Marguerite de Messières and Tsvetomir Naydenov collaborate on large-scale public art projects that respond to community and place. With distinct individual practices and a wide creative range, they blend their diverse skills to create sculptures that value tactile, hand-worked materials and a humane, physical quality. Recent honors include a 2025 Maryland State Creativity Grant, the 2025 Artists and Scholars Grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Sondheim Art Prize semifinalist recognition, several Maryland State Arts Council Public Art awards, and inclusion in the Public Art Archive’s National Public Art Anniversary Map.
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Marguerite de Messières
Margot is a multimedia artist with over twenty years of experience in sculpture, painting, drawing, and animation. Her work explores the traces we leave in the landscape and on each other, often blending natural and human elements to examine transformation, nostalgia, and doubt. She looks at relationships between elements—how built and natural, personal and communal—interact at thresholds and the in-between, using color as an emotional language, both bright and subtle. Margot studied studio art at Wesleyan University, museology and conservation at SACI in Florence, and trained in woodcarving at the National Academy of Art in Sofia. www.demessieres.com
Tsvetomir Naydenov
Tsetso grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria, surrounded by urban towers and train yards. He began training in woodcarving at the age of ten and has since expanded his craft to include sculpture, musical instruments, architectural installations, puppetry, and ironwork. Specializing in wood and metal, his practice reflects a fascination with mechanical beauty and invention, balancing materials, design, and function. In 2005, he came to the USA as a John A. Kettridge Fund International Artist Fellow and artist-in-residence at the Hyattstown Mill Arts Project. Tsetso has a growing passion for the powerful sense of creativity, dignity and sense of place which a meaningful act of collaborative art can generate, especially in communities around abandoned industrial infrastructure. www.simbioba.com