Arts on N Street Festival this weekend

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

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

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

Portraits of DC on N street

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

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

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

Craig Kraft Lighting at 9th and N Streets NW

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

Featured Artists:

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

DJ Alex Gold (August 14)

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

Amber Robles-Gordon(August: 7 & 8 )

Art Drauglis (August: 7)

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

Amelia Smith (August: 14 & 5)

The Caribbean (August: 14 & 15)

Charlene Lockwood (August: 7 & 8 )

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

Cynthia Sands

Lanyapi Designs

Dana Ellyn

Danny Jean-Jacques

Denee Barr (August: 7 & 8 )

Ed Burck (August: 7)

Eve VanDalsen (August: 14 & 15)

Gaby Hernandez (August: 14 & 15)

Hugh + Crye (August: 7 & 8 )

Ida Mitchell (August: 8 & 15)

Jenni Feingold (August: 7 & 14)

Joan Romaine(August:)

Joseph Jones (August: 14)

Katherine Watson (August: 7 & 14)

Katie Stack (August: 14 & 15)

Kelly Towles (August: 7 & 8 )

Kendall Nordin

Kristina Billonick

Lisa Marie Thalhammer

Lisa K. Rosenstein(August: 14 & 15)

Lucia Hamilton (August: 7 & 8 )

Lunar Massage (August: 7)

Matt Hollis (August: 14 & 15)

Matt Sesow (August: 14)

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

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

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

Rania Hassan (August: 15)

Rebound Design

Red Table Press

Sankofa Beads

Sean Hennessey< (August: 15)

Sheila Crider (August: 14)

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

Stephanie Bonifant (August: 14 & 15)

TH Gomillion (August: 7 & 8 )

DJ Uncle Eric (August: 7 )

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Eastern Market is open for business

Featured Mural, courtesy of the Eastern Market Arts Restoration Project.
Sally Glass and Abby Wood of Shakespeare Theatre Company, portray children enjoying the market in "Market Lunch" .

DC's oldest continually operating public farmers market!
Every Weekend - 175 craft and artisan exhibitors! Nowhere in DC is there a bigger on-going artisan and craft market! A real festival of unique, rare, painters, jewelers, ceramists, hand made furniture, hand made handbags, photographers, and so much more! Every Saturday and Sunday! Arts & Crafts Market: Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 6 pm

Visit Market 5 Gallery while shopping at Eastern Market.

Eastern Market
7th St. North Carolina Ave. S.E.
Washington, D.C.

Eastern Market Arts Restoration Project.

FY 2008 Grants Available for Artists

Funds Available for DC Artists and Arts Organizations
Grant applications are now available for the following FY 2008 programs:

Artist Fellowship Program
Arts Learning & Outreach: Arts Education Projects
City Arts Projects
Cultural Facilities Project
East of the River Arts Initiative
Festivals DC
Folk & Traditional Arts Mini-Grant Program
Grants-in-Aid to Organizations
Hip Hop Community Arts Initiative
Public Art Building Communities
Small Projects Program
UPSTART Program
Young Artist Program

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
410 8th Street, NW, 5th Floor
Washington, DC 20004 (202) 724-5613

Visit http://dcarts.dc.gov to download an Application

DC CREATES PUBLIC ART for the New Baseball Stadium

Suspended Installation
Total Budget: $200,000
Submissions Due: Monday, June 18, 2007 at 5 pm

The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, in collaboration with the Washington Nationals, the DC Sports and Entertainment Commission, and Hellmuth Obata and Kassabaum, P.C., seeks an artist or artist team to design and create a suspended public art installation along the main concourse of the new Washington Nationals baseball stadium. The goal of this public art project is to provide an exciting arts enhancement to the interior of the ballpark while celebrating the spirit of our national pastime. The work will be visible along the main concourse, across the field from Baseball Plaza, and from street level on the south side of the ballpark. The total budget for the project is $200,000.

Download the New Baseball Stadium: Suspended Installation here

For more information, email Emily Blumenfeld and Meridith McKinley or call (314) 664-5902.

8th Street Stripes

What a kool way to spend the afternoon on Saturday adding to the collective field of color stripes on 8th St. NW in Penn Quarter. I was lucky enough to arrive while the music was still playing and helped to paint an orange stripe the length of the street. Carolyn Parker was passing out t-shirts to all the volunteers painting in the street. Lots of other folk, including Rachel Dickerson and Tony Gittens from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and folks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art were wielding paint rollers and pouring the buckets of paint. Here's some pics to enjoy of the days work. Mokha Laget, long time studio assistant to Gene Davis, designed the project. She did a great design which will stay on the street for the next couple of weeks.

Link to my Flickr photos Enjoy!

Metro to Gallery Place and walk to 8th Street towards the mall. The stripes are on 8th St. NW between D & E.

THE DC COMMISSION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES INVITES YOU TO AUDITION

Metro Performs - Auditions

Singers, Dancers and Musicians wanted for Live Music and Dance Performances OUTSIDE of Metro train stations this summer and fall. Sponsored by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Audition Dates:
Thursday, May 10th
5pm-8pm

Saturday, May 12th,
9am-6pm

Audition Location:
Metro Headquarters
600 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC

Please Bring with you:
Bio or Resume (one page only) and photograph (b/w or color, 5 X 7 or 8 1/2 X 11)

Individual applicants must be residents of the District of Columbia. Organizational applicants must have their 501c(3) status or business in the District of Columbia.

Audition slots are first-come, first served as available. Applicants will be required to complete paperwork requesting the following information: Legal name, address, daytime telephone number, e-mail address, social security Number. Criminal background checks may be performed by Metro Transit police for applicants chosen for the program.

MetroPerforms is a pilot program of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority's Art in Transit Program to bring quality live music and dance to Metro train commuters and pedestrians. For more information, please call: 202-724-5613. www.dcarts.dc.gov.

Opportuntiy for Artists

DC CREATES PUBLIC ART for the New Baseball Stadium
Suspended Installation
Total Budget: $200,000
Submissions Due: Monday, June 18, 2007 at 5 pm


The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, in collaboration with the Washington Nationals, the DC Sports and Entertainment Commission, and Hellmuth Obata and Kassabaum, P.C., seeks an artist or artist team to design and create a suspended public art installation along the main concourse of the new Washington Nationals baseball stadium. The goal of this public art project is to provide an exciting arts enhancement to the interior of the ballpark while celebrating the spirit of our national pastime. The work will be visible along the main concourse, across the field from Baseball Plaza, and from street level on the south side of the ballpark. The total budget for the project is $200,000.

Download the New Baseball Stadium: Suspended Installation . -Call for Artists

For more information, contact Emily Blumenfeld or Meridith McKinley at art@viapartnership.com or call (314) 664-5902.

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
http://dcarts.dc.gov