DC:ART:Around My Way: Organica @ BlankSpace SE

ORGANICA : PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES

by Melani N. Douglass & Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday 10am -6pm

Opening Reception: November 6, 2010 at 7pm

@ Blank Space SE : 1922 MLK Jr Ave SE Washington DC 20020

The American Poetry Museum is pleased to announce the opening of ORGANICA: Photographic Series by Melani N. Douglas and Rachel Eliza Griffiths. The works to be displayed will allow its audience to appreciate the beauty in the simplistic nature of everyday life. The exhibit will feature the works of poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and photographer Melani N. Douglass. It will also introduce the works of student photographer James Holiday.

Rachel Eliza Griffith’s literary and visual work has been widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies, and periodicals including Callaloo, The New York Times, Crab Orchard Review, Mosaic, RATTLE, Puerto Del Sol, Brilliant Corners, Indiana Review, Lumina, Ecotone, The Acentos Review, PMS: poem memoir story, Saranac Review, Torch, The Drunken Boat, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Inkwell, Black Arts Quarterly, African American Review, Comstock Review, Hambone, and many others.

Melani N. Douglass has been a committed leader in urban education for over 10 years. After realizing the success that students achieve through arts integrated learning environments, Ms. Douglass began a dual career as a visual artist and an educator. As an artist and educator, Ms. Douglass has conducted student workshops, teacher trainings and lectures for the Dallas Museum of Art, Milwaukee Public Charter Schools, DC Public Schools, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum, The Maryland Historical Society, the Brooklyn Friends School in New York, and the Smithsonian Institution. She has been honored by the Artist and Elaine Thornton Foundation and David Parks, son of Gordon Parks, honored Ms. Douglass as the guest Lecturer for the R. C. Hickman Young Photographers Workshop and the Gordon Parks Young Photographers Competition.

 

AMERICAN POETRY MUSEUM

“The American Poetry Museum is dedicated to celebrating poetry, promoting literacy, fostering meaningful dialogue, encouraging an appreciation for the diversity of the American experience, and educating local, national, and international audiences through the presentation, preservation and interpretation of American poetry.”

For additional information, Contact:
La’Tasha Banks, Program Coordinator
The American Poetry Museum
202.494.4093
lbanks@americanpoetrymuseum.org
www.americanpoetrymuseum.org

MD:POETRY:Tracie Morris in November @Joe’s Movement Emporium

TRANSPARENT PRODUCTIONS

Sunday, November 14th8:00PM @ $15

@Joe’s Movement Emporium

THE TRACIE MORRIS BAND

“The text is the body; the body tests text”

Tracie Morris (poetry)

Marvin Sewell (guitar)

Val Jeanty (electronics)

Few poets explore sound and words as creatively and within music as TRACIE MORRIS, a multi-disciplined poet, performance artist, and founding member of the renowned Nuyorican Poets and the Black Rock Coalition.

MARVIN SEWELL most recently served as vocalist Cassandra Wilson’s guitarist and music director.

Percussionist and turntabalist VAL JEANTY defines her musical approach as “Afro Electronica”, in which she uses technology to transport listeners into dreamlike expressions of Afro, Creole and electronics.

@Joe’s Movement Emporium

(Diagonal to GLUT Natural Food Store)

3309 Bunker Hill Rd

Mt. Rainier MD 20712

301-699-1819/www.joesmovement.org (to buy tickets on-line)

“Music paints pictures that only the minds eye can see.” (Sun Ra)

www.transparentproductionsdc.org

“To long conversations about the philosophical ramifications of a beautiful day”

– sekou sundiata

DC:ART:Around My Way: Anacostia Fotoweek!!

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In his solo exhibition Neither…Nor, Vietnamese born artist Khanh H. Le is presenting 14 large scale images using the multiple plate polymer photogravure etching technique at The Gallery at Vivid Solutions. Le examines identity, through the bits and pieces of personal memory, the collective history from two cultures; Vietnam and the US.
—-> Reception, November 10th @ 6-8pm
Starting promptly at 8:15pm is a free performance from the contemporary classical group, The Analog Arts Ensemble. The group will be performing works by Roussel and Francaix, as well as a world premier by Dolf Kämper.

Honfleur Gallery is hosting Likeness, the brainchild of DC based photographer, Joshua Yospyn. The exhibition includes twenty artists: ten photographers + ten street artists with an end result of ten original portraits + ten interpretations of that portrait.

photographers + artists:
Bo Zhang, Chris Usher, David Holloway, Erica Allen, Jason Horowitz, Josh Yospyn, Lois Bielefeld, Joshua Cogan, Matt Dunn, & Michel Frankfurter. Diabetik, Brandon Hill, Decoy, Asad Walker, Matthew Shlian, Lance Wiggs & Buck, Heather Stevens, Earnest Concepcion, Mike Estabrook, and Peter Chang.
—-> Reception, November 11th @ 6pm

Upstairs @ Honfleur Gallery is a solo exhibit by Charlotte L’Harmeroult who is a painter and video artist based in Paris, France. Her experimental, energetic video and photography projects use humor and colorful, surreal narratives.

Stop by Anacostia’s newest creative space, Blank Space SE, to check out American Poetry Museum’s presentation O R G A N I C A: Photographic Series by Melani N. Douglass & Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
—-> Reception, November 6th @ 7pm

Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab is displaying Mixed Up: A Photography Showcase (a selection of client images printed by the Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab) @ Big Chair Coffee & Grill. This group exhibit showcases select photographs from some of the clientele who have helped make the first year of business a great success.

Extended FOTOWEEK DC Hours:
Honfleur Gallery & The Gallery at Vivid Solutions
11/6 11am-8pm
11/7 and 11/8 12pm-5pm
11/9 12pm-8pm
11/10 and 11/11 12pm-9pm
11/12 12pm-8pm
11/13 11-5pm

Blank Space SE
10am – 6pm

Big Chair Coffee & Grill
7am – 8pm

www.honfleurgallery.com I www.archdevelopment.org I www.vividsolutionsdc.com
www.blankspacese.com I www.thedchive.com

Honfleur Gallery, The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab, Blank Space SE & The Hive
are all projects of ARCH Development Corp.