David Byrne
November 3 - December 22, 2007
Opens Saturday, November 3, 6:30-8:30pm
Hemphill1515 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.234.5601
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Hemphill presents
James Huckenpahler
David Byrne
November 3 - December 22, 2007
Opens Saturday, November 3, 6:30-8:30pm
Hemphill
1515 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.234.5601
David Byrne
November 3 - December 22, 2007
Opens Saturday, November 3, 6:30-8:30pm
Hemphill1515 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.234.5601
Washington Printmakers Gallery
Landscapes and Laments
Woodcuts, Etchings and Sculpture by Margaret Adams Parker
October 30 - November 25, 2007
First Friday Opening Reception: Friday, November 2, 5 - 8 pm
Artist's Lecture and Demo: Thursday November 8, noon - 1 pm
Reception with Artist Talk: Saturday November 17, 2 - 5 pm
"I can only celebrate the beauty of the natural world and the joys of life when I also acknowledge the ways that these gifts can be twisted and destroyed."
Washington Printmakers Gallery
202-332-7757
wpg@visi.net
Hours: Tues thru Thurs 12-6 pm | Fri 12-9 pm | Sat and Sun 12-5 pm
Located between R and S Streets,
1.5 blocks North of the Dupont Circle Metro Q Street exit, above Mourayo Restaurant
Woodcuts, Etchings and Sculpture by Margaret Adams Parker
October 30 - November 25, 2007
First Friday Opening Reception: Friday, November 2, 5 - 8 pm
Artist's Lecture and Demo: Thursday November 8, noon - 1 pm
Reception with Artist Talk: Saturday November 17, 2 - 5 pm
"I can only celebrate the beauty of the natural world and the joys of life when I also acknowledge the ways that these gifts can be twisted and destroyed."
Washington Printmakers Gallery
202-332-7757
wpg@visi.net
Hours: Tues thru Thurs 12-6 pm | Fri 12-9 pm | Sat and Sun 12-5 pm
Located between R and S Streets,
1.5 blocks North of the Dupont Circle Metro Q Street exit, above Mourayo Restaurant
2007 Small Nations Poetry Reading
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
And Their Excellencies Eva Nowotny, Ambassador of Austria
Naser M.Y. Al Belooshi, Ambassador of Bahrain
Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador of Bulgaria
Andreas Kakouris, Ambassador of Cyprus
Albert Jónsson, Ambassador of Iceland
Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of Liechtenstein
Joseph Weyland, Ambassador of Luxembourg
Mark Miceli-Farrugia, Ambassador of Malta
Gilles Alexandre Noghes, Ambassador of Monaco
Samuel ıbogar, Ambassador of Slovenia
Invite you to the 2007 Small Nations Poetry Reading
Readings will begin at 7 p.m. followed by a reception featuring wines from many participating countries and light hors d'oeuvres. 100% of the proceeds will benefit NMWA's "Bridging Communities" Program promoting cross-cultural exchange among elementary school children in the Washington, D.C. metro-area. $10 general admission. Limited seating. For reservations call 202-783-7370 or email reservations@nmwa.org before November 1.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.783.5000
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
And Their Excellencies Eva Nowotny, Ambassador of Austria
Naser M.Y. Al Belooshi, Ambassador of Bahrain
Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador of Bulgaria
Andreas Kakouris, Ambassador of Cyprus
Albert Jónsson, Ambassador of Iceland
Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of Liechtenstein
Joseph Weyland, Ambassador of Luxembourg
Mark Miceli-Farrugia, Ambassador of Malta
Gilles Alexandre Noghes, Ambassador of Monaco
Samuel ıbogar, Ambassador of Slovenia
Invite you to the 2007 Small Nations Poetry Reading
Readings will begin at 7 p.m. followed by a reception featuring wines from many participating countries and light hors d'oeuvres. 100% of the proceeds will benefit NMWA's "Bridging Communities" Program promoting cross-cultural exchange among elementary school children in the Washington, D.C. metro-area. $10 general admission. Limited seating. For reservations call 202-783-7370 or email reservations@nmwa.org before November 1.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.783.5000
The Last Pony
Lucy Hogg's installation of a large scaled equestrian painting, digital prints, and video is a meditation on the end of painting.
The Last Pony project is a meditation on the end of painting, at least the end of it for Lucy Hogg. Her image of a horse poised at the edge of a cliff is based on Whistlejacket by George Stubbs (c. 1762). Stubbs, at the request of his original patron, had left the background blank. Into that void Hogg has inserted the landscape from an earlier equestrian painting by first name Velasquez, his Phillip IV on Horseback (c. 1634). The Spanish monarch's reign has striking similarities to the second Bush administration. Riderless, the horse is about to plunge into the unknown. The figure represents either the epitome of autonomous action or a fearful flight.
