SW ArtsFest 2011 news

 (e)merge art fair Friday–Sunday The (e)merge art fair (www.emergeartfair.com) will take place at the Capitol Skyline Hotel, 10 I St., SW. (e)merge starts with a private preview on Thursday. The Fair will feature vetted exhibitions of art by DC-Baltimore area and international emerging galleries, nonprofits, and unrepresented artists, as well as panel discussions and performances, all for a public admission fee of $10.

 

This September, DC’s smallest quadrant will hold its first annual SW ArtsFest. SW ArtsFest 2011 will bring together nine different organizations to present a cross-section of Southwest’s cultural community through a three-day festival with the theme “Discover Southwest.” The collaboration will include the (e)merge art fair and the Marcātus Creative Art Market, performances and children’s activities at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, the 10th Annual DC Jazz Preservation Festival, the Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival, an outdoor art studio for children, and much more.

Location: Various Venues in Southwest, DC
Schedule: Friday September 23 to Sunday September 25, 2011For complete up-to-date info visit: http://www.swdcartsfest.org.
For general info email: info@swdcartsfest.org and swartsfest@gmail.com.
For sponsorship info email: sponsorships@swdcartsfest.org.
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A version of this article will run in the August issue of the neighborhood newspaper, The Southwester.
from David Sobelsohn
SW ArtsFest 2011
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SW ARTSFEST PREVIEW

This fall, from Friday-Sunday September 23-25, The Southwest Neighborhood will hold its first annual SW ArtsFest.

The first annual arts festival will take place this September. Its theme: “Discover Southwest.”  At SWNA’s July meeting, SW ArtsFest 2011’s producers previewed their offerings.

• TR SW’s John Viglianti described the (e)merge art fair.  In the Capitol Skyline, from 12 noon Friday the 23d to 5 p.m. Sunday the 25th, (e)merge will showcase art from regional and international emerging artists and galleries, and include panel discussions with artists, collectors, and curators.  Among SW ArtsFest events only (e)merge will charge admission ($15/$10 for students and seniors). Partly for Skyline’s hosting of (e)merge, the Washington City Paper recently named hotelier Mera Rubell DC’s “Art Messiah.”

• At the other end of Southwest from the Skyline, redevelopment promises a wonderful new waterfront.  As Bob Rubenkonig reported, from 6 p.m. Friday to 4 p.m. Sunday, as part of SW ArtsFest 2011, PN Hoffman/Madison Waterfront will provide music, food, and a sock-monkey art studio at Water and 7th Streets.  The music and art are free, but you must provide your own socks.

• 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of Arena Stage’s move to its current home, across Maine Avenue from the waterfront.  Desirée Urquhart, Arena’s Director of Government and Community Relations, described Arena’s plans for hand-dance (DC swing) performances, tours of its new facilities, and family-oriented theater activities, all 12-6 p.m. Saturday.

• ArtsFest 2011 also brings together events Southwest has hosted before. Across M Street from Arena Stage, St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church holds an annual End-of-Summer fair.  As Virginia Mathis described, from 9-5 Saturday, this year’s End-of-Summer fair will feature face painting, raffles, jewelry, St. A’s famous fried-fish sandwiches, home-baked desserts, music and more.  That same day, from 12-8, Westminster Presbyterian Church, at 4th and I Streets, will hold its 10th annual DC Jazz Preservation Festival.  Reverend Ruth Hamilton described Westminster’s offerings of paintings, crafts, clothing, and food.

• Westminster shares the 4th and I intersection with Christ United Methodist Church.  Michael Mack described Christ UMC’s Saturday plans to present a concert by folk-music legend Donal Leace; art from Art Enables, a gallery for artists with mental or developmental disabilities; and--at the Southwest Library--dramatic readings highlighting Southwest history.  From 1-8 Sunday, at Westminster Church, Christ UMC will co-sponsor a documentary festival, including films about Martin Luther King, Jr., the Palestinians, the death penalty, and a real-life African prince sold into slavery in the antebellum South.

