Encaustic Painting Workshop offered in Metro Washington, DC Area

Washington Artist Angela White is offering encaustic painting workshops at CAN- Capital Arts Network in Rockville, MD.

Schedule of classes: 

April 21^st, 2013 Encaustic Painting Workshop

10:00am-1:00pm

This workshop is for some who have little familiarity and some who have experienced working with the medium, but seek to refine their skills. Diversity of learning is covered, including the basic materials and techniques, safety issues and discussions of supports, grounds, layering, scraping, fusing, transparencies, collage, image transfer, including combination with oil and other media.  

Fee: $120

Materials fee $25

Encaustic Painting Workshop - May 18^th & May 19th, 2013

10:00am-1:00pm

This workshop is for some who have little familiarity and some who have experienced working with the medium, but seek to refine their skills. Diversity of learning is covered, including the basic materials and techniques, safety issues and discussions of supports, grounds, layering, scraping, fusing, transparencies, collage, image transfer, including combination with oil and other media. 

Fee: $240

Materials fee $25

One on One Encaustic Painting Works in Angela White's studio at $50 an hour.

Interested people may contact Angela White to create a schedule that works.

Email Angela White for a list of required and suggested materials and more information on what is included in the workshops.

Contact: anglwhite [at] verizon [dot] net

www.Angelawhiteart.com                                         

Washington, DC Artist Anne Marchand Joins Group Show in NYC

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

Drink to Me, Contemporary Artist Views of Pablo Picasso 40 Years Later

(Washington, DC) – It’s a bit macabre to commemorate the occasion of Pablo Picasso’s death; but, 40 years later, his significant contributions to modern art will be celebrated at the Drink to Me show at Porter Contemporary in New York City this April.

Washington, DC Artist Anne Marchand contributed her work “Blue Curtain" to the group exhibition. “The qualities brought to the mainstream by Pablo Picasso of geometrical shapes, reduction of planes and monochromatic color, underpin ‘Blue Curtain’ as structure for the process of painting itself,” says Marchand. The work is 48” x 24" acrylic and mixed media on canvas.


Anne Marchand, Blue Curtain, 48x24"

“Picasso advanced modern art by creating emotion with shapes. Like Picasso, my work is also about emotional power. He looked to the form of the body, and I am looking at the formless outer space to evoke an expressive quality between form and movement," says Marchand.

The exhibition highlighting contemporary artists’ views of Pablo Picasso opens with an artists’ reception on April 4 from 6:30 – 8:30 PM and continues through May 18, 2013. The exhibition’s timing coincides with the 40 anniversary of Picasso’s death, April 8, 1973, and includes approximately 20 artists from around the world who are interpreting their vision of Picasso whether good, bad or indifferent. The exhibition will not be a recreation of Picasso’s works but rather an interpretation of them by contemporary artists. Porter Contemporary is located at 548 W. 28th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001. www.portercontemporary.com

Artist’s Statement:
Abstraction is my inquiry into the nature of life. As a painter, I am fascinated by the emotional power of color, music and poetry to engage the senses. From these painting platforms, I explore universal currents and rhythms with layers of paint, texture and words on canvas. Meaning takes shape in an environment where I invent forms and shapes to convey energy and movement. Traveling is one way that I gather resources and inspiration for my studio process. My current body of work reflects a fascination with inner and outer space and mystic poetry.

Biography:
Anne Marchand was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Auburn University. Her works have been included in national and regional exhibitions at the National Building Museum, the Southeast Federal Center, the Federal Reserve Board, Maryland Art Place, the Washington Project for the Arts, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, Rawls Museum Arts and the Arlington Arts Center. Her work is featured in 100 Artists of the Mid Atlantic published by Schiffer and Studio Visit Magazine. Schiffer will feature her work in Artist Studios and Homes in 2014.

Porter Contemporary represents Ms. Marchand in New York City. Anne has exhibited work in Washington, DC at Zenith Gallery and prestigious galleries in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii, Florida, North Carolina and Maryland. She has received numerous prizes and grants for her work, notably an Artist Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2009 and residency grant to Culiacan, Mexico from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Ms. Marchand taught painting and drawing at Mt. Vernon College’s School of Art and Design. She was visiting artist with the University of Illinois, School of Architecture study abroad program. Her work is featured in corporate and private collections in the United States.

Resistance Through Art at the Bodzin Gallery of the Northern Virginia Jewish Community Center

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Resistance through Art

Art fulfils many purposes, not the least of which is to bring public awareness to social, political and cultural injustices. One of the greatest human injustices of all time was the Holocaust. April 7th, 2013 marks the official observation of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, with commemorative events taking place across the country.

