HoCo Arts Resident Studio Artists

Phill Branch

Phill Branch is an Emmy® Award winning producer, a writer and director. Branch’s documentary Hampton University: One of the Wonders of the World (Maryland Public Television/PBS) won the Emmy for Outstanding Education/Schools Long Form Content (Capital Emmys/2024). His film, Searching for Shaniqua (Maryland Public Television/PBS), a documentary about the impact names have on our lives, won the HBO Best Documentary award at Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival. His upcoming memoir tentatively titled “The Double Dutch Fuss” will be released by HarperCollins/Amistad in 2026. He is a 2024 recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council’s Creativity Grant and a 2019 Rubys Artist Award grantee for storytelling and performance. He was the 2018 GrandSLAM Champion of The Moth in DC. Branch is the founder and Creative Director of Baltimore Story Fest, a showcase for live, personal storytelling. Currently, Branch is a Resident Artist at the Howard County Center for the Arts.

Cheri Glover

As a long-time resident of Howard County, Cheri attended Wilde Lake High School and received a BFA from Towson University. Her work explores color, design, and the interplay of shape, transparency, and space. Working primarily in layered acrylic on canvas, she builds compositions intuitively while allowing unexpected interactions to guide the process before refining forms into intentional, balanced designs.
Inspired by life and nature, her paintings aim to evoke emotion and create meaningful connections. Her work has been exhibited in multiple solo and group shows and is held in private collections throughout Maryland and across the U.S.

Julie Henneberg

Studio 032

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Nishita Jain

Studio 035 – Nishita Jain

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Sherry Jankiewicz

Sherry Jankiewicz is an artist and educator residing in Ellicott City, Maryland.  Beginning her career as an art teacher in Howard County, Sherry taught elementary and middle school art for 13 years before leaving Maryland to study printmaking in Portland, Oregon.  After receiving her MFA in Print Media from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Sherry moved to Knoxville, TN, in 2019 to join the University of Tennessee’s Art Education department as a Clinical Assistant Professor where she supervised new art teachers and taught art education courses.  She also volunteered for the Tennessee Art Education Association as a treasurer and participated in local and national printmaking exhibitions and print exchanges.  In 2022, Sherry moved back to Ellicott City, MD, where she is teaching high school art in Howard County and continuing her art practice.  Sherry joined the Howard County Center for the Arts as a resident artist in 2023 and The Artists Gallery in Ellicott City in 2024.  She spends her time outside of the studio and classroom visiting family, playing with her nephews, and enjoying nature.

Myungsook Ryu Kim

Myungsook Ryu Kim’s paintings echo and emphasize the calligraphic line, a continuous living line made with one stroke, which guides the viewer moving their eyes through each piece. She studied traditional brush painting and seal engraving in South Korea.  After graduating from Ewha Womans University Department of Fine Arts in Seoul, she moved to the U.S. in 1985 and received her Master in Ceramic Sculpture from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her works have been shown in more than 70 exhibitions, mostly in the Washington DC area as well as galleries in Seoul. Myung served as President of the Hanmee Artists Association and continues to be an active member.

Van Mac-Henry

Studio 033 – Van Mac-Henry

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Lisa Scarbath

Lisa Scarbath creates contemporary fine art mosaics, décor and public art. Her work ranges from realistic to abstract with each composition guided by the unique materials she uses. Lisa selects a variety of tesserae  – including traditional smalti and stone, stained glass, dishware and found objects – to create dynamic pieces with texture and depth.  Her meticulous compositions encourage the viewer to discover something new with each encounter.

A Resident Artist at the Howard County Center for the Arts since 2020, Lisa has lived with her family in Ellicott City for 25 years, and is active in the local, state-wide and international art community. She is a Member/Owner and Secretary of the Artists’ Gallery of Ellicott City; Member of the Board of Directors of CMA2, an international contemporary mosaic artist organization, host of the monthly CAMP (community and public art mosaic projects) events, co-chair of the 2026 Conference. Lisa’s mixed media mosaics work can be found in galleries and gift shops from Frederick to Ocean City, MD.

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Jereme Scott

Jereme Scott is a multi-media artist from Columbia, MD who creates paintings, sculptures, and original prints. He received his MFA degree from Howard University in 2011 and has been a Resident Artist at HCCA since 2009. Regardless of the medium, his artwork aims to be thoughtful, contemporary, well crafted, and composed of underlying narratives.

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.

Andrei Trach

Andrei Trach is an award-winning artist who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1996 he had a seventy-five-piece Solo Exhibition at the University of Baltimore Law School. In 1999 he exhibited at the Benjamin Banneker Museum in Ellicott City, Catonsville, Oella Arts. In 2003 his work was featured on Maryland Public Television. In 2004 he had a retrospective solo exhibition at Mill River Gallery in Ellicott City, MD. His Sculpture, “Vainglorious Bluebird” is on permanent display at Centennial Park in Hyattsville, MD. In 2015 he had a solo exhibit at Montpelier Art Center in Laurel, MD. He was awarded Honorable Mention in “Art Howard County” in 2017. In 2021 he exhibited in the “Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition” at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. He had solo exhibits at the Watkins Nature Center in Upper Malboro, MD in 2021 and at Mixt in Brentwood, MD, in 2023. Trach last exhibited in “Maryland Muse: A Tapestry of Inspiration” at the Goldstein Treasury Building in Annapolis, MD, in 2024.

Mary Jo Tydlacka

Mary Jo Tydlacka is a long-standing resident artist at the Howard County Center for the Arts. Two of her paintings are in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection. Other collectors of her work are Michael Kahn of the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, Theresa Colvin, Director of the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Howard County Public Library. Her paintings were shown on Maryland Public Television’s “Artworks This Week” and in 2015 her work was on the set for the HBO show VEEP. She participated in an artist exchange in Cergy-Pontoise, France in 1999. Mary Jo earned a BA degree from Northwestern University, taught English for a few years, and did her art studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and at Maryland Institute College of Art.

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.

Kelli Williams

Studio 150 – Kelli Williams

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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.

David Zuccarini

Born in Howard County, David Zuccarini attended the Corcoran School of Art and received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). His studies at MICA immersed him in the techniques of the Renaissance and Baroque masters, with simultaneous exposure to contemporary artistic movements. He teaches in his studio continuing an artistic lineage that reaches in an unbroken line from the 17th Century. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Distinguished Teacher Award from the White House Commission of Presidential Scholars and has exhibited widely in both solo and group shows including the National Portrait Gallery and the Societe Des Pastellistes De France. https://www.davidzuccarini.com/

Emerging Artist: David Crawford

Studio 153 – David Crawford (Emerging Artist)

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Emerging Artist: Jessica Ricole

Studio 031 – Jessica Ricole (Emerging Artist)