• Adding to ArtsFest’s musical offerings, Carrie Dorsey described the Second Baptist Church Southwest’s plans for Saturday performances on Canal Street by choirs, dancers, and bands from 14 neighborhood churches.

• Finally, for a decade Southwest residents have enjoyed Cultural Tourism DC’s neighborhood walking tours.  At July’s SWNA meeting, Washington Walks founder Carolyn Crouch described the four free 90-minute walking tours she’ll lead around Southwest Saturday and Sunday September 24 and 25.

• SW ArtsFest 2011 also hopes to include the Marcātus Creative Art Market, with arts, crafts, and food; and a Second Union Baptist Church flea market.

SW ArtsFest 2011 needs volunteers!  Volunteers can fill a variety of needs, from public relations to litter patrol.  Former SWNA president Carolyn Mitchell is heading up SW ArtsFest’s volunteer effort.  Become part of SW ArtsFest 2011!  Email volunteerswartsfest@yahoo.com or call 202-320-3123.

Boston Properties - Paintings by D. Carlson & S.Fields on Exhibit

Boston Properties
Heurich Gallery

From Color to Form
Paintings by David Carlson and Suzanna Fields

On Exhibit through September 6


Boston Properties
Heurich Gallery
505 9th Street, NW
202.585.0800
Metro:  Gallery Pl-Chinatown, 9th Street exit

100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic Book release

I've received my copy of 100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic in the mail and it's a beautifully crafted, full color, 224 page Hard Cover book with 2 page spreads on each artist! There's a good showing from DC, MD and VA. including artists: Alan Binstock, Tom Block, Margaret Boozer, Lenny Campello, Stevens J. Carter, Joan Danziger, Margery Goldberg, Pat Goslee, Carlotta Hester, Kay Jackson, Michael Janis, Raymond Kaskey, Joan Konkel, Anne Marchand, Donna McCullough, Carol Newmyer, Ellen Sinel, Betsy Stewart, Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Angela White, Paul Martin Wolff and Joyce Zipperer to name a few. Congratulations to all the artists!

You are invited to come to a book signing party this Fall where they will be available for purchase. Details TBA. Stay tuned for more information/events related to the book. - Anne Marchand

Available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon

Order your copy here:

100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic

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100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic
E. Ashley Rooney with Foreword by Charles Yoder

Book Description With oil, glass, multi-media, metal, and other materials, 100 contemporary artists explore the rich imagery created by the culture, society, history, and environment of the American Mid-Atlantic region. 480+ images display strong, exciting, and passionate works by artists in this region with a long tradition of American artistry. Like the trailblazers before them, these diverse artists draw on the region's seashore, its forests and mountain, economic progress, voluminous history, and ethnic diversity to interpret life in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. Through their paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, and statements, you will find voices that preserve and promote the vision and legacy of art in the Mid-Atlantic states.

New (Now). Exhibition - Introducing the 2011 Hamiltonian Fellows

Saturday, August 13, 2011, from 7-9pm

 As Hamiltonian Artists concludes its third year of outstanding artist-centric programming, they have named five new, distinguished Hamiltonian Fellows for 2011 to join five existing Fellows.  New Hamiltonian Fellows are:

·      Nora Howell (MFA,  Maryland Institute College of Art)
·      Sarah Knobel (MFA, University of Cincinatti)
·      Matthew Mann (MFA, American University)
·      Jenny Mullins (MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art)
·      Joshua Wade Smith  (MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Mt. Royal School of Art)

On Saturday, August 13, 2011, from 7-9pm, Hamiltonian Gallery will open an introductory group exhibition of these five new Fellows.  Each artist will be displaying the work with which they were accepted.  The exhibition will run from August 13 - September 10, 2011. 

hamiltoniangallery.com

Hamiltonian Artists | 1353 u street, nw | suite 101 | washington | DC | 20009

The Character of Chevy Chase

Zenith Gallery at Chevy Chase Pavilion
Invites You to Meet the Artists of

The Character of Chevy Chase
 Reception Wednesday, August 10, 6:00-8:30 PM

Zenith Gallery on Level 2, Chevy Chase Pavilion
5335 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington DC 20015
Open Wednesday - Saturday, Noon-6 PM and by Appointment  

