As you may know, I serve on the DC Area Alumni Committee of the Sidwell Friends School here in DC. Yesterday was our inaugural art event, Art Among Friends, where we showcased alumni visual artists, including yours truly! In spite of torrential downpours, we had a wonderful time and a hearty turnout. Not only did we have awesome art and artists, we also had Bettina Stern's amazing Chaia plant-based tacos for lunch. (Bettina is a member of the Sidwell community, too.) Thank you to everyone who came out. Join us next year! It was an all around great time.

In person artists included:

Luisa Adelfio ’82, sculptor, Washington, DC

Sepi Alavi ’97, graphic and textile designer, Middlebury, VT

Lory Ivey Alexander ’97, contemporary visual artist, Lory Ivey Alexander Art, Washington, DC

Georgia Koch ’07, visual artist, Los Angeles, CA

Alice Marshall Martin ’58, visual artist, Wheaton, MD

Maggie Shafran ’10, painter and portraitist, Ketchum, ID

Madeleine Stern ’00, visual art teacher and department chair, Friends Seminary, New York, NY

Deborah Zickler ’03, potter, Zickler Pottery, Bethesda, MD

Participating from afar:

Kathy Anderson ’63, encaustic artist, Washington Wax Works, Takoma Park, MD

Meryn Chimes ’10, exhibitions assistant, Special Projects in Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Thomas Curtis ’56, painter, illustrator, and teacher, Curtis Studio, Menomonee Falls, WI

Liza Donnelly ’73, cartoonist, writer, visual journalist, and speaker, New York, NY

Carolyn Mulliken Dubuque’59, painter; president, Reflecting Images, San Diego, CA

Lisa Freeman ’64, artist, Santa Fe, NM

Ricardo Harris-Fuentes ’95, painter (Los Angeles, CA)

Margot Henderson ’12, graphic designer, ArtMatters, Washington, DC

Ronni Linowitz Jolles ’74, paper artist, Chevy Chase, MD

Julian MacMillan ’10, printmaker and painter; studio manager, Novo Arts, Brooklyn, NY

Alanna Reeves ’11, development and program associate, Transformer, Washington, DC

Barton Rubenstein ’81, sculptor, scientist, and environmentalist, Chevy Chase, MD

Katie Shulman ’06, MFA candidate, fine arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Libby Pierson Sainty ’79, creative director, Stair Sainty Gallery, London, England, and Washington, DC

Ezara Spangl ’97, painter, Vienna, Austria

Jasmine Wahi ’04, co-director, The Gateway Project Newark; co-founder and curator, Project for Empty Space, New York, NY

Jessie Weinberg ’97, Painter, illustrator, and comedy writer (Los Angeles, CA)