The NVJCC begins the day's observation with the official opening of a group show entitled Resistance Through Art. Local artist Lilianne Milgrom is exhibiting a photographic series inspired by her mother, a Holocaust survivor. The series portrays the artist with her mother's concentration camp prison tattoo projected on her own person. Milgrom will also be one of the keynote speakers at the event.

For details http://www.jcouncil.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=105882&AddInterest=1481

McLean Project for the Arts Announces the Call for Entries for Strictly Painting 9

MPA's highly anticipated biennial juried exhibition Strictly Painting 9 is accepting entries.  Submission deadline is April 19, 4 pm.  Exhibition date is June 13 through August 3.  This year's juror is Margaret Heiner, owner and founder of Heiner Contemporary, an art gallery in Georgetown specializing in work by emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. 

All Mid-Atlantic artists (DC, VA, MD, PA, NJ, DE, WV) are invited to submit up to 4 jpegs of paintings or works related in some way to painting completed in the last two years and not previously exhibited at MPA. Work that combines painting with other materials is acceptable and encouraged as well. Cash prizes totaling $1,500 will be awarded by the juror. Decisions are final. 

For more information and the entry form, please visit www.mpaart.org/exhibartopp.php

125 Local Artists & 16 Curators Join Forces for Upcoming Exhibition + Benefit

“Alchemical Vessels” artists will examine the idea of transformation and healing through the arts and sacred space
@
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery
April 26 – June 7, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, April 26, 7-9pm
Benefit Event: Friday, May 17, 7-9pm
Artists' Closing Reception: Friday, June 7, 7-9pm


Washington, DC, March 19, 2013 - Smith Center for Healing and the Arts is thrilled to announce a unique initiative to engage local artists, curators, collectors and the general public in a community dialogue about the transformative power of the arts.

Debuting April 26, 2013 at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center, the “Alchemical Vessels” exhibition will feature the work of 125 local artists, hand-selected by 16 invited curators, to transform ceramic bowls by means of their own personal aesthetic and medium. Garnering inspiration from the alchemical process, each bowl symbolically references creating a place where healing can take place, which is at the heart of Smith Center’s work and mission. The respected 20th century alchemist, Jean Dubuis, wrote, “Alchemy is the art of manipulating life, and consciousness in matter, to help it evolve, or to solve problems of inner disharmonies.” 

Benefit Event
The reception offers the public the opportunity to claim one of the 125 unique pieces for their own collection—with the purchase of a benefit ticket. Tickets for that event go on sale Tuesday at smithcenter.org. A $50 ticket will also be made available for supporters who would like to attend but are not interested in owning a work of art.

Featured Curators Include:
Felix Angel, Myrtis Bedolla, Margaret Boozer, Lenny Campello, Richard Dana, Mary Early, Lillian Fitzgerald, Helen Frederick, Mel & Juanita Hardy, Laila Jadallah, Bridget Lambert, Wendy Miller, John Paradiso, Annette Polan, Alec Simpson, Ellyn Weiss, and Smith Center for Healing and the Arts.

Featured Artists Include:
Akili Ron Anderson, Sondra Arkin, Tom Ashcroft (Workingman Collective), Joanna Axtmann, Rosana Azar,  Cedric Baker, Carol Barsha, Joan Belmar, Kristina Bilonick, Alan Binstock, Emily Biondo, Natalya Borisovna Parris, Anne Bouie, Elle Brande, Laurie Breen, Sally Brucker, Lenny Campello, Gloria Capron, David Carlson, Mei Mei Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Kay Chernush, Natalie Cheung, Irene Clouthier, Tory Cowles, Sheila Crider, Joan Danziger, Alonzo Davis, Katie Dell Kaufman, Elsabe Dixon, Mary Early, Cheryl Edwards, Laura Elkins, Kathy Emery, Dorothy Fall, Phoebe Farris, Susan Finsen, Lillian Fitzgerald, Helen Frederick, Maya Freelon Asante, Adrienne Gaither, Ric Garcia, Matthew Gifford, Olivier Giron, Carol Goldberg, Susan Goldman, Pat Goslee, Elizabeth Graeber, Drew Storm Graham, John Grunwell, Mel Hardy, Winston Harris, William Harris, Elyse Harrison, Rania Hassan, Francie Hester, Tom Hill, Ellen Hill, Lisa Hill, Laila Jadallah, Pilar Jimenez, Wayson Jones, Becca Kallem, Rebecca Kamen, MJ Kavian, Madeleine Keesing, Jeffrey Kent,  Micheline Klagsbrun, Bridget Lambert, Elaine Langerman, Mary Virginia Langston, Joren Lindholm, Shelley Lowenstein, Marta Luz Gutierrez, Dana Jeri Maier, Matthew Mann, Kaltoum Maroufi-Colle, Percy Martin, Janet Mathias, Kathryn McDonnell, Maggie Michael, Wendy Miller, Nan Montgomery, Bill Newman, Sarah Nikitopoulos, Jared Packard-Winkler, John Paradiso, Brian Petro, Michael Platt, Darien Reece, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Amber Robles-Gordon, Jessica Rose, Wendy Ross, Rachel Rotenberg,Louise Sagalyn, Rachel Schmidt, Greg Scott, Pat Silbert, Alec Simpson, Susan Stacks, Rob Tarbell, Valerie Theberge, Evelyn Tickle, Erwin Timmers, Novie Trump, Aniekan Udofia, Patricia Underwood, Pamela Viola, Kazaan Viveiros, Sigrid Vollerthun, Tom Wagner, Jenny Walton, Ellyn Weiss, Lee Wheeler, Peter Winant, Julie Wolfe, Tom Wolff, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Millicent Young, and more...