Show Dates: August 20 - September 10, 2011












Kim Abraham      Harmon Biddle      Deborah Brisker Burk
Lou Kaplan      Carol Gellner Levin     Joan Samworth
 
 Curated by Assistant Director, Susan Rapaport, the Character of Chevy Chase brings new artists to Zenith's roster, featuring talent form the Chevy Chase community who all work in more than one medium, including graphite, watercolor, oil pastel on linen and canvas, as well as terracotta and bronze.

 www.zenithgallery.com 

Opening reception of Synergy at the Torpedo Factory Art Center

Synergy

August 11, 6-9pm

Torpedo Factory Art Center

www.torpedofactory.org

2011 - Inter-American Year of Culture

LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS OF ITALIAN DESCENTARTISTAS LATINOAMERICANOS DE ASCENDENCIA ITALIANA
ARTISTI LATINOAMERICANI DI DISCENDENZA ITALIANA
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The IDB Cultural Center
August 15 to October 21 2011
Mon-Fri, 11 AM to 6 pm PM
The IDB Cultural Center joins this year’s official celebrations in Washington, DC on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, with a number of activities scheduled for the second part of 2011.

The first is the exhibition LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS OF ITALIAN DESCENT (August 15 to October 21, 2011), featuring 25 works drawn from the IDB Art Collection, representing a number of Latin American countries with a significant Italian migration, and calling attention to the important cultural synergy that has intertwined the destinies of Italy and Latin America for more than five hundred years. Most of the names of the artists are already familiar to the general public, such as Amighetti, Figari, Pettoruti, Matta, and Frasconi, to name a few.

The works were selected by Félix Angel, Director and Curator of the IDB Cultural Center.  The Center has invited Cristina Rossi, Professor of Latin American Art and researcher at the Julio E. Payró Institute for the Theory and History of Art of the University of Buenos Aires, to cooperate as guest essayist for the catalogue, and discuss the interaction of experiences between Italy and Latin America.

Free and open to the public
Inter-American Development Bank
Cultural Center GALLERY
1300 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC. 
202.623.1213 
www.iadb.org/cultural

Old Print Gallery: "Location, Location, Location"

The Old Print Gallery is pleased to announce a new gallery show entitled "Location, Location, Location," on view from Friday, August 19 through Friday, September 9. "Location, Location, Location" is an exhibit by 20th century and contemporary printmakers, portraying their topographical and architectural world through print. Expansive landscapes, vibrant cityscapes and the most intimate of spaces are presented in this collection, reiterating the lasting effect a place can have on our memory and our lives. Highlights from the show include realistic, imagined and abstracted views from artists such as Jonathon Taylor Arms, Michael W. Arike, Anders Aldrin, Nikolas Schiller and more.

The show will open with a nighttime celebratory reception, free to all, from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, August 19.

The Old Print Gallery
1220 31st Street, NW
Washington, DC
202.965.1818

Source: The Georgetown BID

Hillyer Art Space August Exhibitions

August 5th 2011- August 26th 2011

 James Matthew Crooks: Opposing Planes

 Matt Crooks uses photography as a means of exploration.  He tries to find the overlooked, forgotten, or decaying parts of our everyday environment.  Crooks' is fascinated with pattern, form, and texture and the interplay between them on different scales.  He sees the simple beauty that is abundant, perhaps only evident if you are willing to take a second look.   The variations of texture in particular can amaze the viewers.  From a simple checkered wall next to a bus stop in rural Colorado to the first tracks on Vallée Blanche Glacier in the mountains of France.

David Emerick:  Variations

In creating his work for Variations Emerick sought out compelling compositions in the mundane architecture of commercial structures.  Emerick finds his inspiration in the works of mid-twentieth century color-field and abstract expressionist painters like Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, and Hans Hofmann, as well as the classical rules of composition.  Emerick's photographs are his attempt to find transcendent beauty and tension in these overlooked and utilitarian architectural forms.

