New Community ArtSpace

10th Year Celebration
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 6:00 - 8:00 PM
www.artspacedc.org

$25 includes food, music, raffle ticket and free sitting in our photo studio.
Purchase Tickets in Advance at the link above or at the door.

Great food and live music will accompany a sitting in our popular community portrait studio, now in its third year. Fifteen framed ArtSpace prints will be up for raffle and artwork from this summer's workshops will be on display and for sale.

Selected pottery, fiber arts and photography from ArtSpace teachers will be available for purchase. Attendees have first option for slots in the fall workshops.

@
614 S Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011
www.artspacedc.org
202.559.7583

18 Mammals / Carroll Square Gallery

September 11–November 20, 2009

Henry Horenstein, Asiatic Elephant, Elephas maximus, 1995-2001, c-print, 26" x 40", Ed. 15

Opening Reception: September 11, 6:00pm–8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00am–6:00pm

Carroll Square Gallery
975 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
202-624-8643

Featuring:
A. Aubrey Bodine, Keith Carter, Martin d’Orgeval,
Larry Gianettino, Jill Greenberg, Henry Horenstein,
Tony Mendoza, Mary Noble Ours, Ludlow Porch,
Grace Robertson, Anne Rowland, Pentti Sammallahti,
Walter Schels, William Wegman and Jason Zimmerman

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Also opening in the neighborhood on Friday, September 11:
The Gallery at Flashpoint 916 G Street NW
Bradley Chriss, Visions from the End of the World, 6-8pm

Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW, 2nd Floor
Cara Ober, Love Letters and Nikki Painter, Debriscapes, 7-9pm

Reyes + Davis
923 F Street NW #302
Jeff Huntington, Pepa Leon, Johanna Mueller,
Michael Enn Sirvet & Judy Jashinsky, 6:30-9pm

Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street NW, 2nd Floor
Mirage Series by Steve Alderton
Color, Texture and Mood by Michele Cormier, 6-8:30pm

THE TRAWICK PRIZE

BETHESDA CONTEMPORARY ART AWARDS

SEPTEMBER 2 - OCTOBER 3, 2009

The Fraser Gallery hosts the "Trawick Prize".

Opening Reception for the public

Friday, September 11, 6PM - 9PM

in conjunction with the "Bethesda Art Walk"

A group exhibition by the 8 finalists of this annual competition with $14,000 in prize money will be awarded to 4 finalists with a grand prize of $10,000. This year's finalists are Ruth Bolduan, Laure Drogoul, Hannah Kim, Jessie Lehson, Greg Minah, Leslie Shelloe, Molly Springfield and Rene Trevine. The Trawick Prize is produced by the Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District.

The Fraser Gallery
7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E
Bethesda, MD
301-718-9651

The American Quilt | Weaving the District's Future

The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

in partnership with The Textile Museum invites you to attend

Story Quilt: An American History
A lecture given by Master Quilter and
World Renowned artist Faith Ringgold as part of
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities' American Masterpieces Program,
The American Quilt 2009: Weaving the District's Future.

Sunday, September 13, 2009 3:00pm - 5:00pm

@

The Philips Collection
1600 21st St., NW
Washington, DC

For more information or to RSVP call 202.724.5613
Seating is first come first served and is subject to availibility

Checkout www.theamericanquilt2009.com to enter their virtual quilting competition! Submit your idea for a quilt block! Write, draw, or illustrate your unique story and win fantastic awards from the Textile Museum! This is very easy; you click on the entries browser and upload your idea, and then ask your friends and family to vote for you! The five entries with the highest votes will win great prizes!

New Realisms @ Irvine Contemporary

September 12 to October 24

Bruno Perillo, Edward del Rosario, Adam Stennett, Barnaby Whitfield, Eric White

Opening Reception : Saturday, Sept. 12, 6-8PM

Panel Discussion on New Realisms
Georgetown University, Sept. 12, 2-3:30PM

Bruno Perillo, Sub Rosa (Beneath the Rose), 2009. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in.

Irvine Contemporary

1412 14th Street NW
Washington DC 20005
202.332.8767

Civilian Art Projects presents two solo exhibitions

September 11, 2009 through October 17, 2009. Opening reception Friday, September 11, 2009, 7pm to 9pm

Love Letters by Cara Ober

Love Letters is Baltimore-based artist Cara Ober's first solo exhibition with Civilian Art Projects. A painter, teacher, and writer, Ober layers drawing, painting, and printmaking into mixed media works that examine and reinterpret sentimental imagery. Ober's narrative works utilize specific phrases and fonts to suggest multiple voices, perspectives, and time periods. Rather than illustrating the text, the images create discord and contrast, layering metaphorical and nonsensical outcomes over personal notation. For Love Letters, Ober exhibits drawings and paintings, showing new work from three interrelated series. Intricate and funny, Love Letters explores the relationship of the artist to image, word, and personal meaning found in the exploration of secret fantasy and expressive interlude.

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Debriscapes by Nikki Painter

Debriscapes by Richmond, VA-based Nikki Painter is the recent American University MFA graduate's first solo exhibition in Washington, DC. Painter exhibits new drawings and a site-specific installation that explore-in bright neon colors, pencil lines, and various materials-the relationship and continuum between the built and natural worlds. According to Painter, "debris as a subject bridges my ideas about these worlds. I have been interested in demolition sites because they appeal to my ideas about the natural world's tendency toward chaos. This tendency manifests itself in the crumbling and splintering of manmade facades...demolition sites are also indicators of civilization's cyclical nature - we destroy our structures in order to make way for new ones."

Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW, Second Floor
Washington DC 20004
(202) 347-0022

Natalie Cheung / The Gallery at Todd Christafaro

Opening: September 12, 7-9pm

@
The Gallery at Todd Christafaro
3146 Dumbarton Street NW
Washington, DC

The Poetics of Material

September 11 – October 11

New work by David D'Orio, Lisa Hill and Kate Carr
Opening Reception: September 11, 7-9pm

Curated by Landria Shack

Curatorial Mentor: Laura Roulet

DC Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.462.7833

FAX / Contemporary Museum

Exploring the Intersection of Art and Technology with FAX
Real-time Fax Submissions from Artists, Creative Thinkers, Students Contribute to Evolving Exhibition

Matt Sheridan Smith, Untitled (contrast test) (detail), 2008.
Courtesy of the artist and Lisa Cooley Fine Art.

Saturday, September 12 through Sunday, December 20, 2009

Contemporary Museum
100 West Centre Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

The Contemporary Museum will explore the potential of the fax machine as a device for creating, transmitting, and distributing an artist’s ideas and images with FAX, announced Contemporary Museum executive director, Irene Hofmann. The exhibition will feature more than 120 fax-based works, on view from September 12 through December 20, 2009. The Contemporary is the first institution to host FAX during its national tour

In FAX, the exhibition’s dedicated fax machine will continually receive and print incoming communications by artists from around the world. As faxed artworks arrive, they will be added to the gallery walls. In addition to the hundreds of faxed images, the exhibition will include the inevitable transmission errors and junk faxes received during the run of the show.

