Thursday, February 15, 2007

Josephine Haden in New York

Concurrent with the 2007 Armory Show in New York, Denise Bibro Fine Art (NY) will be showing Arlington, Virginia Artist, JOSEPHINE HADEN's work at the RED DOT Art Fair, February 23-26, at the Park South Hotel, 122 East 28th Street (between Park and Lexington) in New York City.

Please take the opportunity to visit the fair and see her work.

Josephine Haden / www.hadenart.com

Warm Up to a Museum

This Cultural Tourism DC program features 50 exhibits, tours, music, and film designed to warm body and soul at more than 30 organizations located across DC. Explore all the city's museums have to offer during this quiet, wintery time of year.

MID CITY ARTISTS AT RESULTS GALLERY

You are invited to an Opening Reception for The MID CITY ARTISTS Annual Winter Exhibition. February 15, 2007 from 6:30 – 8:30pm at Results the Gym Capitol Hill, 315 G St. SE, Washington, DC USA

Exhibit runs through March 31, 2007 – for hours and directions contact Results at 202-234-5678.

This exhibit features the works of 24 of Washington, DC’s most respected artists with studios in the Dupont and Logan Circle areas of the City. The show contains over 100 pieces of art in various medium – oils, pastels, sculpture, glass, textiles, and photography. See www.midcityartists.com for more information about the Mid City Artists.

Exhibiting artists: Chuck Baxter, Robert Cole, Joan Belmar, Jeff Code, Scott Davis, Robert Dodge, Gary Fisher, Glenn Fry, Charlie Gaynor, Charlie Jones, Bridget Sue Lambert, Marc Monteleone, Lucinda Murphy, Betto Ortiz, Mark Parascandola, Byron Peck, Brian Petro, Marina Reiter, Nicolas Shi, Steven Stichter, John Talkington, Anita Walsh, Robert Wiener & Colin Winterbottom;

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

"Tonight's the Night"

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY Copyright © 2007 Anne Marchand. All rights reserved.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

"All Things Said, in Motion"

February 17th — March 17th
Opening reception: Saturday, Feb 17th, 6pm—9pm
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Exhibition opens this Saturday
Randall Scott Gallery | 1326 14th Street NW | Washington | DC | 20005

"All Things Said, in Motion" is a group exhibition of International artists who utilize motion in their work in one form or another. This exhibition will feature three artists working in video, a kinetic installation and a series of photographs.

Artists:
Silas Barrett
Rob Carter
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain
Dane Picard
Ryan Wolfe
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Randall Scott Gallery
info@randallscottgallery.com
202-332-0806
http://www.randallscottgallery.com

Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm
Cross streets are 14th Street NW and Rhode Island near Logan Circle.
(Second floor, above Thai Tanic Restaurant.)

Monday, February 12, 2007

SCULPTURE NOW - 2007

Washington Sculptors Group

DATES: February 5 - May 4, 2007
JUROR: Ramon Osuna, Osuna Art
Opening Reception Thursday, February 15, 6-8:30pm
Juror's Talk and Sculpture NOW 2007 PRIZE presented at 7:15pm


Washington Square,
1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW at L St.
Washington, DC 20036
(Red Line Metro - Farrugut North)

Sunday, February 11, 2007

A Bold Break With Its Past

Paul Greenhalgh Hopes Ambitious 'Modernism' Show Will Help Him Remake The Corcoran Gallery
By Blake Gopnik in today's WaPo. Read here.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Man about Town, Jack Rasmussen


Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator, American University Museum at the Katzen is the man about town this week as one of six curators at last nights WPA\C 2007 ART AUCTION GALA, Pre-Primed Artist Party and Curator Talks at the Corcoran and juror at tonights reception for the 9th Annual All-Media Exhibition at the Touchstone Gallery. It's good to have Mr. Rasmussen in our midst and to see the quality of work that he brings to light.

WPA\C 2006 ART AUCTION GALA
Saturday, February 10, 6:30-11pm
Please contact Amy Kraushaar, at akraushaar@corcoran.org for more information on the WPA\C 2007 Art Auction Gala. 202.639.1828

Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
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9th ANNUAL ALL-MEDIA EXHIBITION

Exhibition Dates: February 7 - March 3, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, February 9, from 6-8:30 pm
3rd Thursday reception: February 15, from 6-8:00pm

Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
202-347-2787
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"Jack Rasmussen is Director and Curator of the American University Museum, a 30,000 square foot exhibition space in the new Katzen Arts Center, dedicated to putting Washington-based art in a global context. Dr. Rasmussen began his career in 1975 as Assistant Director of the Washington Project for the Arts in Washington, DC. He left this position to open the Jack Rasmussen Gallery, one of the first commercial galleries to move to downtown Washington. He then helped conceive, launch and operate the Rockville Arts Place, served for ten years as the Executive Director of Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, and three years as Executive Director of the di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, a contemporary art museum and natural habitat in Napa, California, before moving back to Washington in 2004 to open the American University Museum."

