Category: visual art

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DC:ART: Around My Way: Opportunities for Artists in Anacostia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Briony Evans Hynson, Creative Director
Phone: 202-536-8994
arts@archdc.org
www.honfleurgallery.com

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:

www.honfleurgallery.com & www.vividsolutionsdc.com

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DC:POETRY: Reminder: HOME featuring Khadijah “Moon” Ali-Coleman, December 17th, 2010

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Hillyer Art Space Events

HOME: Hillyer Open Mic Event
This month’s feature: Khadijah “Moon” Ali-Coleman 

Hosted by poet and artist Fred Joiner

Friday, December 17th, 2010
Sign up at 6PM
Performances at 7PM
Free for IA&A members and performers
$5 for non-members

Hillyer Open Mic Events occur on the third Friday of every month and feature a stunning array of the District’s poetic talent. Feature poets specialize in a variety of styles and take the audience for a personal journey into their work. Host Fred Joiner delves even deeper in his post-performance interview with feature performers, engaging them to illuminate their personal histories, influences, and perspectives to encourage heightened discourse and to somewhat unveil the mystery behind the words.

Hillyer is recognized as a safe-space for the art community and the HOME serves as a forum for open discussion on a diverse range of issues that affect artists of all kinds.

HOME Dec 2010

Since she was 8 years-old, Moon has captivated audiences with words that paint stories of hope, reality and love. A writer first and foremost, Moon uses music and poetry to share words first borne on paper. She has performed in various venues, festivals and events, including the Green Festival and Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest, and the 2009 Pedagogy & Theater of the Oppressed conference held in Minnesota.Featuring: Coffee from Soho Coffee and Tea as well as other refreshments

Come enjoy Khadijah’s performance, the open mic session and discussion to follow! Whether you prefer to sit back and listen, or to help expand the stimulating dialogue, we welcome you to take part in this open forum event!
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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

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Renée Stout: The House of Chance and Mischief, Sept. 11 – Oct. 30, 2010

Renée Stout, Party at the House of Chance and Mischief, 2010, acrylic on panel, 30” x 24”
Renée Stout: The House of Chance and Mischief
September 11 – October 30, 2010

Washington DC – Hemphill opens Renée Stout: The House of Chance and Mischief on Saturday, September 11, 2010, with a public reception from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through October 30, 2010.

In recent years, the contemporary art audience has often appeared more interested in opening receptions and art parties than in looking at art. But, of course, some parties are more meaningful than others. Renée Stout’s exhibition, The House of Chance and Mischief, is that party.

The House of Chance and Mischief is based on a recurring dream of Renée Stout’s, in which she is walking through a familiar house and suddenly encounters a door that leads to new and mysterious rooms. Stout understands the house of her dream to be a metaphor for the self, and the newly revealed rooms to represent an expanding awareness of a world inside and outside of that self.

Her dream, the challenges of friendship and family, and current events comprise the content of Stout’s fourth exhibition at Hemphill. The show is a cacophonous party where guests peer into the lives of the characters developed throughout Stout’s oeuvre. She presents a body of expertly rendered images and carefully manipulated objects, creating various tableaux that also speak as a personal narrative. Her work blends cultural heritage, personal mythology, and social responsibility from the perspective of an African-American woman. Utilizing imagery from African traditions, popular culture, and personal politics, she delineates pathways among cultures, communities, and individuals. Stout’s open creative process continually introduces new possibilities for her role as observer, trickster, healer, and artist.

In April 2010, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, awarded Renée Stout the David C. Driskell Prize, which recognizes Stout’s original and important contribution to the field of African-American art. Please join us to congratulate Renée and to party in The House of Chance and Mischief.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and by appointment

On September 16, 2010, at 2:00 p.m., Renée Stout will participate in the panel discussion Performance in/of Contemporary African American Art, with Jefferson Pinder and Kevin Cole, moderated by Dr. Laurie Frederick Meer. This event is part of the Performing Race in African American Visual Culture Symposium, September 15 – 16, organized by Yale University and the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora (www.driskellcenter.umd.edu).
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Graywolf Press and CAS51 invite you to join us as we celebrate the publication of Skin, Inc.

Celebrate Thomas Sayers Ellis’s second collection of poetry,”a complex, searing look at the state of black identity in America.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Graywolf Press and CAS51 invite you to join us as we celebrate the publication of

SKIN, INC.
Identity Repair Poems
by
Thomas Sayers Ellis


Sunday, September 5

6:00 PM

CAS51

510 Randolph Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20011
(By subway: Georgia Ave-Petworth Metro Station)
Following a welcome from CAS51 co-founder Darryl Atwell, Ellis will give a brief reading and singer Carolyn Malachi will perform Ellis’s
“The Pronoun-Vowel…”.
Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Books will be available for purchase.

Thomas Sayers EllisThomas Sayers Ellis was born and raised in Washington, D.C. His previous poetry collection, The Maverick Room, was awarded the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. Ellis teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Lesley University low-residency MFA program, and he is a faculty member of Cave Canem. A photographer and poet, he currently divides his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Author photo (c) Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Skin, Inc
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Everywhere With Roy Lewis events…


Please join us for the final two public programs for Everywhere With Roy Lewis
On Exhibit through Saturday, September 11, 2010 at PGAAMCC’s Gallery 110
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm &
Thursdays 10am-7pm

As We See It: A Conversation with Black Photographers
Thursday, August 26, 7-9pm
and
Preserving Your Family’s Photographic Legacy
Thursday, September 2, 6-8pm

Please RSVP!
Parking is limited. Street Parking Available. Additional Parking available at the Bunker Hill Fire Station, 3716 Rhode Island Avenue, Brentwood, MD 20722— cross the street and walk 1 ½ blocks north to the Gateway Arts Center.