The exhibition invites visitors to explore artists’ creative expression through their drawings and to consider ideas of reproduction, originality and distribution.

FAX will feature works created by more than 120 international artists, designers, architects, scientists, and filmmakers who utilize the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Visitors will see drawings, text, and collage works from contributors including Joseph Grigley, John Armleder, Fia Backstrom, Barbara Bloom, Liam Gillick, Glenn Ligon, and Kay Rosen. Included in the diverse roster of contributing artists are 20 Baltimore-based artists including Hugh Pocock, Leslie Furlong and Soledad Salamé.

FAX is co-organized by The Drawing Center, New York and iCI (Independent Curators International). The exhibition is curated by Joäo Ribas, curator of The Drawing Center, and is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published by iCI and The Drawing Center. Following its run at the Contemporary, the show will next travel to California. FAX will be on tour through August 2012.

LECTURE | Mexican Cultural Institute

September 10, 2009 @ 7:00 pm

The rebirth of an Ancient Tradition by Professor Marta Turok

Marta Turok will discuss the historical antecedents of the Mata Ortiz pottery tradition. Casas Grandes, whose major pottery hub of Paquimé lies near present day Mata Ortiz, was the most important civilization of Northern Mexico until being overrun and destroyed during the 15th Century.

Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street, NW | Washington, D.C.
Free entrance | Street parking available after 6:30 pm.
RSVP: icmdc[at]instituteofmexicodc[dot]org

Marta Turok (Mexico City) is a curator and an anthropology specialist that studied at Harvard and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1999, she coordinated the first important exhibit in Mexico of Mata Ortiz. She founded the Mexican Association for Popular Arts and Culture and has been an advocate pioneer in the relationship between artisans and environment. She has received multiple awards for her work, notably the Van Deren Coke Achievement Award in 2005.

Touchstone Gallery Openings

September 9 - October 4, 2009

Opening Reception
Friday, September 11, 6 - 8:30 pm

"MIRAGE SERIES"
STEVE ALDERTON

"Color, Texture and Mood"
MICHELE CORMIER

Touchstone Gallery | 406 7th Street NW 2nd Floor | Washington | DC | 20004

Art - The Mood of the Market, as Measured in the Galleries - NYTimes.com

The New York Times takes a look at how some New York Galleries are doing.

The Mood of the Market, as Measured in the Galleries - NYTimes.com By ROBERTA SMITH

"As it turned out, it is hard to know if this summer has brought much more than the usual in the way of closings..."

Read HERE

John Dreyfuss, Enigma

September 12 - October 24, 2009

Washington DC – Hemphill Fine Arts presents Enigma, a site-specific installation by sculptor John Dreyfuss.

Enigma opens on September 12, 2009 with public reception from 6:30 – 8:30pm.

The greatness of visual art lies outside of its visible parts. An artwork’s concealed meaning must be decoded to reach its full significance. Dreyfuss’s Enigma, named for World War II German coding machines, consists of stylized submarine parts emerging from and submerging beneath the gallery’s surfaces. The artist partnered with a leading aerospace and engineering company ATK (Alliant Techsystems, Inc.) to produce the sculptural elements of the installation. The character of this type of collaboration speaks to the uneasy relationship between the individual citizen and the geo-political dynamic of our times. The installation generates a range of emotions – a calm flows from its perfectly smooth forms, implying immense power; the scale is an act of aggression; and the purpose of a submarine instills a feeling paranoia.

“... the whole form is never revealed...Enigma presents three opportunities to encounter fragments of a single idea. Ultimately, however, the immensity and force of the whole relies upon the viewer’s imagination.”
-John Dreyfuss

This exhibition is concurrent with John Dreyfuss: Inventions, which can be seen from September 8, 2009 through January 17, 2010 at the American University Art Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.



HEMPHILL
1515 14th Street NW
#300
Washington DC 20005
202-234-5601

An Art Consultant Gives Advice on Decorating Walls - washingtonpost.com

An Art Consultant Gives Advice on Decorating Walls - washingtonpost.com

"When it comes to decorating, one of the most challenging tasks is figuring out what to do with a bare wall.

Allison Marvin has made a career out of helping people do just that. She is the founder of Sightline (http://www.sightline.biz), an art consulting business started in 2004."

Cianne Fragione / Yumi Hogan

Opens September 10, 6-8pm

Hodson Gallery @ Hood College
Frederick, MD
www.hood.edu

Ken Fandell | Hamiltonian Gallery

The Infinite to the Proximate: Infinity, Time, Space, Technology, Significance, Subjectivity, Interpersonal Relations, Bodily Functions, and My Work.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 7:00 pm

Artist Talk with Ken Fandell
currently exhibiting at Hamiltonian Gallery in the show "Almost Surely, Almost Everywhere"

A lecture looking briefly at the problems and potentials of infinity (philosophical and mathematical), ways to define and destroy time and space, technology’s connection with all that, determining significance and it’s relationship to subjectivity, problems with communication and other people, what we do with piss and shit and why, and my work.

RSVP to jackie[at]hamiltoniangallery[dot]com

Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW (14th and U Streets)
Washington, DC 2009,
202.332.1116

www.hamiltoniangallery.com
www.hamiltonianartists.org

Seth Rosenberg On Tuesday, September 1, 2009

On Tuesday, September 1, 2009, DFA lost its founder Seth Rosenberg to an apparent heart attack in Cleveland, OH at the age of 56.

A memorial service will take place this Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 11:30 am at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Cleveland, OH. The address is 8501 Carnegie Ave. #2, Cleveland, OH. 216-421-8671.

DFA is currently planning a memorial for the Fall. More details to follow when they decide on a date.

Seth had moved to Cleveland, OH four years ago and earlier this summer, based on a portfolio of his new paintings, he received a $20,000 Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Cleveland Partnership for Arts and Culture.

39th Annual Labor Day Art Show thru Sept 7 at Glen Echo

September 4 - 7, 2009

39th annual Labor Day Art Show will feature the work of more than 100 artists from the mid-Atlantic region. Most artists have a connection to Glen Echo Park either as instructors, students or resident artists. Works will include photography, painting, ceramics, jewelry, art glass, textiles and more.

Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture
Location: Spanish Ballroom
Admission: Free and open to the public. Wide range of sale prices for artwork.
Contact Hannah Bachman
(301) 634-2235

Check out Weekend listings

Glen Echo Park
7300 MacArthur Boulevard
Glen Echo, MD 20812

To get to Glen Echo Park, click for a printable map of the area.

