Guild Artists
Phyllis Altman |
Jean Boker Magram Jean Magram first started art lessons at the age of six at the Corcoran Gallery Art School. She took private lessons through grade school and high school. She began entering art shows as a teenager and won numerous prizes. Jean has a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Art education from the University of Maryland. She also attended the Maryland School of Art and Design. She worked as graphic artist, doing work for NIH and other government agencies. Today she works in a variety of media, including watercolor, collage, inks, acrylics and calligraphy. Some of her works combine calligraphy and quilling – designs made with colorful rolled up strips of paper. Combining these two art forms seemed a wonderful way of using both the beauty of line and color along with the beauty of words from the siddur and other sources. Jean is an active member of Temple Solel in Bowie, Maryland, for which she designed the large stained glass window over the front doors. She has been the arts and crafts teacher of Solel’s religious school for the last few year working with students from kindergarten through sixth grade. She also teaches watercolor to students at the Bowie Senior Center. In recent years she has taught classes at the Laurel Senior Center, the Children’s Enrichment Program at Prince George’s College, and at the Art and Nature Camp at the Montpelier Mansion. Jean has been an active member of the Guild of Bowie Artists since its inception and has recently been elected its new president. She has been a member of ArtSites since 2001 and hopes to come up with new ideas for projects that will appeal to ArtSites’ audience. Jean Magram
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