Wednesday, June 16, 2010

CHAMPS Presents ARTventures on H on June 17. Thursday Night Art Walk Features Eleven Art Venues

Thursday Night Art Walk on H Street NE

On June 17, CHAMPS - Capitol Hill’s Chamber of Commerce presents ARTventures on H. From 5-7:30pm, eleven different galleries and art spaces along the H Street Corridor will open their doors to the Capitol Hill community for a special neighborhood art walk. Participants will each be given an ARTventures “passport,” to be stamped at each stop on the art walk. For every stamp received, attendees receive an increased discount at more than ten participating restaurants that evening from 7-9pm.

The twelve stops on the art walk are: 

Bryant K. Adams: 300 block of H Street, NE (installation)
Studio H: 408a H Street, NE (www.studiohdc.com)
City Gallery: 804 H Street, NE (www.citygallerydc.com)
Jorge Velazquez:
1015 H Street, NE
Atlas
Performing Arts Center: 1333 H Street, NE (www.atlasarts.org)

SOVA Espresso & Wine: 1359 H Street, NE (www.sovadc.com)
Gallery O/H:
1354 H Street, NE (www.galleryoonh.com)
H Street Playhouse:
1365 H Street, NE (www.hstreetplayhouse.com)
G Fine Art:
1350 Florida Avenue, NE (www.gfineartdc.com)
Conner Contemporary Art:
1358 Florida Avenue, NE (www.connercontemporary.com)
Industry Gallery:
1358 Florida Avenue, NE – Suite 200 (www.industrygallerydc.com)
Evolve Urban Arts Project:
1375 Maryland Avenue, NE (www.evolvedc.com)

Call For Entries: 2010 Arts on Foot Art Market- Downtown DC

Call For Entries: 2010 Arts on Foot Art Market- Downtown DC

Deadline: July 6, 2009.

Diverse Markets Management announces a call to artists for the 2010 Arts on Foot Art Market, held September 8, 9, 10 and 11. The Weekday Art Market on Wednesday,Thursday and Friday will be held on the wide sidewalk of F Street, NW between 7th & 9th Streets. The full festival on Saturday will take place on F Street, NW between 6th & 7th and between 7th & 9th Streets, and 8th Street between E & F Streets in Washington DC in front of the Smithsonian Portrait Museum. The Art Market highlights the work of local, regional and national visual artists. 80-100 artists will be selected to exhibit in 13 media categories. All work must be original and completely artist-produced; imports and re-sales are not permitted.

All artists wishing to participate must complete an application and pay a $30 application fee. An independent professional jury will review applications, images of products, and booth display. When applying, artists should indicate if they wish to be considered for Saturday only or for all four days. Space fees, due upon notification of acceptance, are $175 for Saturday, $475 for all four days.

For more information, visit www.diversemarkets.net or contact: info@diversemarkets.net

"REFLECTIONS" at The Fisher gallery

"REFLECTIONS" at The Fisher gallery
Join the Capitol Hill Art League in celebrating their season-ending juried show "REFLECTIONS" at the Fisher Art Gallery on June 18th 2010 from 7:00-9:00pm.  The Fisher Art Gallery is in the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall & Arts Center on the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community
College.  The show runs from June 18th to July 30th.

Juried by Clifford Chieffo, Professor Emeritus in Art at Georgetown University, the show represents a body of work created in the last 12 months by DC area artists who have been contemplating, considering, manifesting, bending, mirroring and turning their ideas and inspirations.  Professor Chieffo will be hold his juror's talk at 8:00 pm.  This is a wonderful opportunity to deepen an understanding of art. Come ponder and muse upon the variations of 'REFLECTIONS' in our society, both personal and beyond.

The diversity of CHAL member artists is (every pun intended) reflected in the myriad of media represented in this show.  CHAL members span the artistic spectrum of experience from the novice to the educator, from the student to the professional.  CHAL looks forward to your participation in our final event of the season.

The Capitol Hill ART League
Affiliated with the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
545 7th Street SE
Washington, DC  20003
(202) 547-6839

For more information on CHAL:  http://www.caphillartleague.org/about.html
For more about the gallery:  http://www.nvcc.edu/schlesingercenter/gallery.html

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

City Arts / 2nd Annual Bar Night and Silent Auction Fundraiser

City Arts Fundraiser
 
Thursday, June 17, 5 - 9 PM
Madam's Organ Blues Bar & Soul Food Restaurant
2461 18th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20009

City Arts' second annual Bar Night and Silent Auction Fundraiser is here.  On June 17th, from 5:00 to 9:00 PM Madam's Organ Blues Bar & Soul Food Restaurant will generously donate to City Arts 20% of all food purchases and $1 dollar for every drink. So please, come thirsty and bring a friend - better yet, bring three!

This is a fabulous opportunity to eat, drink, and be merry while supporting City Arts' efforts to enliven DC's neighborhoods through public art. You will also have the chance to bid on unique art pieces created by City Arts student apprentices, as well as other donated silent auction items from local businesses and generous individuals.

Featured items include a vacation rental house in Maine, an original Inauguration panoramic photograph by noted photographer Sam Kittner, theater tickets to the Atlas Performing Arts Center, and gift certificates to local boutiques, fine dining restaurants, and casual eateries including CommonWealth, Gastropub, Zest Bistro, Masa 14, Cashion's Eat Place, the Little Fountain Cafe, Tonic, Homebodies, Lunar Massage, Frager's Hardware, U Street Music Hall, Chipotle, Ireland's Four Fields, and Amsterdam Falafel. Please e-mail erinbryan at cityartsdc.org for a full list of items.

Money raised from this event will support not only the year-round Urban Arts Mentorship Program for DC public school students, but also a variety of upcoming mural and mosaic projects in neighborhoods across the District.

Chuck Baxter / the Gallery at Iona

Artist in Residence Melanie Grishman, Special Guest Artist Chuck Baxter and Poet in Residence Anne Becker join the Gallery at Iona for a Meet the Artist Reception on Thursday, June 17 from 5 - 7 pm.  Read the artists' biographies here. For more information about the Artist in residence program, special workshops and events, please call Gallery Coordinator Patricia Dubroof at (202) 895-9407.

Chuck Baxter has 25 pieces in the show at the Iona Senior Center, 4125 Albemarle Street, NW,  a half block from the Tenlytown Metro stop behind the old Heckingers building which is now a huge condo with three or four different stores on the ground floor.

Reception: Thursday, June 17, 5 to 7 PM 
Refreshments will be served.
 The show runs through August 23 and is open to the public between 9 and 5 each weekday. 
For more information, visit: http://www.iona.org/recent-news/meet-the-artists-summer-2010

Hillyer Open Mic Event / HOME

Friday, June 18th
Featuring: R Street Speaks 
 Sponsored by Soho Tea & Coffee


With special "Soapbox" performance in the alley at 6PM
Sign up at 6PM
Performances at 7PM

Free for IA&A members and performers
$5 for non-members

Hosted by Fred Joiner, curator and host of the American Poetry Museum's Intersections at the Honfleur Gallery and poet-in-residence at Busboys and Poets, Shirlington. This month's features poets are the R Street Collective and PhenmenaDaPoet.

R Street Speaks is a performance ensemble of Duke Ellington School of the Arts. These Literary Media and Communications students write their own words and speak for young people in a way never heard before: from the heart. Thought-provoking and system challenging, R Street Speaks continues to break boundaries of age, and redefines the caliber of spoke word and poetry.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Fantastic Journeys at McLean Project for the Arts

Fantastic Journeys
June 17 - July 31
Opening reception and gallery talk June 17, 7 - 9 pm

Free and Open to the Public

Beatrice Gralton, the Evelyn S. Nef Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, selected the work for this thematic show featuring works inspired by the spirit of adventure, exploration or utopian visions.

