takoma metro public art – deadline 8/14/09
Public Art Calls:
Takoma Metro Public Art Project
Deadline: Friday, August 14, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Budget: $250,000
The DC Creates! Public Art Program at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH), in collaboration with the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority, Art in Transit Program (WMATA) and the Takoma community, seek an artist or art team to design, create, and install artwork that will be located within the Takoma Metro underpass. The goal of this project is to create a vibrant and inviting gateway to the Takoma DC community. The colorful artwork will provide an “avenue” for residents, commuters and visitors to enjoy, admire and revitalize the community as well as express the unique story of historic Takoma.
For more information, email rachel.dickerson@dc.gov or call (202) 724-5613. To download the applications please go to www.dcarts.dc.gov (Public Art – Current Calls for Entries). Artists wishing to collaborate, needing assistance with submission proposals, or needing organization assistance can contact Shauna Lee Lange Arts Advisory.
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Rachel Dickerson
DC Creates Public Art Manager
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
1371 Harvard Street, NW
Washington DC 20009
(202) 724-5617 direct
(202) 213-9943 cell
(202) 724-5613 main
(202) 727-4135 fax
www.dcarts.dc.gov
wolf trap’s 39th annual international children’s festival – arts opportunity
The Arts Council of Fairfax County invites the arts community to participate in the 39th annual International Children’s Festival at Wolf Trap on September 19 & 20, 2009 from 10 am – 4pm. This is a brand new initiative and a great opportunity for our local artists! The deadline for applications is August 1, 2009.
Participate in the Arts & Crafts Village! We are looking for artists to give educational demonstrations in their disciplines, once a day. Artists are welcome to sell their work as well. It is a great opportunity to expand your audience and take part in a global arts festival.
The International Children’s Festival at Wolf Trap is the premier international arts education experience in the United States. Arts & Crafts Village
We can accept up to 30 individual artists or artist groups. Artist applications will be reviewed by a panel of art professionals.
You can download the Word document at: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=wq6ys7cab.0.0.ccasrsbab.0&ts=S0400&p=http%3A%2F%2Finternationalchildrensfestival.org%2Fdownloads%2FArts%26CraftsVillage_Application.doc&id=preview
and e-mail us at artsandcrafts@artsfairfax.org
For more information on the call-out, please visit http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=wq6ys7cab.0.0.ccasrsbab.0&ts=S0400&p=http%3A%2F%2Finternationalchildrensfestival.org%2Ffestival%2Fapplications%2Fvisual-artist-application&id=preview.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Jamel McKelvia, International Children´s Festival Intern, at jamel.mckelvia@artsfairfax.org
or by phone at (703) 642-0862 x5. If you are a metropolitan DC artist and need help submitting to this event or organizing for it, call Shauna Lee Lange Arts Advisory.
workhouse arts factory in lorton
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2nd Saturday Art Walks At the Workhouse, beginning July 11 Beginning July 11 the Workhouse studio artists will keep their doors open after hours on the 2nd Saturday of each month, and they invite you to join them for the 2nd Saturday Art Walks at the Workhouse. The 2ndSaturday art walks are the perfect time to explore the Workhouse and experience the vitality, creativity and diversity of the artists who make up this unique arts community. As you stroll around the campus during these monthly art walks, you can take in the latest Workhouse artist exhibitions, learn about each buildings’ featured artist-of-the-month, participate in artist talks and demos and enjoy music and light refreshments. Pick up a summer arts passport from any of the galleries beginning July 11 and have your passport stamped in each of the studio buildings as you visit with the artists. Visitors who gather stamps from each of the studio buildings and Gallery W-16 throughout the summer can enter to win an exciting prize! More details about the summer arts passport program is coming soon! Peruse the Artist Directory online to get a glimpse of the talent and creativity that the Workhouse campus holds, then mark your calendars and plan to spend some artsy Saturday evenings at the Workhouse! The art walks will run from 6PM until 9PM each month. 2nd Saturday art walk dates for 2009: July 11, August 8, September 12, October 10, November 14, December 12. In conjunction with each of the monthly art walks, the Association of Interior Design Professionals (AIDP) will present Art, Wine and Design receptions from 6PM to 7PM in Gallery W-16. AIDP and LAF are partnering to bring together artists, interior design professionals and the public to highlight the creative incorporation of original art into interior design settings. All are invited to talk art and design with these creative design professionals. We finally got to explore the site on July 11th, 2009. Here’s some photos from our visit.
 ceramics work studio  glimpse into private studio  ceramic glaze board  the band (old hard rock)  studio 7 entrance  wreath in glassworks studios  painter's studio  assorted pastels (the artist recommends sennelier)
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nina tisara’s alexandria living legends
Open through September 20 – “Living Legends” Exhibition
The latest class of Living Legends of Alexandria is profiled in an exhibit at The Lyceum, Alexandria’s History Museum, 201 S. Washington St. This photography exhibition, featuring the work of Nina Tisara, celebrates people who have made remarkable contributions to the quality of life in Alexandria. “Living Legends of Alexandria 2008-09” showcases 26 nominees who have worked to improve life in Alexandria. The museum is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sundays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The suggested admission is $2. For more information, visit http://www.alexandriahistory.org or call 703.838.4994.
