Join the Smithsonian Latino Center and the National Museum of American History for a presentation of the newly released Afro-Latin@ Reader and a conversation about the history and experiences of Black Latinos in the United States. Panelists included the book’s editors, Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, with contributing author María Rosario Jackson and DC-based activist Roland Roebuck.
Event Info:
Saturday
Feb. 26, 2-3:30 pm
Carmichael Auditorium
National Museum of the American History
14th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
V.O.I.C.E.S (Voices Organizing for International Change, Empowerment, and Support) DATE: Thursday, February 24th, 2010 TIME: 6-9:30PM ADMISSION: $5 admission (additional donations are welcome)
Have you heard about the V.O.I.C.E.S event that happens at Hillyer Art Space, every month?
Well it’s time for another one of these events designed to raise funds and awareness for grassroots organizations across the globe working to help youth, women and underserved communities through music, arts and culture.
Come out and enjoy an eclectic mix of music, drink and food. Network with like-minded people interested in activism, international development and social change. Enjoy DJs spinning global hip hop and international tunes, and then settle in for a multi-media presentation on a cutting edge, grassroots organization. Round out the evening listening to some skilled lyricists and emcees sum up the experience with a hip hop cipher.
On Thursday, February, 24, 2010, we will be highlighting the work of Step Up OLPC. Step Up OLPC is a division of Step Up, a 501C(3) non-profit that works with grassroots organizations to develop and facilitate projects for training and community improvement on the two-island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, just off the coast of Gabon and Nigeria. In 2009, students at the Sao Joao secondary school in Sao Tome’s capital were given 100 durable, energy-efficient laptop computers by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). Not knowing how to use the laptops, the school’s administrators kept them locked away in an office and out of use until Step Up OLPC was formed to address the school’s concerns. Today, 150 students in Sao Joao’s sixth grade class take the computers home and back to school everyday to write stories, paint digital pictures, record music and research online.
International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Court NW, Washington, DC 20008 USA
T 202.338.0680 | F 202.333.0758 | info
Mary Schmidt Campbell has been dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University since 1991. She earned her BA in English literature from Swarthmore College and her MA in art history and PhD in humanities from Syracuse University. She is the co-editor of Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts (2006) and co-author of Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940–1987 (1991) and Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America (1987).
Before going to NYU, Campbell was assistant curator at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; cofounder of the Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse; and executive director of the Studio Museum in Harlem (1977–1987). From 1987 to 1991 she served as New York City commissioner of cultural affairs. Campbell was NYU’s provost for the arts (2004–2007) and chair of the New York State Council on the Arts (2007–2009), and she currently serves as chair of Tisch School of the Arts Asia. In September 2009, Campbell was appointed by President Obama as vice chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Campbell is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and sits on the boards of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, and the Harlem School of the Arts. She holds honorary degrees from the College of New Rochelle, Colgate University, the City University of New York, Pace University, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Swarthmore College.
In Historic Anacostia, announcing two opportunities for artists with deadlines fast approaching.
ARCH Residency Program, Summer Session Deadline: March 1, 2011 Summer applications for the ARCH Artists Residency Program are being accepted now.
The program provides free housing and free workspace!! For more details, please click here or email arts@archdc.org with questions.
The ARCH Development Corporation (ADC) artist residency program is an opportunity for artists to pursue their creative project amid DC’s vibrant and diverse urban environment. . The residencies are approximately 8 weeks each. Each artist will work closely with the creative staff at the Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions to determine the parameters of the residency. Residency will focus primarily on the artists’ project, and also foster connections to the local community, encourage dynamic interactions and engagement, and develop exposure to the resources of the greater DC cultural community. The program will offer free housing and free workspace to participating artists. The residency is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Application fee $25.
Summer DEADLINE March 1st, 2011 – The Summer Residency dates: May 30th –July 22nd 2011. Open to any visual artists.
