“Making HerStory 6” Art Exhibition Opens This Week

The ThickArt Collaborative with Authentic Contemporary Art and The Center For Green Urbanism Presents “Making HerStory 6”, the Annual Celebration of Women in the Arts–a month full of various unifying events celebrating women artists in all genres. The celebration will take place at The Center for Green Urbanism, 3938 Benning Road, NE in Washington, DC’s Ward 7, March 1-31, 2011.

Making HerStory celebrates the vast and diverse forms of creativity offered by women artists. With this being the sixth year of Making HerStory, the creators have found a renewed energy among many of the artists in the Making HerStory family. This year’s theme is The Era of Our Dreams, exemplifying a new energy arising from the ashes of the last decade’s struggles, into a new era. Making HerStory 6 is about collaboration, growth, and sustainability.

The Making HerStory 6 series will kick off with a Grand Opening Reception Friday, March 4, 2011, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm at the Center for Green Urbanism, 3938 Benning Road, NE, Washington, DC. This event will feature music mixed by female online syndicated radio DJ, DJ Fusion of Fuse Box Radio and refreshments by the female foodies at Art.Food.Life.

Artists Participating in Herstory 6 include:

Jade Andwele
Prudence Bonds
Karen Buster
Anne Cherubim
Zandra Chestnut
Sandra Davis
Carla Jupiter
Bonnie MacAllisterr
Elsa Geybresus
Suzanne Nejir Tutu
Anike Robinson
Ann Thompson
Sherry Ways
Shawn Yancy
Heather Schmaedeke

For more information about Making HerStory 6, Please visit the website at http://makingherstoryartseries.blogspot.com/

DC Art Openings

Hamtdaa: Together 

Exploring the Art and Culture of Arlington's Mongolian-American Community

March 3 – May 1
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, March 3, 6– 9PM
Terrace Gallery @ Artisphere
1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington VA 22209
(703) 875-1100

Together features the work of renowned visual artist and Arlingtonian Gankhuyag Natsag, whose Tsam dance masks, ceremonial costumes and paintings speak to Mongolia's ancient traditions and contemporary experiences. Accompanied by a multi-faceted program of performances, workshops, films and community celebrations, this exhibition is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Zenith Gallery's 33rd Anniversary Exhibit
LISTEN TO ME
SCULPTURE AND PAINTINGS BY JOEL D'ORAZIO
MEET THE ARTIST RECEPTION- Wednesday, March 2, 5:30-8:00 PM
Show Dates:  February 7- May 13, 2011
at The Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Sculpture, art chairs and abstract painting are the hightlight of this exhibition of work by architect turned painter/sculptor, Joel D'Orazio.  New as a Zenith Gallery artist, D'Orazio will be featured in a solo show, Listen to Me, at the Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, curated by Zenith Gallery.
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"Cultural Landscapes"
Painter
SHARON GERACI
 
 OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, March 4th 6-8 PM

Showing through March 15, 2011

"My work is about understanding the complexities of people, both as individuals and as societies.  We are all the product of mixing and matching over eons, despite any specific identity to which we attach ourselves. In a world driven by technology, instant communication further blurs the lines between viewpoints, causes, social orders and cultures. It allows us to observe and experience things far beyond the confines of our immediate environment. I believe that humankind, much like the physical environment, is a continuum of changing features.  Ultimately those influences from afar seep into our being and shape our relationship to the world."

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Parish Gallery

Georgetown

1054 31st St. NW

Washington, DC 20007

202-944-2310 

www.parishgallery.com

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Susan Finsen, Peggy Williams and Rosabel Goodman-Everard - solo shows.New Work at The Arts Club of Washington
March 2 - 26 
Opening reception: Friday, March 4, from 6:30-8:30.