Arts On Foot

Penn Quarter's 17th Annual Festival Celebrating the Arts Saturday, September 12, 11:00am - 5:00pm
Rain or Shine
Throughout Penn Quarter

Juried Art Market
50 Artists Preview the Festival
Thursday, September 10
Friday, September 11, 11:00am - 7:00pm
On the F Street sidewalk between 7th and 9th

Over 20 Cultural Indoor Venues
Events, Activities, Performances, Films, Tours,
Open Artist Studios, and Exhibits
between 3rd and 14th streets, Pa. Ave. and L streets

Outdoors on F and 8th streets
Activities, Dance, Theater, Films, Music,
Restaurant Samplings, Wine Sampling, Cooking As Art,
Art Market with 90 Artists
Under Tents at the Outdoor Festival
on F Street between 7th and 9th
8th Street south of F
F Street between 6th and 7th

See the program on the web at
www.artsonfoot.org

Information
202.626.1130
240.688.9200 on event days

THE FIFTH ANNUAL Metamorphosis Art Show

September 13, 2009, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Metamorphosis Art: A change in the form and habits of artists, as in artistic endeavours made accessible and exposure made obtainable.

Offering artists affordable opportunities to gain exposure in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area.

Willow Restaurant
www.willowva.com
4301 N. Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia 22203

Design Studio Art Gallery

Design Studio Art Gallery

"Horse of a Different Color" by Dana Ellyn

Opening Reception
Thursday, Sept 3rd from 7-10pm

Dana Ellyn's solo exhibition, "Horse of a Different Color" is a collection of recent paintings created in response to her reflections on life, childhood, and her pursuit of artistic success. Ellyn sees life like that of a child riding a carousel....Will she get to sit on the most colorful pony? Will her parents acknowledge her every time she passes them? Will all of the carousel's ups and downs make here dizzy? Regardless, when she gets off the ride, she will have ended up exactly where she started, just like everybody else. But in her life, Dana Ellyn has chosen a horse of a different color. One that is able to jump off the spinning platform and pursue a destination all her own.

5702 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, MD 20781
T - F 12:00pm - 5pm, Sun 1pm - 4pm

301.779.4907

Exhibition Postcard Invitation

Courage Unmasked

Courage Unmasked | A Unique Art Auction Gala
Help for Head and Neck Cancer | 911.4 .HNCOver

The 1st Annual Courage Unmasked Unique Art Auction Gala, a silent and live auction to raise money and awareness for head and neck cancer (HNC).

Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 6- 9pm
@
American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Wine reception, light fare, dessert and free parking

100 artists transformed radiation masks into unique pieces of art that will be auctioned off to benefit patients being treated for Head and Neck Cancer.
Preview the masks online. www.courageunmasked.org

Maureen Bunyan, anchor of WJLA ABC 7 News, will serve as the mistress of ceremonies for the auction gala.

I hope you can make it to the event.
I have a piece in this event.

For Ticket information..HURRY
ALMOST SOLD OUT
Courage Unmasked–A Unique Art Auction Gala - Eventbrite
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14th & You: Shaping the Future of 14th Street, Part 2

"Can we keep the "arts" in the ARTS Overlay?

That was the predominant question put before the ARTS Overlay Committee this summer. What follows is a brief preview of the Committee's report, to be unveiled at tomorrow evening's ANC2F meeting."

Read more here:
14th & You: Shaping the Future of 14th Street, Part 2

ART CONVERSATION

September 3, 6:30 p.m.

Hirshhorn curator Kristen Hileman and Phillips Collection curator Vesela Sretenovic discuss "Looking at Baselitz and Guston: Part I," about works by Georg Baselitz and Philip Guston.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Seventh Street and Independence Avenue SW

Free. 202-633-1000.

Arlington Arts Center Fall Solos 2009

September 11 – November 7, 2009

Twice a year the Arlington Arts Center surveys the finest cutting edge contemporary art from across the Mid-Atlantic region. The six artists chosen for this year’s exhibition are David Page, Cynthia Hron, Pamela Phatsimo Sungstrom, Roxana Perez- Mendez, Christian Benefiel and Jenn Figg.

Marc Roman: Under the Radar
Resident artist Marc Roman will show new mixed media pieces incorporating drawing, found images, poured resin and Plexiglas. In Roman's work, images of pioneers of aviation and space travel are superimposed over vintage sci-fi illustrations in a meditation on the relationship between far-out scientific speculation and pulp entertainment.

ARLINGTON ARTS CENTER

3550 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22203 703-248-6800
http://www.arlingtonartscenter.org

Arlington VA Arts Newsletter:

Hillyer Artspace / First Friday Art Openings

September 4 - October 31
Reception: September 4th, 2009, 6-9PM

Colossus by Nekisha Durrett

Colossus is a full scale installation by Nekisha Durrett inspired by a poem of the same name by David C. Ward. The poem and the installation visualize a land deforested by Colossus, a metaphoric representation of industry and civilization.

Multiplying the Body: Gender Performance Remembered and Reconstructed by Susan Serafin

Landscape, ethnography, and the body are recurring themes in Susan Serafin's work. Serafin delves into concepts of gender expression and performance in her latest installation; Multiplying the Body.

Questioning systems of cultural memory and Virtual Reality's residual effect on the collective conscious and identity, the work in Multiplying the Body represents the idea of the body as a remembered experience. Serafin seeks to capture the unacknowledged moments in our lives when we question what we know and experience an altered perception in between the cracks of our waking lives.

Ambience by DJ Fleg
Food and refreshments will be served
PLUS a special appearance by the Sweetgreen Sweetflow Mobile!
$5 suggested donation

@
Hillyer Art Space

International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Court NW
Washington, DC 20008
202.338.0680
www.artsandartists.org/artspace.html

CLOSING EVENT for "My Space on 7th"

NON-JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION
featuring 90 local artists
and
WINE TASTING
courtesy of Washington Wine Academy

Friday: September 4, 6-8pm

Artists participating in "My Space on 7th" exhibition:
Sangeeta Agrawal, Nataliya Andreyeva, Neyla Arnas, Keith Arnold, Olu Babalola, Crystal Banks, David Barr, Mark Behme, Pat Bennett, Gary Bergel, Daniel Berhanemeskel, Olga Berman, Carl Bettenhausen, Harmon Biddle, Wendy Bridges, Marsha Brown, Kirstin L Bruner, Alza Burd, Pierre Cartier, Adam Chamy, Zhee Chatmon, Anne Cherubim, Rob Chester, Mark S. Chevalier, Jim Coates, Ceci Cole McInturff, Michele Cormier, Charlie Dale, Anthony Dortch, Matt Dunn, Derran Eaddy, Linda Elliff, Michelle Fatovic, Alex Feshenko, Kim Frietze, Eric M. Ginsburg, J. Eric Goines, Marcia Green, JoAnne Growney, Jackie Hoysted, Sandra Humphrey, Carin A. Jackson, Jessica Jastrzebski, jodi, Aleksandra Katargina, Linda Keller, Kreg D. Kelley, David Korte, David A. Kosar, Radha Krishnakumar, Mary D. Lambert, Paula Lantz ,Emery J. Lewis, Mary E. Mallia, Frank M. Mancino, Amy Marshall, JoAnn McInnis, Ivan Mendizabal, Mark Mennie, Anita Merina, David Mills, Del Moran, Kiran Mukunda, Carlos Munoz, Natalie Oguara, Mary D. Ott, Samuel Pastore, Wendy Plotkin-Mates, Keith Ramsey, Juvale Regala, Neil Rogers, Pam Rogers, Julia Rosenbaum, Deborah Saks, Zakhar Sasim, Peter Schechter, Charles A. Sessoms, Amelia Shachoy, Paul Sharratt, Janathel Shaw, Raju Singh, John Sislin, Destry Sparks, Isabelle Spicer, Aaron Spindler, Ulrich Stein, Elena Tchernomazova, Dana Thompson, Sally ShangMing Tsou, Caroline Urbania, Susan Van Pool ,Monica Wise, Julie Woodford

