Art is the Best

DCCAH November Video Spotlight: A Conversation between E. Ethelbert Miller and Sam Gilliam.

 
"One of the things that I've been doing as I worked has been to  re-read the important history of art also to reconstruct at least periods." - Sam Gilliam

Bike Rack Dedication

Monday, April 27, 2:00 pm
US DOT Southeast Plaza
New Jersey Ave and Tingey Street SE


DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
202.724.5613

Manifest Hope DC / Photos of Exhibition

Check out Manifest Hope DC Exhibition photos at these sites...
Arrested Motion

Manifest Hope: DC First Look- 01.16.09 at NOTCOT
& HERE Manifest Hope: DC ~ The Art!

MTV Gallery

WASHINGTON CITY PAPER REVIEW

Inaugural Update from Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans Office for DC Residents

It’s important for residents to stay informed regarding parking, security check points, transportation etc. details of which are changing on a daily basis.

The DC Council, Mayor’s Office, MPD, Metro, US Secret Service and the Presidential Inaugural Committee have put as much information as possible on several websites that I strongly suggest that you visit for updated information:

US Secret Service Inaugural Page
http://www.secretservice.gov/presidential_inaugural.shtml

The District of Columbia's Official Inaugural Website
http://inauguration.dc.gov/

The Presidential Inaugural Committee
http://www.pic2009.org/

Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
http://inaugural.senate.gov/

Getting There DC
http://www.gettingthere.dc.gov/

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
http://www.wmata.com/getting_around/metro_events/inauguration.cfm

Mayor Fenty Announces New District Agency and Office Directors

WASHINGTON, DC— In an effort to continue the momentum of ensuring the District is transformed into a world-class city, today Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced the appointments of four District agency and office directors.

Today’s announcements include:
• Gabe Klein, District Department of Transportation
• Lee A. Smith III, Department of Small and Local Business Development
• Bridget Davis, Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs
• Tracy Sandler, Office of Boards and Commissions

DIY City Mag

Focuses on Washington, DC in the October 2008 Online Issue

DIY City is an online magazine that celebrates the independent artist and the DIY spirit. The idea for the mag grew out of a need to find art supplies and resources in New York City. NYC was a natural pick for our first issue (Feb 2008) as it seems that just about everyone moonlights doing some type of creative work. DIY, or do-it-yourself, has a broad range of meanings. For us it represents the creative spirit of individuals making things in a move away from mass production. Some of the DIYs we’ve met make wares to give or trade with others, while many others make them to sell in the ever growing DIY marketplace.

"Catching the American Dream"

a new mural by Jose Piedra


13' x 32' mural

4500 Georgia Ave. and Buchanan St.,
Washington, DC

www.pepepiedra.com

Patrick Holderfield at Project 4

Pilgrim

March 8 – April 12, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 6:00 - 8:30pm

Collectors Preview: Friday, March 7, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Project 4 presents a drawing and sculpture installation by Seattle-based artist Patrick Holderfield.

Drawing from diverse associations and sources, Patrick Holderfield endeavors to create work that requires an emotional and intellectual engagement. His goal is to offer some type of authentic experience inciting the viewer’s contemplation of his or herself in relation to the larger world through the poetic use of both familiar and idiosyncratic imagery.

This current body of work centers around a series of drawings portraying environments that suggest pilgrimage, inappropriate expressions of emotions, transformation and conflict. Using the landscape as a grounding element, these scenes of tragedy and eloquence analogize current political, social and personal happenings. The accompanying sculptures and site-specific installations are seen as an extension of the drawings referencing boundaries and nature: specifically, the space, physically and psychologically, that confines and defines an environment.

"My vision is of the individual setting off on a journey that is both benevolent and malevolent and where the two are not so clear," says Holderfield. "It is also what’s found along the way"

Patrick Holderfield holds a BFA from State University College in Buffalo NY. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the Pacific Northwest including the Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum and James Harris Gallery in Seattle. His work is in collections including the Tacoma Art Museum, Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, and the City of Seattle.

For additional information please Contact:
Anne Surak, Director
Rebecca Jones, Assistant Gallery Director

Project 4
903 u street nw
washington dc 20001
tel: 202 232 4340
info@project4gallery.com
wednesday-friday 2-6 pm saturday noon-6 pm and by appointment

THE BIG READ –D.C.

Beltway Poetry Quarterly invites you to BE PART OF THE STORY – Volunteer for THE BIG READ –D.C.

