Showing posts with label American University Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American University Museum. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Latitude: The Washington Women's Arts Center 1975-1987

SAVE THE DATE!


AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
CURATED BY FRANÇOISE YOHALEM  

JUNE 16 - AUGUST 12, 2018
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC
Summer Opening Reception: Saturday, June 16, 6-9PM

Pushing Boundaries by Ellouise Schoettler: Sunday, June 24, 2-3PM
Local cable host, producer, former WWAC member, and nationally known storteller Ellouise Schoettler will be performing in the museum. Taking the audience back to the 1970s Second Wave Women’s Movement and her experience in grassroots movements, Schoeletter will describe an experience with the WWAC that had far-reaching effects for her political activism.

WWAC Panel Discussion, Saturday, July 21, 4-6:30PM
Spend your Saturday afternoon with former members of the Washington Women’s Arts Center. Judith Benderson, Barbara Frank, and Taina Litwak will join the exhibition’s curator, Françoise Yohalem for a panel discussion that looks back at the history of the Washington Women’s Arts Center and its influence on the Washington art scene that still resonates today. A reception will follow the panel.

Events are free and open to the public





The Washington Women’s Arts Center (WWAC), located at 1821 Q Street NW, then at the Lansburgh Cultural Center, was created in 1975 as a non-profit organization to provide professional support and opportunities for women in the arts. Throughout its history, the WWAC also sponsored speakers, pro-duced literary and visual arts journals, and collabo-rated with other organizations to raise the profile of women artists in the Washington area and around the country.This exhibition features the art of former WWAC members and exhibitors. Curated by Françoise Yohalem, it will showcase 90+ works produced between the years 1975-1987, some of which are iconic of that time. The show brings back the energy, passion, and talent of members when the WWAC was, for many, “the only show in town.” Recent works by WWAC artists will be featured in a slideshow and select interviews with members will appear in an accompanying documentary, Voices from the Washington Women’s Arts Center. This exhibition is sponsored by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art.
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Featuring the work of: BJ Adams, Carolyn Alper, Altina, Dale Appleman, Marilyn Banner, Ann Barbieri, Judith Benderson, Lucy Blankstein, Terry Braunstein, Patricia Buck, Dianne Bugash, Katharine Butler, Judy Byron, Bonnie B.Collier, Linda Conti, Marcia Coppel, Joan Danziger, Margaret Dowell, Joan Fallows, Aline Feldman, Maria Theresa Fernandes, Barbara Frank, Mimi Frank, Nancy Frankel, Jeanne Garant, Janis Goodman, Judith Goodman, Mansoora Hassan, Nita Moss Hines, Bonnie Lee Holland, Marilyn Horrom, Laura Weaver Huff, Tazuko Ichikawa, Arlette Jassel, Jan Kern, Barbara Kerne, Ai-WenWu Kratz, Andrea Kraus, Ann Langdon, Elaine Langerman, Beckie Mirsch Laughlin, Harriet Lesser, June Linowitz, Lynn Liotta, Taina Litwak, CarolLukitsch, Anne Marchand, Sarna Marcus, Sharon Moody, Nina Muys, Dominie Nash, Margot S. Neuhaus, Margaret Paris, Terry Parmelee, Susan Due Pearcy, Annette Polan, Carolyn Pomponio, Gail Rebhan, Marie Ringwald, Charlotte Robinson, Renee Sandell, Eva Santorini, Ellouise Schoettler, Alice D. Sims, Ellen Sinel, Lila Snow, Judy Southerland, Ronnie Spiewak, Sherry Sanabria, Mary Staley, Sarah Stout, Rachel Sultanik, Carol Summar, Terry Svat, Lyndia Terre, Susan Powell Tolbert, Shirley True, Suzanne Twyford, Andrea Uravitch, M.L. Van Nice, Frank Van Riper, Claudia Vess, Sandra Wasko-Flood, Gail Watkins, Mary Weiss-Waldhorn, Joyce Wellman, Janet Wheeler, Rosemary Wright, Ann Zahn, Ann Zelle, Zinnia, and Joyce Zipperer

Monday, November 13, 2017

RADIX: The Eternal Feminine, Nov 11, 2017


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For Immediate Release:

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 
AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER

RADIX
the eternal feminine

NOV.11, 2017 to DEC.17, 2017

CURATED BY 
Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D.


