Arts on N Street Festival this weekend

Article: No Business? No Problem: Art Pops Up in Vacant Retail Spaces Posted by Erin Petty on Aug. 4, 2010 at 3:18 pm Washington City Paper

Read Erin Petty's article above describing the art, art incubator and retail incentives behind this project.

August 7th- 8th & August 14th- 15th starting this weekend!
 Arts on N Street Festival will run for 2 weekends

Portraits of DC on N street

Be sure to come out to see the new Windows into DC, Phase II, on M Street @ Walter E. Washington Convention Center. It's a pop-up arts project in vacant retail windows at the convention center. My work from the Playground Series was part of the initial launch of the program last year. Artists work will be on display over a period of months to attract tourists, visitors and community members to the area. You can dial in to hear the artists talk about the work that they are exhibiting so bring your cell phones!

Hosted by the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) and the Washington E. Convention Center. The festival is free of charge and features art by local artists, music, fashion and local businesses. This initiative provides free spaces for artists and organizations to showcase and sell their goods, while also offering District citizens free and public art. A press conference to announce the new art happenings in and around the Washington E. Convention Center took place today and you can see a preview of some of the art in the windows at my Artravelin Flickr set.

Locations:
Gallery Row on M Street NW
Portraits of DC on N Street NW

Craig Kraft Lighting at 9th and N Streets NW

Arts on N Street Festival will take place on the wide sidewalk of N Street NW (between 7th & 9th Sts. NW) August: 7th- 8th & 14th- 15th

Featured Artists:

Albus Cavus(August: 8, 14, & 15)

DJ Alex Gold (August 14)

Allison Jai O’Dell (August: 7, 8, 14, & 15)

Amber Robles-Gordon(August: 7 & 8 )

Art Drauglis (August: 7)

Art Whino (August: 7, 8 & 14, 15

Amelia Smith (August: 14 & 5)

The Caribbean (August: 14 & 15)

Charlene Lockwood (August: 7 & 8 )

Crystal Little (August: 8, 14, & 15)

Cynthia Sands

Lanyapi Designs

Dana Ellyn

Danny Jean-Jacques

Denee Barr (August: 7 & 8 )

Ed Burck (August: 7)

Eve VanDalsen (August: 14 & 15)

Gaby Hernandez (August: 14 & 15)

Hugh + Crye (August: 7 & 8 )

Ida Mitchell (August: 8 & 15)

Jenni Feingold (August: 7 & 14)

Joan Romaine(August:)

Joseph Jones (August: 14)

Katherine Watson (August: 7 & 14)

Katie Stack (August: 14 & 15)

Kelly Towles (August: 7 & 8 )

Kendall Nordin

Kristina Billonick

Lisa Marie Thalhammer

Lisa K. Rosenstein(August: 14 & 15)

Lucia Hamilton (August: 7 & 8 )

Lunar Massage (August: 7)

Matt Hollis (August: 14 & 15)

Matt Sesow (August: 14)

Matthew Parker (August: 7, 8, 14, & 15)

Michele Banks (August: 7, 8, 14, & 15)

Niambi George (August: 7, 8, & 14)

Rania Hassan (August: 15)

Rebound Design

Red Table Press

Sankofa Beads

Sean Hennessey< (August: 15)

Sheila Crider (August: 14)

Yinibi (August: 7, 8, 14, & 15)

Stephanie Bonifant (August: 14 & 15)

TH Gomillion (August: 7 & 8 )

DJ Uncle Eric (August: 7 )

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Form & Freedom

October 2 - October 13th, 2009

"Fresh"
Carlotta Hester
acrylic on canvas
4'x6'

"Orchard"
John Blee
acrylic on canvas
42"x42'


"Hover"
Sondra Arkin
encaustic on panel
6''x6''

An exhibition of paintings by Sondra Arkin, John Blee, Carlotta Hester and Linda St. Clair.

Opening reception: Friday, October 2nd from 6:00 to 8:00 pm
during First Friday openings on Dupont Circle



Aaron Gallery
1717 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington DC

Hooking Up: Fleeting Encounters in the DC Art World

Artist Speaker Series on Thursday, February 19, 2009, at 7:00pm at Hamiltonian Gallery.

Talk will feature DC artist and art advocate Sondra Arkin.

"Understanding the dynamics of the art world will help an artist gain exposure and recognition. Staying on top of awards, exhibitions, galleries, curators, collectors, grants, and residencies, while balancing networking and creating, is an exercise in discipline. What are some of the best resources to stay hooked into the art world? What are some of the best methods for hooking up with opportunities? How can you strike the right balance?"