The juror for these solo shows, Christopher With, formerly at the National Gallery of Art, will give a talk at 7:15 about the three shows, and the artists will answer questions about their work.
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The Arts Club of Washington, located at 2017 "I" Street NW, Washington DC, in the historic James Monroe House.
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Touchstone Gallery
 March 2 - 27
Opening Reception: Friday, March 4, 6:00 - 8:30pm
 
Surfaces - Paintings by Michele Cormier
Michele Cormier's paintings capture urban surfaces transformed, over time, from erosion, decay, and daily foot traffic leaving behind layers of history and evidence of life

Inspiration - Paintings by Betsy Forster
The inspiration of Betsy's work is the nature that she loves - from trees and valleys to mountains and hills

Touchstone Gallery
901 New York Avenue, NW
202.347.2787
www.touchstonegallery.com
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"CYCLES" - curated by Adam Griffiths.
Feb. 28 - Mar. 26
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard, Helina Metaferia, Rosalind Alumnah, & Students from Mixed Media Artist Residency*

Opening Reception: Fri., March 4, from 6 - 8 pmMeet the artists and hear music
by David Hubbard & Bob Lash, Sky High Radio.

This Residency was presented by grantees, Marcie Wolf-Hubbard and the Montgomery County Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, in partnership with The Silver Spring Wellness & Recovery Center at Affiliated Santé Group. Funding for this program was made possible through the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, MD
http://www.takomaparkmd.gov/directions.html
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Washington Studio School presents Atelier Exhibit & Reception
Stunning Works of Atelier Artists
February 16-March 18 
Artists' Reception: Friday, March 4, 6pm-8pm 

Jill Bateman, Mimi Coxson, Phyllis Dillinger, Laurel Dugan, Brenda Fox, Mary Freedman, Gail Goodman, Peggy Greene, Pat Kraniotis, Sally Levie, Karen Lohr, Michele Lurie, Jill Phillips, Carol Rubin, Phyllis Ruffer, Suzanne Shwetz, Wendy Smith, Lynne Van Dyke
 
Meet the artists. Discuss their works. Light refreshment.
RSVP  admin[at]washingtonstudioschool.org or 202-234-3030
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Washington Studio School
2129 S Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
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Washington Printmakers Gallery  
Reflections Past and Present - Prints by Lila Oliver Asher 
March 2-27
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 5, 1-4 pm
Artist's Printmaking Demonstration: 
Saturday, March 12, 2-2:30 pm
@
Washington Printmakers Gallery | Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 2nd Floor | 8230 Georgia Ave | Silver Spring, MD 20910
 301.273.3660 | info[at]washingtonprintmakers.com
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Emerging Visions: a sense of place in celebration of Youth Art Month. This annual show offers Fairfax County high school artists the experience and recognition of exhibiting their work in a professional gallery. Students from Herndon and South Lakes High Schools created all works specifically for Emerging Visions.

March 4 – April 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 5, 5 – 7pm

Emerging Visions: a sense of place is sponsored by Eileen Lyons Murphy.
To view Journey visit: http://www.restonarts.org/Archives/Journey.htm
 @
GreaterRestonArtsCenter
Reston Town Center
12001 Market Street
Suite #103
Reston, VA 20190
703.471.9242
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Last Weekend!!
John M. Adams / Finding Zero
January 6 through February 27
John M. Adams' work activates the perceptual connection between artist, object (or environment), and viewer. The paintings reflect a meditative process of repetitive mark making through the transparent layers of subtle atmospheric and textured surfaces. These chaotic marks are juxtaposed with the structure of a regulated rhythm of horizontal lines.  The combination resonates with a quiet vibration that propels the viewer into an image whose color scheme and composition remain ambiguously familiar, as if from an incomplete memory that is nonetheless vivid.

Ruth Trevarrow / Bare Bones
March 3 through April 10, 2011
Opening Reception / Sunday, March 6, 4:00 to 6:00 pm (free)
Artists' Talk / Sunday, March 20, 4:00 to 6:00 pm (free)
@
Athenaeum
201 Prince Street, Alexandria, Va 22314
703.548.0035 / nvfaa.org
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REFLECTIONS is inspired by local artist Bob Benson and his work at the American Visionary Art Museum. The ARTiculate Arts have used similar techniques to create their own "Mirror Art."

Gallery and Artist Reception: March 10, 2011 from 5:30p.m.- 7:30p.m.
VSA ARTiculate Gallery is located 1100 16th Street NW Washington DC..

