Day: February 24, 2015

Artist Opportunities #260

Big Penguin by Art League instructor and Torpedo Factory artist Lisa Schumaier.
Big Penguin by Art League instructor and Torpedo Factory artist Lisa Schumaier.

Every Tuesday, we gather a variety of artist opportunities around the DC area. Find one below and enter today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.

Dream On

Receiving: March 1 & 2. For this exhibit at Del Ray Artisans in Alexandria, let your dreams inspire your art. All area artists are invited to explore and express in any medium. More about the exhibit →

All-Media Exhibit

Receiving: March 2 & 3. The March exhibit in The Art League Gallery is an all-media exhibit juried by Liza Key Strelka. Entry is open to all Art League members. More about the exhibit →

Faces of Humanity

Deadline: March 9. Art-Competition.net is proud to announce this call for artists with $7,600 in cash and prizes. The artwork or photography should capture the diversity of humanity in faces. The emotion, beauty, love, hope and wisdom in the faces should connect the viewer to the many different cultures of the world. The work can be from representational to non-representational. More about the exhibit →

Touchstone Foundation Fellowship

Deadline: March 30. The Fellowship provides a 2 year membership in Touchstone Gallery in downtown DC. This guarantees a solo exhibition as well as participation in gallery group shows, mentorship, and a presence on the gallery website. The monetary value of the fellowship exceeds $4,500. The Fellowship is awarded to 1 or more emerging artists who have not been represented by a commercial gallery in at least 10 years. The application and related information can be found on the TFA website.

Artist Opportunities

Student Show Award Winners

In the foreground: Riding Free, a stained glass bicycle by Ann Abercrombie.
In the foreground: Riding Free, a stained glass bicycle by Ann Abercrombie.

This year’s Student/Faculty Show is open through this Sunday, March 1, when we’ll have a closing reception (come join us, 2:00–4:00 pm) and the announcement of awards.

The exhibit’s judge was Joseph C. DiBella, an artist and Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Mary Washington. He selected a number of works among the hundreds in the show for special recognition:

Process and Communication by Jean Stark won the Best in Show award (class: Lisa Semerad, Pencil Techniques)
Process and Communication by Jean Stark won the Best in Show award (class: Lisa Semerad, Pencil Techniques)
Reclining Male by Susan O’Neill won the John Foreman Life Figure Award (class: Robert Liberace, The Figure and Portrait)
Reclining Male by Susan O’Neill won the John Foreman Life Figure Award (class: Robert Liberace, The Figure and Portrait)
Sunset by Sheila Flanders won the Landscape Award (class: Lisa Semerad, Painting Projects)
Sunset by Sheila Flanders won the Landscape Award (class: Lisa Semerad, Painting Projects)
“Ready, Set, …” by Virginia Coffindaffer won the Potomac Valley Watercolorist Award (class: Gwen Bragg, Watercolor: Start to Finish)
“Ready, Set, …” by Virginia Coffindaffer won the Potomac Valley Watercolorist Award (class: Gwen Bragg, Watercolor: Start to Finish)
No Peace for the Wicked by Elena Strunk won the Jennie Lea Knight Creativity Award (class: Bev Ryan, Developing the Narrative)
No Peace for the Wicked by Elena Strunk won the Jennie Lea Knight Creativity Award (class: Bev Ryan, Developing the Narrative)
Cities by Sandra Dalal won the Dennis Davis Award (class: Carlos Beltran Baldiviezo, Ceramics)
Cities by Sandra Dalal won the Dennis Davis Award (class: Carlos Beltran Baldiviezo, Ceramics)

DiBella also named 18 Equal Merit Awards, listed here along with the artist’s class and instructor:

  • Harriet Westfall, Ocean Deep (Bryan Jernigan / Abstract Painting)
  • Allison O’Shea, Fish Grotto/Portland Street View
    (Patrick Kirwin / Trompe L’oeil and Photorealism)
  • Gerlinde Binder, Untitled (Delna Dastur / Abstracting with Acrylic Paints)
  • Dominique Cooper, In Honor of Dorothy Height, Civil Rights Leader
    (Renate Maile-Moskowitz / Advanced Felting)
  • Cheryl Roesel, Origami Bag
    (Renate Maile-Moskowitz / Wet Felting: Expanding the Possibilities)
  • Stephen Sherwin, Snow Fall (Jimmy Powers / Stained Glass)
  • Masami Bryant, Pinwheel (Kirke Martin / Ceramics)
  • David Marquardt, Untitled (John Murray / Still Life in Oil)
  • Robin Brown, Industrial Revolution (Beverly Ryan / Abstract Painting)
  • Julie Sagatov, Eye of the Storm (Marsha Staiger / Abstract Acrylic & Mixed Media)
  • Sharon Lienemann, Violets in Bloom – Shawl
    (Andrea Blackmon / Projects and Advanced Weaving)
  • Monica Kruszka, Barbie: Deconstructed (Beverly Ryan / Abstract Painting)
  • Betsey Goldberg, Roman Ruins (Rachel Collins / Watercolor From Start to Finish)
  • Don Rubin, Path From Above (Marsha Staiger / Emerge: Advanced Acrylic and Mixed Media)
  • Samantha L. Shelton, At the Door (Penny Barringer / Printmaking Projects and Techniques)
  • Scott Van Domelen, Untitled (Lisa Semerad / Figure Drawing: Long Pose)
  • Sung Ho Chung, Waiting For the Tide (Peter Ulrich / The Watercolor Experience)
  • Ann Abercrombie, Riding Free (Jimmy Powers / Stained Glass)

We hope you’ll come see the show before it closes Sunday! For the judge’s statement and full exhibit program, see the exhibit page.

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