| Work-in-Progress Screening Washington DC | |||||||
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 This work-in-progress provides an opportunity for local and visiting documentary filmmakers to screen their unfinished films to an audience and get valuable feedback. Each program generally includes a feature and a short documentary. After screening each film, facilitators from Docs In Progress moderate a feedback session with the audience. This honest and constructive feedback is aimed at helping the filmmakers get to the next stage of completing and distributing the film. @ George Washington University's Media and Public Affairs Building Lower Level Auditorium (B-07) 805 21st Street, NW (corner of 21st and H Streets) Washington DC 20052 Closest Metro: Foggy Bottom. Limited street parking free after 6:30 pm. Garage parking nearby on H and I Streets. WHAT'S SCREENING? Journey to the Center of Artomatic (3 minute trailer) by Jay Krasnow It's often said that arts and commerce are at war. In fact, the two can work and in hand. In 1999 a group of Washington, D.C., area artists joined forces with commercial real estate developers to their mutual benefit. The result? A weeks long arts expo called Artomatic.What began with 350 visual artists has grown into a Washington institution which attracts more than 1,000 artists, musicians, comedians, poets, and filmmakers Life on Death Beach (7 minute segment from a longer documentary) by Jeff Arak A coastal town in Oaxaca is a microcosm of struggles for recognition within Mexican society, as told from a group of volunteer lifeguards or the patients and therapists at a center working to rehabilitate people with disabilities. Forgotten Soldiers (80 minute rough cut) by Donald Plata Considered one of the most elite groups of the U.S. army during the Second World War, the Phillipine Scouts were credited with one of the greatest success stories for the Allies in the Pacific -- keeping Japan from invading Australia. Although they fought America's first major ground battle of the war, their story remains largely unknown. TICKETS? $10 suggested donation ($5 suggested for Docs Insiders). Cash only at the door. This program is organized by Docs In Progress and sponsored by The Documentary Center at the George Washington University. | |||||||
| Location : Media and Public Affairs Building, George Washington University, 805 21st Street, NW Washington DC Contact : Adele Schmidt, (240) 505-8696 or adeleATdocsinprogressDOTorg | |||||||
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Work-in-Progress Screening Washington DC
Single Recurrence 
2010 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists Announced
THE JANET & WALTER SONDHEIM ARTSCAPE PRIZE FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Winner receives $25,000
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts announce the finalists for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The seven finalists are Leah Cooper, Ryan Hackett, Matthew Janson, Nate Larson, Christopher LaVoie, Matthew Porterfield and Karen Yasinsky.
The prize is designed to assist visual artists or visual artist collaborators in furthering their careers by awarding a $25,000 fellowship. The winner of the fifth annual competition will be announced during an award ceremony on Saturday, July 10 at 7pm at The Baltimore Museum of Art, located at 10 Art Museum Drive. The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize is held in conjunction with the annual Artscape juried exhibition and is produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts. The finalists and semifinalists exhibitions are presented in partnership with The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
An exhibition of the finalists' work will be shown in the Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer Galleries of the BMA on Saturday, June 19 through Sunday, August 1. The Sondheim Artscape Prize winner will be selected after a review of the art installed at the BMA and an interview with each finalist by the jurors. The jurors for this year's competition are Robert Nickas, Magdalena Sawon and Hamza Walker. During the weekend of Artscape, an exhibition featuring the semifinalists' work will be displayed at the Decker and Meyerhoff galleries of MICA, located at 1303 West Mount Royal Avenue. Artscape, America's largest free celebration of the arts takes place Friday, July 16 and Saturday, July 17 from noon-10pm and Sunday, July 18 from noon-8pm on Mount Royal Avenue and North Charles Street.
410-752-8632.
2010 FRAMEWORK Panel Series
2010 FRAMEWORK Panel Series, generously supported by a recent National Endowment for the Arts' Access to Artistic Excellence grant award.