The Artist Speaker Series is a succession of lectures given by established artists and art professionals to aid in the artistic and entrepreneurial development of our So-Hamiltonian Fellows and other emerging artists.

Please RSVP to Email Jackie.

Application process for the 2009 Hamiltonian Emerging Artists Fellowship Program is closing February 28, 2009. Please refer to website for information on the application packages. http://www.hamiltonianartists.org/apply.html

Hamiltonian Artists is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing professional development opportunities for creative artists in their early careers. Hamiltonian Artists offers a competitive two-year fellowship program to new, innovative visual artists in all media through an annual competition. Artists from around the nation are encouraged to apply.

Hamiltonian Artists
1353 U Street, NW
Washington DC, 20009

INAUGURAL BLAST

Artist Reception
Friday, Feb. 6, 6-9pm

Come to the Closing Reception of INAUGURAL BLAST at Warehouse Gallery on Friday from 6-9. Get your final BLAST of Inauguration goodness.

+ Hope/Change - Sondra Arkin and Ellyn Weiss - Artist Counterpoint

+ Hope 2009 - Bridget Sue Lambert and Anita Walsh - tattooed supporters of Obama - Come add yours to the hope2009photos project

+ Monumental Photography - Jason Colston, Brett Davis, Dale Lowery

+ Mr Lincoln - Dana Ellyn

+ Washington, the President and the City

Warehouse Gallery & Theatre
1017-1021 7th Street NW,
between New York Ave. and L St.
Washington, DC
(across the street from the new Washington Convention Center.)

20x20 Exhibition at Art 17

Opening reception: Saturday September 20 from 5-8pm.
The exhibition was curated by Sondra N. Arkin. Each artist is exhibiting one work 20x20 inches.

Art 17 (Coldwell Banker)
1606 17th St. NW
WDC, 20009

Exhibition Hours: M-F 8am-5pm
and by appointment on the weekends
202-387-6180.

Under Surveillance

September 17 - October 8, 2008.
Reception: Thursday, September 18 from 6 to 9 pm.

Curated by Ellyn Weiss and Sondra N. Arkin
View Web site

This group show features works twelve local artists who explore our diminishing zone of personal privacy and reflect on all of the ways we are watched, listened to, recorded, categorized and observed.

Scott G. Brooks, Groover Cleveland, Richard Dana, Anna U. Davis, Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Rosemary Luckett, Elizabeth Morisette, Ann Stoddard, Tim Tate, Ruth Trevarrow, and the curators themselves.

The artists’ statement explains the motivation behind the show:

For quite some time, we have observed with concern, anger and even fear the increasingly diminishing zone of personal privacy available to any of us, the freedom to speak, write, believe, read, travel, even think in complete privacy.

We have quickly become accustomed to random pat-down searches and shoe removals at the airport; these seem benign by now, as does as the inability to enter virtually any office building without producing identification and, in many cases, going through a metal-detector.

In the past few years we have learned through the media, not the government, about much more sinister, invasive and secret surveillance such as warrantless wiretapping of conversations, surveillance of public library usage and monitoring internet and telephone traffic from homes and workplaces. While the initial outcry was loud when these intrusions into our privacy were first disclosed, they are for the most part continuing and it seems quite possible that we are on the verge of becoming accustomed
to and tacitly accepting of these as well. We have already accepted the incredible proliferation of cameras throughout our cities that record our physical presence as it moves through space throughout the day.

Nor is surveillance by any means limited to the government. The internet has facilitated an enormous amount of data collection about our purchases, our viewing habits, our homes, our friends and business connections, the groups we belong to and support.

Short of disconnecting from the modern world completely, there is not much we can do to find a truly inviolate private space.

The intention of the “Under Surveillance” is to encourage viewers to reflect on the many ways in which we are watched, listened to, observed, monitored, photographed, categorized and filed away for future reference – and to think about the appropriate action.

Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 U Street, NW
Washington, DC

PAINTINGS by Willem de Looper / Sondra Arkin

PASS GALLERY
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday May 2nd 7-10 P. M.
This exhibit continues thru May 31, 2008
GALLERY OPEN: Tuesdays and Saturdays 1-5 PM and by appointment.
LOCATED: At the rear 1617 S Street N.W.

