Betty Mae Kramer Gallery & Music Room

Betty Mae Kramer Gallery & Music Room
One Veterans Plaza, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 301-565-3805

2024-2025 Montgomery County Artist Residency Exhibition

** URGENT UPDATE: Tonight’s reception (Tuesday, Feb 3) is cancelled due to hazardous weather and road conditions. While we are disappointed, we are transitioning this celebration to a closing reception when the weather is warmer. Stay tuned for the new date announcement so you can meet our incredible Resident Artists.

In the meantime, this exhibition remains free and open to the public during gallery hours through March 13! Drop by the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery to experience these incredible works at your leisure. **

The Betty Mae Kramer Gallery presents the 2024-2025 Montgomery County Artist Residency exhibition featuring works by three artists-in-residence: Alyscia Cunningham, Liliane Blom and Jasmine Adams.

Exhibition Description

On View: February 3 – March 13, 2026
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday from 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Closing Reception: TBA 

Launched in 2024, AHCMC’s Montgomery County Artist Residency program invited local artists Alyscia Cunningham, Liliane Blom and Jasmine Adams to embed their creative practices within three Regional Service Areas: UpCounty, Mid-County, and East County. Working in close collaboration with their communities, each artist used their art to center local voices and explore shared concerns such as identity, resilience, and belonging. This exhibition features artworks and documentation from the residency projects, reflecting the role of artists in deepening understanding of civic issues, strengthening relationships, and nurturing creative collaboration in our communities.

Featured Artists: Alyscia Cunningham, Liliane Blom and Jasmine Adams.

** Please note: Outside food and beverages are not permitted in the gallery except for water. **

On View + Gallery Hours

February 3 - March 13, 2026 | Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Featured Artists

Jasmine Adams

Regional Service Center: East County Regional Service Center

Artist Bio

Jasmine Adams is a Montgomery County-based painter, photographer and digital artist who seeks to unveil the controversial journey one takes to discover their identity. Fueled by images from her imagination and everyday life, Adams in practice creates imagery that allows the Black American experience to speak on a grand scale through portraiture. Adams has received her B.A in Studio Arts from Morgan State University, and has exhibited in JELMA Museum (2021) , Truro Center for the Arts (2022) and Gallery CA (2024).   

Follow Jasmine on Instagram! @jasminebedrawin

Visit Jasmine's Website

Liliane Blom

Regional Service Center: Mid-County Regional Service Center

Artist Bio

A cultural nomad with many roots (French, Norwegian, German, and Costa Rican) Liliane Blom has lived her life at the intersection of cultures. She has made her home in Rockville, Maryland where she now lives and creates art.  

An award-winning photographer, classically trained painter, and innovative installation artist she describes her fusion of painting and photography as “digital painting.”  

In the last decade, she has been transforming her images into interactive and immersive environmental installations. Her installations are multi-sensory experiences, that engage the viewer with sound/touch and light. Playful, they unapologetically appeal to our sense of wonder and invite the viewer into a contemplative space. 

Liliane Blom is very engaged in the arts community in the greater DMV and has served on a variety of boards. She is a founding member of ArtWatchDC a group of social-activist artists with whom she frequently participates in art actions. 

Follow Liliane on Instagram! @liliane.blom.art

Visit Liliane's Website

Alyscia Cunningham

Regional Service Center: UpCounty Regional Service Center

Artist Bio

Alyscia Cunningham is an award-winning author, filmmaker, tactile artist, and photographer who has contributed to the Smithsonian, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and AOL. After the success of her first book, FEMININE TRANSITIONS, a photography book with portraits of raw feminine beauty, Cunningham produced I AM MORE THAN MY HAIR, a book and documentary film. It includes interviews with women who’ve experienced hair loss due to a healthrelated condition and their journey of self-empowerment to see beauty beyond the media’s standards. With the completion and direction provided through fellowships, labs, and workshops with Stowe, Sundance Institute, and Women of Color Filmmakers, Alyscia has written and directed horror and thriller films.   

Alyscia is the Founder of Her House Media a media company that produces documentary and horror films by and about women of color. She is a TEDx speaker, has been recognized as Forbes ‘The Next 1000(2021), and an award recipient of the American Express 100 for 100 Program. She is also one of the FrontLine Voices for Stop the Beauty Madness, a campaign focused on changing the dynamics of beauty globally. Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, Fox 5, and ABC 7.  

Alyscia also founded Brown Women in the Arts, a supportive group for creative BIPOC women working in the arts industry, and co-organized Reel Moms, a supportive community for working moms and caregivers in the film and TV industry, in partnership with Women in Film and Video. Her goal is to continue producing documentary and narrative films and photo books.

Follow Alyscia on Instagram! @alysciacunningham

Visit Alyscia's Website