Transformer Framework Panel #12
Radical Art - the evolution of artistic revolution
Friday, April 23, 2010, 12:30 - 2pm
Hirshhorn Museum Auditorium
This panel will explore the recent history and future of artwork that continues to challenge audiences and re-define what art is and does through its connection to social practice and activism. Often incorporating performative action and spectacle to make commentary or create dialogue around social or politically charged issues, radical art practice - from early leaders like Joseph Beuys, through to the Guerrilla Girls, and more recently The Floating Lab Collective and My Barbarian - engages audiences in a very immediate and powerful way.
Radical Art - the evolution of artistic revolution panelists will discuss how this genre of art-making and their individual and collaborative work addresses cultural conditions, social hierarchies, political authority, disenfranchised populations, and use of history. Participating panelists include: Edgar Endress, The Floating Lab Collective (DC); Alexandro Segade, My Barbarian (CA); and Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace, (NY). The panel will be moderated by Ryan Hill, artist; Transformer Board Member; and Manager of Interpretive Programs & Curatorial Research Associate, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden.
In tandem with FRAMEWORK Panel #12: Radical Art - the evolution of artistic revolution, My Barbarian will be presenting an artistic action on the steps of the Hirshhorn's Sculpture Garden at approximately 3:30pm on Friday, April 23, 2010.
Transformer is also pleased to present My Barbarian at 1404 P Street, NW project space in the DC debut of their Death Panel Performance, Saturday April 24, 2010, 4pm and 7pm. Space at Transformer is limited; attendance is on a first come, first seated basis.
All of these events are free and open to the public.
www.transformergallery.org
202.483.1102
Transformer Framework Panel #12
Radical Art - the evolution of artistic revolution
Friday, April 23, 2010, 12:30 - 2pm
Hirshhorn Museum Auditorium
This panel will explore the recent history and future of artwork that continues to challenge audiences and re-define what art is and does through its connection to social practice and activism. Often incorporating performative action and spectacle to make commentary or create dialogue around social or politically charged issues, radical art practice - from early leaders like Joseph Beuys, through to the Guerrilla Girls, and more recently The Floating Lab Collective and My Barbarian - engages audiences in a very immediate and powerful way.
Radical Art - the evolution of artistic revolution panelists will discuss how this genre of art-making and their individual and collaborative work addresses cultural conditions, social hierarchies, political authority, disenfranchised populations, and use of history. Participating panelists include: Edgar Endress, The Floating Lab Collective (DC); Alexandro Segade, My Barbarian (CA); and Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace, (NY). The panel will be moderated by Ryan Hill, artist; Transformer Board Member; and Manager of Interpretive Programs & Curatorial Research Associate, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden.
In tandem with FRAMEWORK Panel #12: Radical Art - the evolution of artistic revolution, My Barbarian will be presenting an artistic action on the steps of the Hirshhorn's Sculpture Garden at approximately 3:30pm on Friday, April 23, 2010.
Transformer is also pleased to present My Barbarian at 1404 P Street, NW project space in the DC debut of their Death Panel Performance, Saturday April 24, 2010, 4pm and 7pm. Space at Transformer is limited; attendance is on a first come, first seated basis.
All of these events are free and open to the public.
www.transformergallery.org
202.483.1102
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Filmfest DC
Filmfest DC
Washington, DC International Film Festival
April 15 - 25
Eleven Days of the Cinema from around the World
Screenings at several DC venues including two Penn Quarter members
E Street Cinema
Goethe-Institut Washington
Select Screenings also at the
Embassy of Canada
National Gallery of Art
More Information
www.filmfestdc.org
Tickets
www.tickets.com or 800.955.556
www.filmfestdc.org
Goethe-Institute, 812 7th Street, NW
At the venue one hour in advance of the screening (cash or check)
Filmfest DC
www.filmfestdc.org
202.234.FILM
Washington, DC International Film Festival
April 15 - 25
Eleven Days of the Cinema from around the World
Screenings at several DC venues including two Penn Quarter members
E Street Cinema
Goethe-Institut Washington
Select Screenings also at the
Embassy of Canada
National Gallery of Art
More Information
www.filmfestdc.org
Tickets
www.tickets.com or 800.955.556
www.filmfestdc.org
Goethe-Institute, 812 7th Street, NW
At the venue one hour in advance of the screening (cash or check)
Filmfest DC
www.filmfestdc.org
202.234.FILM
Inside/Outside
Inside/Outside
April 14 - May 16, 2010
Opening Saturday, April 17, 6-8 p.m.