A Couple of Days in Washington, DC

Owners Laura and Rob Jones of Migration: A Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia, tour some of DC's Galleries. Read their impressions here.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

DC Shorts Film Festival 2006

Best of DC Shorts 2006 Film Festival

Friday, February 9th
Saturday, February 10th
7:00 – 9:00pm

At the United States Navy Memorial's Heritage Center
701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Enter from the Plaza
Metro: Archives/Navy Mem’l/Penn Quarter

Best First-Time Filmmaker and Audience Choice Winner
Victoria
Drama, 6:11
An eighty year old woman reflects on her past during the last hours of her life

Best Woman Director and Audience Choice Winner
Vagabond Shoes
Musical, 18:06
A chance occurrence gives Alex, an enigmatic homeless man,the opportunity to enter a high society gathering

Best Local Film
Bone Mixers
Documentary, 22:44
An unlikely group of individuals united by their love of the game called dominoes

Filmmaker’s Choice and Audience Choice Winner
Artistic License
Comedy, 23:00
David Milken takes the license photos at the DMV and he takes his job very, very seriously

Festival Director’s Choice
Dirty Mary
Comedy, 19:00
Based on the true story…of a dirty, dirty, girl!

Audience Choice Winner
Full Disclosure
Romantic Comedy, 16:00
Everett decides to reveal every terrible habit, attitude, and hang-up on the First Date

Audience Choice Winner
A Short History of Sweet Potato Pie and How It Became A Flying Saucer
Documentary, 17:25

The true life story of Pearl Mallory’s Sweet Potato Pie and its magical effect on the elderly residents of St. Mary’s Court Retirement Community

Audience Choice Winner
Zombie-American
Comedy, 8:27
A plea for tolerance and acceptance, this educational documentary helps audiences understand some of the challenges zombies face in our society

Advance ticket sales
www.dcshorts.com/bestof
Each screening $10
(cash only at the Navy Memorial if seats are available)

Funds will help defer the 2008 festival entry costs for many up and coming filmmakers
After the screenings, descend upon a local Penn Quarter neighborhood restaurant for an informal get together

DC Shorts Film Festival
1317 F Street NW
www.dcshorts.com

MARC MONTELEONE at Embassy of Switzerland


Swiss painter Marc Monteleone will exhibit a series of his recent paintings at the Embassy of Switzerland. He is a member of the Mid-City Artists of Washington, DC, and his paintings are in public and private collections throughout Europe.

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 8, 6:30 pm
Event Dates: Friday, Feb. 9, 2007 - Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007 during office hours

Embassy of Switzerland
2900 Cathedral Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008

Reservation or RSVP: Reservations required : 202 745-7928/29 or culture@was.rep.admin.ch

ArtatAxis, the District’s Newest Art Space

Charles Krause / Reporting Fine Art
_________presents____________
“LENSES”
New Work by Chilean Artist Joan Belmar
To Inaugurate ArtatAxis Feb. 11
Feb 11 - March 11. 2007
Cronica. 2006. 14” x 14” x 4”

Come take a look: Sunday, February 11th, 5 to 8 p.m.
ArtatAxis, 1509 Connecticut Ave. NW

Charles Krause: Reporting Fine Art is proud to present the lyrical Mylar constructions of Chilean born, Washington based artist Joan Belmar.Belmar’s translucent sculptures are in the tradition of the abstract wooden boxes created 50 years ago by Louise Nevelson, yet completely fresh and original in their use of color and materials to achieve an almost shimmering effect. Although Belmar’s new work is still relatively unknown in Washington, he was recently nominated by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities as finalist for its prestigious outstanding emerging artist of the year award, to be presented by Mayor Adrian Fenty on March 19th at the Kennedy Center.

One of Belmar’s drawings is included in the District of Columbia’s new permanent collection in the Wilson Building and one of his new constructions has been selected to be auctioned at the Feb. 10th Corcoran/WPA Gala. For “Lenses,” his upcoming exhibit on Connecticut Avenue, Belmar will for the first time play with light to give his work an even more brilliantly translucent quality. Axis, long known for creative installations in its prominent Dupont Circle windows, will be the host location for Joan Belmar's exhibit. A rare example of imaginative and thought provoking Washington window display, the Washington Post has likened the salon's Connecticut Avenue windows to those of Barneys New York. Increasingly artists have had their talents displayed in the tall bay windows of the salon and Axis is pleased to provide exposure for emerging artists. "Lenses" marks the first time Axis has hosted an exhibition.

Belmar’s work will inaugurate ArtatAxis, the District’s newest art space, located in the Axis Salon at 1509 Connecticut Avenue NW. ArtatAxis, which intends to host a series of exhibitions this year featuring emerging artists from the Washington area, is a not-for- profit collaboration with Charles Krause, a long time collector and former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, CBS News and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. All proceeds from the sale of art work will remain with the artist whose work is displayed in these series of exhibitions.

For more information, call:
Charles Krause
202-638-3612 or 202-412-2324
charleskrause@surfglobal.net

HipHop Community Arts Initiative

The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities has a new grant program, HipHop Community Arts Initiative. For application guidelines visit, http://www.dcarts.dc.gov. Included is information about eligibility and recommended workshops scheduled for February 15th and February 28th. The deadline to submit an application is Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 7:00 pm.

