A Running Commentary / Girls Gotta Run

October 11, 2009 - 11:00 am - 1:30 pm


Friendship Heights Village Center
4433 South Park Ave.
Chevy Chase, MD

Featuring Traditional Ethiopian Songs and Dances
by "Addis Flower,"
local Ethiopian children's performance group,
organized and conducted by Kebebush Tesfaye

An Ethiopian Marketplace, and
Premiering poetry for "the girls"
by popular local DC poet Dehejia Maa
Just Added - Munit!

Friendship Gourmet Market generously providing some munchies!

 Read the interview:

Art with A Mission: An Interview with Pat Ortman of Girls Gotta Run Foundation

by DC Fine Arts ExaminerSharon Burton

"A Moving Commentary"

Co-sponsored and hosted by
The DC Women's Caucus for the Arts

Opening Reception: October 4, 2008
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Takoma Park Municipal Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Municipal Center Galleries


Girls Gotta Run Foundation, Inc.
(202) 244-6354
http://www.girlsgottarun.org

Girls Gotta Run on google video

10 min

Girls Gotta Run (www.girlsgottarun.org) provides new shoes for girls in Ethiopia who are training to be runners. The girls who run are more likely to stay in school and improve their lives and the lives of their families.

GGRF is participating in Artomatic
(http://www.artomatic.org/. Their space is on the 5th floor, Northwest Quadrant, No. B5. They are utilizing most of the space to present an exhibit about and information on the organization and the girls they help, rather than to showcase much of their art. However, they have a lovely pink notebook containing color printouts of all of the art in the Shoe Art Gallery, with instructions on how to purchase it.

Upcoming exhibits:

"Project 3: Empowered by Artistry."
Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
Exhibit runs June 11, 2008 - August 30, 2008
Opening Reception: June 18, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
144 Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002-5608
(202) 546-1210

Patricia E. Ortman, Ph.D., Executive Director
Girls Gotta Run Foundation, Inc.
3715 Jocelyn St., N.W.
WDC 20015
(202) 244-6354
http://www.girlsgottarun.org

Girls Gotta Run - 2nd Annual Holiday Art Exhibition

December 2, 2007 - January 5, 2008

Opening Reception: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 6-8 pm

Sponsored by the Girls Gotta Run Foundation, Inc. Profits from the sale of artwork go to buy running shows for girls in Ethiopia. By training as athletes, these girls can delay traditional arranged marriages which can occur as early as 12 years of age.

Modern Times Coffeehouse at Politics & Prose
5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008

Check out the art; chat with the artists; enjoy wine, coffee and hors d'oeuvres; listen to the marvelous music of the "Basso Moderno Duo" .

Movie Night: Thursday, December 6, 2007, 7-9 pm
Check out the art; experience a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony; see the work-in-progress Girls Gotta Run DVD, and a documentary of an Ethiopian coffee farm.

Some of the artists exhibiting include...

Alvim Brazao
Sharon J. Burton
Beth Cartland
Cheryl Edwards
Pamela Flynn
Leah Goodman
Marie Louise Hagen
Kay Keys
Nil Navaie
Leslie Oberdorfer
Patricia E. Ortman
Jen Power
Gail Rebhan
Audrey Smith
Lida Stifel
Susan Thulin
Joyce Ellen Weinstein

An Autumn Shoe Art Exhibit and Sale

presents

An Autumn Shoe Art Exhibit and Sale
September 5 - September 29, 2007

Phoenix Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001

Opening Reception:
Thursday, September 6, 2007; 6 - 8 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11:30 – 6

Profits from the sale of this artwork go to buy running shoes for girls in Ethiopia. By training as athletes, these girls can delay traditional arranged marriages which can occur as early as 12 years of age.
For more information and to see some of the art that will be on exhibit, visit 
www.girlsgottarun.org
 

Call for Artists from Girls Gotta Run Foundation, Inc.

The Phoenix Gallery in NYC has invited the Foundation to mount an exhibit in their Project Room from September 5 thru September 29, 2007. This will also be “Fashion Week” in New York and the beginning of the art season.

The Phoenix Gallery is the oldest co-op run gallery in NY. It is located in the heart of the Chelsea art district. There are two main galleries and the Project room. All three spaces, which open into each other, will have an opening reception on September 6. Artists from the Phoenix Gallery will also be invited to participate, if they choose.

The Project Room is a small space, approximately 12’ x 12’ x 12’, therefore we are asking that “smaller” works no more than 20” x 20” be submitted for consideration. Small sculptures can be accommodated also. The art works will be hung salon style and will be sold “cash and carry” so that new works may replace others as they are sold. As people seem to buy art “on impulse” up to about $300, we would prefer most pieces to be priced at $300 or less. At least 50% of the sales price goes to the Foundation, but the Phoenix Gallery will not take any commission. The works should feature or be about shoes, but be creative. They don’t have to be representational.

The show will be listed in Gallery Guide of NYC, on the Phoenix Gallery web site, and on artinifo.com, that can link back to the GGRF home page and your images on our site. The GGRF Shoe Art Gallery also links to the artists’ own web sites.

Up to two (2) works per artist, up to 20” x 20” If framed, done professionally, marked with title, price, medium. At least 50% of sales goes to GGRF.

Work to be shipped or delivered between July 17 - August 3. The gallery is closed from August 4 – September 3. Final selection and hanging will be done by the Phoenix and GGRF on September 4.

Exhibit Dates: September 5 – September 29, 2007
Opening Reception: September 6, 2007 6 – 8 p.m.

If you are shipping by Fed-Ex or UPS, please note when the gallery is open on the shipping information: Tues – Sat 11:30 – 6 p.m. and include the Gallery phone no.

Phoenix Gallery, 210 Eleventh Ave @ 10th St, Suite 902, NY, NY 10001
212.226.8711 www.phoenix-gallery.com

Please let us know if you are interested in this exhibit ASAP (but no later than June 20) by emailing me at peo@tidalwave.net, and I will send you a copy of the Entry Form and Exhibition Agreement.

Thanks!

Pat Ortman, Director
Girls Gotta Run Foundation, Inc.
pat@girlsgottarun.org