Rashad Ali Muhammad
Studio 222
Rashad Ali Muhammad, Inundated Threads, Fabric remnants, plastic bags, and netting, 2024
In a world where fast fashion consumes resources at an alarming rate, “Inundated Threads” thoughtfully explores the environmental impacts of textile waste and the urgent need for innovative reuse solutions. By transforming upcycled fabrics and plastic bags, I aim to illuminate the magnitude of this crisis and inspire reflection on our consumption habits.
Fire On
Studio 22
The Studio 22 Fire On artists honor the Earth, emerging from Winter as they dig deep, producing natural pottery, glasswork and garden-inspired prints and cards. Come see vases begging for blooms, fluted bowls, handpainted flora, glossy glass petals and earthy original drinkware. Seasoned makers embrace education through demonstration and instruction in clay, kilnformed glass along with traditional brushpainting and ecoprinting. Shop our handmade local mugs, bowls, plates, sculptures, jewelry and more. We offer pottery. applying techniques from raku to woodfire, crystalline-glazed to pitfired and functional, food-, microwave-, and dishwasher-safe stoneware and porcelain. Catch our creatives at work, throwing pottery on our in-studio wheel, handpainting, sculptuing, handbuilding and contributing to our artist-run small business.
Bikki Tuyen Stricker, Dandelion Flight, Stoneware, 7x11", 2023. $450
Sandi Martina, Blooms on Black, Kilnformed glass, 9" square, 2022. $175
Tracie Griffith Tso, Bunny Blossom Sake Set, Stoneware, 8" tall, 2023. $700
Tracie Griffith Tso, Sun Salutations, Ink, watercolor on mulberry metallic fleck paper, 14x11", 2023. $60 print, $800 original
Brian Grow, Basket Vase, Wood Fired Stoneware, 14 x 6 x 10", 2023. $145
Scope Gallery
Studio 19
Pamela Eisenmann draws inspiration from organic forms and images. The ceramic surface becomes a canvas for floral interpretations and painterly strokes, and flower bricks are a perfect vehicle for expression.
Pam Eisenmann, Nectarine Floral, Glazed Ceramic, 8 x 6 x 3 1/2", 2023. $115
Kurt Anderson
Studio 5
Anderson is an oil painter who works in many genres – floral, landscape, figurative and portrait. His paintings have been featured in many of the leading galleries and museums in the country, and they have been awarded top honors in many national competitions including the Oil Painters of America, the Open Market National, and International Artist magazine.
Kurt Anderson, April Blossoms, Polyptyc, Oil, 34 x 34 in. NFS
Ann Barbieri
Studio 326
I love color, especially pink! For the cherry blossom season I am making a series of small, playful paintings on paper. They will be displayed inside and outside the studio I share with a sculptor, another painter, and a ceramic artist.
Ann Barbieri, Not Exactly Cherry Blossoms, Mixed Media, 24” by 20”, 2024. $450
Sierra Barnes
Studio 331
Sierra Barnes is a comic creator and history buff who currently lives in Washington, DC making webcomics and print comics based on history and folklore. She is particularly interested in the relationship between history, mythology, and memory, and her comics (including graphic novel HANS VOGEL IS DEAD) reflect this. When she’s not making comics, you can usually find her haunting boba shops and museums like a very nerdy ghost.
Sierra Barnes, Sakura Dreams (print), Digital print on canvas, 8x12", 2024. $60
Sierra Barnes, Sphinx with Cherry Blossoms (print), Digital print on canvas, 8x8", 2024. $45
Sierra Barnes, Sphinx with Cherry Blossoms (original), Mixed media acrylic and digital print on canvas, 8x8", 2024. $180"
Sierra Barnes, Sphinx with Wisteria (original), Mixed media acrylic and digital print on canvas, 8x8", 2024. $180
Saya Behnam
Studio 229
"My work's context and goal is to show nature's unity, wholeness, and interconnectivity. You will find the concept of birth and death, cycles of life (using round canvas or shapes as a metaphor for unity, cycles), and recognizing patterns found in nature for energy, growth, chaos, and order. Using the sacred geometry patterns, fractal and biomorphic shapes are observed in natural elements from the cosmos and nebulas to a small flower. My Persian background image sources, such as the stylized patterns from Persian carpets to mythology figures and fables, influence me in many pieces.