Gallery Plan B
1530 14th Street NW
Washington, DC
An Intimate Evening with Fred Wilson
The Contemporary Museum’s 20th Anniversary Benefit Gala
Friday, May 14, 2010
6:45 p.m. – Midnight
Maryland Historical Society
201 West Monument Street
Baltimore, MD
The Contemporary Museum’s 20th Anniversary Benefit Gala
Friday, May 14, 2010
6:45 p.m. – Midnight
Maryland Historical Society
201 West Monument Street
Baltimore, MD
The Contemporary Museum will welcome renowned artist Fred Wilson back to Baltimore at its annual benefit gala on Friday, May 14, 2010. “An Intimate Evening with Fred Wilson” will celebrate the museum’s 20th anniversary of bringing new art and new ideas to Baltimore; Wilson created one of the museum’s most prominent exhibitions, Mining the Museum, in 1992.
“An Intimate Evening with Fred Wilson” will begin at 6:45 p.m. with cocktails and dinner at the Maryland Historical Society. Wilson will provide gala guests with an illustrated survey of his works and projects.
At 10 p.m. guests will gather for the After Glow party at the Contemporary Museum for after dinner drinks and a special preview of Bearing Witness: Work By Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry. This installation is part of the museum’s Project 20 series of anniversary exhibitions.
Tickets are $300 for Contemporary Museum members and $350 for non-members. Patron tickets, which include a pre-event champagne toast with Wilson, are $500.
To purchase tickets or for information about reserving a table, call 410-783-5720.
For more information about the Contemporary Museum, visit www.contemporary.org.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
SCULPTURE 1275: Brent Crothers
SCULPTURE 1275: Brent Crothers
March 22 –May 21, 2010
March 22 –May 21, 2010
Reception: Wednesday, April 21 from 6:00 until 8:00 pm
1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (Lobby)
Washington, DC 20004
In cooperation with the Axent Realty Group, the Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) announces the opening of the eighth exhibition in a series of sculpture solos featured in the lobby of 1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. The Sculpture 1275 series began in 2008 and provides an opportunity for the WSG to showcase the work of their membership. The curator for the 2010 calendar of exhibitions is Peter Winant, who is the Associate Director of the School of Art at George Mason University and, since 2006, has been a panelist on WETA's "Around Town" program, which offers reviews of Washington-area arts and theater events and programs. For additional information about Sculpture 1275, visit www.washingtonsculptors.org.
Brent Crothers’ sculpture frequently makes re-use of commonly found objects and materials, thereby leveraging the specific histories they carry forth as a catalyst for formulating provocative social, economic, and political commentary. His work is included in many permanent collections, such as the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Hechinger Collection, and the Delaware Art Museum. Recently, he was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2010 Sondheim Prize, and has been the recipient of several Maryland State Arts Council grants, most recently in 2009. Crothers earned his BFA and MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He lives and works in Stoney Forest, south of Bel Air, MD in Harford County, in the home and studio he built situated on 20 acres of undeveloped forest. For additional information about the artist, visit his website at www.brentcrothers.com.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Fatal Fantasy: La Melodia de la Calle
This exceptional young artist is a junior at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and has been a student at Sitar for the last 10 years.
Join Angel, along with special Guest Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, for his opening reception
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Please RSVP by April 13, 2010
or call (202) 797-2145 x117 for more information
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Fatal Fantasy: La Melodia de la Calle, running through May 15, showcases his work in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, and found object sculpture. Perez considers himself a Chicano artist—combining elements from his Hispanic heritage with inspiration from his Adams Morgan neighborhood.