Artists:
Marise Riddell
Amy Glengary Yang
Lindsay McCulloch
Isabel Manalo
Lina Vargas de la Hoz
Sabine Carlson
Josephine Haden
Joel D'Orazio
Rebecca Katz
Jeff Huntington


McLean Project for the Arts
1234 Ingleside Avenue
McLean, Virginia 22101
703-790-1953

Executive Director Irene Hofmann Accepts Sante Fe Position

Irene Hofmann, Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum, has accepted a position as Director and Chief Curator of SITE Santa Fe, announced Contemporary Museum board president Pamela Berman. Hofmann joined the Contemporary Museum in 2006, and will assume her new role in October 2010.

A search committee has been created and will soon convene to identify candidates for the Contemporary Museum position.

“Irene’s creativity and influence have raised the profile of the Contemporary Museum locally and nationally,” said Berman. “Thanks to Irene, the Contemporary is financially strong and stable. Under her exceptional leadership, the museum has created thought-provoking exhibitions, three of which have traveled to peer institutions across the nation. She has initiated projects that encourage public participation, and developed meaningful collaborations that explore contemporary art in all forms.”

Of Itself: Medium as Message

Of Itself: Medium as Message
June 17 through August 1
Artists' Reception / Saturday, June 19 4 to 6 pm (free)
Left to right, top row: Michael Fitts, Skull, oil on scrap metal, 26" x 31"; Christian Benefiel, 5 Lb. Drawing, rust on canvas, 36" x 84"; J.T. Kirkland, Polyclear_021, Padauk and Yellowheart, polyacrylic on birch plywood 12" x 11" x 0.75"; Kim Manfredi, (Represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD) For Franz West, enamel on board, 24" x 24"; Kevin Kepple, Skin III minor,
glue medium, ink and varnish on panel, 12"x8"; Joanne Kent, First Thaw, oil on canvas, 12" x 12"; Laurel Lukaszewski, Tranquility, black stoneware , 9" x 9" x 3.5."

Using traditional media such as paint, wood and clay; as well as the non-traditional including rust, glue, and scrap metal, the nature of the media itself is given a voice through the works of Christian Benefiel, Michael Fitts, Joanne Kent, Kevin Kepple, J.T. Kirkland, Laurel Lukaszewski and Kim Manfredi. The show is curated by J.T. Kirkland and Twig Murray.

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

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Optical: Raandesk Photo Annual in New York City

Optical: Raandesk Photo Annual


Opening Reception
Five Finalists from the Optical 2009 Juried Competition
Theme: Beauty in the Mundane

Thursday, June 17th from 7 - 9 PM

Celebrate the work of the five finalists
from our annual photography competition:
Nadia Kyung Chae
Matt Gehring
Magda Biernat
Pattiann Koury
Jeremy Sachs Michaels


Raandesk Gallery of Art
16 W. 23r d Street
New York, New York 10010
212.696.7432

Reel Journalism Film Series with Nick Clooney

The Newseum

Reel Journalism Film Series with Nick Clooney
and Special Guests
June 14, 7:00pm

State of Play
a 2009 film

Special guests David Gregory, Meet the Press moderator, and Betsy Fischer, Meet the Press executive producer, will join Nick Clooney to discuss the movie.

Doors open 6:00pm
Light fare available for purchase

Purchase Tickets
$25 general public, $20 Newseum members
www.newseum.org


The Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Metro:  Archives-Navy Mem'l-Penn Quarter
Phone: 888.639.7386

Step Afrika!- District of Columbia¹s Official, First, and Only Cultural Ambassador

Access Granted: Home Performance Series 2010
Step Afrika! Homecoming at the Lansburgh Theatre
Performances are scheduled from June 16 - June 20, 2010.

This year, the Nation’s Capital official, first, and only Cultural Ambassador is peeling back its layers; revealing life-both on and off stage- to patrons. Home Performance Series 2010 takes a candid look at life on the road as a dancer through the high energy, high impact exciting art form; a culmination of rhythmic footwork, body percussion, and spirited vocalizing.

“In "stepping," a performer's body becomes a powerful percussive instrument, with the hands and feet mimicking drums and cymbals,” explains Step Afrika! Founder & Executive Director C. Brian Williams. “Stepping has expanded into an exciting dance form that has influenced pop culture and draws inspiration from many types of music, including doo-wop and hip-hop.”

Accompanied by violinist Brian-Joseph Uzuegbu, DJ RBI and a collage of multimedia entries, the audience is granted “access” to Step Afrika! creative process living vicariously through Step Afrika!’s lens of world travel, college tours, creativity, arts education, elation and moments of awakening. “Access Granted,” premieres works “X-Town: Chicago”, inspired by Artistic Director Jakari Sherman’s residency at the Chicago Human Rhythm Project in the summer of 2009; and Party Walk, an homage to the pride of Greek social life.

On hand for this year’s, festivities is City Administrator Neil Albert, Chilean Cultural Attaché Her Excellency Natalia Allende, special invited guests Grammy Award -winning female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, and the exhilarating cast of Sophisticated Ladies; along with orange carpet host April Watts of WHW Rocks. Immediately after Home Performance 2010 Step Afrika! will be boarding a plane to Morocco and touring Central America, making stops in Panama, Honduras, and Belize. Proceeds from the entire run of the Home Performance Series goes to Step Afrika!’s year-round programming and recently established scholarship fund for college students.

The Lansburgh Theatre is located at 450 7th Street, Northwest. Tickets for Step Afrika!’s HPS 2010 range from $29.50 to $39.50. Discounts are available to students, seniors and military. For discount information, call the box office at 202.547.1122 and press option 1. Groups can contact Step Afrika! directly at 202.399.7993, ext. 103 for group ticket information.

For additional information about Step Afrika!’s HPS 2010, please contact Tynisha Brooks at (202) 399-7993 ext. 111 or events AT stepafrika.org.

Environmental Film Festival: Climate of Change

The Environmental Film Festival hosts a special screening of the 2010 film Climate of Change at the Letelier Theater (3251 Prospect Street, NW) on Wednesday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m. In this rich and inspiring documentary, director Brian Hill takes viewers around the world to find the ordinary people taking action in the fight to save our global environment through projects in their local environments. Driving Climate of Change is the beautiful narration written by British Millennium Poet Simon Armitage and voiced by Tilda Swinton. Tickets are $20. Details.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Street Art Exhibition, “Child of the Street” Opens at {Cre8}

June 12, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Cre8 Space Studio Gallery
1314 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011

LottoHEART 2010

LottoHEART 2010
Saturday, July 3, 6 p.m. – 9.p.m.
@  Rehoboth Beach Convention Center
229 Rehoboth Avenue, Delaware


200+ artists are participating in a great fundraiser in support of CAMP Rehoboth, the non-profit gay and lesbian community service organization in Rehoboth Beach, that works on equality for all the people living in and visiting Sussex County, Delaware.

The mission of CAMP Rehoboth is about inclusion -- and this project reflects that mission by making it easy for everyone to participate as artist or patron. All the work is 5" x 7" so you aren't making a huge space commitment; there are established artists alongside emerging ones; and all the art is anonymous so you'll just select what you love.


A Sneak Peek Preview Party honoring the artists will be held at CAMP Rehoboth at 37 Baltimore Avenue in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on Saturday, June 26th from 4-6pm (no tickets required for this event). Lots of folks come to this event and want to meet the artists so come on down! All art will be on exhibit at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center from June 24-July 3.

Come for the day! This year the DC2NY bus service provides daily service to downtown Rehoboth on the weekends so you can make a daytrip out for the preview reception. Spend the day in town, hang out at CAMP Rehoboth, and it's a 5 minute walk to the bus.They do a great job (tell them that you heard through CAMP Rehoboth).

Saturday, July 3rd, the LottoHEART Game Show will be at the Convention Center. The auction-raffle-show, hosted by Christopher Peterson, includes LottoHEART, the HEART of the Community live auction, and surprise prizes. It will be a two-hour, non-stop laughfest. 

For your $100 Art Ticket, you are guaranteed a small original work of art from one of the 200+ artists. If you come to the July 3rd event, the Lotto part is the order in which you get to select your art (along with great entertainment from Christopher Peterson, light nibbles and open bar).