For more information:
Call 202-261-0204 or email :gallery@vsadc.org

Robin Rose at the Second Street Gallery

Hemphill announces Robin Rose's solo exhibition, Crescendo, at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA.

Crescendo addresses the mythical and mystical subtext of popular musical culture. Rose is best known for his encaustic paintings, but he also achieved some success in the 1980s as a member of the band the Urban Verbs, a frequent performer at CBGB’s and the 930 Club. His recent artwork, however, marks a shift away from the two dimensional. Consisting largely of assembled works, these recent “sculptures” use, and subvert, the technology of rock and pop music such as speakers, amplifiers, and instruments themselves. The installation at Second Street Gallery will also include four new paintings.

Crescendo
March 4 - 27, 2011
Opening Reception with artist talk:
Friday, March 4, 5:00 - 7:30 pm

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Second Street Gallery

115 Second Street SE

Charlottesville, VA 22902

434-977-7284

www.secondstreetgallery.org

Image: Robin Rose, Distorted Mandala, 2010, 25 guitar distortion effects pedals with red, yellow, green, blue and purple cords, 6' diameter  
Hemphill, 1515 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005.

WPA 2011 Art Auction Exhibition and Gala

WPA 2011 Art Auction Exhibition and Gala
February 19 - March 11, 2011
at 700 Sixth Street, NW, 10th Floor, an Akridge Property

SELECT: WPA 2011 Art Auction Gala
March 12, 6:30-midnight.
 Just a few tickets left!
Purchase online or by contacting Eleanor Smitherman at esmitherman[at]wpadc.org or 202-234-7103 x 5

Reminder: March 1!
Presentation of the Alice Denney Award for Support of Contemporary Art to artist and educator William Christenberry by Robert Lehrman
and Curators Talk
Tuesday, March 1, 6:30-9:00Free and Open to the Public
Catering by Peacock Café

Following the presentation of the award, the SELECT curators will present a short talk about the artists and the works they've chosen for inclusion in this year's exhibition. This is a rare opportunity to hear their personal perspectives and learn from a distinguished panel of contemporary curators.

Marcātus, a creative market near the Nationals Ballpark / Call for Artists

Art Whino announces its new Creative Art Market and is currently taking submissions.  Please email artiststents[at]artwhino.com 3-5 examples of your work if you are interested in participating.

Once accepted the guidelines to participate are simple.

1.  You bring your own tent (They cost about $60 )
2.  You setup and run your tent
3.  The gallery will not take a commission.  Its a simple $100 per weekend fee for the tent space.  All your sales go 100% to you.
     
Marcātus, a creative market near the Nationals Ballpark, will be a multidimensional event different than any other to reach the District.  Marcātus invites you to come out for the whole day to enjoy the sounds of live music, smells of exotic foods, eye candy of art, to hunt for creative treasures, or simply to relax on the Great Lawn with a frosty beverage taking in the picturesque views of the Anacostia River.

Location: The Yards Park
10 Water St SE Washington, DC
(Intersection of 3rd St SE and Water St SE)
Three blocks from the Navy Yard Metro (New Jersey Ave Exit)

Schedule:
First Sunday of every month (Except July which will be Second Sunday).   
April 3rd, May 1st, June 5th, July 10th, Aug 7thHours every Sunday: 11am-6pm. 

ARTISTS TENTS  - Water Street
50+ 10'x10' Artist Tents.
Each artist will have the opportunity to display a large array of artwork

PRODUCE VENDORS - Park Pavilion
24 - 10'x10' Produce Tents
Stock up on fresh produce from various local farmers.

SPONSOR TENTS - Park Pavilion
10 - 10'x10' Sponsor Tents
Browse through various companies and their goods and services.

FOOD VENDORS - Park Pavilion
8 - 10'x10' Food Tents
Try the many yummy delights from local food vendors and discover a new favorite DC Eatery.

ARTS & CRAFTS VENDORS - Terraced Steps
60 - 2'x8' Arts and Crafts Tables
Explore through seas and seas of unique and amazing goods, ranging from robots hand-built from clock parts to jewelry made from found objects.

