Joyce Muis-Lowery, Founder and Executive Director of Art Enables, started her career in publishing, first as writer at the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City and later as desk editor at Mouton Publishers in The Hague, The Netherlands. Later from her home base in Brussels where she was a stay-at-home mom to her two children, she did freelance translating and copy editing. She took up ceramics when the family moved back to Holland, working out of her own studio and exhibiting individually and in group shows in Amsterdam, Bussum and Hilversum (NL). In a parallel development, she volunteered in various programs serving both children and adults with mental, developmental and physical disabilities.

After returning to the United States in 1995, Ms. Muis-Lowery worked for a number of years with WVSA arts connection (formerly Washington Very Special Arts), ultimately as Director of ARTiculate gallery & studio, an arts-based program for teenagers with special needs. In 2000, with the help of an extremely engaged and experienced focus group, she founded Art Enables to explore the benefits of arts-entrepreneurial programming for adults with developmental disabilities.

Beth Baldwin, Program Coordinator, is an artist and crafter with a BFA in Theater Arts from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 1998, Beth moved to Washington, DC, from Bucks County, PA, to work for the Shakespeare Theatre Company where she was a prop artisan for a little over nine seasons. From 2003 to 2007, in addition to working full time, Beth volunteered her skills helping coordinate the Fort Reno Concert Series where she booked bands, printed tee shirts, arranged sound technicians, you name it. Beth comes to Art Enables from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities where she was Art Bank Coordinator.

Today, in her spare time, Beth also runs her own small toy-making company—Tigerflight. Weekends, you can regularly find her and her toys at one of the regional craft markets, including Crafty Bastards in Adams Morgan.


Stephanie Bonifant, Operations Manager, graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a bachelors in Studio Art focusing on painting, digital arts and sculpture. During her time at St. Mary’s Miss Bonifant also helped maintain the teaching collection of art at the college’s Boyden Gallery and taught workshops for youth in the surrounding area. In 2000 Miss Bonifant had the opportunity to study abroad in The Gambia, West Africa where she apprenticed with a renowned batik artist and completed a research project on textile arts.

Miss Bonifant has lived in the DC metropolitan area her entire life and has been involved in community organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and Christmas in April for whom she did fundraising and has provided administrative support and volunteer time at local soup kitchens and employment coaching centers for homeless adults. More currently, Miss. Bonifant has worked in the DC arts community in a volunteer capacity and is involved in the planning and support of Artomatic, an annual community arts event.


Stuart Naranch, Production Manager, is a new member of the DC community having moved to the area in 2007 after completing his Masters in Arts Management at the H. John Heinz III College of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. While in graduate school Mr. Naranch worked as an Associate Director of Marketing at Future Tennant Gallery and apprenticed at the City of Pittsburgh’s Office of Public Art.

Mr. Naranch served as a Peace Corps Volunteer (2003-2005) teaching conversational English at a government youth center in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh. He holds a bachelors degree from the College of Wooster where he was a Studio Art major with a focus on sculpture.


Yvonne Bauduin, Artist Consultant, is an artist and arts-entrepreneur with more than thirty years' experience as teacher, social worker and art coach. She is founder of Art Cart which offers group and individual training sessions in art expression to both children and adults.

Ms. Bauduin has taught art in a number of elementary and high schools in Washington, New York, Massachusetts and Mississippi, including an alternative high school for at-risk adolescents in Beverly, Massachusetts. She served as Educational-Vocational Coordinator at The Third Nail, Inc., a drug rehabilitation program in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and was for a number of years an artist-instructor at WVSA arts connection where she taught young people with developmental disabilities. Ms. Bauduin has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Boston University School for the Arts and is a licensed social worker.


Among our loyal volunteers:

Wally Szyndler - Guest artist and organizational mentor
Breanna Baker - Gallaudet University, Studio Art Department
Olivia Cook
Anastasia Khoo
Abbie Miller
Susan Rothermel
Drew Smith
Vicki Vidos