Hogg's longstanding photographic interests are now merging with painterly ones that are receding. Working with a scan of a photograph of her equestrian painting, she realized the wide array of color schemes she could have used for the original. The computer, that is, provided options - "colorways" to use a term from commercial textile production that were unavailable in a traditional studio.
Once photographed, the white elephant of the museum-scaled history painting becomes artefact, documented in its last natural habitat of the studio, before it is unstretched and rolled away for storage. As a digital scan it becomes still further reproducible and customizable; the formerly unique object, already twice removed from its original authors, Velesquez and Stubbs, is domesticated for democratic consumption.
Meat Market Gallery
1636 17th Street NW
202.328.6328
info@meatmarketgallery.com
www.meatmarketgallery.com
The Last Pony project is a meditation on the end of painting, at least the end of it for Lucy Hogg. Her image of a horse poised at the edge of a cliff is based on Whistlejacket by George Stubbs (c. 1762). Stubbs, at the request of his original patron, had left the background blank. Into that void Hogg has inserted the landscape from an earlier equestrian painting by first name Velasquez, his Phillip IV on Horseback (c. 1634). The Spanish monarch's reign has striking similarities to the second Bush administration. Riderless, the horse is about to plunge into the unknown. The figure represents either the epitome of autonomous action or a fearful flight.
Hogg's longstanding photographic interests are now merging with painterly ones that are receding. Working with a scan of a photograph of her equestrian painting, she realized the wide array of color schemes she could have used for the original. The computer, that is, provided options - "colorways" to use a term from commercial textile production that were unavailable in a traditional studio.
Once photographed, the white elephant of the museum-scaled history painting becomes artefact, documented in its last natural habitat of the studio, before it is unstretched and rolled away for storage. As a digital scan it becomes still further reproducible and customizable; the formerly unique object, already twice removed from its original authors, Velesquez and Stubbs, is domesticated for democratic consumption.
Meat Market Gallery
1636 17th Street NW
202.328.6328
info@meatmarketgallery.com
www.meatmarketgallery.com
Marine Corps Marathon / Crystal Run Racing Stripes; artists team
Painting Team:L-R Vereecke, Hester, Gavagan, Marchand Photo Credits: Rob Mandle, Angela Fox of Crystal City BID
No, this isn't Halloween Festivities on Saturday midnight and into the wee hours of the morning! (Although some of us were dressed in costume). We had the pleasure of painting colorful stripes on a street in Crystal City. Later that morning the Marine Corps Marathon runners crossed Memorial Bridge and ran over our racing stripes. The artist crew and I marveled how wonderfully intense the color stripes were, even by streetlight. President and CEO, Angela Fox of the Crystal City BID was inspired to do a Racing Stripes art project after seeing the Colorfield Remix, 8th Street Stripes, a public art project directed by the Corcoran College of Art and Design and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in Washington, DC. It was decided to do colorful racing stripes for the Marathon runners and community. After the design process, I put a team of local artists together and we were off to the races. The stripes were a hit and added to the days festivities. Me... I went home afterwards and dreamed of colorful lines crisscrossing the city. You can see the racing stripes over the next few months at 2100 Crystal Drive. Enjoy a nice lunch or dinner nearby. Crystal City BID brought Artomatic to a wide audience this year and continues to provide a variety of art programming to the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
http://www.crystalcity.org/
www.annemarchand.com
Racing Stripes Art Project
2100 Crystal Drive
Crystal City, Virginia
Monday, October 29, 2007
Day of the Dead
CELEBRATION
Friday, November 2, at 7:00 pm
Mexican Cultural Institute | 2829 16th Street N.W. | Washington , D.C.
Tamales, pan de muerto and chocolate $ 10.00
(Children under 12 $ 5.00)
Limited space available
Pick up your ticket before 1:00 pm November 2nd at the Mexican Cultural Institute
or call (202) 728-1675 and pay at the door
Business casual
The Mexican Cultural Institute’s annual opening of the Altar de Muertos (Altar of the Dead) in celebration of the Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is one of the most important events of the year. On this occasion the Altar will be dedicated to Frida Kahlo, celebrating the 100th anniversary of her birth. Frida Kahlo is undoubtedly one of the most influential Mexican women artists and was instrumental in introducing Mexico and its culture to the world. “Mexico at the Smithsonian” is proud to present a series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of Frida Kahlo’s birth in 1907.
The Exhibition Makers
Read this informative article by William Hanley about the role curators are playing in organizing exhibitions.
"In a recent essay about the task of organizing an exhibition, star curator Robert Storr, who directed this year’s Venice Biennale, made a point of distinguishing between people he called “exhibition makers,” who are responsible for putting together temporary shows, and curators, whose “primary concern” is the “care and preservation of art.” Read here from the fall 2007 issue of Museums magazine. Anne Ellegood of the Hirshhorn Museum is also mentioned.