More here:
http://www.touchstonegallery.com/exhibitions/2009/08/08-2009.html

Anything pink rocks! | The Pink Line Project

Yes! Check out....
Anything pink rocks! | The Pink Line Project

"I really think that the idea of pink is really catching on! But you know, it's really not about the color. It's about how we exist in the world and and how we interact with each other ..... " by Philippa P.B. Hughes

http://www.pinklineproject.com/article/anything-pink-rocks-16

Pink Line Project's New Consolidated Online Calendar

An all new consolidated calendar of all things cool and arty for the culturally curious, brought to you by The Pink Line Project. Try it now!

Washington, DC

"The Pink Line's website redesign is one of the best examples of an interactive calendar I've seen for art-related events, from a design and technology standpoint. [The] web team definitely took time to think about what we may want from an arts calendar." --Design Notes + Photos

"An easy-to-navigate calendar at the top lists the metro area's art events detailed info and images pop up for each event below. Pink Line features a scrolling list of their own picks, or go down to the bottom of the page for "Today Only" events." --DCist

Jesus Morales / Public Art in Arlington, VA

Artist: Jesus Morales

Inspired by Arlington’s location on the geological dividing line between the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain of Virginia and proximity to Great Falls, Morales created a red granite 4’ tall rough cylindrical "mountain" from which water flows into narrow channels of water- the waterways of the Coastal Plain. Three gnarly granite pillars, also with water flowing along their surfaces, represent Virginia’s trees. Included in the design are three benches: one circular bench that allows for 360 degree seating, an elongated bench, and a third seat that can be swiveled to view the surrounding from many directions.

@ Court House Marriot (plaza)
1401 North Adams St.
Arlington, VA
Information: 703-228-3771

Arlington VA Arts Newsletter

Call For Artists: Charles Hamilton Houston Memorial - Alexandria, VA

Deadline for Submission: October 1, 2009, 4 pm (EDT)
Budget: $300,000

The City of Alexandria, Virginia seeks to commission public art for the new Charles Houston Recreation Center. The process will be managed by the Office of the Arts, a division of the Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities, with the Alexandria Commission for the Arts Public Art Committee. The City will conduct the search for qualified applicants through a Request for Qualifications (RFQ). The art will be paid for by private donations. The purpose of the project is to honor and memorialize Charles Houston and to recognize the historical importance of the former Parker-Gray High School, Alexandria’s first African-American high school.


Eligibility: Open to all artists or design groups. No geographic requirements.

Process: Three finalists will be invited to submit proposals. Each will receive a $2,000 honorarium.
Anticipated Award Date: May 2010
Anticipated Installation Date: April 2011

Web Site

PG County Juried Show / Call for Entries

"PAPER"

Call for Entries for the Prince George’s County Juried Exhibition.
Juried by Susan Goldman.
The exhibition is open to all artists who work, live or go to school in PG County, MD.

Deadline: September 23, 2009 by 5:00 pm

Questions?
Contact Julia Morelli
Julia.Morelli[at]pgparks[dot]com
301.446.3232

WPA ArtFile Online / Photography Call

CALL FOR ENTRIES: As part of FotoWeek DC 2009, WPA will present an exhibition of photography selected exclusively from the ArtFile Online (AFO) by the acclaimed documentary photographer, Jim Hubbard. In 1989, Hubbard created Shooting Back, a Washington-based organization dedicated to empowering children at risk by teaching them photography. For this exhibition, Hubbard invites photographers to submit works that are relative to today's economic hardships.

...This new exhibition will explore the human drama and its various visual forms against the backdrop of the current and former economic meltdowns that have left millions of our fellow Americans outside the American dream and framed through the lens. -Jim Hubbard

Framing the Economic Downturn (FED), curated by Jim Hubbard, acclaimed photojournalist and Creative Director of Venice Arts, Venice, CA

Deadline for Submissions: September 2, 2009 (posted through WPA Artfile Online)
Exhibition Dates: November 10 - December 11, 2009
Opening Reception: Tuesday, November 10 (FotoWeek DC event)
Exhibition Location: Gallery O/H, 1352 H Street NE, Washington, DC

Questions about the application process? call Kristina Bilonick at 202-234-7103 x 2

Washington Project for the Arts
2023 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202.234.7103
www.wpadc.org

Carroll Avenue Mural Celebration and Ice Cream Social

Sunday, August 30, 2009 from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)

Ice Cream Social
(ice cream by Summer Delights)

in celebration of
the Carroll Avenue Mural
by mural artist Byron Peck

Music by David Potts-Dupre and friends.

Location:
Carroll Avenue Mural
7056 Carroll Avenue
outside of building and auto garage
Takoma Park, MD

This is a public celebration and no preregistration or donation is necessary to attend, though both are greatly appreciated for planning and fundraising purposes.

Any size contribution (all tax deductible) will help!
-Your contribution to the Takoma Foundation is tax deductible.
-Matching funds for project have been awarded by Maryland Main Street via Takoma Main Street.
-Helping to beautify Old Town Takoma with public art.
-World-class mural artist Byron Peck's work will be landmark in gateway location.

Check out Sam Kittner's web gallery of the mural in progress:
http://kittner.com/mural/mural_gallery/

Dance Festival DC

August 28-August 30, 2009

The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities will be hosting 50 dance performances at 14 venues around the District from August 28-30 for the 6th Annual Dance DC Festival. Through this yearly festival, the Commission exposes District residents to a wide array of folk and traditional music and dance from around the world. Some genres include hip-hop, salsa, swing, tango and many more. Performances and interactive workshops will be free to the public over this three-day event.

The performances will take place at venues such as The National Zoo, Atlas Performing Arts Theatre, Dance Place, Dance Institute of Washington, the National Museum of the American Indian, Columbus Circle, Bohemian Caverns, Anacostia Art Gallery & Boutique, John F. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Ebenezer's Coffee House, Heritage Center at Navy Memorial, Ft. Dupont Park and Honfleur Gallery. Last year Dance Festival DC took place in ten venues. This year more venues were added to the program to expose the city, not only to our great performers, but also the many arts venues in the District.

