civilian art projects: adelsberger & sims
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zenith to change business model
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Zenith Gallery to close in March
Washington Business Journal – by Tierney Plumb Staff Reporter
After more than two decades at 413 7th St. NW, the Zenith Gallery will close its doors after its lease expires at the end of February.
Margery Goldberg, founder and proprietor of the gallery since 1978, decided not to renew the lease to pursue more art initiatives in the community.
“Mind you, we are not closing. We’re just changing the way we do business,” said Goldberg, in a statement. “We will continue to sell art and remain active in Washington’s cultural arena.”
The focus will shift to managing arts projects, serving corporate and residential clients, and expanding its consulting, commissioning and acquisition business.
Goldberg plans to arrange shows, programs and events in D.C. and other locales, as well coordinate studio and gallery tours.
She will also focus on initiating arts projects and partnerships through the Zenith Community Arts Foundation, a nonprofit she started more than eight years ago.
In a of couple years the Zenith Gallery is expected to reopen in a Spanish luxury hotel at 5th and Eye streets NW in Mount Vernon Triangle. The 475,000-square-foot entertainment project, called Arts at 5th & I, will include an ME hotel by Sol Melia, the Spanish hotel and resort chain, and a Boisdale restaurant and 200-seat jazz lounge.
Goldberg first opened the gallery’s doors at Zenith Square at Rhode Island Avenue and 14th Street NW three decades ago.
“After 30 years with a storefront gallery business, Margery decided there’s a lot of other ways she could do business in art that could give her more opportunities rather than with day-to-day operations,” said Judith Keyserling, spokeswoman for the gallery.
To mark its Penn Quarter closure, the gallery is putting its paintings, sculptures, mixed-media pieces, neon art, furniture, photos and jewelry on sale for the first time, at discounts ranging from 15 to 75 percent.
The six-week storewide sale will start with a private viewing party on Valentine’s Day. Work includes consigned pieces, Zenith-owned art and work held by the Zenith Community Arts Foundation.
Article Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/01/26/daily37.html
civilian art projects night of verse – 02/07/09
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bernard welt, carole wagner greenwood, casey smith, civilian art projects, dame darcy, gasoline, ghosts & circumstance, grace cavalieri, writers and poets
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john malloy's drug side effects @ art whino 02/21/09
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amnesia, art whino, consumer and media-driven culture, drug side effects, effect on the human spirit, image comics popgun anthology, john malloy, mixed media works, one out of a hundred, queasy
One Out Of A Hundred The Art of John Malloy
Saturday, February 21st 6pm – Midnight
“One Out of a Hundred” centers around John Malloy’s personal series of mixed-media works that explore drug side effects as a metaphor for consumer and media-driven culture’s long-term effects on the human spirit. The originals for each piece include pen & ink, oil paint, and other media, and will be exhibited along with large-format, limited edition signed prints of the series.
Limited edition prints of Malloy’s comics “Queasy” [Image Comics], “Channel One”, and rock-interview comics for the award-winning Lemon Magazine will also be on display, in addition to illustrations for the band Minus The Bear, I Heart Comix, and other magazines and publications.
Born in rural northern Pennsylvania to a cemetery caretaker and a coal-miner’s daughter, John Malloy began drawing at very young age. He later earned a background in painting with one of the world’s most eminent trompe l’oeil artists, and has since been self taught in fine art, illustration, comics, and design.
His first graphic novel, “Amnesia” [2001] combined pen & ink, painted, and digital media, He is presently working on two new graphic novels, as well as an autobiographical comic for Image Comics’ PopGun Anthology titled, “Queasy”.
His illustrations and comics have been featured in a variety of publications, and he is now at work on an ongoing personal fine art series – “One Out of a Hundred” that explores the side effects of medication as a metaphor for the long-term effects of consumer culture on the human spirit.
He currently lives in Baltimore with Amy, his heroine, and Lucita, his steed [a chihuahua].