MUSIC
At Marcātus music will be an integral part of each Sunday.  This year's premiere opening on Sunday, April 3rd will host the FORWARD Festival's Closing-Day Party. Entering its 4th year in the DC Area FORWARD Festival is a 5 day celebration of electronic creative culture featuring music, educational workshops and digital art installations. On Sunday, April 3rd the festival, along with presenting partners LilSoSo, will curate 2 sound systems of music featuring local and national DJ's and Live electronic talent.  To find out more about the FORWARD Festival visit: www.forwarddc.com

Would you like to participate?
Email artiststents[at]artwhino.com for information on reserving an artist tent.
Email artsandcraftstents[at]artwhino.com for information on reserving a arts & craft table.
Email shane[at]artwhino.com for information on reserving a produce, sponsor or food tent.

The Yards Park
This riverfront park provides green space to enjoy the outdoors along the river. It includes open grassy areas, a water feature, a terraced performance venue, biking/jogging trails and riverside places in which to eat and shop. The park is part of a larger Yards development that will blend adaptive reuse of historical industrial buildings with construction on new sites.  The park, canal basin and water feature, iconic bridge, boardwalk, terraced lawn area and gardens are currently open to the public.

http://www.dcyards.com/

ADELSBERGER / FALCHOOK @ Civilian Art Projects

Laying Tracks
New Work by Jason Falchook

Bordering on Painting
New Work by Seth Adelsberger
 
On view:
February 26 - April 9, 2011
* Please note, Civilian will be closed March 2-5 to participate in the SCOPE NY ART SHOW.

Opening reception for the artists:
Saturday, February 26, 7-9pm

Laying Tracks
New Work by Jason Falchook
Jason Falchook's photography has always examined our perception of the built world. He is particularly interested in exploring the human drive to organize space and create the illusion of control. His new work taps into these curiosities while suggesting a greater order outside of human dominance. The new work focuses on moments changed by light and the passage of time.  


Bordering on Painting
New Work by Seth Adelsberger
Baltimore-based artist SETH ADELSBERGER has taken a dramatic leap in his work since his 2009 solo exhibition "Semi-Final Frontiers" at Civilian. In that time he has pursued a curatorial path as co-director of Nudashank (a gallery in Baltimore run with his partner Alex Ebstein). Stepping back to see a bigger picture of how works thread into a greater whole, Adelsberger has departed from his signature vivid, sci-fi psychedelia based works to examine the mechanisms, literally and philosophically, behind painting.

Pursuing a more experimental process in the studio, Adelsberger released himself from constraints, particularly that of "creating worlds" on the canvas. Instead he focused on, according to the artist, "creating a body of work that references painting but in many cases doesn't involve painting directly." The new work deconstructs painting to its base elements - the structures, supports, formats, and materials.


Civilian Art Projects
1019 7th Street NW, Second Floor
Washington DC 20001
(202) 607-3804

Sweet-Meat Cherry-Whip Flip / Artwork by Victoria F. Gaitán

Sweet-Meat Cherry-Whip Flip

Artwork by Victoria F. Gaitán
Through March 12

Artist Talk with Victoria F. Gaitán and Curator Al Miner:  Friday, February 25, 6 pm

Mezz Gallery @ Artisphere

Victoria F. Gaitán's photographic series of flesh-and-blood still lifes visualize human subjects as meat puppets. The images are calling cards from the artist's explorations of internal worlds, illness, in-between states, shared delusions and hells, stillness, memory, interpretations of pain, private and public intimacies, trauma, beauty and conditioned responses.

Victoria F. Gaitán's work has been shown in galleries and public spaces in Washington, DC., Arlington, VA, London, Brooklyn, NY, Beijing and Australia.  Recent shows include: Curator's Office DC, Addison/Ripley, DC, Flashpoint Gallery DC, GRACE VA, The Fridge Gallery DC, Katzen Museum DC, Pyramid Atlantic MD, Civilian Art Projects DC, Arlington Arts Center, VA.

This exhibition includes nudity. 