Pink Line Projec's New Web Site

If you are looking for the latest happenings in the arts, check it out.....
The Pink Line Project has Launched a New Site Here

http://www.pinklineproject.com/

Pink Line Project presents Edgewood Muralists at Solea Building

Completed Edgewood - a set on Flickr: "Completed Edgewood"

If you missed the official opening of the Edgewood Mural, please see photos by see photos by Mika, Jazi, Dan Rosenstein and Chip Feise.

Meet the artists, Pose 2, Decoy, Chor Boogie, Joshua Mays and Quest Skinner in a comfortable cool place August 27 from 6pm to 8pm. They are presenting their work on canvases along with photos of the past work and ideas for the future. The event is organized by the Pink Line Project and is in the new Solea Building on 1405 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC.

Blake Gopnik - The Story Behind Jim Sanborn's Latest Artwork, 'Terrestrial Physics'

Great article in the Washington Post by Blake Gopnik on Sculptor Jim Sanborn's newest creation.

Art Loves Science!

Blake Gopnik - The Story Behind Jim Sanborn's Latest Artwork, 'Terrestrial Physics' - washingtonpost.com: "Sparking Interest Within the Sphere of Art"

Define Live-Work contest winner

Metasebia Yoseph is the winner of the Define Live-Work contest?
Congratulations!

See the Solea space, which will be transformed by designers Fabian Bernal and Sarah Aburdene, who have been inspired by the winning idea.

Thursday, August 27, 6 to 8 PM
@ Solea Condo Live-Work Space
1405 Florida Avenue, NW

Soundscapes by DJ Gold and Riddle.
Art exhibit by Albus Cavus.
A raffle for art provided by Albus Cavus.

Plus!
"Art Salon" brought to you by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
Featuring: DJ Iwah and Christylez Bacon

Washington debut screening at Hillyer Art Space

International Arts and Artists' Hillyer Art Space presents the Washington debut screening of the film:

Democracy in Dakar A Nomadic Wax and Sol Productions Film about Youth, Hip Hop and Politics in Africa w/ Panel Discussion to follow, featuring:

Magee Mcilvaine (co-producer/director)
Chris Moore (co-producer/director)
Baay Musa (Senegalese MC and star of the film)

Wednesday August 26, 6-8 PM
$5 Admission
RSVP as seating is limited.

International Arts & Artists is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally through exhibitions, programs and services to artists, arts institutions, and the public.

9 Hillyer Court NW
Washington, DC 20008
202.338.0680

Edgewood Mural Dedication

Celebrate the completion of the Edgewood Mural tomorrow. The mural will be officially given to the community by the Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on Monday, August 24th at 4:30pm.

There will performances by the young artists from the Summer Youth Employment Program. The ceremony is in the parking lot of Rhode Island Avenue Center (behind Safeway and CVS) on 540 Rhode Island Ave NE, Washington DC.

"From Edgewood to the Edge of the World" is commissioned by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Art in Public Places Program. Created with assistance of young artists from Summer Youth Employment Program, Beacon House, neighbors and local artists. The featured artists are: Pose 2, Decoy, Chor Boogie, Joshua Mays & Quest Skinner.

Collaboration in the Printmaking Process

Gallery Talk | Collaboration in the Printmaking Process
Dennis O'Neil and Susan Goldman
Sunday, August 23 at 4 pm, free

Waiting for Jimi, Renee Stout


Tops Suite, William Christenberry

As part of the current exhibit, Screenprinting Today / A Regional Survey of Contemporary Screen Prints & Related Works, the Athenaeum presents a Gallery Talk with curator, Dennis O'Neil, of the Hand Print Workshop, and Susan Goldman of Navigation Press this Sunday from 4 to 6 pm. They will discuss collaboration in the printmaking process, illustrating their talk with examples of prints in various stages of production.

In Screeprinting Today, O'Neil has put together a collection of screen prints and related work representing his view of the very best work being done in our region including: Christine Carr, William Christenberry, Georgia Deal, Aaron Fay, Michael Gross, Carolyn Hartmann, Elizabeth Klimek, Alex Kondner, Pepa Leon, Nick Popovici, Chakraphan Rangaratna, Tanja Softic, Renee Stout, and Noelle Tan.

The exhibition is open through September 6th.

Athenaeum
201 Prince Street
Alexandria, Va 22314
703.548.0035
nvfaa.org

BLIND DATE Revealed

For the LottoHEART project, each artist made two works: one was exhibited as part of the game show fundraiser 4th of July weekend – but half was put aside for a lottery program called Blind Date. The event in July was a grand success: with about 100 works from the Blind Date group left. The work is great, and people just need to see it.

Luckily, Gallery C (20 Baltimore Ave, Rehoboth Beach DE) has offered the gallery through September to exhibit the remaining work so lots of folks can see the work. All proceeds to CAMP Rehoboth.

The excitement continues with . . . BLIND DATE Revealed.

BLIND DATE Revealed

Gallery C
20 Baltimore Avenue
Rehoboth Beach DE

August 21 – September 21, 2009

$100 each

Mon-Tue 9-6
Wed-Fri 9-8
Sat-Sun 12-8

Wine Reception Saturday August 29, from 6-8pm

100% of the proceeds to CAMP Rehoboth Community Center

>>>> Visit the Blind Date gallery here!

CAMP Rehoboth is a non-profit, gay and lesbian community service organization, originally developed to “Create A More Positive” relationship among all the people of the Rehoboth Beach area. Over the last 18 years it has grown into a full service community center with a multitude of activities, events, and programs. CAMP Rehoboth, Inc. is tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions and gifts are tax deductible as charitable contributions.

DOWNLOAD "ABOUT CAMP REHOBOTH" HERE
CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

IA&A Artists' Forum

Mark your calendars for this wonderful expression of ideas!
As an artist member, what do you NEED?

Join IA&A Founder and President, David Furchgott and Lachelle Slade, Membership Director for the second International Arts & Artists Artists' Forum!

On Tuesday, August 25th, at 6:30-7:30
Hillyer Art Space (9 Hillyer Ct. NW, DC 20008)

202-338-0680

David Furchgott and Lachelle Slade will be available to address artists' comments, concerns, and listen to suggestions of what you want and need as an artist or arts supporter.

Bring guests with you! Whether they are friends, family, or co-workers, IA&A wants their opinion on what they need and want as an artist or arts supporter!

International Arts & Artists is dedicated to serving the artist community locally, nationally, and internationally. IA&A continues to develop distinct and relevant services designed to enhance careers in the visual arts and to foster a sense of community.

To continually improve the membership program, and through your suggestions, please do not hesitate to inform IA&A of services that you would like offered, suggestions on the improvement of the membership program, or anything else that comes to mind regarding your satisfaction!

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Stay tuned for some exciting news from Pink Line Project... a new website is in the works and it's awesome!! Soon to be your favorite stop for news on the arts that's happening in DC. I'll keep you posted and so will Philippa Hughs.

Pink Rocks!!

Check out hoogrrl's website for art events this week.