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clara fialho (i love love) & zoe mccloskey (and i don't want it to be misappropriated) @ bridgette mayer
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who is both involved in global social art collectives and in the domestic DIY movement. She is most involved with the NYC based artist collective Locurativo, which works with rural communities throughout Latin America renovating abandoned spaces for community workshops and artists residencies. In 2008 alone she wheat-pasted on the streets of Oaxaca, Guanajuato, New Orleans, Washington D.C., Brooklyn, NY, Portland,OR, Dangriga Belize, and Mexico City. Other collectives she is affiliated with include The Latin America Community Art Project (El Salvador), Imagination Explosion Performance Troupe (NYC), Little Paper Planes (LA), and CyberPunkApocalypse Writers Collective (Pittsburgh PA).christian art – deadline 02/28/09
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Featured Opportunities with Entry Fees
Competitions
Deadline Date: 2/28/2009
4th Annual International Christian Art Competition
$3,500 in cash awards. Eight categories. Licensing contract offered to selected entries. Three entries for $30 online, $10 additional with a $95 unlimited entries. Entries may be created prior to this competition. http://www.art4god.com/html/?go=competition The Categories are: 1) best two dimensional work (paintings, drawings etc.) 2) best jewelry 3) best song 4) best short film 5) best sculpture 6) best photography 7) best digitally enhanced photography 8) best mixed media You do not send your original art and are not required to sell it.
Contact: Stephen Sawyer – 859.873.0120
steve@art4god.com
www.ART4GOD.com
Image Source: http://www.virtuousplanet.com/shops/userimages/00003/00000000008/section/00000000000000005789.png
lange to represent USA in international sketchbook project – 50 global artists needed
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ecology, environment, international sketchbook project, Kenya Bevans, metropolitan DC, potomac river, shauna lee lange, signficant to country, signficant to location, visual experience of global locations
What’s The International Sketchbook project about?
If you have any additional questions please see the links below, and we will answer you as soon as we are able. This project was inspired by a local blank book project after trying to rally artists and resources for the book to hit D.C. It hit Kenya, “what if” we tried to go international with a blank sketchbook? The project is the brainchild of Kenya Bevans
What is the International Sketch Book Project?
For 800 days, a sketchbook will be sent from Northern VA to 50 illustrators/designers around the world. Each artist in a new country must put their design in the sketchbook and send it on to the next person in the next country. The book will start its rotation in March of 2009 and be returned back to Northern VA after the last entry has been made.
Who can participate?
The first 60 illustrators/designers to sign up. When signing up, we will need your name, actual address, and a phone number. We will not share any of this information with anybody. This information is to be used to create a shipping list. We would also like a link to your portfolio, blog or sharing account like Flickr.
How much will it cost to participate?
You will be responsible to pay the total shipping cost to the next artist in the next country.
What if I sign up, but can’t participate when the book arrives?
Due to the process involved in getting this book from illustrator to illustrator, we ask for dedicated participants only. If the book arrives during an emergency situation and you are unable to participate, you may forward the book to the next participant. This will be strictly handled on a case-by-case basis.
Is there a theme for this book?
Yes. I want you to illustrate something that is significant to your country or specific geographic location. This will give the other participants the opportunity to visually experience your part of the world.
How many pages do I get?
Each illustrator is given 4 pages in the book (2 pages, front and back). The first page being a hand written introduction, the second, third and fourth pages will be used for the composition.
Are there any restrictions pertaining to the type of medium I may use?
No, but please be aware that the pages in the book are made up of a medium weight paper and will curl and buckle if certain types of wet medium are used. Also please keep in mind that pastels, chalks, or any other medium that will smudge should be protected with some type of fixative.
How can I protect my pages within the book?
We will be providing thin sheets of vellum in the shipping box that will accompany the book. Please place a sheet of vellum between the pages prior to shipping to the next illustrator.
Once I finish, to whom do I ship the book?
We will be providing a list of participants to accompany the book in the shipping box. Each illustrator will place a line through their name once the book arrives, and after completion, forward the book to the next person on the list.
What is going to happen to the book when it’s completed?
The book will be digitally published to PDF and placed on a new website dedicated to the International sketchbook project for the world to see. We may seek other venues to show the book.
Where can I go to see the progress of this project?
We will be posting the progress on this blog and the new website (that the URL will be posted on soon). We strongly encourage all participants to shoot a teaser shot of their work along with a shot of themselves holding or standing next to the project’s case prior to sending off to the next participant, then email the images to be posted on this site.