If you can't come, use the online Proxy Program (available after June 25) to make your selections and someone will play on your behalf.

To buy your LottoHEART Art Ticket, find out more about the organization, and see the list of participating artists, please go to the CAMP Rehoboth website http://www.camprehoboth.com/. Click to the LottoHEART page where things are further explained (and see the participating artists). From there, follow the link for purchase.

Tickets may also be purchased by phoning 302-227-5620.
Thanks for your support.

Call For Entries: 2010 Arts on Foot Art Market- Downtown DC

Call For Entries: 2010 Arts on Foot Art Market- Downtown DC
Deadline: July 6, 2009.   Diverse Markets Management announces a call to artists for the 2010 Arts on Foot Art Market, held September 8, 9, 10 and 11.  The Weekday Art Market on Wednesday,Thursday and Friday will be held on the wide sidewalk of F Street, NW between 7th & 9th Streets.  The full festival on Saturday will take place on F Street, NW between 6th & 7th and between 7th & 9th Streets, and 8th Street between E & F Streets in Washington DC in front of the Smithsonian Portrait Museum. The Art Market highlights the work of local, regional and national visual artists. 80-100 artists will be selected to exhibit in 13 media categories. All work must be original and completely artist-produced; imports and re-sales are not permitted.

All artists wishing to participate must complete an application and pay a $30 application fee.  An independent professional jury will review applications, images of products, and booth display. When applying, artists should indicate if  they wish to be considered for Saturday only or for all four days.  Space fees, due upon notification of acceptance, are $175 for Saturday, $475 for all four days.  For more information, visit www.diversemarkets.net  or contact: info AT diversemarkets.net

TELLY-AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY Lens & Pens: Art in an Unexpected Place

TELLY-AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
Lens & Pens: Art in an Unexpected Place


To Screen at Georgetown's MOCA DC Gallery With Exhibit of Inmate Art
 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 12, 6-9 PM

 WASHINGTON, DC--Writer/Producer Deborah J. Schull's new half-hour film

 Lens & Pens: Art in an Unexpected Place, to play continuously at MOCA DC from June 12 through 26, offers a rare glimpse of life inside the maximum-security fortress known as the John Howard Pavilion of DC's St. Elizabeths Hospital. Deemed 'not guilty by reason of insanity' by the criminal courts, long-time residents Ronnie Crooks, Pamela Thomas, and Kevin McCain ultimately "luck out" when in 1989 then-social worker and chief of the hospital's Dual Diagnosis Treatment Branch, Ed Washington, conceives the Lens & Pens, Brushes & Friends program. His goal: to create an arts program that will bridge the divide between this often-ostracized treatment population and the outside world.  

 Framed by Ed's recollections of the thriving poetry, photography, and painting workshop's evolution; laced with interviews of Ronnie, Pam, and Kevin and their devoted volunteer-teachers; and with footage of the participants' highly skilled artwork, the documentary gives every indication that Ed's hopes will be realized. With public exhibits, performances, and even sales of their art, and with substantial leaps in artistic skill and self-confidence, Ronnie, Pam, and Kevin grow beyond anything they could have imagined--and must now balance a newfound freedom with an uncertain future.

The Telly Award honors the "very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions and work created for the Web." Lens & Pens also garnered the Mental Health America Media Award, the Aegis Award, and the Aurora Award-Platinum Best of Show.

Offered along with the film will be a showing of paintings, photography, and poetry
by the artists of the John Howard Pavilion, as well as an exhibit of prisoners' art courtesy of the Safe Streets Arts Foundation that runs from June 4 through 26. The June 12 reception, for both the Lens & Pens and the Safe Streets programs, will offer wine and light fare. Artists are expected to attend.

MOCA DC  ·  1054 31st St., NW, Washington, DC, 20007  ·   202.342.6230

WWW.LENSANDPENS.NET
                         

Friday, June 11, 2010

Bethesda Artist Market
June 12, 10am-5pm

Enjoy the original fine art and craft of local artists at the Bethesda Artist Market on Saturday, June 12, located on Norfolk Avenue between Fairmont & St. Elmo Avenues in the Woodmont Triangle. Shop for painting, jewelry, photography, wood, pottery, glass and more. Live entertainment will also be featured!

Featured Artists:
Jamie Agins, Cabin John, MD - jewelry/glass
Nataliya Andreyeva, Washington, D.C. - collage
Michele Cormier, Bethesda, MD - painting
Steph Dempsey, Arlington, VA - clothing
Evan Goldman, Bethesda, MD - painting
Tom Greaves, Washington, D.C. - mixed media
Wayland House, Washington, D.C. - wood
Shereen Kopp, Middletown, MD - photography
Laughter Pieces, Alexandria, VA - painting
LeMair Handcrafts, Washington, D.C. - textiles
Nancy McIntosh, Dayton, MD - ceramics              
Jenae Michelle, Berwyn Heights, MD - handbags
Carol Phifer, Fredericksburg, VA - painting 
Sherry Terao, Silver Spring, MD - jewelry
Pat Vojtech, Centreville, MD - photography
Steve & Sherry Whorl, Abell, MD - glass
Sandra Zacharia, Chevy Chase, MD - jewelry
Andrew Zimmermann, Arlington, VA - photography                   


Bethesda Art Walk
Friday, June 11, 6-9pm

Enjoy several galleries and art exhibits by walking throughout downtown Bethesda during the Bethesda Art Walk. Downtown Bethesda's 11 galleries and art studios stay open from 6-9pm. The free Bethesda Circulator stops within a few blocks of each Art Walk gallery, and runs throughout the duration of the event. More Info.

The Bethesda Painting Awards opening reception will be held in conjunction with the Bethesda Art Walk. Visit the Fraser Gallery to view the work of the nine selected finalists, three of which were awarded $14,000 in prize monies. The Bethesda Painting Awards Exhibit will run through June 26.


For more information, call 301/215-6660 or
visit www.bethesda.org.

CALL TO ARTISTS Dupont Circle Scenes

CALL TO ARTISTS
Dupont Circle Scenes
Exhibition Dates:  Wed., Aug. 4 - Sun., Aug. 29, 2010
Opening Reception:  Fri., Aug. 6 -- 6 - 8 pm

DEADLINE: Sat., June 26, 2010

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists age 18 and older residing within driving distance of the Foundry Gallery, except current members of the Foundry Gallery. Artwork must depict scenes in and around Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. Artwork must be hand-delivered to the gallery; shipments will not be accepted. All work must be for sale. The gallery retains a 30% commission.

JUROR: Dwight Young, National Trust for Historic Preservation. With a long career interpreting historic sites and a background in architectural history, Young will bring a unique perspective of looking at the ways that entries capture the soul of Dupont Circle. Young guides visitors on tours of the neighborhood for the Trust and is the author of several books on history, preservation and architecture.

ENTRIES: Each artist may submit no more than two pieces. If accepted, the images shown must be those that are delivered. A non-refundable $35 entry fee is required for each entry regardless of the number of pieces submitted. Each artist must submit the Entry Form, the $35 fee and the image(s) no later than midnight on Saturday, June 26.

For details and the Entry Form, please visit www.foundrygallery.org and look for the CALL TO ARTISTS on the home page.

DC Digital Capital Week 10-day festival / Kick Off Party

$20 More about the event HERE.


Blagden Alley!
Friday, June 11, 9 pm to 3 am


Enter on N Street between 9th and 10th
or on 9th Street between M and N.

Amazing Talent:
Urban Artistry
Fire by Dance Afire Productions
Ruby Moon Productions
Paradise Movement
DJ Harry Hotter
Live percussion by Tom Pipkin
Peter Muldoon
Lulu Fall
Michael Perez
Deborah Bond
Kolai
DJ Chris Nitti + Matt Hemerlein
Ryan Holladay of BLUEBRAIN
Facebook Avatars by Katie Harbath and Marc Benton
FlaminGoDC by QR Arts
"You're Ugly" by Kenny George
Video art curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Melissa Krodman

On the Fly will stop by with yummy snacks!