Collectors' Choice (formerly known as C-Note Sale)

September 1 - 20, 2009

The Collectors Choice, annual fall fundraiser
Exhibition of donated artworks
@
Greater Reston Arts Center

The Collectors Choice (formerly known as the C-Note Sale), is a fast-paced, lottery-style auction promoting art collecting. It is attended by avid visual art enthusiasts every year from novice and sophisticated collectors from the Northern Virginia and Washington DC metropolitan areas.

Greater Reston Arts Center
12001 Market Street
Suite #103
Reston, VA 20190

Greater Reston Arts Center gallery is CLOSED August 1 - August 31, 2009

Contact:
Erica Harrison, Gallery Manager
703.471.9242

Exploring the Intersection of Art and Technology with FAX

Real-time Fax Submissions from Artists, Creative Thinkers, Students Contribute to Evolving Exhibition

Saturday, September 12 through Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Contemporary Museum will explore the potential of the fax machine as a device for creating, transmitting, and distributing an artist’s ideas and images with FAX, announced Contemporary Museum Executive Director Irene Hofmann. The exhibition will feature more than 120 fax-based works, on view from September 12 through December 20, 2009. The Contemporary is the first institution to host FAX during its national tour.

In FAX, the exhibition’s dedicated fax machine will continually receive and print incoming communications by artists from around the world. As faxed artworks arrive, they will be added to the gallery walls. In addition to the hundreds of faxed images, the exhibition will include the inevitable transmission errors and junk faxes received during the run of the show.

The exhibition invites visitors to explore artists’ creative expression through their drawings and to consider ideas of reproduction, originality and distribution.

FAX will feature works created by more than 120 international artists, designers, architects, scientists, and filmmakers who utilize the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Visitors will see drawings, text, and collage works from contributors including Joseph Grigley, John Armleder, Fia Backstrom, Barbara Bloom, Liam Gillick, Glenn Ligon, and Kay Rosen. Included in the diverse roster of contributing artists are 20 Baltimore-based artists including Hugh Pocock, Leslie Furlong and Soledad Salamé.

For more information about FAX, teenFAX, and the Contemporary Museum, visit www.contemporary.org.

Contemporary Museum
100 West Centre Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

SCULPTURE 1275: Alan Binstock

July 27 – October 2, 2009

Reception with the artist:
Thursday, September 17, 6-8 pm

Alan Binstock, Trance- Ender (detail) Glass and Stainless Steel, 2009
Photo Courtesy Washington Sculptors Group and the artist

Location:
1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004

Exhibition Hours: Monday-Friday 8 am – 8 pm
The exhibition is free and open to the public.

About the Artist
Alan Binstock’s work primarily integrates stone, glass and steel. He constructs forms that evoke a dynamic material tension while simultaneously setting forth a harmonious balance between outer shape and inner structure. In addition to making sculpture, Mr. Binstock has worked as a Registered Architect and Project Manager in several area firms and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for several years. This ongoing education in construction methods and materials, along with his studies in yoga, inform his sculpture and challenge his aesthetic directions. Mr. Binstock was born and raised in the Bronx and currently lives in Mt. Rainier, MD.

About the Curator
Norman Parish was selected by the WSG to serve as a juror for this series of shows. Mr. Parish has owned and operated Parish Gallery-Georgetown in Washington, DC for the past eighteen years. The gallery was opened primarily, but not exclusively, to showcase contemporary visual artists of significance from Africa and the African Diaspora and lesser known local artists. Mr. Parish wanted to show high quality art that had been overlooked and give solo exhibitions to artists who deserved one, but had never had the opportunity. He came to the point of gallery owner having been a painter himself for over forty years.

About the WSG
The Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting an awareness and understanding of sculpture in addition to fostering the exchange of ideas among sculptors, collectors, and the general public. The WSG sponsors frequent events, including artists' panels, presentations, workshops, public programs, and co-sponsors a variety of exhibitions in museums and alternative spaces in the Washington DC area and beyond. Organized in 1983, the work of the WSG is carried out by its Board of Directors, along with its nearly 400 members. For additional information, visit www.washingtonsculptors.org.

Contact the artist:

Alan Binstock
(301) 277-5240
E-mail 

Mural Jam

This Saturday, August 15th, check out (and take part in) Mural Jam, the "capital’s largest public art event" at the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center (next to the Rhode Island Ave Metro station) to see over 100 artists paint a football field-sized wall.

The event is the culmination of local muralists mentoring kids over the past couple months in developing and designing public art. Watch them work from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., or even pick up a brush and join in. The event is free and geared towards all ages. It will feature activities for children, food, a community area for everyone who comes to pick up a brush and paint, and DJs with music for entertainment.

The event is sponsored by Albus Cavus, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program.

Margaret Boozer's 'Dirt Drawings' at Katzen

Express Night Out | Arts & Events | Dirt's Tones and Tales: Margaret Boozer's 'Dirt Drawings'

VISITING THE Katzen Arts Center at American University, one would not expect to see 12,000 pounds of clay lying on the floor. But that's exactly what's at the museum through Sun., part of Margaret Boozer's exhibition "Dirt Drawings."

"Usually, a museum is designed to take care of objects rather than foster their growth and evolution," says Katzen director and curator Jack Rasmussen. "This show is about the artistic process, instead of rows of pots."

Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW; through Sun., Aug. 16; 202-885-1300.

The Common Element: Glass and Sculpture | artdc.com

The Common Element: Glass and Sculpture | artdc.com: "The Common Element: Glass and Sculpture

Opening Saturday, August 15, 2009, 4 PM – 6 PM

Common Element Artists:

Patrick Burke, David Cook, Joe Corcoran, Cheryl P. Derricotte, Nancy Donnelly, Sean Hennessey, Michael Janis, Steven Jones, Brendan Kager, Jennifer Lindstrom, David D’Orio, Anne Plant, Ragan Sheridan, Erwin Timmers, Megan Van Wagoner and Sue Weisenburger.

Hyattsville, MD – For the first time, Washington Glass School and DC Glass Works will join together for a one-of-a-kind exhibit of glass and sculpture, “The Common Element”.

At artdc Gallery in The Lustine Center of Arts District Hyattsville, 16 artists will display their work, consisting of hand-blown glass, molded and welded sculptures, poured aluminum and bronze, and other techniques."

Discover glass and sculpture from the area’s leading artists. Purchase a piece to display in your home or office – or mingle with instructors from both schools.

One of the nation’s leading warm glass studios, The Washington Glass School, has joined forces with the area’s largest hot glass studio DC GlassWorks. This collaboration has delivered an outstanding sculptural exhibition of work by the member artists and instructors.