"In a recent essay about the task of organizing an exhibition, star curator Robert Storr, who directed this year’s Venice Biennale, made a point of distinguishing between people he called “exhibition makers,” who are responsible for putting together temporary shows, and curators, whose “primary concern” is the “care and preservation of art.” Read here from the fall 2007 issue of Museums magazine. Anne Ellegood of the Hirshhorn Museum is also mentioned.
Name Change for Convention Center
The Washington Convention Center Authority said Monday it is changing the name of the city's convention center to honor D.C.'s first elected mayor, Walter E. Washington.
The 2.3 million-square-foot center at 801 Mount Vernon Place NW is currently known as the Washington Convention Center. Constructed in 2003 for $850 million, it is the largest publicly financed project built in the city.
The building will officially become the Walter E. Washington Convention Center at a dedication ceremony Nov. 5, the authority said. The D.C. Council approved the legislation for the name change last year.
The 2.3 million-square-foot center at 801 Mount Vernon Place NW is currently known as the Washington Convention Center. Constructed in 2003 for $850 million, it is the largest publicly financed project built in the city.
The building will officially become the Walter E. Washington Convention Center at a dedication ceremony Nov. 5, the authority said. The D.C. Council approved the legislation for the name change last year.
G Fine Art presents linn meyers
No Time Like the Present
November 3rd – December 15, 2007
Opening reception November 3rd 6:30 – 8:30 pm
In this new work Meyers continues to pursue a meditative ideal, the perfection in repetition. Her lines, however, have taken on a different curvilinear form. The drawings float between optical illusion and grand simplicity, spinning and twisting in front of our eyes.
Meyers maintains her method of mark-making, one line followed by the next with the same spacing and the same trajectory; but, the first line has evolved into a challenge all its own. Harking back to the story of the Greek artist Apelles who was so talented as a draftsman that he was able to render a perfect circle free hand, Meyers tackles this new challenge with the same determined process she has pursued for the last decade and a half.
The drawings read almost as graphs of an undulating topography, swirling whirlpools or weather patterns. But, they are measured and specific. They are in fact an artist’s graph of time and work. Some of the pieces read as if they are blossoming and growing through a sort of linear mitosis, while others are contained in themselves, circling indefinitely. They suggest Buddhist sand mandalas, which are said to contain the entire universe in microcosm and are used as aids in meditation.
Ned Rifkin, from the Smithsonian describes, in his essay for the show’s catalog, the experience of viewing Meyers’ works as a, “sheer delight of seeing something that is fundamental and emphatically simple as method or technique while grasping the immense complexity because of the physical and optic effects of the work.” He credits Meyers as enabling the viewer to admire the prosperity and rigor of her sensibility while introducing us to the wonders in the interstices of space and form that her lines orchestrate; “The work is both fluidly sublime and paradoxically effort laden.”
Linn Meyer’s received her BFA from Cooper Union, New York and an MFA from the California College of Arts in Oakland. She is the recipient of a Pollack Krasner Grant. Her work was acquired this year by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
1515 FOURTEENTH STREET NW
WASHINGTON DC 20005
T 202.462.1601
www.gfineartdc.com
November 3rd – December 15, 2007
Opening reception November 3rd 6:30 – 8:30 pm
In this new work Meyers continues to pursue a meditative ideal, the perfection in repetition. Her lines, however, have taken on a different curvilinear form. The drawings float between optical illusion and grand simplicity, spinning and twisting in front of our eyes.
Meyers maintains her method of mark-making, one line followed by the next with the same spacing and the same trajectory; but, the first line has evolved into a challenge all its own. Harking back to the story of the Greek artist Apelles who was so talented as a draftsman that he was able to render a perfect circle free hand, Meyers tackles this new challenge with the same determined process she has pursued for the last decade and a half.
The drawings read almost as graphs of an undulating topography, swirling whirlpools or weather patterns. But, they are measured and specific. They are in fact an artist’s graph of time and work. Some of the pieces read as if they are blossoming and growing through a sort of linear mitosis, while others are contained in themselves, circling indefinitely. They suggest Buddhist sand mandalas, which are said to contain the entire universe in microcosm and are used as aids in meditation.
Ned Rifkin, from the Smithsonian describes, in his essay for the show’s catalog, the experience of viewing Meyers’ works as a, “sheer delight of seeing something that is fundamental and emphatically simple as method or technique while grasping the immense complexity because of the physical and optic effects of the work.” He credits Meyers as enabling the viewer to admire the prosperity and rigor of her sensibility while introducing us to the wonders in the interstices of space and form that her lines orchestrate; “The work is both fluidly sublime and paradoxically effort laden.”