A panel discussion by Washington DC's 2010 Most Influential Women in Technology

A panel discussion by Washington DC's 2010 Most Influential Women in Technology
Tuesday, June 15, 2010, from 6:30 - 8:30 pm (ET) at Hamiltonian Gallery

Attn: Cupcake Lovers

 Join Hamiltonian for the Digital Capital Week edition of Sweets and Tweets. Digital Capital Week is a 10-day festival in DC (June 11 - 20, 2010) focused on technology, innovation and all things digital in our nation's capital.  Sweets and Tweets will feature a panel discussion by Washington DC's 2010 Most Influential Women in Technology, as named recently by Fast Company:

- Teresa Carlson, VP of Microsoft Federal Government
- Ellen Miller, co-founder of The Sunlight Foundation
- Shireen Mitchell, founder of Digital Sisters
- Allyson Kapin, founder of Women Who Tech
- Debbie Weil, author and corporate social media consultant [moderator]

Also on Fast Company's Most Influential list are Teresa Carlson, VP of Microsoft Federal Government and Sheila Campbell, co-chair of the Federal Web Managers Council. Joining us on the panel, barring last minute travel, will be former Googler Katie Stanton, now working at the U.S. State Department.

Yes, there will be cupcakes, from Baked and Wired, and we will be serving wine and coffee.  You will also have the chance to rub shoulders - and learn from - those working in DC's innovative and increasingly active social media and Gov 2.0 space.

Sweets and Tweets features leading voices from DC's diverse technology community on the use of social media by the public and private sector, from the White House and federal agencies to local startups. The event series is produced and hosted by author and corporate social media consultant Debbie Weil.

Tickets are $20.00    Click HERE to register!!

Don't wait to register if you are interested. Space is limited and the event usually sells out. You can follow DC's Most Influential Women in Technology on Twitter:

@EllnMllr
@DigitalSista
@WomenWhoTech
@kateatstate
@debbieweil

Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW
Suite 101
Washington, DC  20009
202.332.1116
www.hamiltonianartists.org
www.hamiltoniangallery.com

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Tonight! The Art Registry at Hotel Palomar Benefitting Dress for Success | June 10

THE ART REGISTRY AT THE HOTEL PALOMAR, Washington DC
An All Woman Art Exhibition in All Media Benefiting Dress for Success

 Thursday, June 10, 2010
  6:00 – 9:00 pm

rsvp to: rsvp@theartregistrygroup.com 
Entry into the event is a $20 cash only donations at the door.

Sponsored by Kimpton Hotels, Little Black Dress and the Art Registry 
with Laura Evan, Co-Anchor of Fox News as Emcee

Exhibiting Artists:
Constance Bergfors (Washington, DC) – wood sculpture
Joey Manlapaz (Washington, DC) – painting
Anne Marchand (Washington, DC) – abstract painting
Leah Matthews (Washington, DC) – site specific sculpture and installation
Karen Smul (New York City) – photography
Sandy Wexler (Rockville, MD) – abstract painting
Catherine White (Warrenton, VA) – ceramic sculpture
Shawn Yancy (Bethesda, MD) – mixed media


@ The Hotel Palomar
2121 P Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20037  

THE ART REGISTRY
Discovering and Delivering Art to the Culture Community

Mary Early: Sculpture @ HEMPHILL, Opening Thursday, June 10

Mary Early: Sculpture
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 10, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Mary Early is not cool. She may be hip, intellectual, authoritative; but she, or I should say her artwork, is not cool. At a glance her installations may appear to be extensions of certain late modernist sculptural strategies with their presumption of objectivity, detachment and cool. It would be correct to identify minimalism, serial art, and other absolutist modernist aesthetics as the foil against which to interpret her work. But to stop there is to miss the work’s ambitious content--content that is personal, expressive and hot as opposed to cool.

Early’s process is to initially determine a shape or component with which to construct an artwork, and then to make numerous copies of that component. Each component is fabricated from laminated strips of wood bound by cheesecloth, covered in natural beeswax and polished. These seemingly generic shapes are balanced against one another, interlocked to create a whole sculptural installation. The exhibition at Hemphill is comprised of two large installation pieces complemented by a small-scale work.

Early’s application and careful polishing of the beeswax surface reveals a degree of craftsmanship and leaves evidence of the artist’s hand. The artist’s presence is further felt in the unplanned construction of the installation. Early discovers the final composition by testing how the components interact. Beyond the visual experience, which includes a play of patterns, negative spaces and shadows, Early’s sculptures possess an aroma, the perfume of natural beeswax. By incorporating this undeniably emotional element, the artist not only communicates something biological but also something ephemeral. These non-visual and personal elements contrast with the idealism implied by her structures. Early’s work juxtaposes the illusion of permanence with the temporary nature of life.

This exhibition is concurrent with Emma Tapley: New Paintings.

Hemphill
1515 14th Street NW
Washingon, DC

Emma Tapley: New Paintings @ HEMPHILL, Opening Thursday, June 10

Emma Tapley: New Paintings
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 10, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

In the new paintings on view at Hemphill, Emma Tapley reinvents landscape painting with an abstractionist’s perception of nature. Tapley achieves this by implementing a combination of techniques: altering the scale, vantage point, and angle of her subject matter; removing an object from its natural context; or magnifying its infinite details. These new works depict views of the natural world filtered through a window, reflected on water, or floated in space. Tapley paints in a style of realism that challenges her abstract compositions.

Tapley’s practice of rendering the reflection of an object rather than the object itself references the use of the mirror--a technology employed and studied by artists and art scholars throughout history. Reflected on the glass of a window or upon the surface of water, the implied broader scene is reduced to a confined space, forcing a focused examination of a small fragment of nature. Ultimately, the viewer is transplanted from reality to a state of recollection or memory, a journey parallel to Tapley’s transformation of a landscape into something abstract. Aesthetically seductive and visually challenging, these paintings engage the viewer in a multi-dimensional experience.

Tapley’s paintings are meticulously constructed from layers of glazes built upon the surface of the panel. Minute details are rendered carefully with imperceptible brushtrokes. The paintings emerge as luminous and reflective in and of themselves, referring back to Tapley’s notions of mirroring and perception.

This exhibition is concurrent with Mary Early: Sculpture.

Hemphill
1515 14th Street NW
Washingon, DC

IN THE CLEAR: New Glass by Kari Minnick

"Between Hope and Fear" Kilnformed, and Flameworked Glass   

BlackRock Center for the Arts Presents:   

IN THE CLEAR: New Glass by Kari Minnick
Wednesday, June 16, - Saturday, July 10, 2010

Artist Reception: June 19th, 5:30 -7:30 PM

BlackRock Center for the Arts
12901 Town Commons Drive
Germantown, MD 20874

This exhibit of new works - over a year in the making- includes wall and floor installations, pedestal and wall sculpture. A master of the medium, these works incorporate many of Kari's signature elements: artistic use of line, language, and mark making, and a fascination for graphic design. An award winning artist and collected internationally, Kari's works are in private, corporate and embassy collections.

Gallery hosts World Renowned Latin American Artists from the Netherlands

Luis Acosta (Argentine-Dutch) and Miriam Londoño (Columbian-Dutch)

Opening Reception: June 10, 6-8pm
Special Music: 7pm with Paul Bangser


Luis Acosta (Argentine-Dutch) and Miriam Londoño (Columbian-Dutch), long time friends, will be arriving to Alexandria, VA from their home in the Netherlands this June. In addition to an exhibition of both artists’ work, Acosta will be providing two weekend workshops that deal with his specialized paper weaving process; and Londoño will be offering  a display of her tools along with a powerpoint presentation showing her complicated and unique paper process.

