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grant seeking & proposal basics for the visual arts – 02/07/09

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Co-Sponsored by the Prince George’s Artists Association and Authentic Contemporary Art

Event Info
Host:
Type:
Network:
Global
Time and Place
Date:
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Time:
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Location:
New Carrollton Municipal Center
Street:
6016 Princess Garden Parkway
City/Town:
New Carrollton, MD
 
Contact Info
Phone:
18888611395
Email:

Description

Presented by The Foundation Center of Washington, DC

Free and Open to the Public

This workshop is geared towards organizations involved in the visual arts and looking to fund any type of arts-related project.

If you are looking for funding to complete a project, mount an exhibition, or anything else visual arts-related, this workshop will show you how to:

-Identify funders in the visual arts.
-Create a step-by-step plan to find funding for your needs for your visual art organization
-Review the basics of writing grant proposals

Light Refreshments will be served. Limited Seating available. Register online athttp://grantworkshopforarts.eventbrite.com/ 
by February 5, 2009.

For more information about the Foundation Center visit www.foundationcenter.org/washington.

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julie bluet illustration & design

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:38 pm
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art whino: crystal couture t-shirt design competition

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:37 pm

 


Art Whino is holding it’s first ever design competition! The competition will be open to anyone and everyone who wants to participate. The twenty winning designs will be showcased in a fashion show and exhibition at Crystal Couture on February 24th, 2009. 
Crystal Couture, a two week extravaganza of fun and fashion. The event will feature sample sales, runway and trunk shows from designers, local boutiques, and area salons. Each night will feature a theme with unique drinks, food tastes, and exciting fashions and music. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information about the 2 week event go to http://crystalcity.org/eventdetail.asp?IdEvent=407 

 

WHERE

Crystal City

The New Century Center at 2450 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA

 


WHEN 

February 13th, 2009 

Opening Gala for 2 week event. 

All submissions will be on display in a projected slide show.


February 24th, 2009 

Design exhibit and reception

20 Selected designs on exhibit and runway show. 

Winner will be announced.

 


WHO


This competition is open to everyone. Submissions cost only $5 per submission, and the winning designs will be printed as posters for exhibition and as tee shirts for an Art Whino T-Shirt fashion show and also be available for sale.

 

 


AWARD


Did someone say prize? The best design will receive the “Best in Show” award in the amount of $300.

The 20 featured designs will be chosen by Art Whino, and best in show award will be awarded at the event on Feb 24, 2009.

 

 


HOW TO SUBMIT 

Send an email to tshirtcomp@artwhino.com to receive submission instructions

 

DEADLINE: Submissions are due by 5pm, Feb 12th, 2009. 
 

art whino: anniversary party for adidas originals

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:37 pm

Adidas Originals Anniversary Party

Saturday, January 17, 2009
8:00pm – 11:00pm

Location: 
Adidas Originals Heritage Store – Georgetown, DC
1251 Wisconsin Avenue NW 
Washington, DC

Art Whino will be exhibiting Adidas Inspired Art.

Artists showing:

Adam Russell -Ohio
Brandon Hill – Bmore
Buck – Am Radio DC
David Lowell – Texas
Decoy -DC
Kareem Rizk – Australia
Koleszar – Arizona
LECKOmio -You met – Germany
Luca Maleonte – DC
Mary Spring – Cali
PaperMonster – Jerysey
Scotch -Texas
Pixie -Texas
Shawn huddleston -VA

Other highlights of the event:

“DOPE” Album Release Party for Tabi Bonney

DJ Battle To Kick Off The Evening

WINNER DETERMINED BY CROWD REACTION

Following the DJ Battle

Performances by Tabi Bonney, Luegar & Haziq.


honfleur's arts in the neighborhood

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:36 pm

“Random Sights in Black and White”
January 23rd, 5-7 pm
1231 Good Hope Rd. SE

January 09d

Black and white photography created by local Anacostia youth will go on display at the ARCH Training Center starting on January 16th. Support young talent by coming out to see the range of subject and technique. 

