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Lillian DeHart is an artist and educator living and working in Silver Spring, Maryland. DeHart is currently teaching at public middle school in Montgomery County. At this school, she has led students in rigorous full-year curriculum at a magnet middle school for creative and preforming arts. She created and ran a crochet club for students after school. DeHart coordinated a holiday card fundraiser for the arts department. 

 

DeHart graduated with her Bachelor of Fine Arts summa cum laude from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2022.  In 2023, she graduated with her Master of Arts in Teaching. During her time at MICA, she has attained a spot on the Dean’s List every semester, and won numerous awards such as the Maryland ArtStar Prize, The Art History Award, The DaVinci Award, and The Academic Excellence Scholarship. DeHart has exhibited her work at MICA in Baltimore, MD, VisArts in Rockville, MD, Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel, MD, and SACI in Florence, Italy.

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DeHart has been teaching young people since 2016, working as Assistant Camp Director at Howard County Summer Arts Council, and Program Assistant at MICA’s Young People’s Studio. During her semester abroad in Florence, Italy, she used art to teach English to local elementary students. DeHart first uncovered her passion for making art with children when volunteering her senior year of high school with her own elementary school art teacher. As an educator, DeHart believes fostering a caring community is essential to student success. DeHart incorporates play and fun into her lessons, as she knows that is how children learn best. 

 

DeHart is skilled in a diverse range of media and content. She crochets, in her series Creature Comfort, weighted plushies, small fidget toys, and sensory objects that are designed to aid in soothing children in the classroom space.  Education informs her studio practice in her body of work, What Remains, where DeHart utilizes gouache, ink, embroidery, and text to illustrate scenes of death in nature. This heavily researched body of work and accompanying zine reveals universal truths of life, present in all living beings. DeHart is ecstatic to continue to share her love of art with young people because of how much art has served her in her own life as means of expressing herself and her values.