Open Studios
Join us for the first open studios of 2025 and meet our current studio residents Kaitlin Jencso, Neha Misra, Sydney Schilling, Julio Valdez, and Paloma Vianey. Visitors will get a behind the scenes look at works in progress, and have the opportunity to speak with resident artists about the ideas, techniques and materials that shape their work.
Kaitlin Jencso portrays carefully constructed moments in time that communicate a specific, fleeting feeling. Photographs are a space to explore, process, and discover my fears and truths. Her exploration of the beauty in the mundane has led to a voyeuristic, yet cinematic approach to seeing.
Neha Misra‘s interdisciplinary practice builds bridges between individual, collective, planetary healing and justice. Her regenerative art practice has roots in the diverse eco-folk traditions, mythology, ancient knowledge, and colorful vibrancy of her Indian heritage. Her immigrant experience has been a catalyst for rediscovering and re-claiming this sacred tapestry.
Sydney Schilling is an interdisciplinary artist and designer, primarily focused on textiles, objects, and spaces. Her practice is rooted in observation, intuition, and craftsmanship. As well as creating work that invites viewers to slow down. For Sydney, her work acts as a spiritual practice. The act of working with your hands is a meditative process, allowing the material to inform the final outcome.
Julio Valdez is a painter, printmaker, teacher and mixed installation artist. Working between pluri-cultural sensibilities, Valdez infuses his work with multi-layered imagery as a response to the shifting cultural and social influences in his life. His work evokes his Afro-Caribbean roots and references his childhood memories of the Caribbean, as well as contemporary issues of displacement and cultural identity.
Paloma Vianey is an interdisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, who currently lives and works in Washington, DC. Her work explores the vulnerabilities and violence of her community and narrates her experience crossing the US–Mexico border daily, questioning the political corruptness of this division.
At this time, studios are only reachable by two flights of stairs; we acknowledge and apologize that this limits access for some.