Contact:
Lisa Richards
Arts Program Coordinator
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
410 Eighth Street, NW, Fifth Floor
Washington, DC 20004
T (202) 724-5613 F (202)727-4135
www.dcarts.dc.gov
lisa.richards@dc.gov

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Northern light/Nordic Visions

Exhibition Dates: February 9, 2007 — April 20, 2007

Reception: Friday, February 9, 2007, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
at 9 Hillyer Court NW
(Dupont Metro Station
on the Red Line
North Exit)

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Travis Price, AIA, Lecture at National Building Museum

Lecture: The Archaeology of Tomorrow: Architecture and the Spirit of Place
Monday, February 5, 6:30 – 8:00pm

In his three decades as an architect, author, educator, and philosopher, Travis Price, AIA, has developed an architecture informed by ecology and mythology that restores spirit of place to modern design. His projects worldwide — including the world’s largest solar-powered building (the Tennessee Valley Authority’s one-million-square-foot complex) — and his design/build expeditions that include a floating house on the Amazon and a star-gazing temple at Machu Picchu, suggest alternatives to homogenization in the American landscape and around the globe. After the lecture, he will sign copies of his book The Archaeology of Tomorrow: Architecture and the Spirit of Place).

This lecture is held in conjunction with The Green House, which will be open for viewing. $12 Members and students; $20 nonmembers; pre-paid registration required; walk-in registration based on availability

To register for programs, visit the Museum's website www.nbm.org/

National Building Museum
401 F Street, NW
202.272.2448
Metro: Judiciary Square

Strange Weather

New Paintings by Joy Garnett
Artist Lecture and Reception

National Academy of Sciences
Thursday, February 8, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Joy Garnett speaks about her ongoing series of landscapes based on photographs collected from the Internet. Unreal-seeming images of environmental catastrophes provoked by a changing climate are re-cast as paintings where geological, political, and social weather are inextricably intertwined.

At the National Academies’ Keck Center
500 Fifth Street, NW

No charge

National Academy of Sciences
500 Fifth St NW
www.nationalacademies.org/arts
202.334.2436

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Last day for "Knitting in the Nude"

WaPo notes...CLOSING Knitting in the Nude It's the last chance to catch the revived 2005 sculpture exhibition that set off all kinds of controversy at a downtown office building because one of the artists' crochet dolls were anatomically correct. Ming Yi Sung's piece, called "Settlement With Monkeys," and others are at Nevin Kelly Gallery through today. Free. Noon-8 p.m. today and tomorrow. 1517 U St. NW. 202-232-3464.

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

Transformer opening tonight

Opening reception of Seen
- an installation of photographic work by DC based artists Lely Constantinople and Antonia Tricarico that explores their use of photography to bear witness, journalize, document, make connection and homage to people, places and things seen through travels and everyday life.

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, February 3, 2007, 7-9pm
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, February 17, 2007, 2 pm
EXHIBITION HOURS: Wednesday – Saturday, 1–7pm & by appointment

Transformer
1404 P Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-483-1102

Email us:
info@transformergallery.org

Friday, February 02, 2007

Holding Our Own

Selections from The Collectors Club of Washington, DC
an Exhibition of African American Art

Pepco - Edison Place Gallery
Through March 2
Wednesday – Saturday, noon – 4:00pm

Friday, February 23, 6:00pm
Collectors Club Panel Discussion
Edison Place Conference Center
701 Ninth Street, NW
No Charge
RSVP 202.872.3396


Pepco
Edison Place Gallery
8th Street, NW between G and H streets
(north of the garage entrance)
202.872.3396
Metro: Gallery Pl–Chinatown, 9th Street exit

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Apply for a Grant

CREATIVE CAPITAL 2007–08
GRANTS IN FILM/VIDEO & VISUAL ARTS

OPEN FOR SUBMISSION: FEBRUARY 5 – MARCH 5, 2007

If you are working on an exciting film/video or visual arts project, we encourage you to apply in our upcoming grant round. For general information and guidelines, please visit: http://creative-capital.org/application/

To apply for a Creative Capital grant, you must first submit an Inquiry Form regarding your project. Tell us how, in conjunction with a Creative Capital grant, it will be catalytic for your artistic and professional growth. In addition, you will need to describe the influences that inform your work and how your work takes an inventive and original approach to form and content. Be prepared to present a basic budget and to identify the audience(s) for your project and any possible presenting venues.

The Guidelines and Inquiry Form for Film/Video and Visual Arts will be available on the Creative Capital website on February 5, 2007. Inquiry Forms must be submitted by March 5, 2007. It will be available at http://creative-capital.org/application/

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Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing adventurous and imaginative work in the performing and visual arts, film/video, innovative literature, and emerging fields. In 2007, Creative Capital will be considering proposals in the visual arts and film/video.

Far from a traditional funder, Creative Capital is committed to working in long-term partnership with the bold and ground-breaking artists that we fund by making a multi-year financial commitment as well as providing advisory services and professional development assistance. We have a special interest in projects that transcend discipline boundaries and reveal something new about the moment in which we live. For more information, please visit http://www.creative-capital.org/ .