You might remember Angel from 2009, when his digital self portrait won the DC Congressional Art Award through the Office of Eleanor Holmes Norton. Perez also had the opportunity to meet First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House this year when she presented Sitar Arts Center with the Coming Up Taller Award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. In addition, he is very active in the community, serving as the student representative on DC’s Arts Education Task Force, meeting with the Congressional Latino Council, and working with artists in the DC community such as color field painter Sam Gilliam and muralist Karlisima (Karla Rodas).
- From DCCAH
New York Avenue Sculpture Project
April 28 Opening Celebration!
This spring, the National Museum of Women in the Arts will unveil the first phase of a bold public art project. Sculptures by renowned women artists will be exhibited in changing installations on New York Avenue—right at NMWA’s front door. The first phase of the New York Avenue Sculpture Project features four monumental sculptures by French-born artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002).
Washington, D.C. — National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) announces plans to create a New York Avenue Sculpture Project along one of downtown’s major boulevards. The new dynamic space will enhance the city’s public art profile featuring changing installations of contemporary works by world-renown women artists. Organized by NMWA, it is a collaboration between the museum, the Downtown DC Business Improvement District (BID), the DC Office of Planning and other agencies.
The artist whose work was selected to inaugurate this new public art exhibition program is the self-taught French sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle. Her nine to 15-foot high whimsical, visually playful and colorful works celebrate women, children, heroes, cultural diversity and love.
Throughout the city, public sculpture is an integral part of the streetscape, defining neighborhoods and connecting points of major streets. The New York Avenue Sculpture Project will improve the visual environment of the downtown following in a tradition begun by Pierre L’Enfant in 1791.
“This is an exciting new venture for the District and a wonderful testament to the contribution of women in the arts,” says Mayor Adrian Fenty. “As a public-private partnership, this endeavor will contribute to the revitalization of Mount Vernon Square while providing another avenue for great artists from our nation’s capital and around the world to display their creativity and talent.”
The project is currently funded through support from NMWA National Advisory Board member Medda Gudelsky, the Downtown DC BID, an anonymous donor, the Philip L. Graham Fund, the Homer and Martha Gudelsky Family Foundation, NMWA members and others. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is also funding the project through its Transportation Enhancement Program. The Enhancement Program provides grant funding for non-traditional projects that are linked to the District’s transportation system.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Coffeehouse TV interviews Human Rights Art Festival Producer, Tom Block
Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival
Art Festival producer, Tom Block was interviewed about the Festival this past Monday on Coffeehouse TV, a cable TV program that runs in 30 states: Check it out...
http://ia331230.us.archive.org/2/items/T
Art Festival producer, Tom Block was interviewed about the Festival this past Monday on Coffeehouse TV, a cable TV program that runs in 30 states: Check it out...
http://ia331230.us.archive.org/2/items/T
Mid City Artists @ MidCity Caffe
Mid City Artists @ MidCity Caffe
Including: Charlie Gaynor, Ron Riley, Chuck Baxter, Lucinda Murphy,
Jody Bergstresser, George Smith Shomari, and Isabelle Spicer
Including: Charlie Gaynor, Ron Riley, Chuck Baxter, Lucinda Murphy,
Jody Bergstresser, George Smith Shomari, and Isabelle Spicer
April 10 to May 30, 2010
Artist Reception: Thursday , April 15 – 6 to 8 PM
@
Artist Reception: Thursday , April 15 – 6 to 8 PM
@
MidCity Caffe
1626 14th Street, NW
For more information: CBaxter67 [at] aol.com
For more information: CBaxter67 [at] aol.com
Countdown to Yuri's Night Event / April 10
Countdown to Yuri's Night, an out of this world art extravaganza that combines visual art, performance, and music to commemorate the first human space flight, is back for a third year.
