Exhibits
Solo:
-Glenview Mansion, Rockville Civic Center, Maryland, November 2010
-Hispanic Heritage Celebration – Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, MD, October 2009
-Orchard Gallery of Bethesda, MD 2008
-Installations: “Celebration of The Day of The Dead” A Mexican Tradition with European
Influences. Exhibited at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.,for
the last four consecutive years during the months of November with a Program on
November 2, (2004-7) at Central Hall of the Library.
-Recently illustrated the book: “Don’t Let Anyone Take Your Joy Away: An Inside Look at
Negro League Baseball and Its Legacy, with 17 paintings. A book publication by Stanley
Glenn, President, Negro League Baseball Players Association.
-Mara’s sculpture of Kathleen A. Hansen, USN, Command Master Chief, Naval Inspector
General, is at the Veterans Administration Federal Building at Buffalo, New York, since
November 11, 2007.
“The Dance of the Genes“ Murals and Oil Paintings:
-Museo Jaime Sabines, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico 2003
-Museo de Culturas Populares, San Cristobal Chiapas, Mexico 2003
-Museo Hermila Dominguez, Comitan Chiapas, Mexico 2003
- Museo de la Ciudad, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico 2003
-Congress of the Union. Mexico City 2002
-The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, Maryland -NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
-Isis on First Gallery in Seattle, Washington
-Washington Maryland College of Art & Design
Group Exhibitions:
- VIVA BUFFALO-VIVA MEXICO, Casa de Arte Gallery, Buffalo, NY Sept-Oct, 2011
-MASKS TO SET YOU FREE, Casa de Arte Gallery, Buffalo, NY June-July, 2012
-EL MANEJO DE LA LIBERTAD, Casa de la Ciencia, Cuernavaca, Mexico, April, 2012, -Buffalo-Cuernavaca, Centro Cultural Universitario, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México,
June, 2011
-FUSION: American Classics Meet Latin American Art, Biggs Museum, Dover, Delaware,
Sept-Oct, 2009
-FROM A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE, WCA, SE Juried Show, Pepco’s Edison Place
Gallery, Washington, DC Sep-Oct 2009
-Amateras International Paper Art Competition, Sofia, Bulgaria. June 4 – July 5, 2009
-18th Annual Strathmore Membership Juried Exhibition, February – April, 2009
-Strathmore Hall – Invitational Exhibit on San Valentine’s Day, Bethesda, MD.
February, 2009
-Glenview Mansion – Member’s Juried Show, Rockville, Md. December 2008
-Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds – Simple Complexities, Delaware Museum of Art, September-
November, 2008
-13 Portraits at “Faces Of The Fallen” on exhibit at the Arlington Cemetery. March,
2005 - June, 2007 at Women in the Military Service for America Memorial.
-The Opera House in El Cairo, Egypt
-University of Beijing, People’s Republic of China
-National Academy of Art (The Lalit Kala Akademi) in New Delhi, India -International Visions
Gallery
-Foundry Gallery
-Seventh Street International -International Monetary Fund
-Russian Cultural Institute
-Courtyard Gallery, at Georgetown, Md. -Courtyard Gallery in Baltimore, Md. -MOCA-DC.
Her art education is from Open Programs at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), and at the Corcoran School of Art and Maryland College School of Art, Washington, D.C.; with William Christenberry and Blain Larson; Maureen Berkowitz, Walt Bartman, and Nancy Frankel.
Many of her paintings are in private collections throughout the United States and in many other countries, to include México, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Russia.
-Glenview Mansion, Rockville Civic Center, Maryland, November 2010
-Hispanic Heritage Celebration – Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, MD, October 2009
-Orchard Gallery of Bethesda, MD 2008
-Installations: “Celebration of The Day of The Dead” A Mexican Tradition with European
Influences. Exhibited at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.,for
the last four consecutive years during the months of November with a Program on
November 2, (2004-7) at Central Hall of the Library.
-Recently illustrated the book: “Don’t Let Anyone Take Your Joy Away: An Inside Look at
Negro League Baseball and Its Legacy, with 17 paintings. A book publication by Stanley
Glenn, President, Negro League Baseball Players Association.
-Mara’s sculpture of Kathleen A. Hansen, USN, Command Master Chief, Naval Inspector
General, is at the Veterans Administration Federal Building at Buffalo, New York, since
November 11, 2007.
“The Dance of the Genes“ Murals and Oil Paintings:
-Museo Jaime Sabines, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico 2003
-Museo de Culturas Populares, San Cristobal Chiapas, Mexico 2003
-Museo Hermila Dominguez, Comitan Chiapas, Mexico 2003
- Museo de la Ciudad, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico 2003
-Congress of the Union. Mexico City 2002
-The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, Maryland -NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
-Isis on First Gallery in Seattle, Washington
-Washington Maryland College of Art & Design
Group Exhibitions:
- VIVA BUFFALO-VIVA MEXICO, Casa de Arte Gallery, Buffalo, NY Sept-Oct, 2011
-MASKS TO SET YOU FREE, Casa de Arte Gallery, Buffalo, NY June-July, 2012
-EL MANEJO DE LA LIBERTAD, Casa de la Ciencia, Cuernavaca, Mexico, April, 2012, -Buffalo-Cuernavaca, Centro Cultural Universitario, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México,
June, 2011
-FUSION: American Classics Meet Latin American Art, Biggs Museum, Dover, Delaware,
Sept-Oct, 2009
-FROM A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE, WCA, SE Juried Show, Pepco’s Edison Place
Gallery, Washington, DC Sep-Oct 2009
-Amateras International Paper Art Competition, Sofia, Bulgaria. June 4 – July 5, 2009
-18th Annual Strathmore Membership Juried Exhibition, February – April, 2009
-Strathmore Hall – Invitational Exhibit on San Valentine’s Day, Bethesda, MD.
February, 2009
-Glenview Mansion – Member’s Juried Show, Rockville, Md. December 2008
-Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds – Simple Complexities, Delaware Museum of Art, September-
November, 2008
-13 Portraits at “Faces Of The Fallen” on exhibit at the Arlington Cemetery. March,
2005 - June, 2007 at Women in the Military Service for America Memorial.
-The Opera House in El Cairo, Egypt
-University of Beijing, People’s Republic of China
-National Academy of Art (The Lalit Kala Akademi) in New Delhi, India -International Visions
Gallery
-Foundry Gallery
-Seventh Street International -International Monetary Fund
-Russian Cultural Institute
-Courtyard Gallery, at Georgetown, Md. -Courtyard Gallery in Baltimore, Md. -MOCA-DC.
Her art education is from Open Programs at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), and at the Corcoran School of Art and Maryland College School of Art, Washington, D.C.; with William Christenberry and Blain Larson; Maureen Berkowitz, Walt Bartman, and Nancy Frankel.
Many of her paintings are in private collections throughout the United States and in many other countries, to include México, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Russia.