Linn Meyer’s received her BFA from Cooper Union, New York and an MFA from the California College of Arts in Oakland. She is the recipient of a Pollack Krasner Grant. Her work was acquired this year by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
1515 FOURTEENTH STREET NW
WASHINGTON DC 20005
T 202.462.1601
www.gfineartdc.com
Call to Artists
CALL FOR DECEMBER ENTRIES
“Art on the Small Side”
An all media holiday show including fine craft
December 12, 2007 – January 5, 2008
JURORS: Rosemary Luckett & Jon Wassom
ENTRIES Selection of work will be done from the actual pieces, and not by slide or digital images. All works must be BROUGHT to the gallery during gallery hours of 12 to 5 PM on Saturday, Dec. 8 or 9 from 12-4 PM on Sunday, Dec. 9. No shipments will be accepted. Artists may submit up to four pieces of work for $30. 2-D work must be framed and wired, 3-D sculptures and craft works must be fully assembled and ready for display.
For Prospectus and Entry Form, click here
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10th Annual All-Media Exhibition
February 6 – March 8, 2008
JUROR: Vivienne Lassman
Washington DC Art Consultant and Independent Curator
ENTRIES: Jurying will be from digital images (strongly recommended) and slides. Diskettes and CDs must be labeled with artist’s name. Digital images should be 72 dpi JPEGs, maximum 600 pixels in any direction. File names should be artist’s last name followed by title. All entries must be received at the gallery by 5 PM on Wednesday, December 12. Artists may submit three images for a non-refundable fee of $35. For sculptural pieces, two images for each piece may be submitted.
For Prospectus and Entry Form, contact
Ksenia Grishkova, Director
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004
202-347-2787
Email: touchstonegallery@verizon.net
www.touchstonegallery.com
“Art on the Small Side”
An all media holiday show including fine craft
December 12, 2007 – January 5, 2008
JURORS: Rosemary Luckett & Jon Wassom
ENTRIES Selection of work will be done from the actual pieces, and not by slide or digital images. All works must be BROUGHT to the gallery during gallery hours of 12 to 5 PM on Saturday, Dec. 8 or 9 from 12-4 PM on Sunday, Dec. 9. No shipments will be accepted. Artists may submit up to four pieces of work for $30. 2-D work must be framed and wired, 3-D sculptures and craft works must be fully assembled and ready for display.
For Prospectus and Entry Form, click here
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10th Annual All-Media Exhibition
February 6 – March 8, 2008
JUROR: Vivienne Lassman
Washington DC Art Consultant and Independent Curator
ENTRIES: Jurying will be from digital images (strongly recommended) and slides. Diskettes and CDs must be labeled with artist’s name. Digital images should be 72 dpi JPEGs, maximum 600 pixels in any direction. File names should be artist’s last name followed by title. All entries must be received at the gallery by 5 PM on Wednesday, December 12. Artists may submit three images for a non-refundable fee of $35. For sculptural pieces, two images for each piece may be submitted.
For Prospectus and Entry Form, contact
Ksenia Grishkova, Director
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004
202-347-2787
Email: touchstonegallery@verizon.net
www.touchstonegallery.com
Thursday, October 25, 2007
MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS closings next weekend.....
NOW THROUGH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 AT MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS - VA
Emerson Gallery: Postcards from the Real: Works by Josephine Haden Using subtle but efficient compositional devices, Arlington artist Josephine Haden toys with perceptual expectations in these large-scale landscape based paintings of open-ended allegorical vignettes. Blending open sky, vast bodies of water and soaring vistas with magazine, vacation and animal imagery, Haden creates visual stories that ask as many questions as they answer. Like postcards from another time and place, these paintings offer viewers a glimpse into a world where imagination transforms the mundane and banal into the extraordinary and unexpected.
Atrium Gallery: Genomes and Daily Observations: An Installation by Suzanne Stryk In this installation, Virginia artist Suzanne Stryk brings together a grid of exquisitely poetic drawings of natural objects and modern genetic symbols, an antique desk depicting the workspace of a nineteenth century natural historian, and a mirror reflecting both the images on the walls and the image of the current viewer. Using these basic elements, Stryk contrasts and blends today's world of high tech science with the more intimate knowledge of nature gained through the careful and close observational scientific techniques of the past. At the heart of this work are questions regarding the reconciliation and coexistence of scientific knowledge with a personal reverence for the mysteries of nature.
Ramp Gallery: Fairy Tales: Paintings by Joy Every: Landscape, fantasy and fairy tale co-exist in these expressive paintings which draw heavily on images from the subconscious and both dark and lightuniversal symbolic content. Color, pattern, texture and other formal compositional elements are explored within the context of the landscape, while mysterious imaginary worlds are seamlessly blended with the familiar.
McLean Project for the Arts
1234 Ingleside Avenue.
Hours are T - F 10 am - 4 pm, Saturday 1 - 5 pm.
703-790-1953 or visit http://www.mpaart.org.