The Washington Glass School is known for narrative and content-driven glass work, and DC GlassWorks has become an area favorite for sculptural blown glass artwork. Together they integrate the common element.

artdc Gallery
The Lustine Center
Arts District Hyattsville
5710 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20781

Torpedo Factory Art Center - In The Flesh II

Torpedo Factory Art Center - Target Gallery Current Show:

"In The Flesh II • July 22- August 30, 2009
Reception: August 13, 6-8pm - Gallery Talk at 7pm
View the Artwork

Juror's Statement

In The Flesh Part II is an exhibition that focuses on contemporary figurative art. This exhibition opportunity attracted close to 300 artists from around the country and world providing the juror with well over 830 images with which to choose for this exhibition. Our juror chose 27 works mostly two-dimensional paintings, drawings, mixed media, and photography but also a couple of three-dimensional works, one of which is a very large installation piece.

Juror, Andrea Pollan is the founder and curator of the Curator’s Office in Washington DC. Pollan is a well-respected expert in the art field. She has organized over 135 exhibitions of contemporary art both regionally and nationally and has written numerous catalogs and exhibition brochures. Her business, Curator’s Office was identified in December 2006’s Vanity Fair as an important player in “The Art Universe.”

The Target Gallery, national exhibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center, is located on the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, VA.

Phillips After 5

"The Phillips Collection continues their Phillips After 5 events every Thursday through August. Tonight enjoy snacks from Fresh Farm Markets, DJ Danny Harris of Fatback D.C., a screening of the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (6 p.m.), and gallery talks on Blitzkreig Shock: Postwar Trauma’s Effect On Painting (6 and 7 p.m.)."
Source: http://dcist.com

Check Out - New Arlington Cultural Center

A segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now", "Artscape" takes a look at all things cultural around Arlington. In this episode, Philippa Hughes, founder of the Pink Line Project, and Jon Palmer Claridge, Program Director for Arlington Cultural Affairs, offer a behind the scenes tour of the new Arlington Cultural Center, scheduled to open in the fall of 2010.

SUMMER DOCK

paintings, prints, works on paper

August 8 - 29, 2009

Dawn Black
Charles Cohan
Peter Fox
Jason Hughes
J.W. Mahoney
Kate McGraw
Jiha Moon
Beverly Ress
Eduardo Santiere
Chris Scarborough
Ann Tarantino
McGraw & Tarantino
Andy Moon Wilson


curator's office
1515 14th Street nw
suite 201
washington, dc 20005

+ 202.387.1008 tel
www.curatorsoffice.com

In The Flesh II, at Target Gallery

Northern Virginia Art Beat | Falls Church News-Press Online

Corporeal Art

By Kevin Mellema

In The Flesh II, at Target Gallery (in the Torpedo Factory), 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. The event runs through August 30. The gallery is open Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., with extended evening hours on Thursdays until 9 p.m. For more details, call 703-838-456, ext. 4, or see

www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/target.htm.

Alison Oaks’ “Bruise and Bra.” (Photo: Courtesy Target Gallery)

Note: Reception with juror's talk will be held

Thursday, Aug. 13, from 5 – 6 p.m.

Six in the Mix: Artists and Curators Discussion

Moderated by Fred Joiner

Wednesday August 12th, 2009, 6-8PM

$5 Admission

Join Hillyer Art Space for a unique opportunity to glimpse into the minds and ideas behind the work of Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout, which features the work of Cianne Fragione, Adam Griffiths, Kenyatta Hinkle, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent!

IA&A's Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court NW
Washington, DC 20008
T. 202.338.0680

"My Space on 7th"

August 12 - September 4, 2009

featuring 90 local artists
Opening Reception:
Friday, August 14, 6 - 8:30pm

This is the third year for My Space on 7th. It’s a unique, non-juried opportunity for local artists to exhibit at Touchstone Gallery. In a short time, My Space on 7th has become a gallery tradition. Due to proposed renovations for the 406 7th St building, this might be the last My Space on 7th.

Artists participating: Sangeeta Agrawal, Nataliya Andreyeva, Neyla Arnas, Keith Arnold, Olu Babalola, Crystal Banks, David Barr, Mark Behme, Pat Bennett, Gary Bergel, Olga Berman, Carl Bettenhausen, Harmon Biddle, Wendy Bridges, Marsha Brown, Kirstin L Bruner, Alza Burd, Pierre Cartier, Adam Chamy, Zhee Chatmon, Anne Cherubim, Rob Chester, Mark S. Chevalier, James Coates, Ceci Cole McInturff, Michele Cormier, Charlie Dale, Anthony Dortch, Matt Dunn, Derran Eaddy, Linda Elliff, Michelle Fatovic, Alex Feshenko, Isabelle Spicer, Kim Frietze, Kent Gay, Eric M. Ginsburg, Marcia Green, JoAnne Growney, Jackie Hoysted, Sandra Humphrey, Carin A. Jackson, Jessica Jastrzebski, jodi, Linda Keller, David Korte, David A. Kosar, Radha Krishnakumar, Mary D. Lambert, Paula Lantz, Emery J. Lewis, Mary Mallia, Frank M. Mancino, Amy Marshall, JoAnn McInnis, Ivan Mendizabal, Mark Mennie, Anita Merina, David Mills, Del Moran, Kiran Mukunda, Carlos Munoz, Natalie Oguara, Mary D. Ott, Samuel Pastore, Wendy Plotkin-Mates, Keith Ramsey, Juvale Regala, Marina Reiter, Neil Rogers, Pam Rogers, Julia Rosenbaum, Deborah Saks, Zakhar Sasim, Peter Schechter, Charles A. Sessoms, Amelia Shachoy, Paul Sharratt, Janathel Shaw, Raju Singh, John Sislin, Destry Sparks, Aaron Spindler, Ulrich Stein, Elena Tchernomazova, Dana Thompson, Sally ShangMing Tsou, Caroline Urbania, Susan Van Pool and Monica Wise.

Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street NW 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: 202.347.2787
Fax: 202.347.3339

Innocence & Arrogance: The Art of Arabella Proffer and Brandi Read.

These two pop-surrealist and neo-realist women artists have teamed up to create an exciting exhibition of Punks, Goths, Muses, Models and Royalty. Both artists’ exquisitely rendered subjects go beyond the typical portrait, encompassing uniquely distinctive vitality and style, and exposing viewers to both of their whimsical insights and flights of imagination.

Saturday, August 15th, from 6pm – Midnight
Art Whino
173 Waterfront St.
National Harbor, MD 20745

Show end date: September 14th

Music by DJ Rick Taylor of We Fought The Big One
and DJ Sequential of Screen Vinyl Image

The event is FREE and open to the public.

The Common Element: Glass and Sculpture

The Common Element: Glass and Sculpture
August 15- September 6, 2009

Reception August 15, 2009, 4-6 pm

An exhibit of glass artwork from artists of the Washington Glass School and DC GlassWorks are featured in a show that links the two DC-area glass institutions:The Common Element.

Hosted by the organization ArtDC.org (in their new Hyattsville gallery at the Lustine Center), the collaborative spirit of the two studios is celebrated in this groundbreaking art show.

Artists include: Patrick Burke, David Cook, Joe Corcoran, Cheryl P. Derricotte, Nancy Donnelly, Sean Hennessey, Michael Janis, Steven Jones, Brendan Kager, Jennifer Lindstrom, David D'Orio, Anne Plant, Ragan Sheridan, Erwin Timmers, Megan Van Wagoner and Sue Weisenburger.