Call to Artists: 5th Annual East of the River Exhibition Deadline: March 21, 2011 Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 5th Annual East of the River Exhibition, highlighting the creative minds of Washington DC’s Wards 7 and 8. Artists living, working or with roots in the communities east of the Anacostia River may submit up to 20 images for review by the panel of esteemed judges:
Stephen Bennett Phillips
Director of the Fine Arts Program at the Federal Reserve Board
Renee Stout
acclaimed Washington, DC based artist
Susana Raab
Photographer, The Smithsonian Anacostia Museum
This year’s exhibition will focus on the presentation of bodies of work from up to six selected artists, to be exhibited at the Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions. Proposals for works in progress will be accepted. A $300 award per artist will be presented to each artist selected for exhibition, and in addition, an individual work selected as Best in Show will be announced during opening night reception. The galleries are offering an optional Portfolio Workshop for interested parties, see the application for details. This exhibition is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities. Deadline for Submission: March 21st, 2011 Opening Night: Friday, August 5th 2011
To Apply:
Please submit the following in hard copy- email submissions will not be accepted:
$10 Application fee with check or money order
One Page Art Resume or CV
Artists Statement
Application Page with Image Info
CD with up to 20 jpeg images of work proposed for the exhibition.
Submit to:
Honfleur Gallery
c/o EOR Exhibit 2011
1227 Good Hope Rd. SE
Washington D.C. 20020
Full details are available under the News & Events section at:
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Holly Karapetkova Reading Tuesday, Feb. 15th 2011 @ 7PM at Riverby Books
The 2010 WWPH poetry contest winner, Holly Karapetkova, author of Words We Might One Day Say. Her book explores subjects of love and loss, marriage and domesticity, parenting and motherhood. The pieces range in style and form from prose poems to sonnets, moving through a variety of voices and experiences. Many of the poems are inspired by folklore and myth, and many deal with the interaction between two cultures: the author’s own American culture and her adopted Bulgarian culture. The first poem in the collection, a prose poem entitled “The Woman Who Wanted a Child,” introduces the book’s themes by asking questions about the limits of motherhood, taking its cue from the mythological experience of metamorphosis.
Holly Karapetkova’s poetry, prose, and translations from the Bulgarian have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Crab Orchard Review, New Madrid, Mid-American Review, River Styx, 150 Contemporary Sonnets, and the International Poetry Anthology(Slovenia). She is the author of over twenty books and graphic stories for children and young adults, including Goodbye Friends! and Knock! Knock! She also serves as artist in residence and literary advisor for the Rhodope International Theatre Laboratory in Smolyan, Bulgaria, where she teaches, writes, and performs poetry for the stage. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and an M.F.A. from Georgia State University. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University and lives in Arlington, Virginia.
The Capitol Hill Reading Series ais a program of Poetry Mutual. A Washington based poetry incubator dedicated to publishing poetry, sponsoring events that build community between poets and audiences. For more information visit our website at www.poetrymutual.org
Riverby Books
Readings are held each month at Riverby Books on Capitol Hill. This fine bookshop is at 417 East Capitol Street Southeast, three blocks from the Capitol Hill and two blocks from the Folger Shakespeare Theater.
March’s Reader
Kim Roberts reads from her new bookAnimal Magnetism, winner of the 2009 Pearl Prize. Tuesday, March 15th 2011 @ 7PM
Hey there. You wanted information about upcoming events in the Capitol Hill Reading Series held monthly at Riverby Books at 417 East Capitol Hill, Washington, DC. Contact us through our website.
2011 Winter Resident Artists: Khanh H. Le & Kathryn C. Zazenski
ARCH Development Corporation, through its "Annual Honfleur Social Arts Initiative," announces its 2011 Winter/Spring Artists in Residence. From February through early May 2011 visiting artists, Khanh H. Le and Kathryn C. Zazenski will be actively creating new works centric to the lives, people and places in the Anacostia community. Expect to see the artists interacting with the residents and businesses as part of their residency.
Ms. Zazenski creates works inspired by touch, sound, relationships and communication, examining how these things help to establish a sense of place. Specifically she will be engaging with the community on a "Memory Mapping" project. This project is an on-going work which began in Fei Jia Cun, a village on the fringe of Beijing, China. The "Memory Map" project illustrates various forms of information collected as a way for Ms. Zazenski to come to a better understanding of her environment.
Using photography as a basis for his work, Khanh H. Le will explore the complex issue of his identity within the Anacostia community. Le says, "Photographs are evidence, but their interpretation is what makes them important. When people ask me about my identity it is almost like it is fixed or permanent, but it is always in flux with my environment." He intends to use this as a platform for discussion with the community for his project, while also looking at the notion of public and private identities and how they overlap with one another.