Nina graciously hosted me for breakfast where she shared the photo documentary record of the Living Legends of Alexandria 2008. I have long admired Nina’s dedication to this project and I will be adding to this post in the near future with more details about the project, how you can nominate someone for this prestigious honor, and what Nina’s organization needs in terms of support from the community.
One of the legends, Mel & Donna Bergheim, has part of their story here.
featured artist: annie waldrop’s feminist art
Annie Waldrop sent us over her unsolicited image files on cd and her artwork papers, and although many art agents will not review these materials, I always look at whatever comes my way – more often than not, I’m surprisingly rewarded. Such is the case with Waldrop who is a talented mixed-media/assemblage artist from Salem, Virginia and also a teacher. She is working in themes of women’s abandonment, domesticity, fertility, women’s labor and the discarded. She explores both positive and negative aspects of domesticity and the issue of women’s labor and its place in society as demonstrated through her need for obsessive sewing and in the repetition of various elements of her work. Featured below are three of our favorites that all have an element of insight, originality, and depth of thought. “Detail Scorched” (2004); “Baggage” (2005); and “Steel Wool Christening Gown” (2005).
lussier wins hudson valley art association award
Barbara Lussier is an accomplished plein aire artist/colleague we’ve been watching for some time. Her Morning Fog oil painting below is honored with an award at the 78th Annual Exhibition of the Hudson Valley Art Association at The Ridgewood Art Institute, 12 East Glen Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ. Awards Ceremony Sunday, July 12, 2-5 p.m. Congratulations Barbara – nicely done.
lange accepts board membership with holloway ventures
Holloway Ventures is, among other things, a school of visual arts and an academic institute designed to integrate academic classes into visual arts. We lecture and conduct workshops on how to teach regular academics classes through visual arts. This non-profit has some pretty strong backers and the newly forming board will provide great debate about how to be creative and push visual arts and academics further into the 21st century. Shauna Lee Lange is thrilled to accept board membership. Lange’s Art Advisory has served the Washington DC metropolitan art community since 2006.
http://www.hollowayventures.com
women veterans class action lawsuit
The Military Rape Crisis Center is working with the law firm of Burke O’Neil in developing a class action lawsuit against the military. The lawsuit seeks to reform the culture that permits constant assaults and sexual abuse/harassment.
At present, the team working on the suit seeks to interview anyone who has suffered from sexual abuse of any sort while connected to the military by service, marriage, or otherwise. Anyone with those experiences is invited to join the class action. The team wants as many participants as possible.
The Burke O’Neil firm is developing the case on a contingency basis, which means that it will pay for all the costs associated with the lawsuit. Costs and attorneys fees would be collected if a monetary judgment is won from a jury.
This type of lawsuit will take several years and may not succeed, but bringing a lawsuit will help reform military culture.
Anyone interested in participating in this or has any questions contact our director, Panayiota, at 617-381-4795 or via email at panayiota@stopmilitaryrape.org.
For more information about the attorneys at Burke O’Neil, please go to http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.burkeoneil.com.
As always the Military Rape Crisis Center is here to help all MST survivors – Melissa Obrien can be reached at
melissa@stopmilitaryrape.org.
alexandria’s a space of her own orientation for volunteers
Thursday, July 9 – SOHO Orientation for Volunteers
The Space of Her Own (SOHO) program is an art-based mentoring program for pre-teen girls. The orientation for prospective adult female volunteers who are interested in mentoring preteen girls will take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Hammond Middle School, 4646 Seminary Rd. Mentors and participants will attend workshops and engage with team-building activities, complete community service, and learn life skills and artistic concepts, techniques and processes. This year’s program runs on Thursday evenings throughout the school year. Each mentor commits to a year-long relationship with her mentee, Thursday evening sessions, a weekend spent on a room renovation, and 8 hours of community service with her mentee. For more information, visit www.alexandriava.gov/soho. To be added to the mentor orientation Evite list, send an e-mail to SOHO@alexandriava.gov.
creative idea people
Shauna Lee Lange July 2009
Shauna Lee Lange Arts Advisory is the very first woman-veteran owned, full-service arts advisory and design studio firm in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We serve artists, gallerists, museums and arts organizations with exceptional insight, quality and vision.
Since 2006, we’ve been working within the international art market with a concentration on the unique range and diversity of art within the metropolitan Washington DC and mid-Atlantic region.
Not only do we help all artists with a host of marketing, creativity, networking and other professional and personal needs, but we are particularly interested in promoting women artists and especially increased awareness of women’s beauty culture, self-esteem, body identity, media representation of women, and gender image issues through art.
Our firm contains both an architectural business arm and a creative arts arm. I am a self-taught, late-emergent artist working on paper in thematic collage, art journals, visual diaries, sketchbooks, and paper & book arts. Co-founder and husband Alex is a highly trained conventional architect with a portfolio of international large-scale projects. We often work through public and installation art and we continually study the art market, art submissions & competitions, art trends, art and the Internet, and art regionalization issues.
We’re creative idea people who fully believe more art IS more to love.
703.960.0616 shaunaleelange@gmail.com
You can write us at 2710 Williamsburg Street, 402 in Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Or call us today to see how people who care make a significant difference.
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