"Under the Bridge," photography by Barry Dunn, is on view in March's Open Exhibit through April 7.
Welcome to Artful Weekend
-our listing of area art exhibits and events-
This weekend: March 2024 Open Exhibit and Lines in Color by Alyse Radenovic at the League; Local Flavor/Local Artists at Calloway Fine Art; Seen Better Times at Multiple Exposures Gallery; and Destinationsat The Mansion at Strathmore.
March 2024 Open Exhibit
Forcing Forsythia by Carolyn Marshall Wright; Acrylic
Diverse artworks by member artists are the feature of Open Exhibits at The Art League. This month, 99 artworks—painting, drawing, photography, fiber art, ceramics, and mixed media—are on view. The March Open Exhibit was juried by artist Juliette Colas, and is on view through April 7.
Lines in Color by Alyse Radenovic
Alyse Radenovic at the opening of Lines in Color.
March solo artist Alyse Radenovic employs multifold vertical lines in an array of colors for the 11 works featured in her solo exhibit Lines in Color. Each painting is an elaborate yet streamlined nexus of consonant and dissonant color combinations, creating harmonious statements from the interconnection of disparate hues. Each composition is a rich and unified tapestry, at once dynamic and serene. Lines of Color is on view through April 7.
Local Flavor/Local Artists
Green House by Josie Vosoba; Oil on linen
Calloway Fine Art & Consulting presents Local Flavor/Local Artists, the gallery’s second annual DMV group exhibition of 26 local artists showing artwork inspired by DC, Virginia, and Maryland. The 50 artworks— landscapes, cityscapes, and iconic landmarks— capture the spirit of our area. It is on view through April 6;1643 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington D.C.
Seen Better Times
Pacific Theater by Eric Johnson
Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) presents Seen Better Times, a group exhibition that depicts scenes that have “seen better days.” Juror Michael Borek says the images he chose from the 14 included photographers go behind the surface of obvious decay and “invite viewers to use their imaginations to finish the hint of a story that is sketched out, but unfinished.” Exhibition artists include Soomin Ham, Tim Hyde, Eric Johnson, Irina Lawton, Sandy LeBrun-Evans, Matt Leedham, Francine B. Livaditis, Maureen Minehan, David Myers, Van Pulley, Sarah Hood Salomon, Alan Sislen, Tom Sliter and Fred Zafran. It is on view through April 7. MEG is located in the Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 North Union Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
Destinations
Along the Path, Looking North by Jennifer Allevato
From mountains and meandering streams to blue skies and cerulean seas, Destinations, at The Mansion at Strathmore, examines depictions of location through the eyes of sojourning artists. Whether a secluded lakeside scene or the hum of a bustling city, this exhibition elevates aesthetics beyond a travel snapshot. Art League member Jennifer Allevato is among the 19 artists featured in this group show. It is on view through April 12;10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, Maryland.
Call to Plein Air Artists, Paint It! Ellicott City — Ellicott City, MD
Deadline: April 15 Paint It! Ellicott City returns June 6-9 this year. This annual event brings artists and spectators interested in the plein air tradition to Historic Ellicott City. We are seeking artists to apply for the juried portion of the event, which culminates in a 6-week exhibit of juried artist’s work in our gallery. Click here for details.
Call for Artists, Bethesda Urban Partnership — Bethesda, MD
Deadline: April 29 The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District announces a Call for Artists for a new public art project in downtown Bethesda, MD. The A&E District will select 15 artists whose original designs will be printed onto a vinyl wrap to adorn 15 Signal Boxes located throughout downtown Bethesda. Artists 14 years of age or older and residents of Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia are eligible. Click here for details.
McLean Project for the Arts Open Call for Art Teachers — McLean, VA
Deadline: April 30 MPA is excited to announce an OPEN CALL for Art Teachers! We are looking for artists/teachers to teach art classes in our DuVal studio, located in the McLean Community Center, for adults, children and teens. Click here for details.
Call for Muralists & Digital Artists, NoMa in Color Mural Festival — D.C.
Deadline: May 1 The NoMa Business Improvement District is seeking muralists for its annual NoMa in Color Mural Festival to be held in September 2024. If you’re an established muralist or emerging artist located in the National Capital Region and interested in painting on a larger canvas, click here for details.
Call for Entries, 2024 Photo Review Photography Competition
Deadline: May 16 The Photo Review, an acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 39th annual photography competition, on of the oldest continuous photography competitiona in the world. The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entires in its 2024 competition issue and on its website, and prizewinning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at Philadelphia’s noted Woodmere Art Museum. Click here for details.
Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!
Call for Submissions, Foundry Gallery: Helena Foundation Young Artist Grant — D.C.
Deadline: March 29 One of Washington’s premier contemporary galleries, Foundry’s mission is to promote the work of young emerging and accomplished regional artists. We are seeking D.C. area artists interested in gallery membership and the opportunity to learn how a co-operative gallery works. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, From My Perspective 6th Annual National Exhibition — Virginia Beach, VA
Deadline: March 30 The Virginia Beach Art Center (VB-AC) presents its 6th annual national exhibit that’s all about viewpoint. What you’re seeing, what you’re feeling and what you want to say. What will you choose? Artists from Alabama to Wyoming and all US territories are invited to show off their personal best. What will you choose? Click here for details.
Call for Entry, Wyoming Game & Fish Department Conservation Stamp Art Contest — Online
Deadline: March 31 The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Collectible Conservation Stamp Art competition continues to lead the country in state wildlife stamp art competitions in number of entries, prize money and quality of artwork. The subject 2025 is the western tanager. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Montpelier Arts Center Annual Studio Jury Competition 2024 — Laurel, MD
Deadline: March 31 Join a thriving community of professional artists in the Montpelier Resident Artist Program. Resident artists work in a diverse variety of media and styles, maintain studio hours for the public to visit, and participate in community events. These artists are selected by an annual jury panel and exhibit their work in the Montpelier Arts Center’s Resident Artist Gallery on a revolving basis. Interested artists are encouraged to visit the Arts Center, located on the beautiful grounds of Montpelier Mansion in Laurel, MD. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Translation Through Art — Bethesda, MD
Deadline: March 31 This exhibition will feature work by Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists based in the DMV area, in the galleries at the Mansion at Strathmore, to celebrate AAPI heritage month in May of 2024. The goal of this show is to highlight AAPI artists in the DMV area, providing the artists with a platform to showcase their work and share their stories, and an opportunity to gain increased visibility and clients for their practices. Click here for details.
Tephra ICA Internship Opportunities — Reston, VA
Deadline: March 31 Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) offers internships for undergraduate and graduate students. Interns will facilitate projects and train as docents while exploring their interests in different departments. Areas of opportunity include Exhibitions, Gallery Management, Development, Programming, Education, and Festival Production. Click here for details.
Call to Artists, Calloway Fine Art & Consulting Second Interiors Exhibit — D.C.
Deadline: April 1, 2024 We are seeking artwork representing or inspired by interiors. Artwork must be 2D – painting, drawing, or mixed media (no photography). For more information, click here.
Call for Applications, 2024 Virginia Folklife Program
Deadline: April 7 The Virginia Folklife Program invites people who are experienced in a cultural tradition to consider teaching another community member through the Folklife Apprenticeship Program. We provide funding for an individual who is considered a master of a tradition to train an apprentice of their choosing. Projects in music, dance, crafts, community storytelling, cultural reclamation, traditional healing, agriculture, foodways, and specialty trades are all welcome. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, Lights Out 2024: A Group Video Exhibition — Brentwood, MD
Deadline: April 7 Lights Out: A Group Video Exhibition The Brentwood Arts Exchange is seeking submissions from artists who work in video or digital animation for a group exhibition in the Main Gallery. Themes, concepts and video duration can vary. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, AcrylicWorks 11: The Best of Acrylic Art Competition
Deadline: April 29 Join artists from around the globe as they share their love of acrylics in our AcrylicWorks 11: The Best of Acrylic competition. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards — Bethesda, MD
Deadline: April 30 Submissions are open for The 2024 Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards! Up to eight finalists will be chosen to display their work at Bethesda’s Gallery B in September 2024. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, The Coral Reef Encounter 2024 — Columbia, MD
Deadline, May 1 The Coral Reef Encounter invites artists and crafters to create Coral Critters: three dimensional, fanciful fish and/or coral inspired by the beauty of a healthy coral reef. Your piece of art will be displayed prominently underwater in the Reef on June 22 and 23, 2024 at the Jeffers Hill pool in Columbia, Maryland. Click herefor details.
Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries: Requests for Proposals 2025 — Glen Echo, MD
Deadline: June 5 The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture requests exhibition proposals from artists for the Popcorn Gallery, Stone Tower Gallery, and Park View Gallery at Glen Echo Park for the calendar year 2025. The mission of the Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries is to showcase the work of diverse artists, including resident artists at Glen Echo Park and artists from the greater Washington, D.C. area. Click herefor details.
Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: Until filled The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to teach their medium to groups of beginning, intermediate, and/or advanced level students. Class sizes range, depending on enrollment, from around 5 to 30 students. Experience teaching is helpful but not an absolute requirement. To apply, send a cover letter with statement of intent, resumé, and 6-10 tiffs or jpegs of current work to Ariane D’Souza via email at [email protected].
Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.
Studio Sundays Submissions, Create! Magazine
Every month Create! Magazine! picks several winning images of artists’ studio spaces and features them on their website and social media along with artists’ work and story. Submit a quality image of your workspace, studio or kitchen table where you make work for a chance to be featured. For more information and to submit, click here.
Call for Artists, Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council
Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) is featuring county artists at its newest art space Arts’tination at National Harbor, the premier arts and entertainment destination in our regions Located at 162 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD. Arts’tination is dedicated to supporting local artists and curating immersive creative experiences. PGAHC is recruiting artists to show and sell their work and/or to conduct arts related workshops for the public. Artists should submit work samples and inquires to [email protected]. For more information please visit https://www.pgahc.org/artstination.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply. For more information, click here.
Call for Art, Links Bridge Vineyards—Thurmont, MD
Links Bridge Vineyards, a small artisan style winery located just outside of Frederick, Maryland, is looking to feature the artwork of various artists on the walls of their tasting barn for two weeks at a time. To learn more, call Joan Cartier 301-602-5733 or email her at [email protected].
Pyramid Atlantic offers year-round workshops in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and hybrids thereof. We offer multi-week, daytime, evening, and weekend intensives for adults in our fully equipped studios. As part of a robust and diverse schedule of offerings, we welcome unsolicited workshop proposals, and hope that you will consider applying! Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: 1/15 for Summer Workshops; 4/1 for Fall Workshops; 7/1 for Winter Workshops; 10/1 for Spring Workshops. Questions? Email Gretchen, Artistic Director, [email protected]
Call For Stories About Women in the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council
2020 has been dedicated to the Year of the Woman in Maryland. Do you have an inspiring story about vital contributions of women-identifying people who are artists, arts administrators, or cultural workers? Perhaps an exhibition, performance or project featuring women? Share it with the Maryland State Arts Council for potential use in marketing and communications! Send your ideas to [email protected], and include “Year of the Woman” in the subject line. Satff will contact senders whose stories are selected for inclusion in future newsletters, eblasts, or social media postings. Learn more about Maryland’s year of the Woman here.
Call For Artists, Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is looking for submissions from Maryland and Virginia artists as it expands to new locations in both areas. Submissions can include drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, fiber, quilts, etc. Art images reflecting life in the city, family, portraits, whimsy, abstraction, social uplift and life experiences within diverse cultures are encouraged for submission. For more information, click here.
Alterwork Studios Online Residency
This residency was designed to give emerging contemporary artists an online platform to create new work and explore their practice. Over the course of four weeks, artists will be encouraged to experiment and explore their concepts and move their work forward in the contemporary art world. Learn more here.
Accepting Artwork for Curatorial Review by AIWA
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art features five exhibitions per year in the newly constructed first floor space in the American University Museum. We accept submissions, on a rolling basis, from Washington artists of all ages and backgrounds, and working in diverse media. The museum’s Director and Curator, Jack Rasmussen, will select curators who will review these submissions for potential use in Alper Initiative exhibitions. For more information click here.
Call For Entry Hamilton Arts Collective Guest Artist Exhibition – Baltimore, MD
The Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery seek applications from artists for month-long Guest Artist exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery located at 5502 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD. The selected guest artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in Gallery I of the Hamilton Gallery. The Guest Artist exhibition is featured in Hamilton Gallery communications and will be promoted by the HAC and Hamilton Gallery. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply. Click here to learn more.
Howard County Arts Council Quarterly Call For Artists – Ellicott City, MD
The Howard County Arts Council gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and styles including time-based and installation artists, are encouraged to apply either individually or as a group. Proposals from curators and arts organizations are also welcome. Click here to learn more.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo Downtown Baltimore — Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Art Place (MAP) is working with Hotel Indigo in downtown Baltimore to offer rotating exhibitions in the hotel’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats restaurant. This opportunity is open to visual artists living or working in Maryland. ’s public art partnership projects (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo, is pleased to announce an open call to artists. MAP will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
Solo or Group Shows in Athenaeum Gallery – VA
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) and strives to present visitors with a wide variety of excellent art and unique experiences. In addition to the shows curated by the Gallery Director, the Athenaeum Gallery invites artists and curators to submit show proposals. For more information, click here.
The Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland (MD)
Deadline: Rolling. The purpose of the Creativity Grant Program is to strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. For more information regarding eligibility and funding timelines, please review the Creativity Grants Guidelines. For more information about the program, and to apply visit the Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland website.
Artist/Writers: Cover Art for Academic Medicine
Deadline: Rolling. Submit original works of art inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient (for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, being a research participant, teaching, or being cared for in a teaching hospital). The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. Images may be cropped or resized to fit into the allotted cover space. Artists must also submit a related Cover Art essay as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connection between the work and the “academic medicine experience.” The related narrative should be 250 to 600 words and is subject to editing. To apply for this opportunity, and to learn more, visit the Academic Medicine website.
The Awesome Foundation Accepting Applications for Art Projects
Deadline: Open. The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of “awesomeness in the universe.” Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing “micro-trustees.” The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. Apply on the Awesome Foundation website.
Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place Seeks Proposals for Rotating Exhibition Partnership with Baltimore’s Hotel Indigo (MD)
Deadline: rolling. Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPACT public art partnership projects, MAP is working with Hotel Indigo to offer rotating exhibitions in Hotel indigo’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. This opportunity is available to visual artists living or working in Maryland. Maryland Art Place will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Guidelines and information here.
Peripheral ARTeries – Biennial Contemporary Art Publication
Deadline: Rolling. Peripheral ARTeries is looking for artists to be featured in the new special Biennial Edition of their art publication, that comes to its 10th edition. This opportunity is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their artist portfolio. The 10th edition will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art: Peripheral ARTeries cultivates a spirit of openness through a unique collaborative and participatory approach.Each artist may submit a maximum of three works or projects made in any technique: painting, drawing, video art, experimental cinema, fine art photography, experimental media, mixed media, installations, public art, performance. The call is open to all proposed kind of art and media capable of challenging the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. To submit, visit the Peripheral ARTeries website.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo (VA)
Artists works will displayed in the hotel’s gallery (220 S Union St, Old Town Alexandria) for a six-month period. Two-dimensional, framed works only. Artists will install the work using the hotel’s mounting hardware. Labels will be provided by the hotel. All sales handled by artist, no commission. Preference for local or locally influenced selections but not required. The space measures approximately 7’10” by 8’3.″ If interested, contact Kate Ellis, General Manager, [email protected].
The New Project Studio – Ongoing Opportunity (VA)
Ongoing. Located in Studio 8, the New Project Studio is a community-focused arts incubator space that offers a short-term location to test new program ideas, spotlight underrepresented voices, and enhance community engagement. Projects rotate on a regular basis. For more information, click here.
Public Arts Grants & Opportunities (VA)
Ongoing. The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists. See all current opportunities and online applications here.
Residency: Maryland
Deadline: ongoing. Montgomery College, Rockville and Germantown Art Department is seeking proposals for its Artist-in-Residence Program, encouraging proposals that cultivate collaborative work between artists and students.
Looking for artists: Foundry Gallery (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Foundry Gallery is seeking a few artists in the greater Washington, DC area. If interested in applying for membership please send up to five images (jpg attachments) and an email letter to: [email protected]. The oldest cooperative in Washington, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows at its beautiful space north of Shaw near the 9:30 Club.
Looking for artists: Printmakers (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Washington Printmakers Gallery is seeking artist members specializing in printmaking, photography and book arts. An active cooperative for over 30 years, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows in its lovely space in upper Georgetown. Distant and shared memberships are available. If interested in applying for membership please email [email protected].
"Should We Talk to Her?," photography by Leslie Landerkin, is on view in March's Open Exhibit through April 7.
Welcome to Artful Weekend
-our listing of area art exhibits and events-
This weekend: March 2024 Open Exhibit and Lines in Color by Alyse Radenovic at the League; Sydney Vernon at Phillips@THEARC; Nando Alvarez: Transmutaciónat the American Poetry Museum; and Revolutions at the Hirshhorn.