Emerson Gallery: Postcards from the Real: Works by Josephine Haden Using subtle but efficient compositional devices, Arlington artist Josephine Haden toys with perceptual expectations in these large-scale landscape based paintings of open-ended allegorical vignettes. Blending open sky, vast bodies of water and soaring vistas with magazine, vacation and animal imagery, Haden creates visual stories that ask as many questions as they answer. Like postcards from another time and place, these paintings offer viewers a glimpse into a world where imagination transforms the mundane and banal into the extraordinary and unexpected.
Atrium Gallery: Genomes and Daily Observations: An Installation by Suzanne Stryk In this installation, Virginia artist Suzanne Stryk brings together a grid of exquisitely poetic drawings of natural objects and modern genetic symbols, an antique desk depicting the workspace of a nineteenth century natural historian, and a mirror reflecting both the images on the walls and the image of the current viewer. Using these basic elements, Stryk contrasts and blends today's world of high tech science with the more intimate knowledge of nature gained through the careful and close observational scientific techniques of the past. At the heart of this work are questions regarding the reconciliation and coexistence of scientific knowledge with a personal reverence for the mysteries of nature.
Ramp Gallery: Fairy Tales: Paintings by Joy Every: Landscape, fantasy and fairy tale co-exist in these expressive paintings which draw heavily on images from the subconscious and both dark and lightuniversal symbolic content. Color, pattern, texture and other formal compositional elements are explored within the context of the landscape, while mysterious imaginary worlds are seamlessly blended with the familiar.
McLean Project for the Arts
1234 Ingleside Avenue.
Hours are T - F 10 am - 4 pm, Saturday 1 - 5 pm.
703-790-1953 or visit http://www.mpaart.org.
Three new Call to Artists
"Artistic License"
DC Arts License Plate
Design Fee: $5,000
Submissions Due: Friday, December 7, at 5:30 pm
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the District of Columbia, Department of Driver and Motor Vehicles is seeking an artist or artist team to design a specialty arts vanity license plate for the District of Columbia. The theme for the license plate is "Artistic License". The design should inspire residents and visitors to support the arts and help bring attention to the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. This call is open to artists who live in District of Columbia.
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Emerge
ArtWalk 2008
Design Fee: $2,500
deadline: Friday, December 7, 2007 at 5:30pm
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities is seeking 12 artists to take part in a thought provoking large-scale outdoor exhibit entitled Emerge, the third phase of the ArtWalk exhibition. Through artist interpretation of Emerge, the premise and goal of the exhibition is to present 12 diverse artworks with a common theme that will draw the attention of both Washington, DC residents and visitors. ArtWalk is a project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities' downtown public art initiative, in cooperation with the Washington Convention Center. The ArtWalk features 12 display units each stretching 6 feet tall by 24 feet wide. Open to local, national and international artists with preference given to individuals residing or working in the District of Columbia. The ArtWalk is located between New York Avenue and H Streets, NW at a pedestrian friendly parking facility that was once the site of the Washington DC Convention Center.
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Public Art Building Communities Grant (PABC)
Deadline: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Public Art Building Communities Program offers funds for the creation and installation of permanent public art projects with a life span of at least five (5) years. Projects must be installed in the District of Columbia and should encourage the growth of quality public art throughout the city, support local artists and non-profit organizations, and make public art accessible to District residents. Projects must provide exposure of public art to the broader community or to persons traditionally underserved or separated from the cultural mainstream due to geographic location, economic constraints, or disability. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to: sculpture, mosaics, murals, paving patterns, custom benches, stained glass windows, artistic gates and railing, etc. Funding is available for all fees associated with the design, fabrication and installation of the artwork(s) including: artist fees, materials, insurance, engineering, shipping, fabrication and installation services, permits, copyright registration, and photographic documentation. Projects with youth and senior involvement are encouraged.
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For more information, please visit www.dcarts.dc.gov . If you have further questions please email Deirdre Ehlen at Deirdre.Ehlen@dc.gov or call (202) 724-5613.
DC Arts License Plate
Design Fee: $5,000
Submissions Due: Friday, December 7, at 5:30 pm
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the District of Columbia, Department of Driver and Motor Vehicles is seeking an artist or artist team to design a specialty arts vanity license plate for the District of Columbia. The theme for the license plate is "Artistic License". The design should inspire residents and visitors to support the arts and help bring attention to the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. This call is open to artists who live in District of Columbia.
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Emerge
ArtWalk 2008
Design Fee: $2,500
deadline: Friday, December 7, 2007 at 5:30pm
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities is seeking 12 artists to take part in a thought provoking large-scale outdoor exhibit entitled Emerge, the third phase of the ArtWalk exhibition. Through artist interpretation of Emerge, the premise and goal of the exhibition is to present 12 diverse artworks with a common theme that will draw the attention of both Washington, DC residents and visitors. ArtWalk is a project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities' downtown public art initiative, in cooperation with the Washington Convention Center. The ArtWalk features 12 display units each stretching 6 feet tall by 24 feet wide. Open to local, national and international artists with preference given to individuals residing or working in the District of Columbia. The ArtWalk is located between New York Avenue and H Streets, NW at a pedestrian friendly parking facility that was once the site of the Washington DC Convention Center.