International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Court NW, Washington, DC 20008 USA

www.artsandartists.org

Sculpture 1275: Artemis Herber, Washington Sculptors Group

SCULPTURE 1275: 
ARTEMIS HERBER   

August 8  - September 23, 2011

Reception with the artist:  
Tuesday, September 20, 6 - 8 pm

Presented by  
Washington Sculptors Group & Axent Realty
1275 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 
Washington DC 20004

Lobby Gallery Hours:  
Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 7 pm


Sculpture 1275: Artemis Herber is the fifteenth in a series of ongoing exhibitions presented by the Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) in partnership with Axent Realty. The 2011 Sculpture 1275 exhibition series was curated by Washington artist Lou Stovall.

By mastering the art of "scoring," German-born artist Artemis Herber has devised a way to manipulate her corrugated muse in any direction she desires. Through the process of folding and bending, cardboard is transformed and takes on a delicate body language.

"By creating specific shapes with an infinite number of linear, structural cuts, " says Ms. Herber, "I transform mundane cardboard into pliable, movable sculptures." She reduces cardboard to a minimalist expression in color, form and material.  In her recent work repetition and grouping are often used to "achieve ever-changing statements, creating poetry with the results."

Galleries: ‘Characters of Chevy Chase,’ ‘Local Color’ showcase hometown artists - The Washington Post

Galleries: ‘Characters of Chevy Chase,’ ‘Local Color’ showcase hometown artists - The Washington Post: "Galleries: ‘Characters of Chevy Chase,’ ‘Local Color’ showcase hometown artists
By Mark Jenkins

Washington is not home to a lot of capital-A artists, whose personalities (and self-marketing mechanisms) are as big as their work. Such swaggering figures are especially unlikely in a show representing the upscale, near-suburban precincts of Chevy Chase. But Zenith Gallery’s “The Character of Chevy Chase” doesn’t feature the dabblers, even if some of the participants pursue (or pursued) their art part-time."

Read more HERE:

National Small Works Awards this Saturday

14th Annual National Small Works

  

Opening Reception and Awards

Saturday, August 6 ,1-4 pm
with Juror Robert K. Newman, owner/director, the Old Print Shop, NY, NY

Also on view:
Apercus, solo exhibition by Kiyomi Baird,
 2010 NSW Juror's Choice winner 
Exhibitions run August 3-28

Artist Talk and Reception with Kiyomi Baird:
Saturday, August 13, 1-4 pm

NSW show pics and list of accepted artists now on view here!

Washington Printmakers Gallery | Pyramid Atlantic Art Center | 8230 Georgia Ave | Silver Spring | MD | 20910 www.washingtonprintmakers.com

CALL FOR PROPOSALS / August 5

Deadline: August 5, 2011

Hillyer Art Space's new member gallery is an exhibition space dedicated to showing the best and brightest in the DC arts community.  "nine" will have monthly exhibitions that showcase the work of member artists only.  This exciting opportunity will provide member artists the chance to exhibit their work and become a part of Hillyer's artistic community through members-only programming and benefits.  There is no fee for proposals.

 "Nine" will premier on 9.9.2011. Proposals submitted for the opening show in September will be considered for the gallery's future monthly exhibitions.

Proposals
 Artists are invited to submit proposals that outline a month-long project, exhibition, or other activity to take place in the gallery. Applicants are encouraged to make creative use of the space, participate in collaborations, and experiment with media. All media and disciplines are welcome.

Want more info?  Get it here

Call for Entries, National Portrait Gallery Portrait Competition

“Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition,” is hosted by the Smithsonian National Portrait Galley.
 Submissions are available online from Sept. 1 through Oct. 31, and the finalist’s exhibition is scheduled for 2013.

The jurors are Martin E. Sullivan, director, National Portrait Gallery; Brandon Brame Fortune, curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery; Peter Frank, writer, curator and critic, Los Angeles; Hung Liu, artist and professor, Mills College, Oakland, Calif.; Richard J. Powell, Professor of Art and Art History and John Spencer Bassett professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Alec Soth, artist, Minneapolis.

The competition invites submissions of portraits in all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, prints, photography, electronic and digital media. All finalist works will be shown in a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery March 22, 2013, through Jan. 4, 2014.