Last semester’s students (who garnered press attention in the Washington Informer and East of the River) have progressed to the advanced class and will be displaying with beginning students.

bma offers circus art

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:36 pm

 
 
 
BALTIMORE, MD.- See daring feats, exotic acts, and colorful circus characters through the eyes of some of the greatest artists of the 20th century. A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger, on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art February 22–May 17, 2009, features more than 80 prints, drawings, paintings, and books by Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Fernand Léger, and other European artists fascinated by the extravagant spectacle of the circus and the bohemian lives of the performers outside the ring. This special ticketed exhibition brings together major works from museums and private collections to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the circus during its heyday as a form of popular entertainment. 

The BMA recreates the intimacy and excitement of the circus in the first gallery of the exhibition as colorful posters of tightrope walkers, clowns, and can-can dancers by Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret emerge from a semi-circular canvas tent that corresponds to the 13-meter circus ring typically used in Europe. These vibrant 19th-century posters illustrate the circus as public entertainment, much like Paris’s famed dance halls. A selection of prints and archival photographs provide a realistic look at both the circus performers of the era and their enraptured audiences. 

A group of 30 rarely shown works on paper by Picasso from the BMA’s world renowned collection of modern art are on view for the first time with related paintings and sculpture loaned from the Göteborg Museum of Art in Sweden, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Throughout 1904-05, Picasso visited the Médrano Circus in the Montmartre section of Paris, sometimes on a nightly basis. He and many of his contemporaries identified personally with the circus performers as they lived by their skill and talent at the fringes of society. Picasso’s many sympathetic portrayals of circus families reveal the private side of circus life and offer an extraordinary opportunity to see the artist’s development at a pivotal moment in his career. 

School of Paris artists such as Gino Severini and Natalia Goncharova reveled in the modernity of dance halls and circuses and found ways to express their excitement in new emerging styles. Juan Gris and Georges Rouault emphasized the links that connected circus performers to the past and to the old commedia dell’arte tradition. Some of the most dramatic works appear in a section of the exhibition devoted to artists associated with German Expressionism. Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and others focused on the sinister, artificial, and alienating aspects of the circus that implied a broader critique of modern mass society. Swiss artist Paul Klee viewed the circus as an oasis within the bleak, industrial city, providing one of the last remaining opportunities for childlike play. 

The exhibition concludes with a selection of works from two books, Henri Matisse’s Jazz (1947) and Léger’s Cirque (1950). Throughout much of its production, Jazz was intended to be named ―Cirque‖ and many images are circus themed. Léger’s Cirque plays on the double meaning of the title (signifying both ―circus‖ and ―circle‖ in French) to launch into a wild celebration of all things circular in the universe and the most circular of institutions, the circus. Through his vivid color and black lithographs, he encourages the reader, ―Go to the circus. Nothing is as round as the circus.‖ 

The European Circus 
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, traveling circuses crisscrossed Europe setting up tents wherever they might find an audience, but urban renewal in Paris under the regime of Napoléon III led to the construction of permanent buildings to house circuses. By the end of the century, the city boasted five permanent circuses. For many years, French law had made speech an exclusive monopoly of the theater. In response to this prohibition on speech in the circus ring, performers employed mimicry, slaps, buffoonery, and dramatic gestures to convey comic effects. Circus performers were able to reach any audience through pure spectacle, even if they could not speak in the local idiom. The universal easily understood visual language of the circus became a model for avant-garde artists who sought to develop a direct, unmediated means of communication with the public. 

Picasso and the Circus 
For Picasso and many of his contemporaries, life in the circus provided a revealing parallel to the struggling existence of contemporary artists and their representations of these performers became instant metaphors for the condition of all creative individuals struggling to make it in the modern world. Together with his friends, the poets Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob, Picasso spent the years 1904-05 frequenting the Médrano Circus in the Montmartre section of Paris and befriended jugglers, clowns, and acrobats. Like artists, circus performers lived by their wits and skill in small communal groups on the fringes of society. Picasso lived among a tight-knit group of artist friends (the so-called ―bande Picasso‖) and clearly identified with the extended circus families that he witnessed. 