This program is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Apply now for Summer Residency
Summer applications for Residency Program are being accepted now, deadline is March 1st. Please visit our websites for more details or email to ask questions: arts
The program provides free housing and free workspace!! Apply now.
Call to Artists : 5th Annual East of the River Exhibition
Deadline: March 21, 2011
Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 5th Annual East of the River Exhibition, highlighting the creative minds of Washington DC’s Wards 7 and 8. Artists living, working or with roots in the communities east of the Anacostia River may submit up to 20 images for review by the panel of esteemed judges:
Stephen Bennett Phillips
Director of the Fine Arts Program at the Federal Reserve Board
Renee Stout
acclaimed Washington, DC based artist
Susana Raab
Photographer, The Smithsonian Anacostia Museum
This year’s exhibition will focus on the presentation of bodies of work from up to six selected artists, to be exhibited at the Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions. Proposals for works in progress will be accepted. A $300 award per artist will be presented to each artist selected for exhibition, and in addition, an individual work selected as Best in Show will be announced during opening night reception. The galleries are offering an optional Portfolio Workshop for interested parties, see the application for details.
Deadline for Submission: March 21st, 2011 Opening Night: Friday, August 5th 2011
To Apply:
Please submit the following in hard copy- email submissions will not be accepted:
$10 Application fee with check or money order
One Page Art Resume or CV
Artists Statement
Application Page with Image Info
CD with up to 20 jpeg images of work proposed for the exhibition.
Submit to:
Honfleur Gallery
c/o EOR Exhibit 2011
1227 Good Hope Rd. SE
Washington D.C. 20020
This exhibition is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
Full details are available under the News & Events section at:
Ben Skinner is an emerging Canadian contemporary artist. The artist’s work is heavily text-based, and ranges from site intervention to installations and lighting to wall-based. His work has been in several group shows in Canada and the US, and this is his first solo exhibition. *opening reception March 4th, 7-9pm*
There are so many threads on Facebook about the recent liberating Busboys and Poet’s (BBP) life-size cutout of an archival photo of Langston from his very early days as a busboy in the segregated Wardman Park Hotel.
Poet/Photographer Thomas Sayers Ellis admitted to taking the cutout as an act of protest..and fully understand and agree with his sentiment for many, many reasons…I have ruminating on how I would respond to all the threads then I figured that was impossible so i would just do here that way I can say what i want how i want and not have to worry about making all the points i want to make in one shot…so without further to do
No Press is Bad Press: Andy is loving all the press his restaurant is getting right now, as a very shrewd business man who does not pay for marketing this is a prime opportunity to increase his brand and the hype around it..even this post is adding to it. So let’s make sure something forward thinking and constructive comes out of all this and not just more hype for Busboys.
In response to the pypinnock’s (BBP’s director of Events) comment on the Washington Post Realiable Source column. She said that they “hoped that it (the cutout) was a fun way pay tribute to the restaurant’s namesake on his birthday”. The reality is the image was in bad taste, why not a photo of him at is desk or on the typewriter. The image itself calls to mind the era when Hughes’ only choice at the Wardman Park was to be a busboy. Additionally, in the folklore of BBP the story is often told about how he slipped his poems amongst the papers of Vachel Lindsay, what the BBP folklore leaves out is that the reason he had to slip those poems in his Lindsay’s papers is because the Wardman Park Hotel did not allow African Americans into the hotel’s auditorium where Lindsay was reading took place. So for many us poets of conscience , poets of color, poets of compassion, witness and otherwise seeing a Langston cutout from that era is not fun or a novelty to us, it is an insult. We would rather see him how we would like to see ourselves represented doing the work we love.
