists.

Muhulakshmi was born in Southern India and was raised in the Netherlands before finally settling in Virginia. She holds a bachelor’s in studio art from Virginia Tech. She started exploring pastels during her bachelors and it was love at first sight. The rich colors and the immediate effect of pastels had her hooked. There was no looking back after that. Although she still works in oil paint, acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolors, pastels are her primary medium.

Many sculptural materials are heavy and require specialized tools to work with. Not so with papier mache. Yes, you/your child used it in kindergarten!! But it is a very versatile,lightweightt, and available material for all kinds of sculptures.

Ceramic Resident Artists display their varied interpretations of the clay medium, from sculptural to functional.

Always evolving and growing, Cheryl feels her art is a process of a beautiful story unfolding and being told over the years of experimentation, exploration, intense moments of emotion to euphoric moments of expression. Learning, changing and being brave add layers to the years of creating art. Her art journey started at an early elementary age envisioning glorious fashion shows before she even knew what they were. Finger painting in kindergarten was one of her first memories of total artistic bliss.

Art is joy; art is a song of joy residing in the heart of an artist. Katharine’s song is felt as a creative surge from deep within her heart, bursting forth, smashing through perceived personal limitations and received as a gracious gift from the Universe.

Lynn Goldstein shares her newest work:

At one time, I was focused on capturing a sense of place in my landscape paintings, I now find myself more interested in the painting process and the feelings that bubble to the surface while I am working. This change in emphasis is a result of my fascination with distressed frescoes in Italy, peeling paint on walls of buildings, and the textures that are found in the natural environment.

The exhibition showcases the artwork of the eleven Workhouse Ceramics instructors. Visitors will see a broad variety of of aesthetic sensibilities, forming techniques, and firing methods, and a glimpse of the potential that clay offers for personal expression.

Small Works are great for gifts. Building 10 artists are presenting reasonably-priced original art work to choose from, great for holiday gift giving.

Black is sophisticated and a classic used in clothing, decorations, and artwork while white is somewhat quieter and subdue; yet it is definitely brighter. But place these two together and they allow each other to take center stage. Designing glass beads with back and white are striking when placed near each other because of their high contrasts. However, when black and white are used as a background for red, yellow, blue or any color, they present a space for colors to pop and they grab our attention. Special effects are magnified when designing glass beads with black and white. There’s nothing quite like black and white glass.

Art created is a manifestation of skill, experience and spirit utilizing various mediums in creative ways to communicate between the artist and the viewer. The tapestry series was originally inspired by the Rajasthani tapestries of India. It has taken on added inspirations of flora and fauna and special materials. Crystals from the Czech Republic and Austria, recycled glass made into tiles from Turkey, ceramic microtiles from Morocco, murrini glass from Italy, findings and glass from China, along with glass made by small family owned businesses in the USA are used to create unique works symbolizing that we can all work together to create beauty.