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Artisphere

1101 Wilson Boulevard

Arlington VA 22209
(703) 875-1100

Hours & Directions
 

Source: artisphere.com

Juan Tejedor: Standing Atop the Ladder

Juan Tejedor: Standing Atop the Ladder 

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 26, 6 – 8pm 

February 18 - March 26, 2011
Art + Coffee Series Talk: March 20, 1:30pm*
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 26, 3pm

In his first solo exhibition in Washington, DC, Juan Tejedor presents a variety of media including sculpture and works on paper that reference mapping, topography and the behavior of dynamic systems. In Standing Atop the Ladder, Tejedor looks to various natural and man-made systems, including public transit routes, star systems, and bird migratory patterns, to investigate the very nature of structure and organization.

Tejedor will also present a 30-minute talk on Sunday, March 20 at 1:30pm as part of Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art + Coffee series, held in the *Luce Foundation Center (F St. entrance). Tejedor will discuss The Hyades by Ibram Lassaw as it relates to his current body of work.

Flashpoint Gallery • 916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
A CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION PROJECT
t. 202.315.1310
http"//www.flashpointdc.org

CANADIAN IMPRESSIONS @ The Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

CANADIAN IMPRESSIONS
February 28 to April 29, 2011  

Monday–Friday, 11 AM–6PM    

An exhibition honoring Canada and the City of Calgary, in the province of Alberta, site of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Twelve Canadian artists: Briar Craig, Delio Delgado, René Derouin, Katie Fife,    Joscelyn Gardner, Michel Gautier, Vanessa Hall‐Patch, Miriam Rudolph, Tracy L. Templeton,    Todd Tremeer, Oscar Danilo Vargas, and Laura Widmer, selected from an Open Call, present 34 works   in various printmaking techniques, from etching to monotype.  

On occasion of the celebration of the 52nd Annual Meeting of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank, in Calgary, Alberta, in March of this year, the IDB Cultural Center pays tribute to Canada with an exhibition in Washington, DC entitled “Canadian Impressions,” which gathers twelve printmakers belonging to different regions in Canada. The multicultural background of the artists selected exemplifies just one aspect of the fascinating cultural spectrum of Canada today. The curator of the exhibition is Félix Ángel, Director of the IDB Cultural Center.

According to Ángel, “Change is good when it is for the better, of course, but its paradoxical nature entails many risks. While embracing change is not a guarantee of things getting better, not pursuing it condemns us to perennial doubt about what else can be done to improve our lives. Artists are particularly susceptible to change because of their sensibility, their humanistic view of civilization, their holistic concept of the world, and their tendency to be uncompromising with regard to principles. Increasing levels of anxiety are symptomatic of a pattern pervading society these days that needs to be modified.”

“Canadian Impressions” is a dense exhibition camouflaged with a deceptive appearance of innocence, lightness, and ingenuity; it is reinforced with a strong, diverse determination to show sides of a world that tires and suffocates us, but where the promise of a better future is not yet lost. That is, at once, the most disturbing and the most outstanding quality of this exhibition.

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The Cultural Center
of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
 

Millennium Arts Salon Series

Millennium Arts Salon Series
6:00 - 8:00 PM @ Millennium Arts Salon

These events are conducted in MAS' signature "Salon Style."
FEE events, Open to the Public (free or discounted for Millennium Arts Salon Club Members).

March 5:  Tuliza Fleming -Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing:  How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment.  This Salon will include discussion about the exhibition, curated by Dr. Fleming, and book signing.

May 7:  Dennis Forbes - Krisna Reddy: Master Printmaker, Sculptor, Artist.  This continues our Salons with featured author and self-publisher Mr. Forbes who has much to share about modernism.  We will explore this and more at this Salon and book signing.

June 4:  William T. Williams - Among the most significant contemporary modernist painters,  Mr. Williams finds direct artistic and philosophical lineage to the Harlem Renaissance.  Mr. Williams is acknowleged as a pillar of American Color Field painting, and extols the "syncronicity" and fusion of jazz in his paintings.