As a former poet-in-residence of the BusBoys and Poets (BBP) in Shirlington, VA, I must say that I agree with many if not all the criticisms posted on Facebook and in the comments of the Post articles. I left my post as poet-in-residence, not because the $150 (= cost of the Langston cutout) per month i was being paid was a pittance (for the amount of work i was being asked to doi), because the fact is it was a pittance and I did not need the money. I ultimately left because it was communicated to me by Andy that it was more important to have a packed house of warm, food and drink buying bodies than to have a smaller group of faithful poetry lovers and poets that would ultimately build a larger poetry following because of the quality poetry and demographic differences of the Shirlington location. Quite honestly, i understand Andy’s rationale as a business decision, but as an artist i was no longer able to commit myself to an arrangement that sacrificed a high quality art and a committed audience for a simple packed house. Some artist are OK with that, I am not. I understand that may be seen as privileged position but i am at peace with that too. i also want to note here that even though Derrick Weston Brown and Holly Bass got paid more than I did as Poet-in-Residence, what they are paid is still a pittance with respect to the effort,time, their education, credentials, publications and local, national and international acclaim. I understand that the profit margins can be narrow in the restaurant business, but i also know that well proven tenants like BBP get preferred lease arrangements with developers such as PN Hoffman, Lowe, Bundy, CIM , EYA (which is not an issue at 14th and V, because Andy owns the space) that greatly reduce the financial risk of this operation. BBP’s benefits from the gentrification that is occurring around the DMV area and will benefit from the same in Harlem, Seattle, Boulder and other areas that are in the pipeline.
As the curator of the American Poetry Museum, an organization that operates on a budget probably less than BBP’s annual electric bill , we have managed to pay poets many $100 (and in some cases travel reimbursement) for featured reading in the series, it has not always been easy in fact i have almost gotten put on front street on a poet’s blog for late payment. Despite all of that we press on. If an organization like the American Poetry Museum can do it with our paltry budget surely a behemoth like Busboys could do the same. Anyway, I say all of that to say is that BBP is not the only place to hear great poetry in the DMV, nor is it the best (whatever that means). We have to challenge ourselves to hold and support readings in other spaces and venues so that one venue does not feel a sense of entitlement and ownership over the poets or the poetry….truth be told the poets don’t even own poetry, we are just blessed to be stewards of it for a while until poetry decides to dispose of us.
My issues with BBP are many, but the core of my issue with BBP really centers around BBP’s relationship to the poets with regard to the credibility we have given it and how that does not translate into a respectable compensation structure. I don’t think it is too much to ask that a business’s rhetoric match its reality, especially because the business says that it does so. If poetry is the centerpiece of what you do as a business, why is it not reflected in the way you compensate your Poets-in-Residence and the featured poets particularly at 9 on the Ninth and Sunday Kind of Love, where world class poets are being brought in that add credibility to the establishment as the premiere place to hear poetry in DC, simply providing space, quite honestly is not enough.Without Langston’s narrative as a namesake…without the poets (the bookstore and the ideas represented therein) BBP would not be much more than just a restaurant in a great location with a performance space. Space is the place, but Space is not enough…
At the end of the day what I (as well as a few other poets) would like to see ss a meaningful conversation between Andy, the poets who are defending his actions and those of us poets with side with the liberated Langston. The Poetry Council that was established and may now be defunct was a great idea, but never really gathered any serious momentum, that needs to be reinvigorated or reinvented to include poets that are out in the community and that are not beholden to Busboys, this hopefully with ensure honest critique rather than capitulation.
I have many other thoughts on this but that’s all for now..i gotta go write some poems…
Continuous Fire: A Seminar on the Poetry of Sonia Sanchez
June 19-25, 2011
This week-long seminar for educators will offer an extensive critical view of African American poetry in general and Sonia Sanchez’s work in particular. In workshops and discussions, senior scholars will engage participants in intensive study of Sanchez’s work.
Workshop topics include the role of Sanchez’s poetry in imparting social justice, her poetry within the framework of the Black Arts Movement and the mainstream literary cannon, and an exploration into the musicality of her poetry.
College teachers will leave ready to contribute to the scholarship on Sanchez and high school teachers will complete a lesson plan.
Participants will also benefit from artistic events, an open mic night, networking opportunities, and a generous amount of research time.
The week will end with an interview and Q& A with the poet Sonia Sanchez, as well as a reading and book signing.
Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to register early!
