Infusing the Arts in the Long Reach Village Center
The studios at Long Reach Village Center are centrally located, accessible by public transportation, and offer Long Reach studio artists 24-hour access to their workspaces. Artists working in a variety of disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Artists are selected by a jury process as studios become available.

How It Works
Goals
- To provide individual artists with a space where they may pursue fine arts production. The fine arts include traditional and emerging art forms within, but not limited to, the visual arts, performing arts, and literary arts.
- To support a diverse community of artists working in a variety of fine arts media and disciplines.
Benefits
- Private and semi-private studio (shared entry access) with 24-hour access to workspace.
- Affordable monthly rental rate.
- Physical mailing address at the Long Reach Village Center.
- Opportunity to become an active part of Howard County’s Long Reach Rising Revitalization Project.
- Studio Artists may also have an opportunity to showcase their work in pop-up galleries and other unique events on the premises.
Eligibility
The LRVC Studio Program is open to practicing artists who demonstrate a central commitment to the production or performance of fine arts. Emerging Artists are also encouraged to apply.
HoCo Arts Board of Directors, full-time staff, HoCo Arts Center Committee, and their immediate family are ineligible to apply.
How to Apply
When a Long Reach Village Center Artist Studio becomes available, HoCo Arts will publish a Request for Applications that details the square footage, location, rental rate, and application deadline.
Applications are only open and available when a studio is available. If a studio is not available, artists may submit an Artist Studio Interest Form. When an artist studio becomes available, artists who have submitted the interest form will be notified.
Applications must be submitted online through the online platform Submittable. Mailed, emailed, and hardcopy applications will not be accepted.
Artists working in a variety of styles and media are encouraged to apply, although studio spaces are best suited to artists working in two-dimensional media. Due to building infrastructure, studios are not well-suited for performing artists, large-scale artwork, or disciplines such as metal forging, welding, stone and wood carving, or kiln work, among others. Any work that requires heavy equipment, bulky materials, or a loading dock is not feasible. Only water-based paints are permitted, no hazardous materials may be used in the Long Reach Artist Studios.
Application Requirements
The Long Reach Village Center Artist Studio Application will ask for the following:
- Letter of Intent – In one page or less, provide a brief description of your work or project to be completed in the studio program, your career direction, and why you should be awarded a studio at the Long Reach Village Center.
- Resume – A current resume of three pages or less that lists education, background, exhibitions, awards, and/or publications.
- Artist Statement – In one page or less, concisely describe your creative work, process, technique, and conceptual development.
- Three Letters of Recommendation – Recommendations should speak to your character, financial and personal responsibility, and contribution to the community.
- Work Samples – Up to 20 digital images of work created within the last two years that represent your current work. Files should be named to correspond to the Image List. Digital images must be JPG files only, each no larger than 1 MB. Time-based work must be submitted as .avi, .wav,.mov, or .m4a files. Videos must not exceed five minutes in duration. The images should be named using the “LastName_FirstName_01.jpg” format, where the numbers (01, 02, 03, etc.…) correspond directly to your image list.
- Do not submit images in a pdf, PowerPoint, or any other presentation format.
- Image List – Image list should include artist name, title, medium, year completed, and dimensions of each piece.
- Additional Materials – If available, include examples of printed materials such as articles, brochures, programs, and reviews.
Selection
Artists are selected by a jury process. Applicants will be evaluated based on their artistic discipline, artistic merit, and commitment, as well as the appropriateness of their activities for the available space.
In cases where all other elements of candidates’ qualifications are deemed of equal value, Long Reach residents and Howard County artists will be given priority.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as studios become available.
Final approval of the jury selection process will be submitted to the office of the County Executive for acceptance into the Long Reach Village Center Revitalization Project.
Resident Responsibilities
To hold a studio space at the Village Center, artists must, at a minimum, submit to the following:
- Maintain a $2,000,000 general liability insurance policy for their studio as well as coverage for the contents of their studio.
- Pay the studio rent within five business days of the first of each month.
- Maintain annual Individual ($30) or Senior ($25) membership with HoCo Arts.
