How cute is this?! This is the design on our 2011 Art Camp t-shirts, designed by one of our school staffers 🙂 There’s still space in our summer art camp for kids, so go and sign your little ones up! It’s super fun – the whole staff would sneak away to art camp if we could 🙂
This special, last-minute addition to the summer camp roster is all about sculpture! The diversity of clay and other media is the focus of this camp on the third dimension. All materials are provided.
Is your child yearning for something new? Art camp provides a wonderful way of introducing children to several forms of visual art. In our basic art camp, each day brings a new project which may include drawing, painting, printmaking, or sculpture. In specialty camps, the focus is on immersing the children in one media. Camps come in whole and half day sessions over a 3-5 day week. Tuition for all-day camps includes a supervised lunch hour. Create your own all-day session by combining a basic camp with a media specialty camp. When creating your own all-day session, there is an additional $35 per week charge for the supervised lunch hour. Campers in any all-day session should bring their own lunch for the midday break.
1) The Community Center Art Gallery
15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770
The gallery on the first floor of the Community Center is the program’s primary exhibition space. Shows are typically on view 5-6 weeks. Exhibitions feature both established and emerging artists with original, thought provoking work of professional quality. Community engagement is central to the mission of the Community Center Art Gallery. Local, national and international artists who are interested in leading one or more paid, hands-on workshops in conjunction with their show will be given first consideration. The gallery, formerly a classroom, is a multi-use space which supports a dynamic presence for contemporary art in community life. The space is shared throughout the week, hosting a variety of groups and meetings, creating a unique opportunity to engage diverse, new gallery viewers of all ages. The gallery is accessible to the public Monday through Saturday, 9am to 10pm and Sunday from 9am to 7pm, whenever the space is not reserved.
2) Greenbelt Aquatic and Fitness Center
101 Centerway, Greenbelt, MD 20770
The Greenbelt Recreation Department presents displays of 2-dimensional fine art at this venue. Artwork remains on display for a minimum of 3 months. The Greenbelt Aquatic and Fitness Center is the city’s most highly-visble indoor display space, with annual admissions exceeding 150,000. The space is accessible to the public Monday-Friday from 6am -10pm and Saturday-Sunday from 8am to 9:30pm.
How to Apply
Submissions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Submit materials for either space, or for more information write:[email protected] or mail to the Community Center, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt, MD. 20770 Attention: Nicole DeWald, Arts Supervisor. Please include the following:
Volunteer to Teach Art at Casa Chirilagua in Arlandria this Summer!
This summer program offers educational programs to Latino children living in the Chirilagua neighborhood of Arlandria. This year, they are setting up an Art Studio component and they need volunteers to help teach! Volunteers will teach various media, help the kids cultivate their creativity, and help give them a way to express themselves. They ask for a one week commitment, and classes are taught in the mornings. If you are interested in learning more or volunteering, please contact Janice Philips, 703-678-8394, [email protected].
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Leuchtenberg Diamond Tiara,1900
Briolette, pear-shaped and old-cut diamonds, gold, platinum
Arthur and Dorothy McFerrin Collection © C & M Photographers
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The Art League is gearing up for a day trip! On August 18th, we’re taking registered guests to Richmond to see “Faberge’ Revealed.” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and then to Petersburg, Virginia to see the “Tiffany Windows” in Old Blandford Church.
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Imperial Peter the Great Easter Egg, 1903
Egg: gold, platinum, diamonds, rubies, enamel, sapphire, watercolor, ivory, rock crystal
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Bequest of Lillian Thomas Pratt. Photo: Katherine Wetzel
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Star Frame, 1896
Gold, enamel, pearls, glass, ivory
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Bequest of Lillian Thomas Pratt. Photo: Katherine Wetzel
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The Faberge’ exhibit, which opens July 9 at the VMFA in Richmond, will feature the largest collection of Faberge’ on public view in the United States, totaling more than 500 objects.