I combine free-flow brushstrokes with these patterns. It can be considered as a dance from nature and interconnecting elements in any organic and unified system (like roots, branches, nervous system, nebulas, and more).
My hand-made colors and inks from earth minerals, fresh or dried flowers, plants, spices, plants, earth stones, and other pigments aren't just my mediums and colors; those are parts of the places and times I get them and are representations of time and space"
Saya Behnam, Meet There under Blossoms, Minerals and botanical pigments with rice paper on cotton, 30 x 40, 2022. $1900
Saya Behnam, Flowers Nebula, Natural minerals and various pigments on canvas, 30 x40", 2024. $2300
Sermin Ciddi
Studio 328
"I am contemporary Ottoman miniature (minyatür) artist; who persistently explores subjects of cityscapes, monuments and nature, in a comparable way to how an Ottoman chronicler would attempt to portray our environment today. Motivated by the word “esperanto”, I am committed to preserving the legacy of memories.
I depict places that I have lived in, visited and already reside in. I portray cities and nature as I see them today, and the way I want to perceive them, as well as bring into focus the parts that I want the observer to see, and hopefully feel.
The miniature painting style helps me embrace contemporary techniques while allowing me to remain loyal to my Turkish cultural roots. My artwork gives a voice to what I can’t convey to my audiences through words: spaces, hope and time that thrive inside and exist around us. Sometimes, it’s not possible to reach these spaces, which are presented through only perspectives. Regardless; my goal has always been to make my work relatable to individuals across the globe, in the hope of building cultural bridges that overcome our divisions and fears. My work stands for hope across domains of adversity."
Sermin Ciddi, A Firey Bloom, Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 24", 2024. $1750
Sermin Ciddi, A Blooming Battle, Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 24", 2024. $1750
Rosemary Feit Covey
Studio 224
Rosemary Feit Covey was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work is housed in over forty museum and library collections worldwide, including Yale University Art Gallery, the New York Public Library Print Collection, the National Museum of American History, Harvard University, and the Papyrus Institute in Cairo, Egypt. In 2012 five-hundred of her prints were acquired for the permanent collection of Georgetown University Library, Special Collections. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (Bellagio Italy), an Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation National Fine Art Award and a fellowship to Georgetown University Medical Center as the 2007-2008 Artist-in-Residence. Her solo museum exhibitions include the Butler Museum of American Art, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts and the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago. In 2014, a retrospective of her prints, paintings and installation work was held at Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum. Her larger public art has been installed world wide, including at Burning Man and at Culture Summit 2017 in Abu Dhabi. Articles on her work have been featured in magazines including Art in America, Juxtapoz, and American Artist Magazine.
Rosemary Feit Covey, Blossoms Fall -11 (Detail), woodcut, painting on paper, 41 x 27.5", 2023. $880
Rosemary Feit Covey, Blossoms Fall -11, woodcut, painting on paper, 41 x 27.5", 2023. $880
Susan Cohen & Leah Sturgis
Studio 226
Susan Cohen, Leah Sturgis, Cherry Blossoms, Woodfire vase with ash glaze and felt flowers, 2024. Vase: $450
Sheila Flanders
Studio 15
"For the past 30 years, I have enriched my life through art and along the way, I’ve learned that to paint is a way to express an appreciation for the beauty that surrounds us. If we can just learn to see it, art is a wonderful journey full of new adventures and wonderful friendships.
I feel my work is a style with a mix of old and new, traditional but at the same time contemporary, making my art authentic and interesting."
Sheila Flanders, Cherry Blossoms at The Jefferson Memorial, Oil, 24x12", 2024. $900
Sheila Flanders, Cherry Blossoms along The Tidal Basin, Oil, 16x20", 2024. $800
Sheila Flanders, Cherry Blossom, Oil, 10x10", 2023. $350
Sheila Flanders, Washington Monument in Cherry Blossoms, Oil, 10x10", 2024. $400
Jenny Nordstrom
Studio 320
"Washington DC's cherry blossoms are a wonderful inspiration every year, and I never miss them! I find that it is easy to capture a good photo of the blossoms -- but difficult to capture a GREAT one that truly captures their effervescent and frothy nature. I look forward to the challenge every year!"