About Smith Center for Healing & the Arts & the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery:
Smith Center for Healing and the Arts is a unique 17-year old health, education, and arts nonprofit that serves individuals affected by cancer. We offer programs and resources built on an integrative model that addresses healing and wellness for the whole person – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.  As the only DC-based cancer support organization serving the entire community, Smith Center specializes in using creativity and the arts as tools for healing.


Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery &Smith Center for Healing and the Arts 
1632 U Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009 
202.483.8600 | www.smithcenter.org 
Gallery hours: Wednesday to Friday, 11am-5pm, Saturday, 11am-3pm, and by appointment

"The Best of All Worlds ... Modern and Traditional Art"

Zenith Gallery at the
Sculpture Space at Eleven Eleven Pennsylvania Avenue

"The Best of All Worlds ... Modern and Traditional Art"
The Sculpture of Paul Martin Wolff and Oil Paintings by Bradley Stevens

SHOW DATES: Now through April 27, 2013 
 PRESS RELEASE        VIEW EXHIBIT     

Zenith Gallery at
Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space
1111 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20004
Open Daily: Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 7 PM (enter on Penn Ave)
(evenings and weekend entrance on 12th Street)

Call to Artists for seven future Metro public art projects

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Art in Transit Program

SEVEN PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

Six Future Metrorail Stations in Fairfax County and Loudoun County, Virginia  

A Future Metro Transit Police Substation and Training Facility in Fairfax County, Virginia

Deadline: February 15, 2013

The Metro Art in Transit Program works with communities surrounding Metro transit facilities to integrate artwork that promotes transit use, enhances travel by Metro, and highlights the cultural vitality of the National Capital region. 

Art in Transit is seeking artists, with public art experience, to create site-specific artwork for six future Silver Line Metrorail stations and to create a light-integrated work of art for the future Metro Transit Police District II Substation and Training Facility.  The maximum budget for each Silver Line station is $250,000.  The maximum budget for the Substation and Training Facility is $100,000. 

A panel of art and design professionals and community representatives will review portfolio submissions, select three finalists to develop a site-specific proposal for each location.  The panel will reconvene to review finalist proposals and select one proposal for each of the seven sites. 

This Call to Artists is open to all artists with site-specific public art experience, regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or age. Finalists will be announced no later than February 25, 2013.

Qualified artists must submit the following materials to be considered:  1) 10 high-resolution (with a minimum of 300 dpi) jpeg/PDF images of previous public art projects on a compact disk (CD); 2) a one-page list of the images contained on the CD, specifying the title, media, location and year created for each work of art and; 3) a resume and/or artist bio.  Materials will not be returned. Do not send duplicate materials, as the panel will consider your submission for all seven projects, unless requested by the applicant.  Mailed materials must be postmarked by February 15, 2013. Couriered materials must be received by Metro by February 13, 2013.

Submit materials to: Michael Mc Bride, Manager, Metro Art in Transit Program, Department of Architecture, 4F-13, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, 600 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001

For more information about the Metro Art in Transit Program, visit wmata.com

Salon: BAD ART/GOOD ART Sept 19 7:00 p.m.

Tonight, a thought provoking discussion on the much discussed, always fun debate.

 BAD ART/GOOD ART

Join a wonderful panel of Curators, Academics, Artists and Critics:

1. John James Anderson, Art Critic for the City Paper, Professor and Artist

2. Bill Dunlap, Artist, Critic for WETA Around Town, Curator

3. Harriet Lesser, Curator, Strathmore Center for the Arts and Artist

4. Michael O'Sullivan, Critic for the Washington Post


P.S. Please bring your own examples too!!

September 19, 2012 7-8:30 p.m.

Hillyer International Art and Artists

9 Hillyer Court

Washington DC 20008

Free and Open to All

Painterly Visions Blog Update

Dear Friends and Readers,

Painterly Visions Blog will no longer be posting with any frequency.  I will be concentrating future blogging at Marchand Studio News  http://marchandstudionewsletter.blogspot.com/. Come over and visit me there.