For information about membership levels and benefits visit:
http://millenniumartssalon.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26


Now celebrating over 11 years, Millennium Arts Salon is committed to advancing cultural literacy through its art and cultural programs, which includes salon talks, exhibitions, tours and special events. Based in historic Columbia Heights, DC, its intimate salon talks are held in its beautifully restored 1923 town home. Through its outreach efforts, it also hosts programs in various venues around the city and collaborates with art institutions, including The Phillips Collection, the Library of Congress, The Sumner School, The Kreeger Museum, the David C Driskell Center at the University of Maryland College Park, Pyramid Atlantic, George Mason University Department of Art, and Parish Gallery of Georgetown DC, to name a few.

Millennium Arts Salon
1213 Girard Street, NW
Washington, DC
(202) 319-8988
info[at]millenniumartssalon.org

Freya Grand & Amanda Stark @ Seraphin Gallery

Freya Grand "Another Journey" & Amanda Stark "The Astral and Tellurian" 

February 26 - April 17 

OPENING RECEPTION: February 26, 6pm - 8pm 

Artist Freya Grand’s paintings from “Another Journey” explore the vitality and wonder of breathtaking landscapes. She chooses to work with sceneries from various regions in Africa, South America, and Ireland, highlighting locations which are both untouched by man and extreme in climate and terrain. Grand travels but once a year, documenting, drawing, noting her experience and then in her studio recreating the experience of how it felt to be there, in that place. The experience is both physical and metaphysical.
Each work explores not only the tactile and spatial feel of these remote places, but carries their emotional impact as well. Details are secondary to the overall sweep of the brushwork, and yet we feel that we are looking at places that are very real. These paintings walk the line between abstraction and realism.

Amanda Stark is a sculptor who uses copper, bronze, and glass to make intricate vignettes evoking space, depth, and time. Her exhibition, titled “The Astral and Tellurian”, is an exploration into the fantastical world of the imaginary scientific exploration by the means of handmade objects. The exhibition is Wunderkramer of odd jewel-like ornaments and brings about a thoughtfulness and inquisitive nature from the viewer while also exploring the subjects of purpose and science to the art exhibition. Each piece suggests or resembles astronomy, navigation, or chemistry like instruments by the various materials used and antiquated formed structures. Every work carries its own imagination, conquests the current mind frame and historical concepts, and brings about a grace and enlightenment which can only be characterized as evocative and beautiful.

Seraphin Gallery
1108 Pine Street
Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19107
215-923-7000
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm
www.seraphingallery.com

V.O.I.C.E.S (Voices Organizing for International Change, Empowerment, and Support)

V.O.I.C.E.S (Voices Organizing for International Change, Empowerment, and Support) 

DATE: Thursday, February 24th, 2010 

TIME: 6-9:30PM 

ADMISSION: $5 admission 

(additional donations are welcome)

Have you heard about the V.O.I.C.E.S event that happens at Hillyer Art Space, every month?
Thursday, February, 24, 2010, highlights the work of Step Up OLPC.

Time for another one of these events designed to raise funds and awareness for grassroots organizations across the globe working to help youth, women and underserved communities through music, arts and culture.

Enjoy an eclectic mix of music, drink and food and network with like-minded people interested in activism, international development and social change. Enjoy DJs spinning global hip hop and international tunes, and then settle in for a multi-media presentation on a cutting edge, grassroots organization. Round out the evening listening to some skilled lyricists and emcees sum up the experience with a hip hop cipher.

Step Up OLPC is a division of Step Up, a 501C(3) non-profit that works with grassroots organizations to develop and facilitate projects for training and community improvement on the two-island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, just off the coast of Gabon and Nigeria. In 2009, students at the Sao Joao secondary school in Sao Tome's capital were given 100 durable, energy-efficient laptop computers by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). Not knowing how to use the laptops, the school's administrators kept them locked away in an office and out of use until Step Up OLPC was formed to address the school's concerns. Today, 150 students in Sao Joao's sixth grade class take the computers home and back to school everyday to write stories, paint digital pictures, record music and research online.


International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Court NW, Washington, DC 20008 USA
T 202.338.0680
www.artsandartists.org

Call for entries: Arts for Arthritis Gala

Call for entries: The Arthritis Foundation, Mid Atlantic Region (MD) is issuing a call for donations for its Arts for Arthritis Gala, March 19, 2011.