Countdown to Yuri's Night, a 21-and-over event, takes place Saturday, April 10, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., at the Capitol Skyline Hotel (10 "i" Street, SW). Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Visit www.outofthisworldparty.com for tickets, artist links, and event announcements.
In an "Astro-Pop" art exhibition organized by artists Scott G. Brooks and Jared Davis, approximately 20 visual artists will exhibit work that celebrates, reflects, and imagines space, from hard-core science to the lowbrow culture. Confirmed artists, in addition to Brooks and Davis, include Dana Ellyn, Matt Sesow, Stephen Blickenstaff, Greg Ferrand, Linas Garsys, and Andrew Wodzianski. The exhibition will be available for viewing prior to the event at www.outofthisworldparty.com.
The night's festivities also include a lunar dance party with Chief Boogie Officer DJ P.Vo and special guest DJs, Stoli-sponsored drink specials, a reduced-gravity chamber (moonbounce), celesti al costume contests, and a final frontier photo booth.
Countdown to Yuri's Night is an artistic spin on a high-science holiday. On April 12, 1961, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin embarked on the historic first manned space flight. Every year around April 12, Yuri's Night parties are held all around the world; it's like St. Patrick's Day or Cinco de Mayo for space.
Returning this year are Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey, an award-winning acrobatic superduo who dance, flip, fight, and strip for the opposing forces of good and evil. Their adventures have taken them all across the United States, and now they are charting a course to conquer the galaxy. Miss Saturn, a New York-based staple of vaudeville and comedy with her 40 orbit rings (hula hoops), is also making an encore appearance. Hosted by Southern Hemisphere, the show's emcee best known for her work as Card Girl in The Lobsterboy Revue, the Cosmonaughty Variety Show also includes:
- L'il Dutch, DC's salty sweet burlesque star and host of The Dutch Oven;
- Eva Brontosaurus, a musical comedy trio that's one part drag queen and two parts real women who like to do drag;
- Dr. Swami YoMahmi, Ph.D., a regular traveler in the D.C. sideshow universe, ably assisted by his lab assistant Booger; and
- Demivolt, a Washington-based post-punk/rock/surf band that will provide the musical backdrop for the show.
Countdown to Yuri's Night, a 21-and-over event, takes place Saturday, April 10, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., at the Capitol Skyline Hotel (10 "i" Street, SW). Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Visit www.outofthisworldparty.com for tickets, artist links, and event announcements.
In an "Astro-Pop" art exhibition organized by artists Scott G. Brooks and Jared Davis, approximately 20 visual artists will exhibit work that celebrates, reflects, and imagines space, from hard-core science to the lowbrow culture. Confirmed artists, in addition to Brooks and Davis, include Dana Ellyn, Matt Sesow, Stephen Blickenstaff, Greg Ferrand, Linas Garsys, and Andrew Wodzianski. The exhibition will be available for viewing prior to the event at www.outofthisworldparty.com.
The night's festivities also include a lunar dance party with Chief Boogie Officer DJ P.Vo and special guest DJs, Stoli-sponsored drink specials, a reduced-gravity chamber (moonbounce), celesti al costume contests, and a final frontier photo booth.
Countdown to Yuri's Night is an artistic spin on a high-science holiday. On April 12, 1961, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin embarked on the historic first manned space flight. Every year around April 12, Yuri's Night parties are held all around the world; it's like St. Patrick's Day or Cinco de Mayo for space.
Returning this year are Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey, an award-winning acrobatic superduo who dance, flip, fight, and strip for the opposing forces of good and evil. Their adventures have taken them all across the United States, and now they are charting a course to conquer the galaxy. Miss Saturn, a New York-based staple of vaudeville and comedy with her 40 orbit rings (hula hoops), is also making an encore appearance. Hosted by Southern Hemisphere, the show's emcee best known for her work as Card Girl in The Lobsterboy Revue, the Cosmonaughty Variety Show also includes:
- L'il Dutch, DC's salty sweet burlesque star and host of The Dutch Oven;
- Eva Brontosaurus, a musical comedy trio that's one part drag queen and two parts real women who like to do drag;
- Dr. Swami YoMahmi, Ph.D., a regular traveler in the D.C. sideshow universe, ably assisted by his lab assistant Booger; and
- Demivolt, a Washington-based post-punk/rock/surf band that will provide the musical backdrop for the show.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Don't Get Scammed!!!!