I'd like to thank my readers for their attention over the past eight years. When I first started blogging in 2005, it was a relatively new phenomenon. My mission was to create a news stream for art happenings in the Washington, DC area to compensate for the lack of news media coverage in the arts at the time. Painterly Visions helped fill a void and joined new voices getting the word out about our city's exciting art scene.

The web is a rich source for communication, with the advent of facebook and twitter along with other bloggers, there is a wealth of information about the art scene available online. My favorites sites, Pink Line Project and Daily Campello News still bring news of the arts to your screen.

Check the blogroll for additional sites that may be of interest. Thank you for the opportunity to connect over the years. It's been a pure labor of love to deliver news about a subject that is so vital and alive. To the artists; keep creating your truth. To the art lovers; keep returning to DC for more. Happy creating!

All the best~  Anne Marchand

“Colorful Paintings with Poetic Connections to Life”
www.annemarchand.com
info [at] annemarchand.com

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A FATAL ADDICTION: War in the Name of God

By Thomas Block

(Algora Publisher, New York)

This controversial book explores what the author calls a “violence of God” tradition which he claims exists in the world’s major religions, even Buddhism. It then examines how this dynamic is turned on its head by political leaders in the United States and other countries, who use spiritual and religious language to sell war to their populations.

The study argues that war is fundamental not only to religious worship but also to human civilization itself. As Thomas Block claims in A Fatal Addiction:

   The stability of war as a central facet of society is undeniable. During the 5600 years of recorded history, 14,600 wars have been fought. At the same time, the vast majority of people and societies throughout human time have considered themselves deeply religious. An article in The Washington Post noted that “92 percent [of Americans] believe in God or a universal spirit — including one in five of those who call themselves atheists.” At the same time, however, America has been involved in an unbroken line of military engagements since my birth in 1963, whose dead might count out the minutes that I have lived in the course of nearly 50 years. It was this pairing in contemporary America of war and religion, spirituality and destruction that inspired me to write this book. After all, shouldn’t the one (religion) mitigate the other (institutional violence)?

This book explores the fusion of war and religion throughout history, and then applies the historical knowledge to the contemporary United States. Block reviews specific instances of “holy war” as proposed in the holy books of the major faiths, and illustrates how bellicose, war-like language is used repeatedly to explain and sanction violence as a spiritual quest. He proposes that this intermingling of war and spirituality is employed to prepare the population for the coming of war. In his view, war as spiritual practice appears inevitable, due to this religio-violent education which is woven through all of the principal faith traditions.

In the end, Block asks if God and war define the American spirit as much as apple pie and baseball.
* * * * *
Thomas Block’s nonfiction book, “Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity,” was published in the United States (Fons Vitae, Louisville, KY) and Turkey (Bilim + Gonul, Istanbul) in 2010. His first novel, The Fool Returns, will be published in Turkey in 2012 (Bilim + Gonul, Istanbul). His first play, White Noise, was produced in Washington D.C. by Wanderlust Theater Company in June 2012.

Amazon link

“KISS THE NAME OF THE NINE MUSES GOODBYE” opens tonight in Kensington, MD

September 8, 6:30-8:30 pm: Art Opening at the Adah Rose Gallery

“KISS THE NAME OF THE NINE MUSES GOODBYE”
  
Tom Block & Micheline Klagsbrun
August 31-Sept 30, 2012
Vernissage with the Artists: September 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m with live music by White Chihuahua
http://www.adahrosegallery.com/current.html

Tom Block—artist, poet, playwright, and activist—channels all of his roles in his series, “In the Garden of the Mystical Redoubt.”  His form of Neo- expressionism, which incorporates raw energy, art brut, and graphic design, belies a sensitivity to the multitudes of the human condition. Whether through black and white portraiture, abstract mixed-media collage, or text-based work, Mr. Block aims to garner empathy for his subjects who embody the idiosyncrasies and tendencies of humans which are at the same time unique and universal. From the angst of “Suburban Boy” to the exuberance of the “Rock and Roll Mystic,” Mr. Block conveys a range of emotional states which remain essential to his work.


Micheline Klagsbrun finds the inspiration for the “mythological realism” of her exquisitely rendered drawings from the classical Greek poet Ovid and his Metamorphosis. Micheline is enchanted by the poem’s traditional themes of identity and change, as well as its surprisingly modern relevance to human rights, feminism and environmentalism. Micheline empathizes with the conflicts faced by the classical figures, whose physical transformations represent the universal human struggle for identity, stability, and peace. Each drawing is based on a live model, whose pathos is shaped by the narrative of a corresponding poem. Series such as “Lotus/Dryope” (in which a young mother is transformed into a tree) are exemplary of her entire body of work and its anthropomorphic motifs.

Adah Rose Gallery
3766 Howard Ave
Kensington, Maryland 20895
(301) 922-0162