Arts on N Street Festival this weekend

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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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"Windows Into DC" Exhibition / last days to see

Today and tomorrow are the last days to see "Windows Into DC" Exhibition. I'll be taking my work down tomorrow afternoon. Location is on M Street NW @9th. It's part of a Washington DC Convention Center and arts commission collaboration with 14 artists work on display in the windows.

Anne Marchand, a selection from the "Playground Series" featured  in Windows Into DC 
Exhibition @ the Washington Convention Center, M Street windows at 9th Street NW 
Washington, DC through June 9, 2010

Metro on the green line to Mt. Vernon Sq. 7th Street...You can drive by too.

A new exhibition called "Arcade" is going up next week featuring WPA member artists, another collaborative effort of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Windows Into DC / Dedication Pictures

Here are some scenes from Windows Into DC festivities.



September 29, 2009 at Walter E. Washington Convention Center

Exhibition runs through March 2010 on M St. NW and N St. NW (between 7th and 9th Sts) and on 7th Street near Mt Vernon Sq 7th St-Convention Center Metro.

The artists are: Beth Baldwin, Jason Clark, Tim Conlon, Liani Foster, Amber Robles-Gordon, Eve Hennessa, Michael Dax Iacovone, Anne Marchand, Cory Oberndorfer, Michael Platt & Carol A. Beane, Kelly Towles, Aneikan Udofia, Colin Winterbottom, The New Community for Children and singer, songwriter, KUKU, the Afro-Soul Acoustic Experience.

Washington, DC

Flickr set "Photos by: Christiana Aretta"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncfc-dc/sets/72157622364335527//

The DC Convention Center is bringing its artistic side out

The DC Convention Center is bringing its artistic side out. With a first-of-its-kind exhibit to fill windows and exterior gallery spaces with art, the Windows Into DC show is a reflection of our community. A little known fact about the Convention Center is that it houses a dynamic $4 million permanent art collection. With this new show, the Convention Center extends its inner-artists out to the sidewalk spaces around the building.

This is the time to take another look at the Convention Center. Thirteen DC artists created installations and new artworks for the exhibit. “Filling empty spaces with art is a great way to beautify the community and connect with new audiences,” says Windows into DC Artist Tim Conlon. “My Shaw Scrabble piece is a fun play with the words that connote the community. This way, area residents will see themselves reflected in the windows.”

The artists are: Beth Baldwin, Jason Clark, Tim Conlon, Liani Foster, Amber Robles-Gordon, Eve Hennessa, Michael Dax Iacovone, Anne Marchand, Cory Oberndorfer, Michael Platt & Carol A. Beane, Kelly Towles, Aneikan Udofia, Colin Winterbottom, The New Community for Children and singer, songwriter, KUKU, the Afro-Soul Acoustic Experience. (http://www.kukulive.com)

The entire DC community is invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor Adrian M. Fenty at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, September 29 at 7th & M Streets outside of the Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center Metro entrance. At that time, young students from the New Community for Children will be finishing their three-panel art piece that shows their pint-size view of Shaw.KUKU will be performing, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM on Tuesday at 7th & M Streets outside of the Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center Metro entrance.

Pick up a Windows Into DC brochure at the information desks located in the Grand Lobby. The installation will be open through March 2010.

Source: Massey Media Own The Press

WINDOWS INTO DC EXTERIOR ART GALLERY DRAWS VIEWERS TO WALTER E. WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty joins Washington Convention Center Authority (WCCA) and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for a ribbon cutting and unveiling of "Windows Into DC" - a temporary art installation by 14 local artists including the Shaw youth group, the New Community for Children.Anne Marchand, "Playground Series," Windows Into DC - M Street Window@ 9th St. NW, WDC

Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 5:00 PM
- Public ribbon cutting and unveiling
RSVP: abelicev@dcconvention.com

with Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Gregory A. O'Dell, WCCA, CEO and General Manager, Gloria Nauden, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Executive Director, 13 local artists, Shaw's New Community for Children
@
Walter E. Washington Convention Center 7th & M Streets outside of the Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center Metro entrance.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Beth Baldwin, Jason Clark, Tim Conlon, Liani Foster, Amber Robles-Gordon, Eve Hennessa, Michael Dax Iacovone, Anne Marchand, Cory Oberndorfer, Michael Platt & Carol A. Beane, Kelly Towles, Aneikan Udofia, Colin Winterbottom and featuring The New Community for Children.

Join In!!

New Community for Children student group will be live painting

Media Contact: Sarah Massey, 202-445-1169, sarah[at]massey-media[dot]com