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In addition to the following artists, MAL’s Annex, our space that holds classes in all mediums including our pottery studio, will be open for tours as well.

Rosemary Connelly, Watercolor

Rosemary Connelly is a watercolor artist living and working in Milford. Playful use of line and color are hallmarks of her artistic style. She studied drawing, painting, and graphic design at Arizona State University and worked for 20 years as a professional graphic designer. Rosemary’s work has been exhibited in art galleries and juried into shows throughout Delaware, winning awards for her watercolors. She teaches workshops in Watercolor Journaling and Urban Sketching. Her memoir “Two Years in Italy,” on Amazon, tells the story of Rosemary and her late husband Bob’s experiences overseas with a large selection of their photos and paintings. Some of these will be available on this Studio Tour. Rosemary will offer a discount on all framed work.

Carl Cox, Ceramics

Carl is the founder of Cox Clayworks in Lewes, Delaware—a ceramics studio rooted in intentionality, reflection, and personal connection. His pottery blends earthy textures, organic forms, and quiet symbolism, often crafted to honor life’s milestones. Each piece is hand-shaped to be used, held, remembered, and passed down. Carl began his ceramics journey in 2008 at Eastern Market Pottery in Washington, DC, and continued at Jill Hinckley Studios, District Clay, and later at Rehoboth and Mispillion Art Leagues. He now teaches at MAL and offers private lessons in his home studio. With a background in cartography and publications design, Carl also provides creative direction and manages vacation rentals in Delaware, Mexico, Maryland, and Virginia.

Michael Fleishman, Mixed Media

Michael works in cardboard—boldly and proudly—believing that meaningful art doesn’t require fancy tools or expensive materials. Cardboard’s simplicity offers a creative challenge that fuels his imagination. Before relocating to Delaware in 2014, he was a college professor, illustrator, anthology editor, guest lecturer, and author of eight books on design and illustration. He co-founded a national illustration conference and taught children’s art classes for decades. His work defies traditional boundaries, with picture elements breaking out of standard shapes or becoming frames themselves. Inspired by rivets, screws, ductwork, robots, and cartoons, his art blends humor, mechanics, and unconventional storytelling. Studio discounts available.

Harry Humes, Acrylics

Harry started painting when he retired from operating a lumber yard and home center 30 years ago. He was active in the Milford Senior Center and they were giving a class on watercolor painting. He signed up and got started painting. Since then, he’s taken classes with Steve Rogers, Willie Crockett, Joe Terrone, and many other teachers in Milford and Rehoboth Art League. Harry paints primarily with Acrylic paint. His subject matter usually has to do with water…boats, ships, marshes, lighthouses, seascapes, etc. At Thanksgiving he gives away a picture to each of the 10 grand kids. He tries to paint or draw something every day.

Mike McSorley, Oils

Mike started making art at a young age. He drew and sculpted people and animals from imagination. In high school he focused on art. It was during college that painting beckoned. He was drawn to the discipline of capturing life in its essence, encompassing everything from still-life compositions to landscapes and figure studies. Mike’s artistic journey has been punctuated by achievements and recognition, with his works being featured in over a dozen solo shows and in both regional and national exhibitions. Awards include Fellowship grants from the Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for 3 years in a row. His painting “Assateague Evening” was on the National Association of Reciprocal Museums cover this summer.

Marcia Reed, Mixed Media

Marcia is a painter of my natural surroundings such as waterways, plant life, and landscapes. This powerful life force in nature continues in all her work. Marcia loves painterly brushwork and color which is important to her as well as the energy and vibration between the forms of plant life, water, sky, landscape and creating that visual surface tension between them all. Water in her work serves as a metaphor for life’s challenges, transitions, and natural cycles. Since moving to Delaware, she has lived beside the Mispillion River, walking and canoeing its twelve tidal miles to the Bay. The river’s exaggerated plant life and coastal reeds inspire her, creating a visual tension between water and sky. Her paintings are never still—they pulse with energy, color, and layered complexity. She seeks the edge between representation and abstraction, capturing a vivid sense of place. As John O’Donohue wrote, she paints like a river flows—“carried by the surprise of its unfolding.”

Karin Rindal, Mixed Media

Karin has explored many art forms, from mosaic to fused glass, drawn to the vibrant colors and the puzzle-like process of arranging pieces. A turning point came in a “paper painting” class using handmade Asian papers, where she discovered a medium that blends texture, depth, and light through layered, sculpted paper. Her work often includes unexpected found materials—like a wasp nest as a window curtain or aged poetry pages as sand. This collage-like method allows her to create impressionistic, evocative scenes. She continues studying watercolor, pastels, and color to expand her palette when paper alone doesn’t offer the perfect shade.

Kathy Stetson, Mixed Media

Kathy has been sewing since the age of eight—over 60 years—and finds joy in understanding how things come together. For more than 30 years, she has also created jewelry, exploring form, texture, and design. In the past eight years, she has embraced papercrafts, drawn to the endless possibilities they offer. In every medium, it’s the process of learning and discovery that excites her most. Now retired, she enjoys the freedom to fully immerse herself in her work. Her recently completed attic studio, nestled in her 125-year-old home, has become her “happy place” where creativity and curiosity thrive each day.

Joseph Terrone, Oils

Joseph Terrone is a Delaware plein air artist, who was featured in the July 2016 issue of Delaware Beach Life Magazine. He has won numerous awards for his work including his painting “Last Snow” which was selected as a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine’s, 28 annual competition. Mr. Terrone’s plein air paintings have been collected throughout the country, and in shows at the Brooklyn Museum and BACA Cultural Center in NY, as well as other venues in the New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware area You can view his work by appointment at his Rehoboth Beach Studio or at his website at www.joeterrone.com.

Richard Allen White, Photography 

Rich is an accomplished photographer who brings a serious artistic view of the subjects he captures with sensitivity and attention to detail. His attention to detail and quality have inherently evolved from a former long career as a custom builder and architectural designer. Rich is inspired by the artistic qualities he finds in the work of others and the beauty of what nature provides in the land, sea and sky. His photographic interests lie primarily in nature, land/seascapes, architecture and all things nautical. He has won multiple photographic awards and is a member of the Mispillion Art League, Rehoboth Art League, and the Coastal Camera Club. Rich is a native Delawarean currently residing in the Lewes area.