Are there going to be other blank book projects?
Yes. I hope to keep doing a new rotation internationally twice a year.
Participants – What We Need
- Contact us at thebsidedesign@gmail.com as soon as you receive the box.
- Take a photo of yourself holding or next to the sketchbook package.
- Take a photo of a small section of your illustration upon completion. We refer to this photo as a “teaser shot.”
- Write a short background story to accompany the teaser shot.
- Send the photos and short write-up to thebsidedesign@gmail.com to be posted to the ISB Project Flickr account. This will enable the map function to present participant image(s) and site locations.
For more information see:
http://thebsidedesign.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/the-international-sketch-book-project-info/
http://thebsidedesign.com/project1.html
http://www.linkedin.com/in/thebsidedesign
Image Credit: ”Fish”, shauna lee lange, 5″ x 7″, black paper, gel pen and colored pencil, 2009. Fish was created to commemorate the lifeblood of the Potomac River (in and around metropolitan DC) and to memorialize the dire need for continued ecological care of this vital lifesource.
washington project for the arts options – deadline 03/16/09
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Who’s Looking at ArtFile Online?
from Feb. 1 – March 31, 2009 / Ann Collins Goodyear, Curator
Anne Collins Goodyear is the Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. She has served as a visiting assistant professor of art history in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and as a graduate lecturing intern and lecturer in the Division of Education at the National Gallery of Art. Read more
OPTIONS
DEADLINE: March 16, 2009 (received)
Curated by Anne Collins Goodyear
OPTIONS features the brightest and most talented emerging artists in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia region. 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, we are pleased to have Anne Collins Goodyear, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Portrait Gallery as curator for this13th installation of OPTIONS.
ELIGIBILITY: All artists residing in DC, Maryland, and Virginia are eligible to enter OPTIONS 2009. All original work must be produced within the past 3 years. Artists working in all media will be considered. Artists must not have gallery representation. You do not have to be a WPA member to apply, and there is no submission fee.
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ernest arthur binstead digitized sketchbooks
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Ernest Arthur Binstead
University of Glasgow Archives has made available 2 digitised sketchbooks of artist Ernest Arthur Binstead.
Binstead was a keen amateur artist who produced beautiful pencil drawings and watercolour sketches of the activities that went on around him during the first years of the twentieth century. During 2008, his niece, Miss Lee, donated two of his sketchbooks to Archive Services for permanent preservation. This exhibition is made up of digitised images of each of the sketches in the two sketchbooks.
Link:http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/exhibitions/ernestarthurbinstead/
Access: Free
Binstead was a keen amateur artist who produced beautiful pencil drawings and watercolour sketches of the activities that went on around him during the first years of the twentieth century. During 2008, his niece, Miss Lee, donated two of his sketchbooks to Archive Services for permanent preservation. This exhibition is made up of digitised images of each of the sketches in the two sketchbooks.
Link:http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/exhibitions/ernestarthurbinstead/
Access: Free
Article Source: http://gsaartdesign.blogspot.com/2009/01/ernest-arthur-binstead.html
world bank art program – deadline 2/6/9
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Now through Feb. 20, 2009 / Andrea Pollan, Curator
Andrea Pollan has worked for over twenty-three years in the visual fine arts. Trained as an art historian at Yale University, she has organized over 125 exhibitions of contemporary art for museums and galleries regionally and nationally. She has written numerous catalogs and exhibition brochures. Pollan has juried scores of art exhibitions and art fairs in the region including an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Read more
Idylls in partnership with the World Bank Art Program
Juried by Andrea Pollan, Director of Curator’s Office
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 6, 2009 (received)
CALL FOR ENTRIES: The World Bank aims to build better societies through lending funds for civic infrastructure, basic services, housing, and food programs. This is a critical yet utopian agenda that tries to take into account the needs of its constituents. The goal of this exhibition is to see how artists of this greater metropolitan area interpret the idea of an idyll or a utopian environment. These could be personal or social idylls or utopias, ideal worlds, domiciles or languages. Edison Place Gallery, 702 Eighth St. NW, Washington, DC 20068
download the full Call for Entries for Idylls
