About Stéphane
Kramer Gallery: Out of Darkness, joint exhibit, Silver Spring, MD, November 2024-January 2025Soulful Panes: Joint public art exhibit, Wheaton Art District, Wheaton MD, February-March 2024The Third: Joint exhibit of Black female artists, Columbia, MD, October 2023-January 2024Montgomery Art Society: Seeing the Beauty in All Things, joint exhibit. Goldman Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, November-December 2023Montgomery Art Society: Pattern, Texture and Form, joint exhibit, Kensington library, Kensington, MD, October 2023Riverworks Arts Center, Community Round Table: The Earth that Sustains Us, Beallsville, MD, June 2023Black Rock Center for the Arts, Freedom, joint exhibit, Germantown, MD, May-July 2023Montgomery College Student Exhibition, Silver Spring, MD, May-June 2023Riverworks Arts Center, Community Round Table: African-American History and Culture, Beallsville, MD, February 2023Dakar Women’s Group, DWG Art Show, Dakar, Senegal, April 2020
As a curator
Stéphane Calvin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Silver Spring, Maryland, with Haitian heritage and a French upbringing. Her work is shaped by a life lived across cultures and explores themes of memory, identity, and belonging.
Drawing from her Haitian heritage and experiences in France, the United States, and Africa, she creates visual narratives that reflect the complexities of living between worlds. Her practice engages questions of cultural connection, displacement, and resilience, often unfolding through layered compositions that move between figuration and abstraction.
Working across watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media, Stéphane embraces a slow, tactile process that allows for reflection and the accumulation of meaning over time. This approach is central to her work, creating space for both intuition and intentionality to coexist.
Before fully dedicating herself to her artistic practice, Stéphane worked in international affairs and conflict management. This experience continues to inform her understanding of the social and cultural forces that shape identity and human connection.
Her work has been exhibited in Dakar, Senegal, Paris, and throughout Montgomery County, Maryland. She has also contributed to the regional arts community as a teaching artist at VisArts in Rockville and through her work with the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, where she curated several exhibitions.
In addition to her studio practice, Stéphane develops artist-designed prints and objects that extend her visual language into everyday life. Her work is available online, and she accepts a limited number of commissions.At the heart of her practice is a desire to create moments of connection—quiet, reflective spaces where personal and collective histories can meet.Exhibits
As an artist
Kramer Gallery, Silver Spring, MD: Familiar Threads, March-June2026Kramer Gallery, Silver Spring, MD: Contemplations, November-January 2025Kramer Gallery, Silver Spring, MD: Spectrum - Patterns and Forms, September-November 2025
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Testimonials
“Stephane’s mastery of color and form are on full display in everything she paints. The watercolor I purchased captures the moody beauty of a foggy forest with delicate lines and watery shapes rendered in a bold yet nuanced monochromatic palette. It’s a secret world caught on paper and I can’t stop looking at it.”— Patti Sanchez“I am a French sculptor and I have worked regularly with Stephane for the past two years. Stephane drafts French to English translations for my professional website. We started collaborating while we both lived in Senegal, and although I am back in France I continue to work with her. I greatly appreciate her professionalism and the quality of her translations, tailored for contemporary art. She is a great listener and reacts promptly to questions and comments. Thank you Stéphane, it is always a pleasure working with you!” — Anne Mourat, artist.”