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.
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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

Courage Unmasked Gala Event on Sept. 12, 2012

 Art Auction Gala

Wednesday, September 12, 2012
6:30 - 9:30 pm

@

The Katzen Arts Center at American University 

Wine reception, light fare and dessert. Free parking.

Please join 911 4 HNC for a unique gala event featuring a silent and live auction to raise money and awareness for head and neck cancer (HNC). Help support this worthy cause by attending this fun and whimsical art event. You'll love the art this year, some created by well known area artists and artists nationally. Come see! Tickets are on sale now! Purchase at the link below.

More than 50 artists from all over the country created fine art by transforming radiation masks formally worn by HNC patients to position and immobilize their heads during treatment. These unique masterpieces will be auctioned at the Gala. Money from mask sales and admissions will fund 9114 HNC, dedicated to helping those in financial need during and after treatment.

Buy Tickets
Sponsor Courage Unmasked

The Katzen Arts Center at American University 

4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20016 
Map and Directions

Website: http://courageunmasked.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/9114HNC

"Painterly Visions" On Sabbatical this Summer

 "Painterly Visions" will be on sabbatical for the summer months. There will be no posts in July and August, so the artist can devote herself to timely creative projects. Have a happy summer!
For your reading pleasure and art happening updates, check out Lenny Campello's blog, Daily Campello News and the Pink Line Project, where you will find many exciting art events to entice you through the summer.

Happy creating! Anne Marchand

Charlotte Dumas: Anima at the Corcoran

On July 14, Dutch artist Charlotte Dumas presents her first solo museum exhibition in Charlotte Dumas: Anima – the latest exhibition in the NOW at the Corcoran series – featuring a commissioned series of portraits of the majestic burial horses of Arlington National Cemetery. Dumas, who travels the world making evocative formal portraits of animals, typically works in series and portrays animals characterized by their utility, social function, or relation to people.

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran College of Art + Design
500 Seventeenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

“One Life: Amelia Earhart”

Opens June 29 at the National Portrait Gallery 
New Exhibition Features Portraits of the Acclaimed Aviator   

The exhibition curator is Frank H. Goodyear III, associate curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery.

The exhibition focuses not only on Amelia Earhart's career as a female pilot, but also on her role as a woman’s rights activist. She was a prolific writer and proponent of women in the workforce and some of her writing is on display—she contributed to Cosmopolitan and wrote several books. The objects in the exhibition are portraits (mostly photographs), a sampling of her writing, artifacts associated with her flying experience and an A/V kiosk, which includes audio of Amelia talking about a flight.

“Amelia Earhart’s impact on American culture extends beyond her record-setting aviation feats,” said Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery. “She was also an advocate for aviation and women and championed the first commercial airlines. Now we take for granted the convenience of air travel and equal rights for all, but in the 1920s and ’30s these positions reflected the ideals of a bold visionary.”

The National Portrait Gallery is part of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture at Eighth and F streets N.W., Washington, D.C. Website: npg.si.edu. Smithsonian Information: (202) 633-1000

XL-XS

XL-XS is sponsored and curated by Maryland Federation of Art and Circle Gallery of Annapolis.

Opening reception Friday, June 29 from 6-8 pm.
University of Maryland's Art Gallery (in the sociology building)

Call and Response

July 2012 Guest Artists Exhibit at Foundry Gallery
presented by
The Artists of the Abstract Collective

Wed., July 4 through Sun., July 29

Opening Reception -- Friday, July 6, 6 - 8 pm


An eclectic group of artists, including Foundry Gallery members and guest artists, presents a diverse collection of bold, graphic paintings that combine organic elements and urban sensibilities.
The distinctive use of color, pattern, and light in each work comes together to create an interactive, visual fusion that mimics the energy of improvised jazz music.  Like musical riffs, the paintings call and respond to each other, producing a rythmic harmony that is both joyful and dark.

The Artists of the Abstract Collective are:
Ana Elisa Benavent*
Lisa Bohrer
Maruka Carvajal*
Ann Crain
Marie Crow
Denise Dittmar
Octavia Frazier
M. Jane Johnson
Katie Joselow
Cecilia Kalish
Paula Lantz
Meg MacKenzie

Foundry Gallery Ltd
1314-18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

FOON SHAM - LAST CHANCE - exhibition closing Saturday June 23

The last day to view Foon Sham's exhibition is Saturday June 23, 2012. Sham will be in the gallery on Saturday to speak with gallery visitors about his work.

Project 4
1353 U Street NW, 3rd floor, Washington, DC 20009
202 232 4340 
http://www.project4gallery.com/

Rob McDonald / Native Ground Photography and Graphic Design @ the Athenaeum

June 21 through August 5, 2012
Artist's Reception: Sunday, June 24, 4 to 6 pm (free) 
 Rob McDonald uses a primitive hand-held camera to capture the personal spaces and landscapes of writers from the American South, from James Agee to William Faulkner to Zora Neale Hurston. Native Ground is an exploration of the role place plays in shaping the literary imagination. In coordination with McDonald's photographs, the Athenaeum will feature typographic interpretations of the writers' works by ten of the region's best graphic designers.

Designers include: John Foster, Jason Gottlieb, Gerry Greaney, Francheska Guerrero, Dave Plunkert, Polygraph, Scout, Carolyn Sewell, Matt Wahl, and David Whitmore.

