Meet our Long Reach studio artists
These professional artists are part of the Long Reach Artist Studio program, with studio space at the Long Reach Village Center.
These professional artists are part of the Long Reach Artist Studio program, with studio space at the Long Reach Village Center.
Husband and wife team Johnny and Andrea are the multi-disciplinary visual artists and owners of 2 Odd Ravens Creative Services, LLC. Natives of Baltimore City and Baltimore County, the two have been living in Ellicott City for nearly six years. During that time, they have combined their knowledge of photography, digital illustration, and graphic design to create a multitude of visual art pieces including portraits, stencil paintings, dioramas, and digital art printed on canvas.
Studio: 212 | Website: creativeravens.net
Being a second generation survivor of the Holocaust of WWII, Trudy Babchak uses her family’s history to influence her art. One of her recurring themes is of Jewish girls, hidden in a convent, wearing white dresses dancing in joy. The colors are cheerful, reflecting courage and joy. The faces are anonymous and the settings can be anywhere. The story is Trudy’s to tell, but the interpretation is the viewer’s. Trudy Babchak’s paintings can be seen in person or online at HorseSpirit Arts Gallery in Savage Mill, MD.
Studio: 236F
Stacey’s work is primarily about color, which lends itself to abstracts, although even in her more realistic paintings, color is often foremost.
Studio: 236G | Instagram: @staceyberger2018
Cori Bowen is a fine artist from Columbia, Maryland. Specializing in acrylic painting, she creates geometric color-field style abstract paintings, as well as commissioned portraits for clients throughout the region. Her work has been featured in galleries locally, most recently achieving the second place prize at Art Howard County 2021, a juried exhibition presented by the Howard County Arts Council, and Celebrating the Art of Self Care, a 2022 exhibit at the Columbia Art Center. Cori holds a B.F.A in Printmaking from Maryland Institute, College of Art. When she’s not painting, Cori is practicing yoga, maintaining her crystal garden, and raising a delightful daughter.
Studio: 236D | Website: coribowen.art
Melissa Penley Cormier earned an M.F.A. in Intermedia and Digital Arts from University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Both artistically and professionally, she actively collaborates across the disciplines of art and science to better inform her work, a selection of which was published in a collection by Aperture in Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe by Marvin Heiferman. Melissa is the manager of Research Graphics at UMBC and offers research-related printing, imaging, and graphic design services to the UMBC community and its partners.
Studio: 236B | Website: melissapenleycormier.com
Julie Henneberg is an acrylic painter and printmaker who is currently exploring the connection between human experiences and the natural elements and processes of the world. She is a recent graduate of Nazareth College in Rochester, NY with a BFA in studio art and a concentration in painting. Julie’s work focuses on themes of stability versus mutability, growth and development, and life cycles which often involve depicting human and natural forms morphing together as one. Julie was born and raised in Ellicott City and continues to be inspired by the history and nature of the area.
Studio: 210D | Website: juliannahenneberg.wixsite.com
Nishita is a signature artist with the Baltimore Watercolor Society and Philadelphia Watercolor Society. She switched careers and became a full-time professional artist in 2018 but has been sketching and painting as a hobby for over two decades. Her landscape paintings have been included in several prominent juried exhibitions, and won notable recognition. Nishita believes that a painting is a true work of art when it provides an intense emotional experience and creates indelible memories. She considers her endeavors in this direction to be the biggest ongoing adventure of her life.
Studio: 210C | Website: nishita.art | Instagram: @nishitasart
Denise is a graduate of University of Maryland College Park, BA in Art Studio. After years of taking care of family and a 22 year career in the Fitness Industry, she returned to her first love of creating art, both functional (ceramics) and decorative (pencil and watercolor). Her works have been displayed at the Columbia Art Center and the Howard County Arts Council.
Studio: 236A | Email: deewhitjay58@gmail.com
Charlotte Mann Lee (b. 1996, Columbia, MD) was the first Emerging Artist Resident at the Howard County Center for the Arts, from 2019-2020. Charlotte creates portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylic. Her paintings consist of an expressive process that communicates feeling and emotion and reflects her personal experiences, Christian faith and spiritual journey. She has exhibited in various shows locally, such as HoCo Open 2021 (January 2021), HCCA’s Resident Visual Artist Exhibit (July 2020),and LAG Open (March 2020).
Studio: 236E | Website: charlottemannlee.art | Instagram: @cmartlover | Facebook: facebook.com/cmartlover
Priya Vadhyar (b. 1980, India) is a visual artist currently living in Ellicott City. In her current work, Priya explores the manifestation of, what Loren Eiseley calls, one’s “interior geography,” and the self’s relationship with the sum of things. Her work is an inquiry into the nature of boundaries, and the revelations that lie in juxtapositions — something and nothing, form and formlessness, edge and void, known and unknown, stillness and chaos. Priya’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She teaches workshops in addition to her studio practice.
Studio: 210B | Website: priyavadhyar.com
African-raised fashion designer Van Man is a graduate of Moore College of Art and Design and earned their bachelor’s degree in fashion design. Van Man credits their internship experience at Creatures Of the Wind and Philadelphia Fashion Incubator for their field work in the fashion industry. They also were a finalist for Joe’s Blackbook Competition. Inspired by research and inspiration from their West African culture, Van Man redefines the modern male identity of Black and African men. Their goal is to relate their designs to their culture along with political issues of today such as race, gender, and music. Currently, they are working to develop their skills and practices in machine knitting, draping, tailoring, technical design and product development.
Studio: 210E
Interdisciplinary artist Pamela Woolford is a writer, filmmaker, and performer who makes fiction, creative-nonfiction, and avant-garde narrative works and film installations. Her work amplifies voices of Black women and girls and others whose joy, history, and inner life are under-explored in American media, popular art, and experimental spaces. She is a United Way of Central Maryland and Horizon Foundation Changemaker Challenge Award winner and a recipient of three Maryland State Arts Council awards, five film-festival awards internationally, and an Official Citation from the Maryland House of Delegates among other honors.
Studio: 210A | Website: pamelawoolford.com
Bonnie Zuckerman is an artist working primarily in watercolor, collage, and painted ceramic. She graduated from Towson University with a degree in Illustration. Bonnie creates highly detailed, one-of-a-kind hand-painted ceramics using a wax resist technique to create a stained glass effect. Favorite subjects include birds and other animals, fairytale scenes, and plants. Bonnie works in a variety of other media as well, including acrylic, oil, drawing, printmaking, and fiber art. She currently exhibits her work in a variety of juried and non-juried shows throughout MD, VA, and PA.
Studio: 236C | Website: bakerartist.org/portfolios/bonnie-zuckerman
"Earlier this week, I head that my painting 'Winter's Symphony' has been selected for the 2022 Transparent Watercolor Society of America 46th Annual Exhibition. This is an important milestone for me, and I wanted to share this news with you and take the opportunity to thank the team at HoCoArts. Having the studio at Long Reach has made it much easier for me to create and manage my artwork, and I truly appreciate it. "
– Nishita Jain, Long Reach Studio Artist