Warning....
There's some bad people out there scamming artists and dealers with stolen credit cards. I got a hit from London and it turned out to be a scam to charge art and shipping and then wire shipping charges to the shipping company. The scam is that they disappear with the shipping charges. Luckily, this was caught before anyone was out the money.
Watch out for this kind of thing and never wire money to pay for anything a puchaser asks. It's BOGUS!! and a scam.
There's some bad people out there scamming artists and dealers with stolen credit cards. I got a hit from London and it turned out to be a scam to charge art and shipping and then wire shipping charges to the shipping company. The scam is that they disappear with the shipping charges. Luckily, this was caught before anyone was out the money.
Watch out for this kind of thing and never wire money to pay for anything a puchaser asks. It's BOGUS!! and a scam.
Artist Reception for WPG at Artspring tonight
Artists' Reception for WPG's
April Member Exhibition
at:
Pyramid Atlantic's Community Arts Store
2 Blocks North of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Friday, April 9, 6-9 pm
Light refreshments provided.
Exhibition runs through April 30
Washington Printmakers Artists will exhibit at ArtSpring while the
Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival
happens in their usual gallery space.
Washington Printmakers will return in May for
Things Uncertain: Recent Works by Ellen Verdon Winkler
2 Blocks North of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Friday, April 9, 6-9 pm
Light refreshments provided.
Exhibition runs through April 30
Washington Printmakers Artists will exhibit at ArtSpring while the
Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival
happens in their usual gallery space.
Washington Printmakers will return in May for
Things Uncertain: Recent Works by Ellen Verdon Winkler
ARTSPRING INFORMATION: 8519 Georgia Ave | Silver Spring, MD 20910
301.495.3425
301.495.3425
Washington Printmakers Gallery | Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 2nd Floor | 8230 Georgia Ave | Silver Spring, MD 20910 | 301.273.3660
Happy Cherry Blossoms!
Cherry Blossoms at the Tidal Basin, Washington, DC
Photo by Anne Marchand
This artist beat the cars, not the crowds, by walking
to see the Cherry Blossoms at their finest in Washington, DC.
What's not to love about spring, except the sneezing.
Happy Spring!
Washington D. C. Martin Luther King National Memorial Project
Washington, DC - April 6, 2010 - The month of April marks the 42nd anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Memorial is conceived as an engaging landscape experience to convey four fundamental and recurring themes throughout Dr. King’s life – democracy, justice, hope, and love. Natural elements such as the crescent-shaped-stone wall inscribed with excerpts of his sermons, and public addresses will serve as the living testaments of his vision of America. The centerpiece of the Memorial, the “Stone of Hope”, will feature a 30-foot likeness of Dr. King.
Within the memorial, quotes from Dr. King's sermons and speeches, arranged chronologically according to his life, are to be inscribed at a large scale on the glistening smooth surfaces of the water wall. These passages will be reinforced through the referential use of water, stone and light as metaphorical elements that heighten an awareness of his message.
After years of fund raising, the memorial is now $14 million away from its $120 million goal. This will be more than a monument to a great humanitarian, the National Memorial will be a place for visitors from around the world to share the spirit of love, freedom, and peace.
View of the Main Entry from West Basin Drive
The Ceremonial Groundbreaking occurred on November 13, 2006. The Dedication of the Memorial is tentatively scheduled for the Fall of 2011.
Location: National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Landscape: Natural elements – water, stone, trees – are used to underscore the themes of justice, democracy and hope, and love.
Composition and Space: This memorial is not designed to be experienced in a single way with one single message, but rather it is to have a broad accessibility, appealing to all of the senses with diverse, repetitive and overlapping themes.
