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)

Beginning Friday, October 10, 2025, the former Motel 6 in Union Market District will be transformed into a design showcase. Over two weekends, an amazing lineup of interior designers, craftsmen, home goods purveyors, and artists have been given the keys and full creative license to transform their rooms. Check out the Events Page for more details on the dates and hours.

De Novo Gallery will be partnering with Rachael Hesling Design to reimagine Room 117 with artwork by Charles Jean-Pierre, sculpture by Marc Ferraro, and ceramics by Elizabeth Negvesky, all available for purchase. See below for information about the available pieces and the artists’ bios.

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

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/