Jenny Nordstrom, Pink Cherry Blossoms - Washington DC, Photography, 14x20", 2023. $300
Jenny Nordstrom, Cherry Blossom Sunrise - Washington DC, Photography, 16x24", 2022. $400
Jenny Nordstrom, Door with Cherries - Old Town Alexandria, Photography, 20x30", 2021. $550
Jenny Nordstrom, Cherry Blossoms in the Snow - Washington DC, Photography, 14x20", 2017. $300
Yoshiko Ratliff
Studio 203
"I am a painter and an award-winning ceramicist. My paintings combine abstract and representational forms and structures. I strive to discover and use various techniques, materials, and surfaces to expand and enliven my vision and means of artistic expression.
My works rely on an abstract organic underpainting with shapes, textures and shades forming integral elements of the finished pieces, and often incorporating influences of my Japanese heritage.
I paint in several mediums including acrylic, oil and cold wax, and gold leaf, often blending and combining them where appropriate or interesting."
Yoshiko Ratliff, Golden Memory, Acrylic, gold leaf, 30 x 24", 2023. NFS
Yoshiko Ratliff, Last Gift, Acrylic, 30 x 40", 2023. NFS
Heasoon A. Rhee
Studio 6
"Weaving is my art. Natural phenomena inspire my work. Over 25 years, my work has evolved from recreating upholstery fabric to designing decorative and wearable art, and in experimenting with various weaving techniques from ikat to damask. Since 2018, I have focused on creating with a digital Jacquard loom. Jacquard weaving has a rich history since its invention in the 18th century. Recently, small scale looms have become available to individual weavers. I have dedicated the past few years to learning Jacquard weaving from experts in Taiwan, Italy, and Slovenia. As my weaving progresses, I explore the relationship between color and weaving structures. Mixing two, three, or four color yarns with unique structures produces intriguing and unique results. I strive to create unique colors using the fewest possible color yarns through experimenting with different combinations of weaving structures and techniques."
Heasoon A. Rhee, Cherry blossom in DC, Fiber, 27 x 26", 2023. $780
Heasoon A. Rhee, Cherry Blossom, Fiber, 17 x 72", 2024. $250
Iryna Smitchkova
Studio 336
"Utilizing traditional materials, I wish to amaze the onlooker with the beauty surrounding our everyday life, as all that is essential is close to us. In selling my art I want to share happiness and positivity. I hope that by bringing one of my paintings home it can lift your mood every day.
I find my inspiration through the simpler pleasures of life, through communicating with people and nature. With the same sense of wonder I approach the medium I work with, be it watercolor, acrylic or oil. I love to experiment and try new things. I believe there is something for everybody!"
Iryna Smitchkova, Spring mood, Oil on board 4 panel 8 x 8", 2024. $100
Iryna Smitchkova, Eastern Bluebird, Oil on board 4 panel 8 x 10", 2024. $160
Iryna Smitchkova, Postcards, Watercolour, 5 x 7", 2024. $10
Iryna Smitchkova, Cherry Blossom, Watercolour, 12 x 12", 2024. $100
Marsha Staiger
Studio 225
"Memories of Cherry Blossoms is about the years I have lived in the metro area and had the fortune to see the trees from year to year. I treasure a nighttime walk around the to see the reflections and the quiet as other visitors enjoyed the moment too."
Marsha Staiger, 1 Cherry Blossom Memory, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, 8 x 10", 2024. $50
Marsha Staiger, 2 Cherry Blossom Memory, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, 8 x 10", 2024. $50
Marsha Staiger, 3 Memory of Cherry Blossoms, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, 8 x 10", 2024. $50
Marsha Staiger, 4 Cherry Blossom Memory, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, 10 x 8", 2024. $50
Gale Wallar
Studio 225
"I am a contemporary realist working with acrylics and oils in the genres of still life, landscape and city scenes."
Gale Wallar, Cherry Blossoms and Sculpture, oil on panel, 12 x 12 ", 2021. $750
Tamara Wilkerson
Studio 319
"I use wire to make handmade, badass wire jewelry to empower the active, expressive & adventurous. This month, join me in embracing PINK!"
Tamara Wilkerson, "Bloom" & Wire Ball Earring Collection, Copper & Aluminum wire, 1in - 3in, 2024. $38 - $45"