March 2024 Open Exhibit
Silk Scarf by Deron DeCesare; Mixed media
Diverse artworks by member artists are the feature of Open Exhibits at The Art League. This month, 99 artworks—painting, drawing, photography, fiber art, ceramics, and mixed media—are on view. The March Open Exhibit was juried by artist Juliette Colas, and is on view through April 7.
Lines in Color by Alyse Radenovic
Alyse Radenovic at the opening of Lines in Color.
March solo artist Alyse Radenovic employs multifold vertical lines in an array of colors for the 11 works featured in her solo exhibit Lines in Color. Each painting is an elaborate yet streamlined nexus of consonant and dissonant color combinations, creating harmonious statements from the interconnection of disparate hues. Each composition is a rich and unified tapestry, at once dynamic and serene. Lines of Color is on view through April 7.
Sydney Vernon
Sydney Vernon, The Real Thing Strange, 2023, Pastel on paper, Courtesy of the artist and Kapp Kapp
Since 2018, DMV native Sydney Vernon has been superimposing and altering personal family photographs with both real and imagined histories from Black American culture to explore the Black femme experience. New and recent works in her eponymous exhibition, at Phillips@THEARC, combine elements of painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking invites viewers into Vernon’s world. Her depictions of intimate interior scenes and familiar spaces complement the paintings by Pierre Bonnard on view at The Phillips Collection. Sydney Vernon is on view through June 6; 1801 Mississippi Ave, SE, Washington, D.C.
Nando Alvarez: Transmutación
Rejas Screenprinted monoprint by Nando Alvarez. Photo credit: Sami Miranda
Transmutación, at the American Poetry Museum, is an exhibit of screenprints and screenprinted monoprints by artist Nando Alvarez that are filled with a beautiful tension and provide the viewer with a moment to wonder about the stories that inhabit them. The traditional screenprints use colors reminiscent of chicha posters and are paired with poems by poet Sami Miranda that use the layout of those posters to create poems in conversation with Alvarez’s work. Alvarez’s screenprinted monoprints are layered and beautifully rendered. Transmutación opens Saturday, March 23, with a reception at 4 p.m. that includes live screenprinting, music, and poetry written in conversation with the work. The exhibit is on view through the end of April; 716 Monroe Street NE, Washington, D.C.
Revolutions: Art From the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960
Revolutions presents artwork by 126 artists, including Francis Bacon, Thomas Eakins, Horace Pippin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Pablo Picasso, alongside interventions by 19 contemporary artists, including Torkwase Dyson, Rashid Johnson, and Flora Yukhnovich, that demonstrate how many artistic movements and tropes explored between 1860 and 1960 remain critically important today. The installation, which illustrates the significance of Joseph H. Hirshhorn’s founding gift, includes eight works by Alberto Giacometti and six by Willem de Kooning, as well as less familiar artists such as the Haitian painter Hector Hyppolite, represented with three works. Revolutions is on view through April 20; Independence Ave and 7th Street.
"Social Solitude," by Hae Soon Wethington, is on view in March's Open Exhibit.
Welcome to Artful Weekend
-our listing of area art exhibits and events-
This weekend: March 2024 Open Exhibit and Lines in Color by Alyse Radenovic at the League; The Fabulous Staigers at Nepenthe Gallery; Vantage Points: Women Artists and the Landscapeat Willow Street Gallery; and Living Colors at Pazo Fine Art.
March 2024 Open Exhibit
A Quiet Exuberance by Caitlin Garvey; Photography
Diverse artworks by member artists are the feature of Open Exhibits at The Art League. This month, 99 artworks—painting, drawing, photography, fiber art, ceramics, and mixed media—are on view. The March Open Exhibit was juried by artist Juliette Colas, and is on view through April 7.
Lines in Color by Alyse Radenovic
Alyse Radenovic at the opening of Lines in Color.
March solo artist Alyse Radenovic employs multifold vertical lines in an array of colors for the 11 works featured in her solo exhibit Lines in Color. Each painting is an elaborate yet streamlined nexus of consonant and dissonant color combinations, creating harmonious statements from the interconnection of disparate hues. Each composition is a rich and unified tapestry, at once dynamic and serene. Lines of Color is on view through April 7.
The Fabulous Staigers
Rainbow Roll no.6 by Melissa Staiger
Art League member Marsha Staiger isn’t the only artist in her family—her daughters are, too. Marsha and her New York based eldest daughter Melissa Staiger join forces for The Fabulous Staigers, a duo exhibition at Nepenthe Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia. It is on view through from March 23; 7918 Fort Hunt Road.