Special Music: PAUL BANGSER is an active guitarist and teacher who lives in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC. He is the former Director of Guitar Studies at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts high school in Washington, D.C. Paul has been performing as a guitarist for over 25 years, playing jazz guitar as well as latin, classical, and popular styles. His performances include the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage as a leader with his own jazz quintet and Strathmore Mansion tea room. His groups have also performed at local clubs, outdoor festivals, and other public and private events. Paul has performed as a duo with jazz singers and has also held the principal guitar chair for theater productions including Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar. He teaches all styles of guitar to both adults and children.



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

Last week of Sustainability Lab at Transformer

Last week of Sustainability Lab
June 9 - 12, 2010

Thursday, June 10
1 - 7pm: Lasting Impressions

While Jeff Hnilicka is out & about in DC collecting material for Friday June 11's 10 Dance Moves for Washington, DC programming (see below), please visit Transformer during public gallery hours to interact with his Sustainability Lab installation. Jeff's interactive installation of visqueen sheets, containing in-progress brainstorming notes from Sustainability Lab and Open Engagement (a three day conference in Portland, OR exploring similar themes) will be open to visitor contributions as part of an on-going exploration of emerging models of art, food, and cultural production. The installation documents sustainable community and artist generated projects from around the country, along with ideas and feedback from Transformer visitors. Contribute to an aggregating collection of histories, dreams, and schemes that will travel with Jeff this summer and fall to his projects in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Greensboro, Los Angeles, and many points in between.

Friday, June 11
1, 3, and 5pm:
10 Dance Moves for Washington, DC - a dance lesson and travelogue
The culture of a city comes not only from its physical structures, but the architecture of its organisms. The people of a city are in and of themselves a tourist attraction - their mannerisms and body language define a cultural pulse. In a city renowned for its monuments, come learn another way to view cultural value in DC.
Drop by Transformer at 1pm, 3pm, and/or 5pm for a participatory presentation by Jeff Hnilicka on his Washington, DC experience. Based on a collection of images gathered via explorations of DC that Jeff thinks could inspire dance moves, Transformer invites you to hear about his travels, learn his choreography, and offer your own spin on DC's moves.
Additionally, Hnilicka will present 100 Dance Moves for Portland, a work created with his collaborative team You Are My Friend.

No previous dance or tour guide experience is necessary.


Saturday, June 12
1 - 6pm: Home Grown
Join artist Cynthia Connolly and cultural worker Jeff Hnilicka for an afternoon of conversation, local foods, music, and art. While sharing photographic documentation of personal art projects that explore themes of community and sustainability, Cynthia and Jeff will simultaneously be preparing and sharing with audiences a variety of food purchased fresh that morning from Potomac Vegetable Farms (Purcelville, VA) and Eco Friendly Foods (Moneta, VA) at the Court House Arlington, VA Farmers market. Among the projects Cynthia will be sharing is a work-in-progress documenting the work of farmers from the Court House market, exposing their entire food network from source to plate. She will also show photographs documenting her Rural Studio project in Perry County Alabama, where she designed and built an organic vegetable stand. Music from celebrated DC-based bands will play throughout the day.

This program is free and open to the public.

"Our goal is to farm this land well, leaving the land improved, while feeding people real food and being excellent neighbors." - Ellen Polishuk, Potomac Vegetable Farms.

www.transformergallery.org
1404 P Street NW Washington, DC 20010 / 202-483-1102

So-Hamiltonian Fellow Group Show

On June 19th, 2010 the So-Hamiltonian Fellows and Mentor Artist David Page will kick off their summers with the group show titled Private Practice: Bad Ideas, Dead Ends and Guilty Pleasures

This exhibition marks the culmination of the two-year program for the 2008 So-Hamiltonian Fellows.   Opening Reception: Saturday, June 19th, from 7-9 pm 

2008 Fellows
Sculptor Christian Benefiel  has been awarded the distinguished Fulbright Scholarship, which will take him to the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland. While exploring the Baltic sea region, Christian will build a foundry for metal castings at the Art Academy. Upon his return Benefiel will be exhibiting at  Gallery 1708 in Richmond, VA, in October 2011.

Bitten by the traveling-bug as well, Michael Dax Iacovone is heading to Bosnia for the month of July to work on a new mapping project. Mike will conduct  interviews with locals to investigate and map the highly confined and intensely contested geographic spaces the residents of Sarajevo were restricted to during the 1992 - 1996 siege. In the fall, Mike will also show at the Katonah Museum of Art in NY and and additionally was awarded a second exhibition at Flashpoint Gallery, which will open at the end of 2010. 

Linda Hesh's video "In the Garden" will be part of the Female Shorts Film Festival  held June 3-6 at the Target Gallery in the Torpedo Factory Art Center which is part of the Virginia state wide celebration of Women in the Arts. Linda also has three artworks from her "In the Garden" group, which recently showed at Hamiltonian Gallery, in the "Apocalypse Food" exhibition in Pensacola, FL. After the show travels, one of her pieces will be buried underground in a time capsule by the University of West Florida Art Department.  The artworks will be dug up and exhibited again in ten years

Ian Davis McLean recently participated in the 21st National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition at Notre Damn University, which scored him this splendid review by Doreen Bolger, the Director of the Baltimore Art Museum. 

Michael Enn Sirvet is working on a permanent art installation that will be installed in the fall of 2010 at the Farragut West Metro entry on 17th and I Streets, NW.  This installation is based upon his award winning sculpture Millennia and will consist of 15 LED back-lit, perforated dish-like structures mounted on the station entries street level walls. Michael's next solo gallery show will be with Washington-based Reyes + Davis Galley in December or 2010.

2009 Fellows
Before heading to Austria for an artists-in-residency program at the Salzburg Kunstlerhaus,  Katherine Mann will be visiting airports for purposes other than just traveling through them. At the Dayton International Airport, Katherine Mann will install "Byzantine," a 26 ft long collaborative painting she created on last summer with the Blue Sky Dayton Artist Residency. This installation will be on display from May - Sept, 2010. Katherine is also participating in "MICA Fulbright Honorees" at the Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport from June 18-Oct. 12 and has been selected as a finalist for the Bethesda Painting Awards. The Fraser Gallery in Bethesda, MD will show Katherine's work June 1 - 26, 2010.

Jonathan Monaghan is sending his signature "French Penguin" video on tour.  Over the summer, it will  screen at the Electronic Language  International Festival in São Paulo, Brazil, at GLOW II: Rites of Spring in Berlin, Germany and at MISC: Video and Performance at the NY Studio Gallery in The Big Apple.

Magnolia Laurie, who is currently exhibiting at Hamiltonian Gallery, is a finalist for the 2010 Trawick Prize produced by the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District.
Jon Bobby Benjamin is also packing his bags and moving to Richmond, VA where he will pursue an MFA degree at the Virginia Commonwealth University for Sculpture. Jon and his girlfriend Megin are also expecting a baby girl this Fall.
Congratulations!

Hamiltonian Artists
1353 U Street NW
Suite 101
Washington, DC 20009-4444
202.332.1116

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

RETHINKING TRADITION: Contemporary Design from Mexico

June 11 – October 15, 2010

RETHINKING TRADITION: Contemporary Design from MexicoRethinking Tradition: Contemporary Design from Mexico will present over 200 objects created by the most talented and innovative designers in Mexico today. The recent boom in the creative industries has transformed urban centers into artistic labs, and this exhibition celebrates the landscape of Mexico City where a dynamic, cosmopolitan and ever-changing urbanity inspires a new generation of artisans in infinite ways. This exhibition will show how contemporary designers often seek to integrate social, economic and environmental elements through the use of varied objects and materials to create unique products. Seen as a social process and as an instrument for integration, contemporary design has also reclaimed traditional methods of Mexican handicrafts and added inspiring modern touches.

GALLERY TALK  | Saturday, June 12 @ 3:00 pmMexico City as a Creative Lab in the Heart of Urbanity: Open House and Gallery Talk with Curator and Designers Innovative, contemporary Mexican designers Emiliano Godoy, Thierry Jeannot and Ariel Rojo will come together to talk about Mexico City´s recent transformation into a creative laboratory where the energetic, cosmopolitan and urban environment inspires them in infinite ways. Whether it is melding economic, social and environmental needs or simply combining disparate elements of the city to create a new object, you are sure to see contemporary design in a fascinating and novel light, illuminated by the dynamism of Mexico´s capital city.