OPENING RECEPTION
Meet and mingle with artists, curator and fellow museum patrons at the opening reception. Free and open to all.
NOV. 11, 6-9 PM

GALLERY TALK
NOV. 30, 6-7 PM

Washington artists Anne Marchand, Pat Goslee and Cianne Fragione and curator Claudia Rousseau discuss the concept of the Eternal Feminine in connection to their work. Free and open to all.

RADIX presents three Washington artists all working with the concept of the Eternal Feminine: Cianne Fragione, Pat Goslee and Anne Marchand. Seen as an original dynamic and cosmic force, the Eternal Feminine may also be understood as a spiritual being or essence that gives hope and light in dark times. Defying simple definition, this concept has different but analogous meanings for each artist. Each has found a means to express this Feminine energy in contemporary and abstract terms, and from her own perspective. Their work is neither political nor conventional, but deeply expressive and inspired by a timeless and infinite theme. 

The exhibit’s title derives from a hymn that greets Mary, Queen of Heaven, as the Root (Salve radix) through whom light has entered the world. Whether the Eternal Feminine is conceived as the ancient fertility goddess, as Mary or as Sophia, the Wisdom of the Divine, or under a hundred other names, these are embodiments of a universal energy that is often associated with the earth, but also with radiant spirit. She is both dark, the place where the seed germinates, and light, the force that generates life.

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Image credits: Pat Goslee, Confluence, 2013. Acrylic, latex on canvas, 20” x 20;” Cianne Fragione, Heaven and Earth/are dressed/in their summer wear, 2007. Oil, mixed media, and assemblage on linen, 30” x 60;” and Anne Marchand, Eternal Feminine, 2017. Enamel, ink, acrylic, 36” x 36.” 

The American University Museum is located at 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016
Museum Hours: 11 am - 4 pm, Tuesday - Sunday, Closed Mondays

Admission is free
Parking is available under the Katzen Arts Center and is free after 5 pm on weekends 

For more information on current and upcoming exhibitions and events:
www.american.edu/museum
(202) 885-1300 

Friday, September 08, 2017

Twist – Layer – Pour Reception - Saturday, September 9


TWIST - LAYER - POUR

Sondra N. Arkin + Joan Belmar + Mary Early


September 5 - October 22, 2017

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 9, 2017, 6-9 PM


Gallery Talk with the Artists & Sarah Tanguy, Curator
Thursday, September 28, 6-7:30pm


ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
In Twist – Layer – Pour, the unexpected grouping of Sondra N. Arkin, Joan Belmar and Mary Early yields a dynamic, site-responsive meditation on systemized components and accumulated wholes. Step by step, link by link, their obsessive object-making becomes a metaphor for conscious and intuitive gesture, relational interconnectivity, and the passage of time.


At once public and private, monumental and intimate, the works profess an unswerving passion for their chosen materials: steel wire, synthetic papers, and beeswax. Individual variances and details invite close attention while, in the aggregate, distilled shapes and rhythmic patterns emerge. Whether the viewer roams among the works or stands still, the artwork expands, surrounds and cascades all around.

Together the installations create a kaleidoscope of contrasting perspectives and engage all aspects of their architectural setting—floor, ceiling, and wall, be it double or single height, curved, straight, or glass. The flow of air and the play of light further complicate the interaction between actual and implied motion. From humble materials, and from individual units, the artists create a new way of experiencing the space.

Exhibition catalogue available.