BuildTheDream.org
Individuals as well as corporations can add their financial support to this effort. Contributions, large and small, are needed to attain the goal of $120 million. Spread the word to your friends, neighbors and acquaintances that their donations are urgently needed. Most major employers match employee donations, so if you donate to the Memorial Foundation your employer may double that amount.
Dr. Martin Luther King is remembered as a great orator whose impact on the nation came from the eloquence and inspirational quality of his words. His speeches, sermons and public addresses melded themes of democracy deeply embedded in the American conscience, and reinvigorated these messages with clear and insightful reflections on the true meaning of justice and equality.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Artist Speaker Series / Hamiltonian Gallery
The Artist Speaker Series is a succession of lectures given by established artists and art professionals to aid in the artistic and entrepreneurial development of our So-Hamiltonian Fellows and other emerging artists.
Artist talk: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, at 7:30pm,
with Hamiltonian Fellows Katherine Mann, Michael Enn Sirvet and Christian Benefiel.
Speaker Series: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 7pm at Hamiltonian Gallery.
John D. Mason will be discussing an array of of important legal issues for artists. Topics include contracts, licensing, negotiations, online/internet legal issues, business formation and maintenance, intellectual property and copyright/trademark. Please come prepared with questions because he likes an interactive discussion and is happy to explore the questions artists always want to ask an art lawyer.
Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW
Suite 101
Washington, DC 20009
202.332.1116
www.hamiltoniangallery.com
Artist talk: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, at 7:30pm,
with Hamiltonian Fellows Katherine Mann, Michael Enn Sirvet and Christian Benefiel.
Speaker Series: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 7pm at Hamiltonian Gallery.
John D. Mason will be discussing an array of of important legal issues for artists. Topics include contracts, licensing, negotiations, online/internet legal issues, business formation and maintenance, intellectual property and copyright/trademark. Please come prepared with questions because he likes an interactive discussion and is happy to explore the questions artists always want to ask an art lawyer.
Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW
Suite 101
Washington, DC 20009
202.332.1116
www.hamiltoniangallery.com
Rod Glover/ Ungrounded / Studio H
Studio H presents a solo show by:
Rod Glover
“Ungrounded”
April 17 through May 12, 2010
Opening Show: April 17 from 6PM to 9PM
Rod Glover
“Ungrounded”
April 17 through May 12, 2010
Opening Show: April 17 from 6PM to 9PM
"Diaspora 1"
Rod Glover's paintings simplify the complexities of life without the need for representational depictions. He constructs his work using abstract shapes and color. "Abstract shapes have undeniable power. The orientation or action of a shape evokes conflict, balance, anxiety or harmony. In shapes we perceive ourselves, and they become the archetypes of existence" explains Glover. The shapes in Glover’s work seem to float in space that he imagines to be infinite. The forms are in movement through time. The shapes speak of many things: relationships, solitude, confrontation, awakening, joy, stillness, order or chaos.
Glover's work is influenced by early geometric or reductive abstractionists. Painters such as Kandinsky, Malevich and Moholy-Nagy used geometric shapes to reject illusionist practices in the belief that shapes could convey expressive feelings and ideas without the need for recognizable or objective forms.
Glover's work is influenced by early geometric or reductive abstractionists. Painters such as Kandinsky, Malevich and Moholy-Nagy used geometric shapes to reject illusionist practices in the belief that shapes could convey expressive feelings and ideas without the need for recognizable or objective forms.
Studio H exhibits emerging artists on the cusp of realizing major breakthroughs both in their individual work and in contributing to major contemporary artistic movements. Currently, in 2010, the Spring and Fall showing seasons will connect exceptional DC based artists with their surrounding community. In 2011, Studio H will diversify its pool of talent by featuring the work of national and international artists who also straddle the line between the ordinary and the trendsetting.
For more information about Studio H Gallery and Workshop, please visit www.studiohdc.com.
Studio H
408 H Street NE
second floor
Washington, DC 20002.
202.468.5277
Hours are by appointment.
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