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Public Art Building Communities Grant (PABC)
Deadline: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Public Art Building Communities Program offers funds for the creation and installation of permanent public art projects with a life span of at least five (5) years. Projects must be installed in the District of Columbia and should encourage the growth of quality public art throughout the city, support local artists and non-profit organizations, and make public art accessible to District residents. Projects must provide exposure of public art to the broader community or to persons traditionally underserved or separated from the cultural mainstream due to geographic location, economic constraints, or disability. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to: sculpture, mosaics, murals, paving patterns, custom benches, stained glass windows, artistic gates and railing, etc. Funding is available for all fees associated with the design, fabrication and installation of the artwork(s) including: artist fees, materials, insurance, engineering, shipping, fabrication and installation services, permits, copyright registration, and photographic documentation. Projects with youth and senior involvement are encouraged.
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For more information, please visit www.dcarts.dc.gov . If you have further questions please email Deirdre Ehlen at Deirdre.Ehlen@dc.gov or call (202) 724-5613.
Crowds Return to Eastern Market
Joshua Zumbrun reports on the state of Eastern Market in today's article in the District Extra. Read here. It is a promising description of the return of business to the historic market. The neighborhood was picked as one of the country's Ten Great Neighborhood's by the American Planning Association. Go see for yourself how the market is doing. Keep going, buy from the wonderful vendors and support the arts with your patronage. You can see the 27 murals installed by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities on the historic Eastern Market windows while visiting and purchasing art from the artist vendors at the market.
Eastern Market is at Seventh Street and South Carolina Avenue SE.
Market merchants, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Flea market and arts and crafts market,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Farmers' line, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
For more information, go to http://www.easternmarketdc.com.
Good shopping!
More reading:
National Planning Group Lauds Eastern Market Neighborhood
Eastern Market is at Seventh Street and South Carolina Avenue SE.
Market merchants, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Flea market and arts and crafts market,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Farmers' line, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
For more information, go to http://www.easternmarketdc.com.
Good shopping!
More reading:
National Planning Group Lauds Eastern Market Neighborhood
Civilian Art Project presents
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, November 2, 2007, 7 to 9pm
Nov 2 - Dec 15, 2007
Exhibition Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 2 to 6pm
FRONT GALLERY: Waves
Lisa Blas, Peter Garfield, Michele Kong, Jen Stark
This group exhibition features photographs depicting an obsessive crush on military generals by Lisa Blas, 4' by 5' photographs of waves by Peter Garfield, a formal take on glass and other wave like forms by Michele Kong, and undulating rainbow colored paper sculpture and drawings by Jen Stark.
PROJECT SPACE: big guns, hollow shields and other bouyant desires
Matthew Spahr
A site-specific, mixed-media installation by Richmond, VA based artist Matthew Spahr exploring surf culture, secret societies and nautical history as modes for developing masculine identity.
Civilian Art Projects
202-347-0022
info@civilianartprojects.com.
www.civilianartprojects.com
Friday, November 2, 2007, 7 to 9pm
Nov 2 - Dec 15, 2007
Exhibition Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 2 to 6pm
FRONT GALLERY: Waves
Lisa Blas, Peter Garfield, Michele Kong, Jen Stark
This group exhibition features photographs depicting an obsessive crush on military generals by Lisa Blas, 4' by 5' photographs of waves by Peter Garfield, a formal take on glass and other wave like forms by Michele Kong, and undulating rainbow colored paper sculpture and drawings by Jen Stark.
PROJECT SPACE: big guns, hollow shields and other bouyant desires
Matthew Spahr
A site-specific, mixed-media installation by Richmond, VA based artist Matthew Spahr exploring surf culture, secret societies and nautical history as modes for developing masculine identity.
Civilian Art Projects
202-347-0022
info@civilianartprojects.com.
www.civilianartprojects.com
Tonight at the William W. Parker (WWP) Gallery – 9 x 10 opens
October 26 - November 30, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 6-8pm.
Margaret Adams / Kay Layne / Freda Lee-McCann / Heather Levy / Mike Lewandowski / Diana N'Diaye / Michael Pierce / Sandra Rottmann / Luba Sterlikova / Joyce Zipperer
In tribute to the late William Warren Parker’s support for emerging DC artists, his family has generously donated space at the William W. Parker (WWP) Gallery– housed in Mickelson’s Fine Art Framing at 629 New York Ave NW - to WPA\C for a new “nine-by-ten” exhibition series: 9 shows of 10 member artists each.
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 6-8pm.