OPEN HOUSE | Saturday, June 12 from 10:00am – 4:00 pm
Visit the Open House to tour the exhibition galleries, meet with the curator and designers, and savor traditional Mexican coffee and sweets. Don´t miss this opportunity to see the most unique, eye-catching and mind-bending designs coming from Mexico today.
 

Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
(202) 728-1628

McLean Project for the Arts Announces Selected Artists for Fantastic Journeys

Juror Beatrice Gralton chose works from the following artists for McLean Project for the Arts' summer exhibition Fantastic Journeys:

Sabine Carlson, Joel D'Orazio, Josephine Haden, Jeff Huntington, Rebecca Katz, Isabel Manalo, Lindsey McCulloch, Marise Riddell, Lina Vargas de la Hoz, and Amy Glengary Yang.

BEATRICE GRALTON is the Evelyn S. Nef Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Fantastic Journeys opens on June 17 with a reception and gallery talk from 7 - 9 pm.

McLean Project for the Arts is located at 1234 Ingleside Avenue in the McLean Community Center, McLean, Va
For more information, visit www.mpaart.org or call 703-790-1953
Gallery hours are 10 am - 4 pm Tuesday - Friday and 1 - 5 pm on Saturdays

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

"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.

8th Annual Art & Soul Charity Auction

The National Center for Children and Families (NCCF)
8th Annual Art & Soul Charity Auction
June 25, 2010, 6:00 PM
 @
The Music Center at Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Lane
North Bethesda, MD


Tickets are $100 per person.  Click here to purchase online, or call (301) 365 - 4480 ext. 114

Join Honorary Co-Chairs Allison Seymour of WTTG-TV/Fox 5 Morning News and world-renowned jazz musician and entrepreneur, Marcus Johnson, on Friday, June 25, 2010 at 6 p.m., for NCCF's 8th Annual Art & Soul Charity Auction at The Music Center at Strathmore.

Program features selected regional and diverse artwork, humanitarian awards, a live auction of youth art, and special performance by Broadway Star and Sony Recording Artist Julia Nixon.

Proceeds benefit NCCF's Freddie Mac Foundation Youth Activities Center (YAC), a cultural arts and recreational facility for homeless families and lost youth.

The National Center for Children and Families (NCCF)
6301 Greentree Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20817
(301) 365-4480
www.nccf-cares.org

BALLSTON ARTS & CRAFTS MARKET: 100% Handmade!

BALLSTON ARTS & CRAFTS MARKET: 100% Handmade!
Saturday, June 12,  10 am - 4 pm
2nd Saturday of the month through October 9
Welburn Sq., between Stuart & Taylor St, across from the Ballston Metro.

See local art at its best with handcrafted silver jewelry by bLuGrn design, demented decoupage by BoxBoy, upscale photography by Stephen L. Miller Words & Images, cheeky plushes by Grumpy Haters, designer tees by Sharp Shirter and more.  Live music by area bands from noon - 2 pm, and free coupons and goodie bags to early patrons.  

VSA Washington D.C. 3rd Thursday: June 17th

VSA Washington D.C. and HandReachAuction
Thursday, June 17
ARTiculate Gallery
1100 16th St. NW at the corner of 16th and L Street

HandReach brings together the best hands in the world to promote healing, rehabilitation, and the full development of human capital. On June 17th VSA Washington D.C. will host an auction at the ARTiculate Gallery space with all donations and funds going directly to the HandReach organization to improve the care available to children with complex trauma injuries. Whether your money is funding a surgical clinic, a rehab training session, a technological enhancement, or a piece of educational media, you can be sure that your contribution will help as many children as possible over an extended period of time.

VSA Washington, DC. is a unique non-profit organization providing multiple creative environments, opportunities, and experiences for children and adults through arts-infused educational and vocational programs.

Monday, June 07, 2010

Its Grant Time

Its Grant Time at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Apply For Grants HERE.

The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities offers several funding programs for individuals and nonprofit organizations located in the District of Columbia.

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
1371 Harvard Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 724-5613

All-Media Membership Show at The Art League Gallery

June 10- July 5
All-Media Membership Show @ The Art League Gallery

Works of all media and subject matter by Art League artists, with an emphasis on sculpture.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, June 10, 6:30-8pm

2010 Columbia Festival of the Arts this summer

The box office for the 2010 Columbia Festival of the Arts is open. For more information on all the shows, visit the website or buy your tickets now at Tickets.com

Columbia Festival of the Arts is supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts
The Columbia Festival of the Arts is also supported by the Howard County Arts Council through a grant from Howard County Government.

5575 Sterrett Place, Suite 280 • Columbia, MD 21044
Phone: 410-715-3044
http://columbiafestival.com/

Sunday, June 06, 2010

JOHN MORRELL at Addison Ripley

JOHN MORRELL 
HERE & THEN

June 12 - July 17, 2010  
Opening reception: Saturday, June 12th, 5-7pm

John Morrell, Rocky Point, ©2008, oil on linen

For more than twenty years Addison/Ripley Fine Art has regularly presented work by Washington artist, John Morrell. The work in "Here and Then" presents vistas from New York, Rhode Island, Maine, Washington, DC, Canada and France in climates ranging from high summer to frigid mid-winter. The effects of light and wind, shadow and reflection are often the subjects of these paintings. Subtle tones and augmented ones play on Morrell's canvases and works on paper.  These new works are at once familiar and surprisingly fresh; they explore the lessons of the great American landscape painters and, at the same time, feel rooted firmly in the present.

The painter's very successful look at landscape icons like Niagara Falls and the Washington, DC skylines has been applauded and recognized for some time. However, it is his ability to render the familiar new and the unfamiliar enticing that marks him as a consummate master of his craft, keenly observing and carefully composing for maximum effect. Studies for many of the larger paintings are included in this exhibition, offering significant insight into the artist's process, a window into the intricate layering that is utilized in the final works.

Mr. Morrell is presently the Chair of the Art and Art History Department at Georgetown University where he has taught for many years and it is notable that his studio at the University looks out over some of the landscape that has intrigued him for much of his career. He has work in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the State Department, the United States Postal Museum and Georgetown University.

Addison/Ripley Fine Art
1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007 
202.338.5180 
www.addisonripleyfineart.com

Target Gallery: Luis Acosta and Miriam Londoño: The Language of Paper

Luis Acosta and Miriam Londoño: The Language of Paper

World-renowned Latin American artists Luis Acosta and Miriam Londoño will be creating and exhibiting their art using handmade paper processes.

Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, June 10, 6-8pm
Special Performance: Paul Bangser, Jazz guitar with a twist of Latin styles

Workshops with Luis Acosta: June 12 and June 19

Visit the Target Gallery blog for more information.

Patricia Smith-Reverberations at Studio 4 Gallery


"Swaying Goddess of the Fourfold"

Patricia Smith
 Reverberations

June 9-July 4
Opening June 12, 6:30-9:00 PM

The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
This exhibit is part of the Second Saturday Art Walks at the Workhouse Arts Center.

The exhibition “Reverberations” reflect the artist‟s explorations of the terms goddess, women and feminine. She seeks to arrive at views of women other than stereotypes. Her explorations are open-ended, not literal, making possible a proliferation of meanings that may be lived out by each viewer. The paintings are mixed media, water dispersable acrylics on kozo paper mounted on boards, with additions of collaged papers and printmaking techniques.

The artist believes that we must recognize our continuance with the past in order to transform the present and create new visions for the future. The metaphor is the central creative process which leads to an open-ended understanding of women. The ‟goddess‟ is not taken to be a super-being but a metaphor that animates possibilities for women. Spiraling webs of meaning emerge in the creative process, which can become a vehicle for creating our potentialities, of what we may become.