The Acrobat Family Reunited 
One of the most significant aspects of A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger is that it reunites the Göteborg Museum of Art’s large Picasso watercolor The Acrobat Family (1905), which is rarely seen outside of Sweden, with the BMA’s remarkable collection of circus-related drawings, watercolors, and prints by Picasso. Almost all of these BMA works on paper were acquired by the legendary Baltimore collector Etta Cone. The Acrobat Family was one of the earliest works by Picasso purchased by Gertrude and Leo Stein. It hung prominently in their Paris apartment where Etta Cone would have seen it during her earliest encounters with Picasso’s work. In November of 1905, Gertrude Stein invited Etta Cone to accompany her at one of her many sittings with Picasso while he worked on her famous portrait (now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art). On this occasion, Etta bought two works from the artist, only to return four months later to purchase an additional eighteen. The works she chose indicate that Etta developed her taste for Picasso’s art based on The Acrobat Family, leading her to assemble the greatest collection of related studies for this extraordinary painting. 

The BMA has created a special two-sided display that demonstrates the relationship between The Acrobat Family painting from Göteborg, Sweden and the three sketches that were once part of a single sheet of studies. These include the following sketches: Circus Family with Violinist; Sketches of Monkey, and Clown’s Family with Violinist; Monkey; and Sketches of Violinist; Mother Caressing Child with Standing Woman; and Sketches of Cropped Figures. Reassembled, this sheet reveals a great deal about Picasso’s working method and visual thought process. Not only was he thrifty with paper, he also explored variations of expressive details as well as composition on the same sheet. Another major work, The Circus Family (1905), is among the most important Picasso drawings at the BMA. X-ray photographs have revealed that it is the preliminary compositional sketch for the artist’s most famed painting from this period, Family of Saltimbanques (at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC).

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curator's office: lucid dreaming

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:36 pm

Pye Romance

Paul Laffoley, Geochronmechane: Time Machine From the Earth, 1990, serigraph on rag paper, 
28″ x 28″ 71 x 71 cm, ed. 27/75, Courtesy of the artist and Kent Gallery, NY
Mara
Simon Gouverneur, Mara, egg tempera, acrylic, and graphite on canvas, 
                                      61″ x 61″, 1989
Mind Game

Jason Hughes, Mind Games, ink on rice paper, 20.75″ x 18″, 2008

January 17 – February 14, 2009


Pre-Inauguration Opening Reception:  Saturday, January 17    6 – 8 pm

Curator’s Office is fortunately located on 14th Street between Q & R Streets, just north of the Secret Service Inauguration Security Zone that starts just south of P Street and that restricts all automobile traffic and parking. Park above P Street!
 
Curator’s Office is pleased to announce Lucid Dreaming: Simon Gouverneur, Jason Hughes, Paul Laffoley. This exhibition acknowledges the continuing visionary tradition in modern and contemporary art. The exhibition includes works by internationally renowned visionary artist and brilliant architect Paul Laffoley, works from the Estate of Simon Gouverneur, and works by young artist Jason Hughes, who acknowledges the profound influence of Laffoley and Gouverneur on his work. An opening reception is planned for Saturday, January 17, just prior to the pre-inauguration festivities in downtown Washington, DC.

A lucid dream is a dream in which the person is aware that they are dreaming while the dream is in progress. When the dreamer is lucid, they can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. The title refers to the psychological state that each of these artists aspires to and enters during cultural production. Additionally, each artist, through his deployment of visually complex abstract logic, induces a mesmerizing stillness in the viewer through visual and, in the case of Laffoley, didactic textual means. Each artist creates his own personal mandala-like structures to create symbolic zones that structure and attempt to understand consciousness.

Simon Gouverneur was a critically acclaimed abstract symbolist painter who attracted much attention in Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, Amherst, MA; Caracas, Venezuela; Calí, Colombia; Paris, France; and Naples and Palermo, Italy — cities that he lived and worked in. Gouverneur committed suicide in December 1990 in his Washington, DC-based studio on Florida Avenue. Gouverneur pursued a lifelong investigation into the structures of language and meaning.  His erudite hard-edge abstract paintings incorporate a personal lexicon of images and symbols culled and abstracted from world cultures, religions, and sacred practices.  Deeply mystical and intellectually challenging bordering on hermetic, the paintings function like mandalas for meditation.  His work invokes a wide range of ideas–from the principles of structural anthropology espoused by Claude Levi- Strauss to the teachings of Jewish mysticism, Buddhist texts and linguistic theories. Gouverneur’s gridded compositions and use of saturated colors reveal a preoccupation with how structured design and aesthetic media could convey the many layers of complex meanings that he constructed by his combinations of visionary and iconic symbols. Curator’s Office has secured the loan of the paintingMara for this exhibition, the artist’s final painting before his suicide, and arguably his masterpiece.