Source:  Portrait Competition: Call for Entries, National Portrait Gallery

Sean Lundgren: Nave @ Transformer

E8: Sculpture EXHIBITION @ Transformer

    Sean Lundgren:  Nave, August 4 - August 13, 2011                                   

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 4th, 6-8pm

       Image Credit:  Sean Lundgren, detail of Nave, 

mason line, wood, hardware, dimensions variable, 2011.

Sean Lundgren's recent work has grown out of systems of tension. Weights in suspension, whose  supports form a kind of line drawing, create a scene that questions aspects of our lives; aspects that can create tension in our selves. Creating work for E8: Sculpture that is much lighter in weight than his usual work, Lundgren his shares first impressions of Transformer's space, stating: "My first reaction to the Transformer space was how vertical it is. I found my gaze constantly drifting upward and was reminded of how cathedrals are designed to direct the viewer's gaze to the heavens.  Cathedral architecture then became a jumping off point to explore lines in space. I settled on using mason line to map out the curves of the arches because I liked the idea of using a light weight material to represent something that, though built with stone, was designed to have an airy feeling."

Transformer's Exercises For Emerging Artists was created to support artists at critical points or crossroads in their professional growth and development, and to advance participating artists' creative careers. Participating artists received mentorship and critical feedback on their work from guest facilitator Joe Hicks, and visiting artist mentors: Kyan Bishop, Mary Early, Laurel Lukaszewski, and Ledelle Moe.


Transformer | 1404 P St NW | Washington | DC | 20005
www.transformergallery.org

Ron Riley at Foundry Gallery / August Solo Show

Ron Riley “CHANGES”

August 3 – August 28, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, August 5, 6 – 8pm

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Foundry Gallery

 

In these recent paintings inspired by one of the natural beauties of our planet, clouds, and the vast variety of shapes and forms that they take on, Riley has used them to express his fascination with the constant changes that occur in our lives, some of which we can exert some degree of control over. Riley sees his paintings as something of metaphors to represent that we can be the sole arbiter of how a painting evolves and changes during the process of creating it, while at other times the painting seems to take on a life of its own. One’s life is in many ways similar. Often we can make plans in terms of the direction we would like our lives to take, remembering always that life is in many ways all about change over which we can exercise some degree of control and at other times exert little or none at all. Accepting change is often not a simple task but it is something that at times we must simply accept.

Foundry Gallery
1314 18TH Street, NW, 1st Floor
Washington, DC 20036
202-463-0203
www.foundrygallery.org

MiniSolos @ Touchstone Gallery

MiniSolos@Touchstone
Featuring 37 artists

August 4 - August 27, 2011

Opening Reception: 

Friday, August 5, 2011 - 6 - 8:30pm

 Bouncy by Tre

Touchstone Gallery continues the tradition of sharing its space by presenting the work of 37 area artists during the month of August. This MiniSolos@Touchstone artists exhibition fills two perpetual community needs:  that of giving emerging, artists the rare opportunity for exhibition space in top-notch downtown gallery, and that of providing collectors access to work they don't yet know. The new voices in this exhibit offer viewers a range of imagery from the serene to the vivid to the provocative.

Participating artists: Nancy Abeles, David Alfuth, Stephanie Bianco, Kimberly Bush, Mason Thorpe Calhoun, Laurence Chandler, Megan Coyle, Ellen Delaney, Jonathan French, Judy Giuliani, Denise Graveline, Lynne Eve Grossman, Eric Johnson, Gongsam KimPark, Lauren Kotkin, Margret Kroyer, Christine Learned, Linda Lowery, Sue Lutz, Iris Malloy, Eve Monte, Carlos Munoz, Eileen Olson, Cheryl Parsons, Kathy J Paz, Ellen Ratner, Deborah Saks, Bhaval Shah Bell, Fred Tarr, Inna Timokhina, Tre, Tinam Valk, Susan Van Pool, Kay Walsh, James Wang, Hilda Witherspoon, Richard F. Wyvil.

 
www.touchstonegallery.com