Margaret Adams / Kay Layne / Freda Lee-McCann / Heather Levy / Mike Lewandowski / Diana N'Diaye / Michael Pierce / Sandra Rottmann / Luba Sterlikova / Joyce Zipperer
In tribute to the late William Warren Parker’s support for emerging DC artists, his family has generously donated space at the William W. Parker (WWP) Gallery– housed in Mickelson’s Fine Art Framing at 629 New York Ave NW - to WPA\C for a new “nine-by-ten” exhibition series: 9 shows of 10 member artists each.
One day left for Options 07
OPTIONS 2007 @ Edison Place Gallery Sept 13-Oct 26
Pepco's Edison Place Gallery
702 Eighth Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Curated by PAUL BREWER
ARTIST TALK: Friday, October 26, 6:30-8:30 pm
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 4 pm
2007 OPTIONS ARTISTS:
TAYLOR BALDWIN
ANNE CHAN
NEIL FEATHER
ELI KESSLER
CORY OBERNDORFER
PAT O'MALLEY
SIOBHAN RIGG
KATHLEEN SHAFER
SAYAKA SUZUKI
RENE TREVINO
Originally developed in 1981 by the WPA board of directors, the first WPA OPTIONS biennial was curated by legendary artist Gene Davis and Washington Review editor Mary Swift. Continuing with this historic and eagerly anticipated exhibition, OPTIONS 2007 curator Paul Brewer, Director of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, has selected 10 emerging artists who represent the creative diversity of the region. 2007 marks the 12th year of OPTIONS and the ongoing dedication of the WPA\C to support, promote and encourage new and emerging talent, as well as to stimulate dialogue between established and emerging artists, and the regional community.
Pepco's Edison Place Gallery
702 Eighth Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Curated by PAUL BREWER
ARTIST TALK: Friday, October 26, 6:30-8:30 pm
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 4 pm
2007 OPTIONS ARTISTS:
TAYLOR BALDWIN
ANNE CHAN
NEIL FEATHER
ELI KESSLER
CORY OBERNDORFER
PAT O'MALLEY
SIOBHAN RIGG
KATHLEEN SHAFER
SAYAKA SUZUKI
RENE TREVINO
Originally developed in 1981 by the WPA board of directors, the first WPA OPTIONS biennial was curated by legendary artist Gene Davis and Washington Review editor Mary Swift. Continuing with this historic and eagerly anticipated exhibition, OPTIONS 2007 curator Paul Brewer, Director of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, has selected 10 emerging artists who represent the creative diversity of the region. 2007 marks the 12th year of OPTIONS and the ongoing dedication of the WPA\C to support, promote and encourage new and emerging talent, as well as to stimulate dialogue between established and emerging artists, and the regional community.
Which Came First? Drawing Conclusions:
Kilnformed Glass by Kari Minnick
A Hillyer Art Space Exhibition
November 2, 2007- December 20, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, November 2nd, 2007, 6pm to 8pm
Which Came First? Drawing Conclusions, an exhibition by Kari Minnick, features glass "collages" that combine bold composition, sensitive drawings, and fluid edges. Using flame-worked linear elements and images drawn directly into glass powders, Minnick creates signature pieces reminiscent of gestural drawings. Minnick's expressive use of line and manipulation of light break new artistic ground in the painterly expressions that emerge from hand-cut glass.
Minnick holds a degree in studio art from the University of California and has worked as an exhibiting artist and educator for twenty years.She recently opened Kari Minnick Art Glass Studio in the heart of the new Arts and Entertainment district in Silver Spring, MD. Selected by the Hillyer Art Space Advisory Committee for Washington Region Programming, Minnick was recommended due to her unique talent and vision.
IA's Hillyer Art Space is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
A Hillyer Art Space Exhibition
November 2, 2007- December 20, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, November 2nd, 2007, 6pm to 8pm
Which Came First? Drawing Conclusions, an exhibition by Kari Minnick, features glass "collages" that combine bold composition, sensitive drawings, and fluid edges. Using flame-worked linear elements and images drawn directly into glass powders, Minnick creates signature pieces reminiscent of gestural drawings. Minnick's expressive use of line and manipulation of light break new artistic ground in the painterly expressions that emerge from hand-cut glass.
Minnick holds a degree in studio art from the University of California and has worked as an exhibiting artist and educator for twenty years.She recently opened Kari Minnick Art Glass Studio in the heart of the new Arts and Entertainment district in Silver Spring, MD. Selected by the Hillyer Art Space Advisory Committee for Washington Region Programming, Minnick was recommended due to her unique talent and vision.
IA's Hillyer Art Space is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Open Studio at red dirt studio
Sunday, November 11, 2007
1 - 5 pm
Fall Open Studio show and sale. Visit neighboring artists also opening their studios to the public.