McDonald teaches American literature at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, and is a self-taught photographer. He is represented by the Kathleen Ewing Gallery in Washington, DC.

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

Irish artist Patrick Graham at the Katzen Arts Center

Special related event Saturday, 23rd June at 4pm: Gallery talk with Kenneth Baker, Chief Art Critic of the San Francisco Chronicle; Jack Rutberg, director of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles; and Peter Selz, Art Historian and curator.

American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue
Washington DC 20016

Chartier, Lambert, Fatzinger at Civilian Art Projects

Opening Friday, June 22:
Richard Chartier, Bridget Sue Lambert, and Shamus Ian Fatzinger
Civilian Art Projects presents three new exhibitions, including a multi-channel sound work from Richard Chartier and photographs from Bridget Sue Lambert and Shamus Ian Fatzinger.

The exhibitions will open to the public on Friday, June 22, 2012 and will be on view through July 28, 2012.

Opening Reception for the artists: Friday, June 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Civilian Art Projects

Civilian Art Projects
1019 7th Street NW, Second Floor
Washington DC 20001
(202) 607-3804

Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series at the Corcoran

JUNE 30–SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

A pivotal figure in the history of modern painting, Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) was an innovator whose work inspired legions of artists and greatly advanced the lexicon of abstraction. The Corcoran is the only East Coast venue for Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series, the first major museum exhibition to focus on the artist's most celebrated body of work. The exhibition features more than 80 works, including large-scale paintings, smaller paintings made on cigar box lids, mixed-media drawings on paper, monotypes, and prints.

Corcoran Gallery of Art | 500 Seventeenth Street NW | Washington | DC | 20006

Women in Wax at Glenview Mansion

JULY 1-31, 2012

Women in Wax (encaustic / mixed media)
marilyn banner, susan feller, christy liffmann, bev ryan, angela white

Fran Abrams (polymer clay)

Elizabeth Steel (sculpture: stone)

Opening Reception: Sunday, July 1
1:30-3:30 p.m.

@

Glenview Mansion Art Gallery

Glenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center Park
603 Edmonston Drive
Rockville, Maryland 20851

For information, call 240-314-8682
 Directions

Sculpture NOW 2012

A Broad Survey of Contemporary Sculpture, Installation, and Video Art
Presented by Washington Sculptors Group
June 19 - July 13, 2012  

Artist Reception: Saturday, June 23, 2012, 6-8 pmFree and Open to the Public

Pepco Edison Place Gallery
702 8th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday,12 pm - 4 pm

Sculpture Now 2012 describes contemporary experience through three-dimensions. Reflecting the diversity of our time, this show hosts an array of artists who use a variety of materials to express personal viewpoints and philosophies that characterize the things we believe and do.

Unable to settle on a single unified vision, these contemporary sculptors opt for a variety of strategies to interpret the world in which we live. 
 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS 

Dennis Beach
Michael Bednar
Christian Benefiel
Greg Braun
Meaghan Carpenter
Eric Celarier
Jeffery Cooper
Michael Corigliano
Terry DeBardelaben
Elsabe Dixon
Joel D'Orazio
Connie Fleres
Mimi Frank
Breon Gilleran
Felicia Glidden
Adam Hager
Artemis Herber
Linda Hesh
Mille Jewtich
Peter Karis
Elaine Langerman
Barbara Liotta
George Lorio
Rosemary Luckett
Olivia Rodriguez
Cathleen Sachse
Nicole Salimbene
Rima Schulkind
Diane Szczepaniak
Isabelle Truchon
Stephanie Williams

Sculpture NOW 2012 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.

www.pepco.com/welcome/community/artgallery  

Call for entries / Power of Color IV

Deadline Sunday, August 5, 2012

Exhibit Dates: August 8 – September 2, 2012_
Artists' Reception, Saturday, August 18, 5-8pm

Gallery West announces a call for entries for its 4th Annual Power of Color juried show. The show will be juried from artwork delivered to Gallery West, 1213 King Street, Old Town, Alexandria, VA, Sunday, August 5, 2012, 12-6pm, and is open to all Washington DC metropolitan artists over 18.

703-549-6006 • gallerywest[at]verizon.net
To download Call For Entries visit www.gallery-west.com

2012 Fringe Festival’s Lucky Number Seven

Seventh Annual Capital Fringe Festival to Feature over 130 Uncensored Performances – July 12 – 29, 2012

Performance Preview – July 6, 2012

The innovative Capital Fringe Festival returns for its lucky number seven year of offbeat theatre, out of the ordinary music and groundbreaking performances, brought to you by the greater creative conscious of Washington, DC.  The Fringe begins July 12 and runs through the 29, taking place in over fifteen different venues in downtown DC.


This year’s offerings range from one act plays, comedies, musicals, dramas and dance to puppetry, improvisation, clowns, hip-hop, poetry, mime and more. In addition, much merriment and revelry is to be had at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar at Fort Fringe, where viewers and fanatics alike can enjoy food, drinks, entertainment, and catch the latest buzz about all of the Fringe performances. The Baldacchino opens in advance of the festival on June 18.


All tickets are $17 (plus a one time purchase of a $5 Fringe button)
Tickets go on sale Wednesday, June 18, 2012. Online at CapitalFringe.org or by phone at 1.866.811.4111