Preoccupied with maze making from a very young age, celebrated young artist Jason Hughes has an innate connection to the metaphoric possibilities offered up by classical mandala and labyrinth motifs. Eastern spiritual traditions developed the mandala as a visual metaphor and a locus of sacred power that allowed the creator to enter into a trance-like state of awareness and internally guided cooperation as the image gradually expanded outwards. Hughes admits to a fascination with ecclesiastic floor plans, prison structures, fortresses, mandalas, game boards, and even old-fashioned pinball machine designs. In his works on paper, he ultimately imagines a secure space of confinement, complexity, and self-protection. His spiraling patterns and meandering designs signify not only the artist’s self-development but also his response to the complicated course of events in the exterior world. They symbolize both situations of confusion and puzzlement as well as sacred places for meditation and transformation. 

Concurrent with an important 1960s survey exhibition in New York at Kent Gallery entitled “Paul Laffoley: The Sixties”, Curator’s Office is exhibiting Paul Laffoley’s astonishingly intricateGeochronmechane: Time Machine from The Earth (illustrated at the top of this e-release). 
Of Laffoley, Kent Gallery’s press release offers:

 ”Following a formal education from Brown in the classics, and architectural studies at Harvard, Laffoley would begin to assimilate and systematically cross-pollinate his related strands of intellectual inquiry. In a search for expanded opportunities, Laffoley came to New York to work with the visionary Frederick Kiesler, and was recruited for viewing late night TV for Andy Warhol. Following a dismissal by Kiesler, Laffoley worked for 18 months on designs for the World Trade Center Tower II (floors 15 to 45) with Emery Roth & Sons under the direction of architect Minoru Yamasaki. Following his suggestion that bridges be constructed between the two towers for safety, he was summarily fired by Yamasaki and returned to Boston. At that time, Laffoley had been painting in the basement of his family’s home completing what may be his first fully mature vision with The Cosmos Falls into the Chaos as Shakti Urborosi: the Elimination of Value Systems by Spectrum Analysis, 1965. From this point forward, Laffoley began to formulate his unique painterly and informational approach to the two-dimensional surface. Clearly devoting himself to painting by the mid sixties, he began a highly original approach based on extensive hand written journals documenting his research, diagrams, and footnoted predecessors to various theoretical developments. Laffoley first began to organize his ideas in a format related to eastern mandalas that embraced his interests in the spiritual. This quickly developed into three sub-groupings of work: Operating Systems, Psychotronic Devices, and their related Lucid Dreams. Conceived of as “structured singularities”, Laffoley never worked in series, but rather approached each project as a unique construct. Working in a solitary lifestyle, each 73.5 x 73.5 inch canvas would take one to three years to paint and code. By the late 1980′s, Laffoley began to move from the spiritual and the intellectual, and evolved to the view of his work as interactive, physically engaging Psychotronic devices, a modern approach to trans-disciplinary enlightenment and its spiritual aura.”

These are works that, in the words of an anonymous art connoisseur, “can take an hour or more to absorb, but a lifetime to understand.” 

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curator’s office
1515 14th Street nw
suite 201
washington, dc  20005

+ 202.387.1008 tel
+ 202.387.1066 fax

www.curatorsoffice.com
info@curatorsoffice.com

gallery hours during exhibitions:
wed – sat   12 – 6 pm and by appointment

location:
1/2 block north of Rhode Island on 14th Street NW
next to Studio Theater
2nd floor in the 1515 Art Gallery Building                       


maryland arts day info – 02/10/09

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:35 pm

 

Date Tuesday, February 10, 2009 – Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Location Miller Senate Office Building, Conference Center West
Annapolis MD
Description The most important advocacy event of the year for the arts community in Maryland will take place on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 in Annapolis. You will meet your legislators face-to-face, and you will hear from leaders of both the House of Delegates and the Senate. First-time and return participants tell us that this day is the only one that allows them to connect directly with Annapolis decision makers. We hardly need to mention that this year, more than ever, we need an impressive show of support from our arts network in every corner of the state.