Learn more: Saturday, March 8 at 2 PM, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street,NW, Washington, DC

You can be part of the story for the city read of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The month-long BIG READ – D.C. event kicks off April 24th with a celebration and continues through May 24, 2008. Kim Roberts, editor of Beltway Poetry, has compiled the walking tour of the Dupont/Kalorama neighborhoods, "Jazz Age Stories of the Rich and Scandalous!" The tour will be offered as a brochure (which you can download from the Humanities Council site beginning in April, and take on your own), as well as two guided tours that Kim will lead on Saturday, April 26 and Saturday, May 10, from 10:30 am to noon.
These popular guided tour programs are free but reservations are needed (limited number of participants); reservations will be taken beginning in mid-April. The tours are just one of over 40 Big Read – D.C. activities, which will also include book readings, discussions, films, parties, and dance lessons.

For more information, call 202-387-8391 or email dcbigread@gmail.com.

The Big Read – D.C. is presented by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in collaboration with local community partners as part of The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. For more information about the national Big Read visit http://www.neabigread.org.

Cloudy Days

Cloudy Day 2.18, Anne Marchand, digital photo 2008

Did you enjoy the crisp blue cloudy day last week? As much as I am ready for spring, it is a day like this that makes me smile. Clouds, ya gotta love 'em. They say so much.

Covered Dish and Unveiled Art

D.C. Slideluck Potshow,
Feb. 16, 7-11 p.m.
Touchstone Gallery

More than 20 local artists submitted mini-shows of their work lasting up to five minutes (40 to 50 slides is average), and no one was turned away. Get there early because space will be tight.

Admission is free, bring a potluck dish or you're not getting in. The event is BYOB, no red wine is allowed, because it is a gallery space.

Touchstone Gallery
406 Seventh St. NW, second floor
Washington, DC

For details visit http://www.slideluckpotshow.com or e-mail dc@slideluckpotshow.com

Bee

I took this picture of a napping bee in the full glory of pollen collecting. Is it Springtime yet?
Photo by Anne Marchand

ZooLights

ZooLights at the National Zoo in Washington, DC is a winter holiday event that is sure to be fun for the whole family. The National Zoo presents a display of thousands of sparkling lights and animated exhibits as well as brightly illuminated trees, shrubs, and statues.

Visitors at ZooLights will also enjoy winter-themed crafts, ice sculpting demonstrations, choral groups, and storytellers. Tickets are on sale now! Find the details about ZooLights at the National Zoo.

Dates and Times
Wednesdays–Sundays
November 28–December 30, 2007
6 to 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are available at the Zoo's Visitor Center or by Ticketmaster.

Location
National Zoo
Rock Creek Park
Washington, DC
Kids under two are free.

Crowds Return to Eastern Market

Joshua Zumbrun reports on the state of Eastern Market in today's article in the District Extra. Read here. It is a promising description of the return of business to the historic market. The neighborhood was picked as one of the country's Ten Great Neighborhood's by the American Planning Association. Go see for yourself how the market is doing. Keep going, buy from the wonderful vendors and support the arts with your patronage. You can see the 27 murals installed by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities on the historic Eastern Market windows while visiting and purchasing art from the artist vendors at the market.

Eastern Market is at Seventh Street and South Carolina Avenue SE.
Market merchants, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Flea market and arts and crafts market,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Farmers' line, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
For more information, go to http://www.easternmarketdc.com.

Good shopping!

More reading:
National Planning Group Lauds Eastern Market Neighborhood

Virtual Appeal, a CyberExhibit

one abstract painter coming soon to a cyberspace near you

"Virtual Appeal: Anne Marchand, Abstract Painting in Washington, DC"April 23 - May 10, 2007
Untitled ©2007, Anne Marchand
In celebration of abstract painting and artists everywhere in Washington, DC, with the large area wide exhibitions; ColorField Remix, the first International Art Fair, artDC and Artomatic, I'm holding my studio's first Virtual Gallery Exhibition, Virtual Appeal. You're invited to view selections from my latest body of work, the "Leela Series". (Work in progress....The artist reserves the right to alter the contents of this exhibition and blog anytime, from anywhere.)