Studio 4 Gallery

Workhouse Arts Center

9601 Ox Road
Lorton 22079
www.workhousearts.org

Saturday, June 05, 2010

Last Chance to see Beautiful: Virginia Women Artists @ Greater Reston Arts Center

Read Jessica Dawson’s review in the Washington Post  - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060304358.html 
Beautiful closes on Friday June 11, at 5pm.
Greater Reston Arts Center Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm

Next Appetite for Art session is on Monday, June 7 at 10:30am for an artful dialogue with exhibiting artist Bernis von zur Muehlen.

Greater Reston Arts Center
12001 Market Street
Suite #103
Reston, VA 20190
703.471.9242
www.restonarts.org

At the Phillips Collection

June 5 through Sept. 12, 2010
 
Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White PaintingsIn the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) created a series of paintings nearly without paint, using graphite and oil on canvas to produce works both complex and spare. These luminous and poetic works are filled with symbolic imagery and natural forms, and represent a dramatic departure from the artist’s more characteristic richly colored and thickly painted surfaces. This exhibition of 23 paintings and works on paper, as well as four sculptures, marks the first time in over 50 years that a significant number of these works are on view.

Robert Ryman: Variations and ImprovisationsRyman (b. 1930) is an American painter best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. This exhibition presents his ongoing examination of painting as both medium and process with endless variations in materials and methods. It brings together approximately 25 small-scale paintings from private collections. Some works have only rarely been shown in the U.S. This is the first solo presentation of Ryman’s work in the Washington area.

June 10 through Sept. 5, 2010

Kate Shepherd
Shepherd is best known for large, vertical, mostly monochrome paintings that create illusory three-dimensional space. Her work, in the former dining room of the Phillips house, incorporates painting and sculpture and focuses on architectural details. Part of Intersections, in which artists respond to art and spaces in the Phillips with projects of their own.

Admission: $12 for adults, $10 for visitors 62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under

1600 21st Street, NW (at Q Street)
Metro Red Line, Dupont Circle Station (Q Street exit), and via several bus lines, www.wmata.com
Information:
202-387-2151
www.phillipscollection.org  

GRACE Market Street Exhibitions


Michele Norris
The Good Earth
April 26 - July 26, 2010 

Opening Reception: Monday, June 7, 5 - 7pm
at the Hyatt Regency Reston 
1800 Presidents Street
Reston, VA 20190
703) 925-8250

Last Chance to View: DAN TREADO, REQUESTING QUIET

DAN TREADO REQUESTING QUIET
May 1 - June 5, 2010

Free Dirt, 2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 36 inches

This work continues to surprise and delight with the artist's signature serial imagery; layers of color, light as air, add dreamy associations and an impossible depth to the lush surfaces.  In some of the paintings, appropriated samples from selected illustrations and texts provide tense contrast.  In others, a crazy quilt of disparate organic images is woven together by this talented painter.  At once cryptic and mesmerizing, the paintings in this third exhibition by the artist at Addison/Ripley demonstrate a rich complexity and accomplished maturity.  They may "request quiet" but they shout and crackle with energy.

Addison Ripley Fine Art
1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.338.5180
www.addisonripleyfineart.com

Friday, June 04, 2010

The Unbroken Line: A Cast of Characters /Terry Svat

The Unbroken Line: A Cast of Characters
Solo exhibition by Terry Svat
June 29-August 1

Opening Reception:Friday, July 9, 5:30-8 pm
Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, July 17, 1-3 pm

The Unbroken Line: A Cast of Characters grew out of a challenge artist Terry Svat faced years ago, when invited to participate in an installation at George Washington University. The call to artists asked for work on 8x8 canvases. Svat, being a printmaker, rarely touched a canvas. She did, however, have a large collection of printed material, which she began cutting and recombining. The result: Three-dimensional print-collages on a canvas surface.

These print collages include imagery of houses, human archetypes. Regarding this work, Svat says, “As it began to grow I was surprised to see that there was continuity and a connectedness to it all. Since most of my work through the years has been created in series, it took a while to see that there was a thread or line running through all of it dealing with life, death, and rebirth.” This unbroken line is apparent in her figures, which march from canvas to canvas under cities, trees, the sun and the moon, creating a visual record of the journey of life.


Washington Printmakers Gallery
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 2nd Floor
8230 Georgia Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-273-3660

Ellen Delaney's Abstracted Color Fields at The Art League

Ellen Delaney’s Color Fields
June 10 – July 5, 2010
In The Art League Gallery:
 
From Ellen Delaney's Color Fields Exhibition

 Opening Reception and Meet the Artist: 
Thursday, June 10, 6:30-8:00 pm

Ellen Delaney’s landscape paintings are abstracted yet representational. Her paintings are full of contrast – rough texture vs. sharp lines, abstract vs. representational elements, complementary colors, and manmade vs. natural objects. Her solo exhibit Color Fields will be featured at The Art League Gallery, June 10 – July 5, 2010.

Delaney likes to work with a palette knife to build up volume and texture, create abrupt lines and sharp edges. She likes the contrast between texture and line, which is evident throughout her work. She works in acrylic either on paper or on plywood, and enjoys experimenting with color and different color combinations, often producing landscapes with bright and energetic palettes. The square format of her works adds to the abstraction and is a unifying element throughout the exhibit.

“I’m not trying to recreate or to replicate a scene. I often abstract a photo or am inspired by parts of various landscapes.” She pieces together elements from different landscapes to create her own vision.

The Art League
105 North Union Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-683-1780
www.theartleague.org

Live in Arlington? Get online

ARTIST DIRECTORY on Arlingtonarts.org

Arlingtonarts.org has launched its brand new artist directory, that is open to artists in all disciplines for a modest annual fee. Artists must live, work or maintain a studio in Arlington, VA. The directory is designed to provide exposure through the Arlington arts website, and will help direct traffic to the artist's own site or Facebook page.   More 

DC Digital Capital Week

DC Digital Capital Week is a 10-day festival focused on creativity, technology, entrepreneurship, marketing, and innovation. The kick-off party is focused on bringing together all good people for a fun night of great music and art in a really cool venue!
Blagden Alley!
Friday, June 11, 9pm to 3am

Enter on N Street between 9th and 10th, or
on 9th Street between M and N.
$20 (includes a drink)
Buy your tickets HERE.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

International Arts & Artists' Hillyer Art Space is currently accepting submissions for its 2nd Juried Member's Show, to be curated by (TBA), until June 18 , 2010 (not a postmark deadline) for the show beginning July 2nd through July 31st.

REQUIREMENTS:
· Artists must be current members of IA&A
· Submissions may address any topic
· All media will be considered.
· $20 submission fee

For Information - membership at artsandartists dot org

202-338-0680
International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Ct., NW
Washington, DC 20008

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Female Shorts: Film and Video Showcase

Female Shorts: Film & Video Showcase celebrates cinematic works of women in the arts. This festival is a collaboration between the Torpedo Factory's Target Gallery and The Art League, and is dedicated and focused to seeking out and promoting cinema created by and for women. The showcase is part of the Virginia Commission for the Arts 2010 state-wide celebration, Minds Wide Open, which celebrates women in the arts.

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins, selected 22 films to be a part of the juried showcase. The gallery will be showing these films continuously throughout the days of the event, June 3-6.

Contact the gallery to purchase advance tickets: 703.838.4565 x4
($5 advance tickets; $8 at the door)

MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts
is the first statewide celebration of its kind. Between March and June of 2010, thousands of special events will occur to honor contributions by women to arts and culture.

Rosemary Cooley and Tjelda vander Meijden

June 1-27
 

Present Water: Micro & Macro
Featuring work by Rosemary Cooley and Tjelda vander Meijden


Artist Talk and Film: June 3, 12-2 pm
Opening Reception with Guest Introduction by Former US Ambassador James I Gadsden: 
Saturday, June 05, 2-5 pm

Washington Printmakers Gallery | Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 2nd Floor | 8230 Georgia Ave | Silver Spring, MD 20910

WPArade! The WPA Art Parade on Half St SE this Saturday, 6/5 at noon!

Don't miss the WPArade this Saturday!