 

Joining us as the keynote speaker is Marin Alsop, Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. We are honored to welcome a leader in the arts who is known for innovation, vision, and fearlessness, qualities that transfer well into the realm of advocacy. She is a recognized leader in outreach programs to make music more accessible and enjoyable for all audiences, but in particular, young people. She will discuss the value of quality arts education and mentoring throughout a child’s development, focusing on her work with OrchKids, a new BSO after-school initiative for inner-city children from Harriet Tubman Elementary School.

 

After a morning devoted to advocacy, we will concentrate on professional development opportunities and artistic inspiration. Throughout the day, there will be performances and exhibits. But the afternoon presenters will identify and address issues of common concern to all, such as program building, career enhancement, job challenges, and more.

 

Tickets / Registration Links to registration at http://mdarts.org/mdartsday/
Contact/More info http://mdarts.org/mdartsday/

 

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washington printmakers gallery : alpine views

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Washington Printmakers Gallery Presents

Alpine Views
Recent Intaglios and Monotypes by 
Deron DeCesare
January 27 – February 22, 2008

First Friday Reception
, February 6, 5-8pm
Artist will be available for informal conversations on these additional dates:
February 8 and 22 from 12 -5

Washington, DC – Deron DeCesare’s exhibition “Alpine Views,” opening Tuesday, January 27 at the Washington Printmakers Gallery, and running through February 22, celebrates the winter landscape through the perspective of an avid skier. DeCesare’s new intaglios and monotypes convey the quieter, contemplative  feelings the artist experiences as he explores the snowy mountains of the American west.  When figures are present in the composition, they appear as small and static compared to the natural elements that envelope them.  DeCesare has found that printmaking lends itself to describing his skiing experiences. Once an image or edition has been printed from a plate, he will often rework the plate. This allows the artist to shift the focus or feel of the image. The new print resulting from the altered plate becomes a variation on a theme, much as two runs down the same mountain may result in very different experiences due to the vagaries of weather, terrain, and one’s state of mind.

DeCesare received his B.A. in Art at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1984. Since that time he has exhibited extensively. His work has been featured in American Artist magazine, the major motion picture, “Rules of Engagement,” the Writer’s Way Journal, the Potomac Review, the Alexandria Calendar, and the Artist’s Illustrated Encyclopedia. He has been commissioned to produce work for Hyatt Corporation, Investcorp, State Department Federal Credit Union, Thompson Creek Metals Co., and Vint Hill Farms Station. DeCesare lives and works in Virginia. 



About the Washington Printmakers Gallery

The Washington Printmakers Gallery is a cooperative print gallery located in DuPont Circle. Founded in 1985, the Gallery is Washington DC’s primary source for artist-pulled fine art prints, and has a membership of local and national printmakers. Gallery hours are: Tuesday – Thursday, Noon – 6 pm, Friday, Noon – 9 pm, and Saturday & Sunday, Noon – 5 pm. 

 

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studio gallery: wenocur, hensgen, and speck

In Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 at 4:34 pm

 

Upcoming Shows and Events at Studio Gallery


EXHIBITIONFebruary 4 – February 28, 2009
First Friday Reception (as part of the Dupont Circle Galleries openings): February 6, 6 – 8 pm
Meet the Artists Reception: Sunday, February 22, 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, February 28, 5 – 7 pm


Solo Show: Travels
Stan Wenocur

Travels focuses on a series of abstract, mixed media paintings which evoke landscape and water. The pieces are primarily executed on wood, layered with cement, fabric, oils and other media. Subtle use of color and texture help to produce changes of light and mood.

 

wenocur
   
Duo Show: Rough Edges
Bud Hensgen
Duo Show: Through a Pinhole
Scott Speck

hensgen

Speck