contributors

Editorial Team

Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art.  Hutinet began East City Art in 2010 to document and promote the growing contemporary art movement in the eastern communities of Washington, DC.  A DC native and third generation Capitol Hill resident, Hutinet holds undergraduate degrees in History and Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  Hutinet opened Studio H gallery, one of H Street Northeast’s first fine arts galleries, in 2009 and opened CITY Gallery in 2010 on the heels of Studio H’s success.  In addition to publishing East City Art, Hutinet is currently the Chief Operating Officer of ARCH Development Corporation where he runs the nonprofits’ arts programming including Honfleur Gallery, the Gallery at Vivid Solutions, the new Anacostia Arts Center and LUMEN8Anacostia..

Jess Oros is East City Art’s Production Manager. She received her undergraduate degrees in English and Studio Art from McDaniel College in Westminster, MD and currently teaches art full-time at Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville, MD. She lives outside Baltimore, MD where she continues to produce art. She has exhibited work at the Esther Prangley Rice Gallery at McDaniel College and at Area 405 in Baltimore, MD.

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Wade Carey is a native Washingtonian. He was born in George Washington University Hospital’s then “new” building in the early 50s during the worst heat and humidity of July. His mother says that she was determined not to go to Columbia Hospital for Women but rather to GW because they had air-conditioning. He has been a witness to the changes here in East City since 1964, the year that his mother, Helen Carey, opened her real estate practice on Capitol Hill. He remembers before Metro when the streetcars were torn out and when people chanted, “O. Roy Chalk is a capitalist pig.” He lives near Eastern Market with Ted Coltman, his life partner since 1976. They have been full-time residents of Capitol Hill since 1979. He remembers the Penn when it was a movie theater and H Street before the riots. He began writing for an audience on Friday, January 22nd, 2010, in a blog at www.wadecarey.wordpress.com, which records his experiences undergoing a stem cell transplant to treat multiple myeloma. He is happily still in remission. His current interest lies in writing about people and places at the intersection of fine art and contemporary design. He wants to see the work of artists and designers based in or exhibiting their work in East City showing up everywhere.

Kent Gay teaches a class at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop called DC Sketchers, which records the places, people and happenings of the DC area. Each Saturday morning the class ventures out to capture the views and interesting details of our area’s rich architectural and cultural landscape. Beginners are led through a series of exercises that develop the perceptual skills needed to draw,  while intermediate students benefit from a class structure that encourages cooperative learning and exploration.  Kent earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture and a M.A. in Applied Design from the University of Minnesota’s Graduate School. He has taught classes in design foundations – Drawing, Two-Dimensional Design, Three-Dimensional Design, and Color. After working as a museum exhibit designer for 15 years, Kent is now working as a Development Assistant and Theater Facilitator at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and is a regular contributor to Urban Sketchers – DC. http://urbansketchers-dc.blogspot.com/

Sayyah Hart-Bey is a graduate of Trinity Washington University where she majored in English Literature and minored in journalism. She is currently completing a Masters degree from American University in Curriculum and Instruction. She was introduced to poetry at an early age (by Mom) and writing thus became her first love. Sayyah loves writing about and photographing people. Naturally inquisitive, she has been interviewing family members and friends since she can remember. She owned her own business in cosmetology and received her first cosmetology license when she was 16, and still believes in beauty. She created her own natural skin and hair care line in 2010. Always appreciating a challenge, she loves working with youth and believes they can do anything with love, support and belief in themselves. She loves yoga, hiking and spending time with her husband and their children.

Eric Hope is a curator and writer based on Capitol Hill.  He moved to Washington DC in 1997 and a twist of fate found him a volunteer marketing job at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.  In 2009, after ten years of marketing work at large museums in DC he moved into the realm of curating, staging a variety of solo, duo and small-group shows for the Evolve Urban Arts Project.  He currently freelances as a curator and writes about local artists and the DC arts scene for a variety of online publications.  Originally from Missouri, Hope holds degrees in International Relations and Public Service Administration from DePaul University in Chicago..

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Michael Janis developed a focus on glass after working for twenty years as an architect in the United States and Australia. Now as Co-Director of the Washington Glass School, Janis has taught at the UK’s National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland, Penland School of Crafts, California’s Bay Area Glass Institute, Hot Glass Houston, and The Glass Furnace (Istanbul, Turkey). Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012, he became an Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for International Research in Glass (IIRG) at the University of Sunderland. Janis’ artwork has been shown at major galleries and international art fairs and is included in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2011, Janis had a solo exhibition of his artwork at the Fuller Craft Museum (Massachusetts), and was named a “Rising Star” by the Creative Glass Center of America. Glass Art Magazine featured his artwork as their May/June 2012 cover story.  Janis also edits the Washington Glass School blog at washingtonglass.blogspot.com

Born in Poland and raised in Germany, Zofie Lang came to the United States in 1998 to study psychology at UMBC in Baltimore. An unexpected 8-month-exile in Germany in the year 2000 became a calling to create art. Immediately following the completion of her bachelor’s of psychology in late 2002, she pursued an art education at Towson University, Baltimore Clayworks, and at The Art League. For five years she operated her own ceramic studio, Zofie Lang Ceramics, creating functional and sculptural work. She also studied interior design at MICA and exhibition design at The Corcoran, and spent six years working in the interior design field. Since 2012 she is once again active in the visual art realm, creating mixed media work based on psychological undercurrents in fairy tales and superstitions. She is also teaching a class at Sitar Arts Center on Narrative Collage, and is a co-founder of Catalyst Projects, a new arts venture with a mission to present the DC arts community to the world beyond the DMV.

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Gail Vollrath is an artist and writer based in NE DC.  After finishing graduate school at UNC Greensboro, she moved to DC in 2001 and landed her first job as program manager for a national, online justice themed arts competition for post-secondary students.  Since that time, she has been working in art and nonprofit organizations including a three year run as Director of the Washington Printmakers Gallery.  She has served as a grants panelist for the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County as well as a panelist for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Breaking the Barrier: Getting Representation in the Visual Art World presentation.  Gail holds a BFA and MFA in studio art and exhibits her mixed media works locally and nationally.  Visit her site at www.gvollrath.com

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