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Virtual Appeal touches on how art is exhibited in today's market, the transitory nature of reality and the role that art plays in our lives. The virtual exhibition occurs online on computers everywhere while the first DC International Art Fair, is being held at the DC Convention Center in Washington, DC from April 27-30, 2007. Virtual Appeal, the cyber exhibition slideshow runs through May 10 when the cyber-gallery will then retire to a private cyberspace and the artist will continue to celebrate an artful life in her studio (and elsewhere).

A virtual exhibition by Washington, DC artist, Anne Marchand. Marchand is a colorist working in acrylic and mixed media. Her paintings explore the dynamics of movement through her color combinations, her use of dynamic line and surface texture. The artist uses the voice of abstraction to set the stage, and play in the world of possibilities. Irridescent and translucent color passages in her canvases convey (e)motion and stillness. Color lines convey dynamic and subtle movements. The artist's process and journey is mysteriously concealed and revealed through multi-layered and textured surfaces. She extends her play through the world of media in her blog Painterly Visions.

In 2007, Anne Marchand was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and in Mexico. Her paintings are in numerous private and public collections. Marchand describes her work as "a spontaneous play of paint, poetry, music, communication and meaning."

This cyber exhibit is conceived and curated by Washington, DC artist Anne Marchand and will feature ten of her new works. Location: Cyberspace - Global - on Picasa Web Albums. Free and open to the public - 24 hours a day and night.

The works selected are from my current body of work, "Leela," which refers to life as a cosmic playground. The painting series will be featured at the Arches Gallery mary@archesgallery.com in the wine country of California opening on August 3, 2007. For now, just drop by the cybershow often and please, let me know what you think. - Anne Marchand

Marchand Public Cyber Gallery at http://www.picasaweb.google.com/marchandstudios

Check my calendar of events for real time exhibitions at www.annemarchand.com

Email Us

Stop by the Zenith Gallery in Washington, DC to see my work included in the “29 Artists – 29 Years” 29th Anniversary Exhibition thru April 29, 2007.

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Celebrate the arts in Washington, DC this month at:
artDC
Artomatic
ColorField Remix__________________________________________________

Marchand programs funded in part by the DC Commission on The Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment For The Arts.

Local Arts Coverage at WaPo

Graham Caldwell's review in the Washington Post:
A Breath of Fresh Art / Graham Caldwell, Blowing Hot and Cool By Blake Gopnik.

Express contributor, Kriston Capps surveys the local arts scene.

Ever wanted to take a tour of Washington, DC

Kool! Now you can - on your mobile phone.....

Washington, DC - Just in time for the busy tourist season, DC's newest Internet startup company, mobiletours.org, launches today with a free tour of the Capitol's major sites for mobile phones. The service has eleven separate numbers to call, each of which corresponds to a famous building or memorial. The company plans on rolling out a marketing campaign that consists of handing out flyers to tourists and educating the tourism industry about the service.

Founder of the company, Richard Zielinski says, "We are using the latest IP phone technology, based on the Asterisk® open source PBX, to bring our podcasts into people's mobile phones. Its cutting edge stuff, but the service is very user friendly. Anyone who can dial a phone number will be able to access the tour."

The tours consist of short two minute histories of the site followed by a story or audio file. At the Lincoln Memorial for example, users will hear a rare audio interview from 1938 of an old man recalling what it was like, as a 9-year-old school boy, to watch Abraham Lincoln deliver his Gettysburg Address. At the Washington Monument the narrator reads an article from 1908 in which a Washington Senator baseball player catches a ball dropped from the top window to win a $500 bet. At the war memorials, listeners will hear interviews with Veterans. Says Zielinski, "We want the tour to be informative, but we also want it to be engaging. Visiting these national treasures can be a deeply personal experience; we want to help enrich that experience."

While mobile phone tours are becoming popular, mobiletours.org is the first company to offer their services in a major city for free. Although not intended to replace a knowledgeable tour guide, mobiletours can be an excellent alternative that allows for both convenience and flexibility.

The tour can also be freely downloaded off of the website for use in digital MP3 players. Mobiletours.org is planning on rolling out a New York City and Boston tour later this spring.

www.mobiletours.org

Washington Monument 202-552-1247
Lincoln Memorial 202-552-1233
Vietnam Memorial 202-552-1235
Korean Memorial 202-552-1236
WWII Memorial 202-552-1237
FDR Memorial 202-552-1242
Jefferson Memorial 202-552-1244
White House 202-552-1246
U.S. Capitol 202-552-1245
Ford's Theater 202-552-1243
Arlington Cemetery 202-552-1239