CONTACT: Richard Siegman (202) 745-0796

Enter alley between S and Swann Street NW
PASS GALLERY / WASHINGTON DC

"Attainable Art" at Nevin Kelly Gallery

November 24 - December 30, 2007

Holiday Open House on December 1, 4 to 7 pm.

NKG welcomes the Third Annual Attainable Art Show: Works Under $1500.
Just in time for the holidays, works by various artists such as Sondra
Arkin, Joan Belmar, Mary Chiaramonte, Lukasz Huculak, Mark Parascandola, Ellyn Weiss and Ming Yi Sung Zaleski (and many more!).

Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 U Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202-232-3464
info@nevinkellygallery.com
http://nevinkellygallery.blogspot.com/

Artists Tour of the Wilson Building Collection

Thanks to Authentic Art for posting this tour...
At 12 p.m. on Wednesday September 26, the public is invited to the Wilson Building for a guided tour through the City Hall public collection of art on permanent display on floors 1-5 of the Wilson building.

The tour will be lead by local artist Sondra N. Arkin, curator to the collection of over 170 pieces. This is a unique chance to meet with local artists featured in the collection and have a discussion on being an artist in the Nation’s Capitol and to see a rich cross section of local artists (both established and emerging). This will be a bi-monthly occurrence.

The tour is free, however advanced registration for the series is preferred. Please RSVP to beth.baldwin@dc.gov with the number in your party. Meet at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance — the building is located at 1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW. ID is required to enter the building.

Sondra Arkin Exhibition / Reception At Nevin Kelly Gallery

I went by the Nevin Kelly Gallery reception on the early side to see Sondra Arkin's exhibition, Color: Field Tests. There were lots of folks already at the reception when we arrived. Working in encaustic and mixed media assemblage, Sondra Arkin explores the role that combinations of color play in communicating a sense of energy, mood and depth. She painted several of the gallery's walls in colors and hung her work in similar size groupings. My favorite four paintings hung on complementary background colors on the west wall of the gallery. The encaustic surfaces with textured strokes show a subtle luminosity in minimalist compositions. These works successfully incorporate structure, vibrant colors, translucency, softness, and a complex energy.

Sondra Arkin will be holding an Artist Talk about her new work on Sunday, May 6, 2-4 pm at the Nevin Kelly Gallery.

Sondra Arkin, Lava Pool
(2007), 24 x 24, encaustic on dibond

Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.232.3464

Color: Field Tests by Sondra Arkin at Nevin Kelly

Molten Shore (2007), 24 x 24, encaustic on dibond

Color: Field Tests by Sondra Arkin
April 18 - May 13, 2007

Opening Reception / April 19 / 6-9pm
Artist Talk / May 6 / 2-pm

The Nevin Kelly Gallery will host a solo exhibition of works by Washington, DC artist Sondra N. Arkin from April 18 until May 13, 2007. The exhibition, titled Color: Field Tests, presents Arkin's encaustic paintings and mixed media assemblage in the color field tradition in cooperation with the ColorField remix city-wide tribute to the Color Field movement and its influences. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist on Thursday, April 19, from 6 until 9 o'clock p.m.

Working in encaustic and mixed media assemblage, Arkin explores the role that combinations of color play in communicating a sense of energy, mood, and depth (and how color's impact differs for each viewer). Arkin also teases out multiple meanings of the word field as it relates to the creation and perception of art-working in her chosen field of endeavor, Arkin has created color field works that she will put on display. By thus being placed in the field, they become part or our own field of vision. How they affect us depends largely on our own fields of reference. Each sense of the word-from pursuit, to mode of creation, to physical presence, to visibility and individualized perception-plays an essential role in how the works move us.

Arkin's examination of color's influence will not end with her efforts in the studio. She will select colors for several of the gallery's walls, against which she will hang works of similar size, composition, and palette. These works will combine to form a larger installation that will field test the ways in which individual works affect-and are affected by-the environment in which they are placed.

Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.232.3464
www.nevinkellygallery.com

Color: Field Tests - New Work by Sondra N. Arkin

April 18 - May 13, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 19, 5-9 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, May 6, 2-4 pm

Working in encaustic and mixed media assemblage, Sondra Arkin explores the role that combinations of color play in communicating a sense of energy, mood and depth. Her examination of color's influence will not end with her efforts in the studio: she will select colors for several of the gallery's walls, against which she will hang works of similar size, composition and palette. These works will combine to form a larger installation that will field test the ways in which individual works affect—and are affected by—the environment in which they are placed.

Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 'U' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
P: 202.232.3464
F: 202.232.3465
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