Montgomery Art Association &
Art Clinic Online (ACO)
invite you to the ONLINE
Saturday February 7, 2026
10:30 - 11:30, via zoom
Registration will open on January 17, 2026
Montgomery Art Association is once again teaming up with the Art Clinic Online to bring you another inspiring event featuring three eminent artists who will discuss abstract painting and share their personal insights.
Shanthi Chandrasekar - https://www.shanthic.com/
Shanthi Chandrasekar is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist from Maryland who has an academic background in physics and psychology, and has been trained in the traditional Indian art forms of Kolam and Tanjore-style painting. While many of her works are influenced by her Indian heritage, her true inspiration comes from the mystery and majesty of the world around her; her muse lives where the scientific overlaps with the spiritual.
Claudia "Aziza" Gibson-Hunter - http://gibsonhunterstudio.com/
Claudia "Aziza" Gibson-Hunter is a mixed-media artist who masterfully blends painting, drawing, collage, and papermaking to create powerful narratives. Through her unique style of narrative abstraction, she uses acrylic paint, colored pencils, and various other materials to tell stories from the perspective of a Black woman, exploring societal forces, current events, and nature. Spiritual realms permeate her work.
Anne Marchand - https://annemarchand.com/
Marchand’s early influences include 20th century modernist painters, the Abstract Expressionists, and the work of Carl Jung, with his reflections on dream imagery and psychological states. She credits her upbringing in New Orleans for her sensitivity to, “a sense of awe at the power and majesty of nature.” The art of other cultures has been an important inspiration, particularly the petroglyphs and the sacred practices of the Native Americans of the Southwest, which informed three series of works and related exhibitions in the 1980s.
For information, contact Chitra Sharma or Lily Kak
Art Clinic Online (ACO)
The mission of the Art Clinic Online (ACO) is to create dialog, relationships, and community among artists of all levels working in the DMV area. Every other Saturday, a featured artist showcases their work and takes questions from participants. At the ACO, our aim is to curate a variety of different presenters’ perspectives, backgrounds, and art making styles in order to highlight the diversity of our incredible DMV artists. Recordings of past presentations can be found on ACO's webpage. ACO is founded by J. Jordan Bruns and is sponsored by Glen Echo Park and the Maryland State Arts Council. For more: https://www.jjbruns.com/art-clinic-online/