The American University Museum
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20016

www.american.edu/museum
(202) 885-1300

Museum Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11am - 4pm
Parking available under the Katzen Arts Center and is free after 5pm and on weekends.


Image: Mary Early, Untitled [Curve], 2017, beeswax, dimensions variable (detail)

Monday, June 29, 2009

Margaret Boozer: Dirt Drawings | American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

Margaret Boozer: Dirt Drawings
June 27–August 16, 2009

In these installations of unfired local clays, Boozer's graphic compositions of color, pattern and texture create small geologic events, manifestations of cause and effect celebrating clay's physical properties. Colors change, shapes warp, cracks emerge as counterpoint the artist's hand in these fragile and mutable works that cross genres between painting and sculpture, abstraction and representation."

Margaret Boozer: Dirt Drawings | American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center:

American University Museum
Summer 2009 Exhibitions
Hours: 11:00 to 4:00, Tues–Sun


Now open:

American University Museum
Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20016-8031
202-885-1300

Monday, June 01, 2009

International Arts Journalism Institute in the Visual Arts

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center:

June 12–26, 2009

"The International Arts Journalism Institute in Visual Arts is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), administered by American University. This is the first NEA journalism institute focusing on visual arts and demonstrates the NEA's commitment to supporting informed arts criticism.

Participating journalists will meet with visual art professionals ranging from curators at major museums to directors of small galleries. The institute will cover most participants' expenses, including airfare, lodging, meals, writing workshops and regional travel. Although the institute will include day trips to other cities, the students will stay in Washington and take advantage of the city's vibrant visual arts scene.

During the two-week visual arts institute, up to 12 writers, editors, and broadcast and online producers from the United States and up to 12 journalists from overseas will visit museums, attend lectures and participate in writing workshops. The journalists will be based at AU but travel throughout the mid-Atlantic region, visiting art galleries and museums in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C."

Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of American University Museum, will direct the NEA International Arts Journalism Institute in Visual Arts. Mr. Rasmussen states," The Institute will place American Art in its historical and cultural context, and bring participants into close working contact with artists, curators, dealers, and critics in the United States today."


AU Museum
4400 Massachusetts Ave
Washington, DC 20016-8031
202-885-2489

Sunday, May 03, 2009

On Normality: Art in Serbia | American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

May 5–June 7

"Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, this exhibition presents young Serbian artists creating works about art, society, trauma, and normality. The exhibition shows artistic projects which directly or indirectly reflect political, economical, cultural, and everyday climate in the country, and the position on the crossroads between longing to participate in the international artistic currents and keeping local specificities, between direct political engagement and disillusioned escapism, between the tragic and the humorous, between modest and pretensions, between theoretical and intuitive, between participation and isolation."
Many of the artists are internationally renowned, including Raša Todosijevic, Milica Tomic, Škart, and Biljana Djurdjevic.


American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave—see Google Maps

Embassy Reception & Gallery Talk, May 5

Art Provides Window into Serbian Life During Miloševic's Era

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Robin Rose: Cypher

April 7 – May 17, 2009

Opening Reception: April 23, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Artist Talk: May 2, 4:00pm
Image: Robin Rose, Installation View


American University Museum
at the Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue
Washington, DC 20016
www.american.edu/museum
202.885.1300

Sunday, September 07, 2008

American University Museum New exhibitions

Sept 2 – Oct 26, 2008

Gallery talk with Ricardo Calero and Fernando Castro Florez
September 9, 5:30 PM

Artists' Reception:
September 13, 2008, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

* Alexandre Arrechea: Mistrust

* Sandow Birk:The Depravities of War

* Ricardo Calero. Goya.
Disparates .... Continuity of an Unfinished Project


* Close Encounters: Facing the Future
Sept 13 – Oct 26

* Ledelle Moe: Disasters
On display in the Kreeger Lobby through October 26

American University Museum
Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC
202-885-1300