Union Market by Design: Room Service

Union Market by Design: Room Service - A showcase celebrating interior design, art and creativity—one motel room at a time. (Press Release)

On October 3, 2025, a talented lineup of interior designers, craftsmen, home goods purveyors, and artists were given the keys and full creative license to transform the former Motel 6’s rooms in Union Market District. For two weeks starting on October 10, 2025, the public was invited to explore this unique design showcase of reimagined spaces.

Following the overwhelming success of Room Service, we're thrilled to announce Room Service: Holiday Edition. De Novo Gallery and Rachael Hesling Design will return to Room 117 for two weekends in December featuring:

• Artwork by Charles Jean-Pierre,

• Paintings by Maggie Michael, and

• Ceramics by Elizabeth Negvesky.

All pieces are available for purchase - perfect for collectors and gift-givers alike. Explore the available pieces and artist bios below, and visit our Events Page for dates, hours, and additional details.

Artist Bios

Charles Philippe Jean-Pierre
Charles Philippe Jean-Pierre is a Haitian American interdisciplinary artist groomed on Chicago’s south side. He creates works that uncover the past at the intersection of community, spirituality, and systèmes socio-politiques. He draws inspiration from his Caribbean heritage, international travels, and academic research.

Jean-Pierre is a Howard University adjunct professor and US State Department Art in Embassies Artist. His works are featured the US Embassy in Benin, Malawi, and Niger. He also serves as a guest curator for exhibitions at The Embassy of Haiti. He has been featured in three Smithsonian exhibitions and was a Barack Obama invitee to the White House to speak on the role of the arts in youth justice. In 2021, he was an invited featured artist for the annual Atlantic Festival.

His collaborations include: Alvin Ailey, Boys & Girls Club, DC Commission on the Arts, International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank, Minnesota State Arts Board, Something In Water Music Festival, and West Elm, among many others. His works have been featured in The Atlantic, Black Enterprise, BET, Ebony Magazine, NBC, Netflix, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Jean-Pierre’s public art has been featured in Cape Town, Pretoria South Africa, New York, Chicago, DC, Istanbul, Panama, Port-au-Prince, London, and Paris. Jean-Pierre holds a Master of Arts from Howard University. Jean-Pierre’s atelier & Galerie D’Art is located in Washington, DC. @cjpgallery

Maggie Michael

Maggie Michael (born, Milwaukee, WI) lives and works in Washington, DC and West Virginia. She earned her MFA from American University, Washington, DC (2002), an MA from San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (2000), and BFA from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (1996). Michael’s work has been exhibited across the US and internationally. Selected exhibitions include: “Root Chords, Earth to Sky,” Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, LA, CA (2025), “Passage of Force Through Matter,” MoCA Arlington, VA (2025), “Encapsulated Earthseeds,” MAC, Berkeley Springs, WV (2025), “Fields and Formations, A Survey of Mid-Atlantic Abstraction,” The Delaware Contemporary, DE (2021) and American University Museum, Washington, DC (2022); "One on One: Maggie Michael/Arthur Dove, Depth of Field," The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2019); "Even the Clouds are not Finished" DCKEAF, Studio Residency at Camelot, Krakow, Poland (2018); "Cubes and Pyramids Share the Same Base", G Fine Art, Washington, DC (2017); "A Phrase Hung in Midair as if Frozen," American University Museum, Washington, DC (2016).

Museum and public collections include the National Gallery of Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; National Museum of Women in the Arts; Smithsonian American Art Museum; The Phillips Collection; US Art in Embassies Collection in Romania and Barbados; Washingtonian Art Bank; The Wilson Building Collection; DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; American University Museum; and University of Maryland, College Park. Artist residencies include the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada; Cetate Arts Danube, Romania; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Artist at Work Program and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington, DC; and DCKEAF, Studio Residency at Camelot, Krakow, Poland. Awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, the Trawick Contemporary Art Award, and numerous Artist Fellowship Grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities—funded in part by the NEA.

Marc Ferraro
Marc Ferraro (b. Evanston, IL, 1994) lives and works in New York City. He received a BFA from University of Michigan in 2016 and an MFA from Hunter College in 2025. Ferraro has been included in exhibitions at 205 Hudson Gallery, Hunter College, Shelter Gallery, and Chinatown Soup. His work has been featured in Hyperallergic and Impulse Magazine. @marcaferraro

Elizabeth Negvesky
Both regionally and nationally awarded for a variety of both her sculptures and wheel thrown pottery, Elizabeth Negvesky is an artist focused on creating unique and innovative forms. Her sculpted and thrown works aspire to convey a message of greater allegoric significance while capturing the raw essence of simple shapes and their ability to juxtapose each other in a functional harmony.

With Negvesky’s ceramics, the necessity for artistic expression and organic creation is most profoundly recognized as her pieces strive to achieve a sense of individuality through each thoughtful production in hopes of acknowledging each piece's original source of inspiration. The ability to maintain and share skill and technique is strived for in conjunction with an insatiable sense of determination to achieve the most excellent level of originality and craftsmanship in all of Negvesky’s work. https://www.enegveskyceramics.com/

Art Featured in October’s Room Service