Dear Fred,
Millennium Arts Salon’s 2010-2011 program season, “Celebrating Artists” began in the fall 2010 with an exhibition and artist salon series, Ten Artists for Ten Years, commemorating Millennium’s tenth anniversary. The season continues with an “artfully designed” program calendar of events in 2011. We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming event and/or exhibition.
c
Museum Director Judy Greenberg welcomes In Unison Tour at Kreeger, January 12, 2011
“In Unison: 20 Washington, DC Artists”
The Kreeger Museum, 2400 Foxhall Road, NW, WashingtonThrough Feb 26. Sponsored by Millennium Arts Salon
An unprecedented monoprint project, inspired by the creative leadership of Sam Gilliam, brings a diverse group of 20 Washington artists together in the print studio of George Mason University to express their individual styles, while observing and sharing with each other.
February 5, 2011, Saturday, Tour at The Kreeger Museum. 2:00 – 3:30 PM. Museum admission.
Reservation required.
This tour is open to all with a special outreach to the African Immigrant Community. It includes a docented tour of the “In Unison” Exhibition, as well as the museum’s permanent, contemporary, and African Art Collections. Please join us. To register: info@millenniumartsalon.org,
Subject line: Diasporan Dialogues. Space is limited.
Creative Voices DC
February 7, 2011, Monday, Panel Discussion at The Phillips Collection, 6:00 – 8:30 PM. By donation. Reservation required.
A distinguished panel whose collective experience represents the universe of curators, writers, artists, art historians, collectors and art administrators explore the topic of Washington artists, with a special focus on African American artists and their contributions to the creative milieu of DC.
Moderated by Dr. Richard Long (cultural historian), panelists include Judy Greenberg (director, the Kreeger Museum), Claudia Rousseau (art historian and critic), Adrienne Child (art historian), Lisa Gold (director, Washington Project of the Arts), and Billy Colbert (artist)
This event represents a collaboration between Millennium Arts Salon and The Phillips Collection, and is sponsored by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
To register, visit: www.phillipscollection.org/calendar.
Millennium Arts Salon Series
6:00 – 8:00 PM at Millennium Arts Salon, 1213 Girard Street, NW, Washington. These events are conducted in MAS’ signature “Salon Style.”
FEE events, Open to the Public (free or discounted for Millennium Arts Salon Club Members).
March 5: Tuliza Fleming –Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment. This Salon will include discussion about the exhibition, curated by Dr. Fleming, and book signing.
May 7: Dennis Forbes – Krisna Reddy: Master Printmaker, Sculptor, Artist. This continues our Salons with featured author and self-publisher Mr. Forbes who has much to share about modernism. We will explore this and more at this Salon and book signing.
June 4: William T. Williams – Among the most significant contemporary modernist painters, Mr. Williams finds direct artistic and philosophical lineage to the Harlem Renaissance. Mr. Williams is acknowleged as a pillar of American Color Field painting, and extols the “syncronicity” and fusion of jazz in his paintings.
Millennium Arts Salon Collector’s Series
New this season! Millennium will sponsor Private Dinners and Tours of the art collections of selected Collectors’ homes. We are grateful to our hosts of this inagural program, which include:
May: Lewis Tanner Moore of the Greater Philadelphia Area presented a recent exhibition of his collection at the Woodmere Museum, which displayed amongst the most far-reaching private collections in America.
June: Eric Wray of Prince George’s County, MD is a multiple Emmy Award winning television producer and President of the Collectors Club of Washington, DC. His collection of both African American and African art, and music is a standout.
September: Phillip Barlow of Washington, DC is foundational in the Washington, DC arts community. His outstanding collection provides a retrospective of contemporary local Washington art history.
The Millennium Arts Salon Collector’s Series are Members Only events.
For information about membership levels and benefits visit:
Billy Colbert, Variable Silkscreen, 2009 Millennium -Pyramid Atlantic Print Collaborative
Chris Malone at Millennium Ten Artists for Ten Years Exhibition Artist Talk
About Us
Now celebrating over 11 years, Millennium Arts Salon is committed to advancing cultural literacy through its art and cultural programs, which includes salon talks, exhibitions, tours and special events. Based in historic Columbia Heights, DC, its intimate salon talks are held in its beautifully restored 1923 town home. Through its outreach efforts, it also hosts programs in various venues around the city and collaborates with art institutions, including The Phillips Collection, the Library of Congress, The Sumner School, The Kreeger Museum, the David C Driskell Center at the University of Maryland College Park, Pyramid Atlantic, George Mason University Department of Art, and Parish Gallery of Georgetown DC, to name a few.
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