Art can be put up for auction as a full donation, or 50/50 split. Artists set the value of their piece and the minimum bid.

Art work can be dropped off anytime after the 7th of March: 4720 Montgomery Lane, Suite 300, Bethesda, MD 20814.

See attached for further information.

Govinda Gallery presents Bustin' Loose by Fernando Sandoval

Fernando Sandoval

Bustin' Loose
Opening Friday, February 25th, 2011 6-9pm

@

Govinda Gallery

1227 Thirty-Fourth Street NW

Washington, DC

Museum shows

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Artists Reconsider and Reframe Past, Present, and Future Events in “Agitated Histories”
Final Project 20 exhibition opening Feb. 11 explores social, political movements and icons
The Contemporary Museum exhibition “Agitated Histories” brings together an international and intergenerational collection of artists whose works create a dialogue with history, on view beginning Friday, February 11, 2011. Using a range of media including site-specific installation, video, photography, drawing, and theater, and working both individually and collaboratively, these artists reconsider, reframe, and reenact specific historic events to put them in new contexts. The exhibition also includes a commissioned piece whose long-term impact stands to alter the future skyline of the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. “Agitated Histories” will be on view through Sunday, May 1, 2011.

The Contemporary Museum is located at 100 West Centre Street, in Baltimore’s Mt. Vernon Cultural District. Museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

For more information about the Contemporary Museum and Project 20, www.contemporary.org.


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The Corcoran celebrates the release of the landmark publication Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945, organized and edited by the Corcoran’s Bechhoefer Curator of American Art Sarah Cash.  Comprised of a fully illustrated 336-page hardback volume as well as a companion online component - free and available to all via the Corcoran Web site - it is the first to authoritatively catalogue and place into larger context the Corcoran’s historic collection of American art.
www.corcoran.org


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MAIRA KALMAN: VARIOUS ILLUMINATIONS

(OF A CRAZY WORLD)

Opens at The Jewish Museum on Friday, March 11

Major Museum Survey Features Original Works by Much-Beloved Illustrator.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) was curated by ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner.

New York, NY – The first major museum survey of the work of illustrator, author and designer Maira Kalman (b. 1949, Tel Aviv), known for her whimsical yet probing imagery, opens at The Jewish Museum on March 11 and remains on view through July 31, 2011. Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) features a selection spanning thirty years of 100 original paintings, drawings, and sketches shown along with the many ways Kalman’s work has entered contemporary culture – in books and magazines, and on commercial products, from clothing to watches.  Less widely seen works in photography, embroidery, textiles, and performance are also included.

Kalman illuminates contemporary life with a profound sense of joy and a unique sense of humor.  Many of Kalman's best-known works are on display in the exhibition, including iconic covers created for The New Yorker magazine; Stay Up Late and Ooh-la-la (Max in Love), and other children’s books she authored and illustrated; drawings from her critically hailed illustrated edition of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, the classic writer’s reference manual; and artwork from her online columns for The New York Times. 

Born in Israel in 1949, Kalman emigrated to the United States and has lived in New York since the age of four.  New York seems a perfect milieu for her sharply observed world.  As she explains in the exhibition catalogue, “There is a strong personal narrative aspect of what I do. What happens in my life is interpreted in my work.  There is very little separation.  My work is my journal of my life.”

The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.
TheJewishMuseum.org

City Gallery's exhibit "Color & Shape" closing reception this Saturday

Wednesday, February 23 Gallery Open 11 am–12:30 PM; 
Thursday, February 24 from 5:30–8 PM: CHAMPS H Street Art Walk; 

Saturday, February 26, Gallery Open 1–5 PM
Closing Party, Saturday, February 26, 3–5 PM
 

City Gallery's  exhibit "Color & Shape"—Jill Finsen and Nancy Donnelly's—closes next Saturday, February 26 at 5:00 PM. The gallery is located at 804 H Street NE, (Atlas District) Washington DC and is on the second floor above T-Mobile

Elevating the Profile of Latin American Art @ IDB

Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 6:30 pm

The IDB Cultural Center invites you to attend a lecture by
Puerto Rican art historian
Dr. Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts

Elevating the Profile of Latin American Art

In her IDB Cultural Center presentation of the ICAA, Dr. Ramírez will discuss the growing interest in Latin American art in the United States, and the plans for the ICAA to become the most comprehensive research center in the Western Hemisphere.