Nancy Donnelly, Back to Back, glass

ARTDC Gallery
5710 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20781
301-209-0116

Irvine Contemporary Art’s Introductions5

This Saturday marks the opening of Irvine Contemporary's Introductions5. The event is the fifth annual exhibition of works by recent art college graduates from around the nation. The exhibition is designed to bring a highly select group of new artists from leading art college programs to Washington, D.C. The eight invited artists for this year’s Introductions were selected from leading MFA programs across the US.

Opening Reception with Artists: 6-8pm

Collectors’ Preview: 1-5pm

Discussion with Artists: 5-6pm



Artists:
Jonathan Dankenbring MFA, Indiana University

John Hill, Jr. MFA, Univeristy of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Christopher LaVoie MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art

Paris Mavroidis MFA, Pratt Institute

Matt Sartain MFA, Academy of Art University, San Fransisco

Wayne Toepp MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art

Yi-Hsin Tzeng MFA, Savannah College of Art and Design

Stacey Lee Webber MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Irvine Contemporary

1412 14th St., NW, near P St., in the 14th Street Arts Corridor and Logan Circle area of Washington, DC.

VMFA: Exhibitions: STRANGER THAN PARADISE

VMFA: Exhibitions: STRANGER THAN PARADISE: Josephine Haden

“The magic moment is to finish a piece and like what you see,” says Josephine Haden, whose work will be on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts June 5 - Sep 13, 2009 in an exhibition titled Stranger Than Paradise."

"Haden lives in Arlington, Va., and was the winner of a 2009 VMFA Fellowship."

The exhibition will be on view in VMFA’s Pauley Center through Sep 13, 2009.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 N. Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220-4007

Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout

Hillyer Art Space
Exhibition | July 3rd - August 26

First Friday Reception: August 7, 2009, 6-9PM

Live performance by Deon "CleanCutt" Clark

Food and refreshments will be served

$5 suggested donation


Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout brings together a divergent company of D.C. and Baltimore's emerging and mid-career artists for Hillyer Art Space's summer program. This show will feature the work of Cianne Fragione, Kenyatta Hinkle, Adam Griffiths, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent.

Stout has set out to create a mixed bag of local talent not based in the obligatory conceptual framework predominantly exhibited in group shows. Instead of the varying inspiration and ideas behind the individual bodies of work, it is the "natural dialogue that may occur between these works" which Stout would like the audience to experience.


International Arts & Artists | 9 Hillyer Court NW | Washington | DC | 20008

Almost Surely, Almost Everywhere at Hamiltonian Gallery

Hamiltonian Gallery and curator Rebecca Jones are pleased to present “Almost Surely, Almost Everywhere”, a group exhibition featuring works by Echo Eggebrecht, Ken Fandell, Billy Friebele and Hamiltonian Fellow Mike Dax Iacovone. The exhibition runs from August 8 until September 12, 2009, with an opening reception on Saturday, August 8, from 7 – 9 p.m.

Each of the artists in this exhibition investigates the experiential nature of humankind's existence within a world of immeasurable space, infinite possibilities and continual journeys. The terms “almost surely” and “almost everywhere” are encountered in probability theory where questions involving infinity are posed. Through the use of physical acts, mediated images and painterly expressions of the mysteries of intangible space and time in our physical world, this group of works presents attempts to approach the stability of “sureness”, the absolute encompassment of “everywhere” and the enigmatic results of these endeavors.

Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW (14th and U Streets)
Washington, DC 2009
202.332.1116

Mounting Pressure for DC Galleries - News - News & Opinion - Art in America

Kriston Capps writes about the relocation plans of a 14th Street Gallery.

Mounting Pressure for DC Galleries - Opinion - Art in America
by Kriston Capps

G Fine Art, widely acknowledged as one of the premiere contemporary art galleries in Washington, D.C., will close in August. Housed on the second floor of a three-story galleries building, the gallery—whose stable features some of the most innovative and visible artists in the metropolitan area—will not renew its release after its current show closes, according to gallery director Annie Gawlak.

A Future For Journalism About The Arts - diacritical

A Future For Journalism About The Arts - diacritical:

"In the past couple of years, half of all the staff arts journalism jobs in the US have been eliminated. In some cases, newspapers offloading their staff critics have replaced them with freelancers. In some cases, the freelancers have done a better job than the staffers they have replaced. But mostly not."

So the Annenberg School for Communication at USC and the National Arts Journalism Program are holding a summit on the future of arts journalism October 2. They're looking for projects that are trying to become that brilliant next model.
-Douglas McLennan's blog @ diacritical July 11, 2009

Summer Delight at Foundry Gallery

Annual Summer Exhibit
Summer Delight

August 5—August 30, 2009

Opening Reception: August 7, 2009, 6-8pm

www.foundrygallery.org

Participating artists:
Doris Kennedy, Donna K. McGee, Fran Abrams, Martin Slater, Ron Riley, Ann Stein, Jenny Brake, and Barbara Bell


F o u n d r y G a l l e r y
1314 18th Street NW, 1st Floor
Washington, DC 20036

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to Open Anne Truitt Survey in October

Washington, D.C. (July 2, 2009) - The first survey of the work of the late Yaddo sculptor Anne Truitt, long considered a pioneering figure in the development of American abstract art, will open in October at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn and Sculpture Garden.

"Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection" will be on view October 8, 2009 - January 3, 2010. It will feature more than 35 two-dimensional works alongside 49 painted sculptures that were the hallmark of the artist's 40-year career. The exhibition, which will be accompanied by the only complete monograph on the artist to date, will trace the arc of Ms. Truitt's career from initial abstract sculptures through pieces made only weeks before her death at age 83 in 2004. The fully illustrated book has essays by Curator Kristen Hileman and James Meyer, Winship Distinguished Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University, and a chronology of the artist's life and career.

"This exhibition is a long-awaited look at the depth and scope of this significant artist's work," said Richard Koshalek, director of the museum. "We are pleased to present this exhibition here on the National Mall and to recognize her unique contribution to art history."

A separate gallery in the museum will feature the short film Anne Truitt: Working by Jem Cohen, a Yaddo colleague and friend of Ms. Truitt. The film includes images of Truitt's studios in Washington, D.C., and at Yaddo, and features the artist working and speaking about her practice and the role of color in her art.

A recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Ms. Truitt was an influential professor at the University of Maryland at College Park (1975-1996) and the author of three acclaimed autobiographical journals – Daybook (1982), Turn (1986), and Prospect (1996). She was a Yaddo guest artist more than a dozen times between 1974 and 2003, a longtime Member of The Corporation of Yaddo, and served as the acting executive director of Yaddo in 1984.

For exhibition hours and related programs, please click here.

For more information about Ms. Truitt and additional images of her work, click here.

Source: http://yaddo.org/yaddo/AnneTruittSurvey.shtml