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Imperial Napoleonic Egg, 1912
Gold, enamel, diamonds, platinum, ivory velvet, silk
Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection
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The Russian jeweler Karl Faberge’, considered to be one of the most famous jewelers of all time, crafted objects for the families of the last two tsars of Russia and for most of Europe’s nobility. Faberge’s creations are crafted from gold, platinum, diamonds and rubies, as well as other precious metals and gemstones. He is best known for his Imperial Easter eggs. VMFA’s collection is the largest public collection of Faberge’ in this country and includes five Russian Imperial Easter eggs. Only 50 were ever created by this most talented artist. The exhibit installation will allow for a 360-degree view of each Imperial egg. Other objects on exhibit, include the Empress Josephine Tiara, the Lilies of the Valley Basket, enameled picture frames and clocks, gold cigarette cases and cane tops, ruby studded brooches and boxes and hardstone animals and flowers in rock crystal vases.
Following lunch, at the museum’s Best Café (on your own) and time to visit the book/gift shop, you will continue on to Petersburg, VA to view the Tiffany Windows of the Old Blandford Church. Jimmy Powers, internationally known stained glass artist and Art League instructor, will be your guide. Originally built in 1735, restoration began in 1901 to turn this little church into a Confederate Memorial Chapel. Louis Comfort Tiffany was commissioned to design 15 memorial stained glass windows, one for each of the 15 Confederate States to honor its soldiers. The first four magnificent windows were unveiled in 1904.
Trip includes: coffee and breakfast snacks prior to departure, entrance with audio guide tour to Faberge’ show, time to visit and explore the museum gift shop, entrance to Old Blandford Church with guide, and round-trip bus transportation.
Day trip price: $85 for members and benefactors. $95 for non-members.
For additional information, or reservations, please contact Margaret Cerutti at [email protected] 703-683-1780 x 13
The Art League Travel Workshop, London Through the Eyes of the Artist: An Art History/Sketching Workshop with Robert Liberace, recently returned from London, where they were immersed in a culture of art, over-the-top headwear and of course, royal wedding mania!
Travel workshop coordinator Margaret Cerutti said the mission as a whole was to study John Singer Sargent and his life’s work. His studio was on the famed culture hub of Tite Street, where famous creative legends like Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler also lived.
“We got to visit Sargent’s studio, which is privately owned now,” says Cerutti. “It is still in use today, by special request. Nelson Shanks used it while painting the official portraits of Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher.”
The London stop was one of four cities planned during this particular The Art League travel series, “Through the Eyes of the Artist,” which also includes art staples Venice, Florence, and Rome. Rob Liberace, a popular artist and instructor at The Art League School, leads all four international trips; an idea which formed due to some unusual circumstances. “Rob had to miss class sometimes,” says Cerutti. “He had a lot of obligations and duties come up, but he always made it up to the students by taking them to the National Gallery.” As Liberace led his pupils around the halls, lovingly pointing out his favorite works of art and explaining what they meant to him, the group mysteriously got bigger and bigger throughout the visit. “We always ended up with about 50 other people following us around!” she laughed. “I thought that with his passion for art and teaching, he would be the perfect person to lead these trips. He makes the work come alive.”
London was chosen as one of the four stops because of its ancient architecture, storied past and bursting arts culture. But when the trip was planned months back, the staff didn’t foresee a crucial event in the making for England’s history: the royal wedding. “It was everywhere,” says Cerutti. “Every store had souvenirs, the restaurants were advertising chalkboard specials to served only on that day, and even bone china was available to celebrate it!” But the most amazing spectacle was the array of headwear. “Not only was the wedding coming up, but the Queen’s birthday was that week. All of the women were wearing these hats out of respect for the Queen.”
Needless to say, Cerutti came home with a bit of hat fever. Lucky for her, Jan Wutkowski, world-famous milliner, just arrived in Alexandria to teach a workshop for The Art League School. Cerutti signed up and spent the weekend constructing a wide-brimmed hat out of plaid and black silk. “I’m hoping it will match my winter coat,” says Cerutti. “Because that’s when I think it will be done!”
For more information on The Art League’s Art Travel Workshops, please click here.
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The Maryland Federation of Art is accepting entries for “Eye of the Beholder: The Fine Art of the Found Object”.