- Maintain a safe working environment in their studios. No hazardous materials may be used in the Long Reach Artist Studios. Artists must provide (and keep current) a list of materials they plan to use in their studios. Furthermore, they are expected to practice a “good neighbor” policy, being mindful of both materials and sounds that might disrupt the health and safety of the Village Center community.
- Use their studios a minimum of eight hours per week (annual average). Those eight hours must be used for the development and production of their art and not for other unrelated employment or activities. Teaching in The Long Reach Artist Studios is not permitted.
- Get advance approval for any physical changes and return the studio to its original condition when vacating.
Studio Access
The following are policies regarding building access:
- Individual artists will receive one key fob for the building’s main door, and one key for their suite, and one key for their studio.
- 24-hour access is allowed for the artist only; guests may visit the studio during building office hours, 8am–6:30pm
- No pets are allowed on the premises.
- This is not a live/workspace.
Lease
Long Reach Artist Studio artists will be granted a one-year term. At the end of the term, the artist will be evaluated and may extend their lease through one-year renewable terms or until the termination of HoCo Arts’ Master Lease, whichever expires first.
Meet our Long Reach studio artists
These professional artists are part of the Long Reach Artist Studio program, with artist studios at the Long Reach Village Center.
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2 Odd Ravens
2 Odd Ravens
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 six years. During that time, they combined their knowledge of photography, digital illustration, and graphic design to create many visual art pieces including portraits, stencil paintings, dioramas, and digital art printed on canvas.
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Trudy Babchak
Trudy Babchak
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 viewers.
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Stacey Berger
Stacey Berger
Stacey’s work is primarily about color, which lends itself to abstracts, although even in her more realistic paintings, color is often foremost.
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Cori Bowen
Cori Bowen
Cori Bowen is a fine artist from Columbia, Maryland. Specializing in acrylic painting, she creates geometric color-field style abstract paintings and 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.
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Liron Fisch
Liron Fisch
Liron Fisch’s work revolves around nature, the human form, and memories. She works in ceramics, drawing, and painting. She loves to experiment with color between paints, glazes and underglazes, and raw clay. Her creative process consists of sketches, photographs, test tiles and trials that result in work that conveys a part of herself and her experiences. Liron holds a BA in Studio Art and Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Julie Henneberg
Julie Henneberg
Julie Henneberg is an acrylic painter, printmaker, and children’s book writer and illustrator. She earned a BFA in studio art with a concentration in painting from Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Her work explores the connection between human experiences and the natural elements and processes of the world, which often involves human and natural forms morphing together as one. Julie was born and raised in Ellicott City and is continuously inspired by the history and nature of the area.
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Nishita Jain
Nishita Jain
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.
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Denise Whitmore Jenkins
Denise Whitmore Jenkins
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.
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Charlotte Mann Lee
Charlotte Mann Lee
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 firsthand 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).
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Priya Vadhyar
Priya Vadhyar
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.
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Van Man
Van Man
Van Mac-Henry, a gifted fashion designer from Maryland, was introduced to the world of fashion by her African mother, who taught her to cultivate a unique personal style. She pursued Fine Arts at Howard Community College, perfecting her skills in oil painting, wheel throwing, and drawing. Subsequently, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design from Moore College of Art and Design. Her senior collection, ‘Revolt for Fall 2018,’ received the Best in Design and Craftsmanship award. ‘Van Man’ embodies a blend of masculine and feminine energies. The brand is a community where people can discover confidence and individuality. The designs span minimalist to maximalist concepts, integrating her West African culture. Van is dedicated to constant creation and the pursuit of excellence in knitting, draping, technical design, and pattern making.
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Kory Sutherland
Kory Sutherland
Kory Sutherland is a multimedia artist specializing in hand-cut paper. Her art practice explores family and environment through depictions of personal artifacts. A longtime educator, Kory has taught art to all ages from toddlers to adults. She has worked as a teaching artist in preschools and at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, California. She studied Arts Integration with the Alameda County (CA) Office of Education and The Phillips Collection Education Department in Washington DC. She has a master’s degree in Gender Studies from San Francisco State University and she is a Master Watershed Steward.
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Pamela Woolford
Pamela Woolford
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.