The WPA Art Parade on Half Street SE (from M St SE to N St SE)
takes place this Saturday, June 5 at noon
RAIN OR SHINE!

Above from top left: Charger by Rob Lindsay, Screaming at the Economy
by Floating Lab Collective, Batala Washington DC

Join WPA for a post-parade celebration at The Bullpen
on N and Half Streets SE until 3pm

Participants include: 
John James Anderson
Art-O-Matic
Nadine Bloch and Washington Peace Center
Leah Curran
Floating Lab Collective
Give Me A Vote!/Albus Cavus
Glade Dance Collective
Irvine Contemporary
Jessica Jones and Batala Washington and Riverside Center
Rob Lindsay
Adrienne Mills/Body Art by Figure Photos


FREE and open to the public!
 
Take Metro! Green Line to Navy Yard at M Street

Robert Freeman at Parish Gallery

“When the Music Changes” by painter, Robert Freeman.  This exhibition will run thru June 15, 2010.  

Known for his vivid and powerful figurative paintings, skillful brave use of color and gesture are the trademark of Freeman’s work and make his figures nearly abstract.  He has traditionally focused on the interactions between people in his work, on couples and crowds, and the characters in his paintings betray their emotions with expressive facial and body language.     


Robert Freeman has been exhibiting his art works nationally for over 30 years and has been included in the public collections of the National Center for African-American Artists; Boston Public Library; Brown University; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and DeCordova Museum, among other institutions.  He has been featured in numerous solo and group gallery shows.

Art critic, Christine Temin of the Boston Globe, referred to Freeman’s paintings as “a relief and joy, a visual balm for people starved for beauty.”

Parish Gallery-Georgetown
1054 31st Street, NW
Washington, DC
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Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue

Welcome to "Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue," a television arts program, and now a web site highlighting the arts in the Washington, D. C. area

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Jeffry Cudlin: BY REQUEST

Flashpoint Gallery Presents
Jeffry Cudlin: BY REQUEST
June 25 – July 31, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, June 25, 6 – 8 pm

Photo by Josh Cogan

WASHINGTON, DC – This June, the ideal Washington, DC art show will take over Flashpoint Gallery. Artist, curator, and critic Jeffry Cudlin has engineered a celebrity-obsessed exhibition that purports to reveal in excruciating detail what collectors, critics, and museum administrators think area artists should be making.

For BY REQUEST, Cudlin approached seven DC art world luminaries and asked each to fill out a 20 page survey. Questions were all multiple choice, and attempted to uncover everything from preferences regarding paint handling techniques; to opinions about museum “fluff” shows and art blogs; to each patron’s personality type. Pink Line Project founder Philippa Hughes; blogger and critic Tyler Green; The Phillips Collection director Dorothy Kosinski; Irvine Contemporary gallery director Martin Irvine; National Portrait Gallery Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings Anne Collins Goodyear; collector and curator Henry Thaggert; and uber-collector Tony Podesta all agreed to play along.

Once the surveys were completed, Cudlin recruited an atelier of seven area artists working in a variety of media and styles. Torkwase Dyson, Victoria F. Gaitán, Jason Horowitz, Jenny Sidhu Mullins, Cory Oberndorfer, Kerry Skarbakka, and Trevor Young all accepted commissions from Cudlin to create personalized pieces based on the survey data.

There was one small catch: Cudlin insisted that he be depicted in every work of art, thereby inflating his own importance in brokering all of these transactions, and transforming himself into the show’s biggest celebrity. The resulting images are at times outlandish, featuring Cudlin cross-dressing, holding a severed pig’s head, and even sporting a pair of fake latex breasts, courtesy of an FX makeup artist.

In BY REQUEST, Cudlin plays with the notion—popular with many contemporary artists and theorists—that the chief content of art is social. If art ultimately depends on exchanges of information, capital, and power, then simply examining the agendas of people in positions of authority should tell us all we need to know about why art looks and works the way it does right now.

All of the finished pieces in the show will be assigned numeric scores by the seven patrons for whom they are intended. Critics need not second guess: the gallery will include informational displays of facts and figures indicating whether the patrons regard these works as successes or failures. BY REQUEST offers the promise of complete transparency for the DC art world and, perhaps, a model for other artists desperate to become relevant.

Flashpoint Gallery • 916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
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202.315.1305

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

ART+SPACE SUMMER EXHIBITION at Project 4

Project 4 presents :

ART+SPACE SUMMER EXHIBITION
Sharon Louden
Jeanne Quinn
Foon Sham
Katy Stone

June 5, 2010 - July 10, 2010
Reception, Saturday, June 5, 2010 - 6:30pm - 8:30 pm

Project 4 presents a group show linking the gallery’s exhibition programming with its art consulting service, ART+Space.  This ART+Space Summer Exhibition features four artists creating sculptural works and installations that emphasize the space they interact with and showcase the artists’ ability to adapt their work to any site.  Each working with an adept and responsive hand to their materials, these artists create complexes and structures where their lyrical, sculptural forms coalesce with the environments they inhabit.

In Katy Stone's work “Wavescape,” intricately cut pieces of aluminum flow over the walls of the first floor gallery.  Stone’s forms are stretched and repeated, evoking man-made fabrication while expressing a harmony found only in nature.  Within the serenity of these forms the merging of Stone’s influences, such as Chinese landscape paintings, modern materials, and gestural repetitive marks, reveals itself. With a similarly complex process and aesthetic, local artist Foon Sham's 10-foot tall, stacked wood sculpture sits on the balcony behind this first floor gallery, swelling from the well-ordered contemporary gallery into unfettered space. Sham is primarily interested in investigating the materiality of wood during in art-making process.  In this new work, Sham borrows vocabularies from architecture and line-drawing to create a work suggestive of naturally occurring form, deliberate design and intuitive mark at once.

Jeanne Quinn and Sharon Louden each create immersive sculptural installations in separate niches of the gallery’s second level.  Louden's installation "Merge," made of hundreds of individual aluminum forms, exemplifies the whimsical and gestural linearity characteristic of all of her work.  The physicality of "Merge" is a result of both Louden’s animated arrangement of her aluminum elements as well as the effect of light bouncing from their surfaces. In Quinn’s neighboring installation, “Everything Is Not As It Seems,” the artist also organically employs several visual forces at once, to create a complete environment.  In this work, porcelain, ornamental forms and electrified bulbs hang in a crimson room, creating an expression of the artist’s fascination with the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk: the complete work of art.  Quinn seeks to create work that is “sensually encompassing,” and uses domestic space as a site to do so in this particular work, referencing the pervasiveness of the decorative arts in everyday life.  The effect of an interior space on an aesthetic experience and vice versa is the focus of this work and of this exhibition.

1353 U Street NW, 3rd floor, Washington, DC 20009
202 232 4340 
http://www.project4gallery.com/

City Gallery Presents “Out at Night”

“Out at Night” will hang from June 5-27, 2010.
City Gallery will host an opening reception on June 5 from 6-9pm.


City Gallery presents the work of noted Hill photographer, Gayle Krughoff in a show entitled “Out at Night.” About this show Krughoff says, "I am drawn to photographing at night, or early morning, or dusk—when the absence of light can add mystery to what is already beautiful. A scene can be trasformed by the minimal light that is available. And I enjoy the quiet and being removed from the day-to-day that night-time offers.”

Krughoff has been a professional photogapher in Washington, D.C. for nearly thirty years, specializing
in children, families, weddings, politicos and the occasional entertainment glitterati. Her photographs
have appeared in numerous publications. She is a long-time member of the Capitol Hill Art League and has served on its board and as its chair. Krughoff is a frequent exhibitor in juried shows on the Hill and other galleries throughout the Washington, D.C. area. She studied at the Maine Photographic Workshops, Art New England, Photoworks in Glen Echo and the Smithsonian.


City Gallery
804 H Street, NE #1
Washington, DC 20002
Hours: Friday & Saturday 1-5pm and by appointment
202.468.5277
www.citygallerydc.com