From top left: Kate Hardy, Ani Kasten, Sean Lundgren, Mila Kagan, Sandra Dwiggins, Leila Holtsman, Judit Varga, Margaret Boozer, Joe Hicks, J.J. McCracken, Elizabeth Kendall, Liz Lescault, Kyan Bishop, Tetyana Wittkowski and Laurel Lukaszewski.
Red Dirt Gallery hosts an exhibition of work by artist-in-residence Ani Kasten through Dec. 9.
red dirt studio
3706-08 Otis Street,
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
202/607-9472 cell
margaret@margaretboozer.com
www.margaretboozer.com
1 - 5 pm
Fall Open Studio show and sale. Visit neighboring artists also opening their studios to the public. From top left: Kate Hardy, Ani Kasten, Sean Lundgren, Mila Kagan, Sandra Dwiggins, Leila Holtsman, Judit Varga, Margaret Boozer, Joe Hicks, J.J. McCracken, Elizabeth Kendall, Liz Lescault, Kyan Bishop, Tetyana Wittkowski and Laurel Lukaszewski.
Red Dirt Gallery hosts an exhibition of work by artist-in-residence Ani Kasten through Dec. 9.
red dirt studio
3706-08 Otis Street,
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
202/607-9472 cell
margaret@margaretboozer.com
www.margaretboozer.com
Opening Doors: Women in Art, 1972-2007
Join the Washington, DC chapters of the Women's Caucus for Art and ArtTable on November 11, 2007, from 1:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. at American University's Katzen Arts Center for a lively discussion of how and whether the feminist art movement has made a difference for women in the arts today. The forum will be held at the Abramson Family Recital Hall in the Katzen Arts Center, which is located on Ward Circle at Nebraska and Massachusetts Avenues, NW. There is no charge for the event.
The forum Opening Doors, will feature presentations by a panel representing a range of cultural, professional, and generational perspectives. The audience will be included in the discussion, which will continue over light refreshments in the lobby. The panelists sharing their experiences and insights include: Judy Byron, a feminist printmaker and installation artist; HIRO, an Asian-American painter and teacher, who has focused on issues of race and gender; Victoria Reis, the co-founder and director of Transformer, an arts organization that promotes emering artists; and Joyce J. Scott, the African American performance and visual artist known for her beadwork sculpture and jewlery. Moderator, Josephine Withers, a pioneer in the field of women's studies and a founder of the Washington Women's Art Center, will facilitate the discussion with the panelists of how our lives and the art world have changed since 1972.
The forum Opening Doors coincides with two important anniversary exhibitions on view in Washington: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, September 21 to December 16, 2007, focuses on feminist art acround the globe from 1965 to 1980, with nearly 300 works by 118 artists. Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators, co-curated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, pioneering feminist scholars, will be at the American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, November 6, 2007 to January 27, 2008. It features forty large-scale provocative and breakthrough works by twenty founders of the Feminist Art Movement in America from the 1970s. "Claiming Space" will be on view from 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; come early to see the show before the forum.
The impetus for the exhibitions and the forum is the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Women's Caucus for Art and many other feminist milestones. ArtTable celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005, and this year is the 20th anniversary of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Both the Women's Caucus for Art and ArtTable are Founding Program Partners of The Feminist Art Project, a collaborative national initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement based at Rutgers University.
For more information, call 202-885-1300.
The forum Opening Doors, will feature presentations by a panel representing a range of cultural, professional, and generational perspectives. The audience will be included in the discussion, which will continue over light refreshments in the lobby. The panelists sharing their experiences and insights include: Judy Byron, a feminist printmaker and installation artist; HIRO, an Asian-American painter and teacher, who has focused on issues of race and gender; Victoria Reis, the co-founder and director of Transformer, an arts organization that promotes emering artists; and Joyce J. Scott, the African American performance and visual artist known for her beadwork sculpture and jewlery. Moderator, Josephine Withers, a pioneer in the field of women's studies and a founder of the Washington Women's Art Center, will facilitate the discussion with the panelists of how our lives and the art world have changed since 1972.
The forum Opening Doors coincides with two important anniversary exhibitions on view in Washington: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, September 21 to December 16, 2007, focuses on feminist art acround the globe from 1965 to 1980, with nearly 300 works by 118 artists. Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators, co-curated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, pioneering feminist scholars, will be at the American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, November 6, 2007 to January 27, 2008. It features forty large-scale provocative and breakthrough works by twenty founders of the Feminist Art Movement in America from the 1970s. "Claiming Space" will be on view from 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; come early to see the show before the forum.
The impetus for the exhibitions and the forum is the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Women's Caucus for Art and many other feminist milestones. ArtTable celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005, and this year is the 20th anniversary of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Both the Women's Caucus for Art and ArtTable are Founding Program Partners of The Feminist Art Project, a collaborative national initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement based at Rutgers University.
For more information, call 202-885-1300.
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