The mission of the ICAA, which was established in 2001 at the MFAH, is to pioneer research of the diverse artistic production of Latin American and Latino artists—from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States—and to educate audiences in order to transform the understanding of Latin American and Latino visual arts while opening new avenues of intercultural dialogue and exchange. The Center collaborates with Latin American organizations for exhibitions, holds symposia that result in publications, and sponsors research.  It is organizing a long term project of locating and digitizing primary documents in seven Latin American countries and the United States.

Free and open to the public.  CR2 Conference Room, Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center- Inter-American Development Bank, 1330 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 
Metro Center Photo ID required.  The lecture will be in English.  www.iadb.org/cultural 
202 623 3558

Speaking of Art... presents John Penny!

The Stamp Gallery presents the second installment of the
artist lecture and performance series
Speaking of Art…
Featuring artist and theorist John E. Penny to speak on “Allographic Drawing”

February 21st 2011 at 6:30pm
Prince George’s Room

1st floor of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union-Center for Campus Life, on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park

 John Penny
New Mexico Found Drawings and Measuring Stick
2009, Ongoing
wood, graphite, measuring stick 6’x1”x1”
Allographic Drawing

‘Allographic art’ is a term first introduced by American philosopher Nelson Goodman to distinguish between autographic – being peculiar to an individual – and allographic – meaning any other form of notation that is not autographic.  John Penny will discuss ‘allographic drawing’ as a conceptual tool to aid in understanding a broad range of contemporary art production and the attitude underpinning it. In essence, allographic representation allows for the widest possible set of variations of a form, and includes an unlimited selection of media. Such an understanding necessitates the expansion of the notion of drawing and opens new possibilities for the practice of contemporary art.

Artist and theorist John E. Penny has taught sculpture, drawing, fine art, and theoretical studies in Australia, Great Britain, and the United States. After graduating from Maidstone College of Art, UK, Penny went on to complete an MFA in sculpture, with a minor in drawing at Ohio State University, and a PhD in theoretical studies from the University of Leeds, UK.  Penny currently serves as faculty in the Foundation department at the Maryland Institute College of Art  (MICA) in Baltimore, MD.

TOUCHSTONE GALLERY announces membership opportunities

TOUCHSTONE GALLERY announces membership opportunities as they launch 2011 solos and member exhibitions in the new modern gallery at 901 New York Ave. NW.  It's an attractive street-level space in the heart of Washington, DC. Touchstone Gallery is seeking excellent artists with a contemporary vision who work in fiber, book as art, video, glass, interactive art and other media.

New Members Benefits: a biennial solo show, one or more pieces on exhibit in each monthly member show, artist bins and gallery website artist pages: www.touchstonegallery.com

To be considered for one of the limited membership’s available, contact Ksenia Grishkova, Gallery Director, now at info[at]touchstonegallery.com or 202 347-2787.  She'll answer questions and explain the jury process.  The next jury of actual works will take place on February 23, 2011.

Touchstone Gallery
901 New York Ave NW
Washington DC 20001
Tel: 202-347-2787

Select - WPA's 30th Annual Art Auction Exhibition opens Feb. 19, 2011

Akridge 
Select - WPA 30th Annual Art Auction Exhibition
February 19 - March 12, 2011
Opening reception: Saturday, February 19, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Open to the public free
 @
700 Sixth Street, NW, 10th Floor, daily 11:00am - 6:00pm

Eight curators selected works by over 100 local and nationally-known artists for Select

Auction Gala is on March 12
Funds raised benefit local artists and the art community
for Auction Gala Tickets, contact Eleanor Smitherman,  202.234.7103, ext. 5 or ESmitherman[at]wpadc.org

www.wpadc.org