Vantage Points: Women Artists and the Landscape
Majestic Montserrat by Chris Luckman
Vantage Points: Women Artists and the Landscape, at Willow Street Gallery, brings together DC-based artists Mei Mei Chang, Martha Crawley, Chris Luckman, Nancy Randa, Katharine Shuman, and Katie Jett Walls, all of whom are current and past members of the artist collective at DC Arts Studios. Each of these women approach their creative expressions of the natural world differently, but each is fully in command of her perspective, centered not as a subject but as creator within the natural world. In addition to the artworks on display, these artists are opening up their process to gallery visitors with installations of reference material and inspiration behind the landscape pieces you on view. Join Willow Street Gallery for an opening reception Friday, March 15, from 6-8 p.m.; artists’ talk Friday, March 22 from 6-8 p.m.; and the closing reception and poetry reading: Friday, April 5 from 6-8 p.m. Vantage Points is on view through April 5; 6925 Willow Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Living Colors
Image detail: David Headley, School of Paris (in secondary colors), 2021
Pazo Fine Art presents Living Colors, a unique exhibition highlighting paintings by Josef Albers, Thomas Downing, Matthew Feyld, Dorothy Fratt, David Headley, Helene Herzbrun, Howard Mehring, Terry Parmelee, Kimber Smith, and Vivian Springford. Living Colors delves into the transformative period of 20th century abstractionists whose artistic dialogue underscored an important shift, among pioneers of the avant-garde, into the Color Field movement; often of the variety Clement Greenberg described as “Post Painterly Abstraction.” It is on view through May 18; 4228 Howard Avenue, Kensington, Maryland.
Call for Artists, City of Rockville Swim and Fitness Center — Rockville, MD
Deadline: March 24 As part of the City’s Art in Public Architecture program, an art installation is proposed for inclusion in the renovations of the outdoor pool at the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center. The project aims to bring a unique and vibrant artwork to the community while enhancing the aesthetic appeal of the outdoor pool. The selected artist(s) or artist teams will work to develop a design that complements the pool and the surrounding environment. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Translation Through Art — Bethesda, MD
Deadline: March 31 This exhibition will feature work by Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists based in the DMV area, in the galleries at the Mansion at Strathmore, to celebrate AAPI heritage month in May of 2024. The goal of this show is to highlight AAPI artists in the DMV area, providing the artists with a platform to showcase their work and share their stories, and an opportunity to gain increased visibility and clients for their practices. Click here for details.
Tephra ICA Internship Opportunities
Deadline: March 31 Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) offers internships for undergraduate and graduate students. Interns will facilitate projects and train as docents while exploring their interests in different departments. Areas of opportunity include Exhibitions, Gallery Management, Development, Programming, Education, and Festival Production. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, Lights Out 2024: A Group Video Exhibition — Brentwood, MD
Deadline: April 7 Lights Out: A Group Video Exhibition The Brentwood Arts Exchange is seeking submissions from artists who work in video or digital animation for a group exhibition in the Main Gallery. Themes, concepts and video duration can vary. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards — Bethesda, MD
Deadline: April 30 Submissions are open for The 2024 Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards! Up to eight finalists will be chosen to display their work at Bethesda’s Gallery B in September 2024. Click herefor details.
Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries: Requests for Proposals 2025 — Glen Echo, MD
Deadline: June 5 The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture requests exhibition proposals from artists for the Popcorn Gallery, Stone Tower Gallery, and Park View Gallery at Glen Echo Park for the calendar year 2025. The mission of the Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries is to showcase the work of diverse artists, including resident artists at Glen Echo Park and artists from the greater Washington, D.C. area. Click herefor details.
Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!
Taubman Museum of Art’s Sidewalk Art Show — Roanoke, VA
Deadline: March 13Calling All Emerging Artists! This year, the Taubman Museum of Art is celebrating its 66th Annual Sidewalk Art Show, taking place June 1 and 2 (the weekend following Memorial Day). This juried art show has become one of Southwest Virginia’s most anticipated events, a premier destination for fine art shopping – this annual museum fundraiser attracts thousands of art patrons to the historic district of downtown Roanoke. Mediums presented include fine craft, sculpture, original paintings, prints, watercolors, etchings, mixed media, jewelry, and photography. Click here for details.
Call for Film Submissions, District Dreamers Film Festival — D.C.
Deadline: March 15 Attention filmmakers from or currently residing in the greater Washington DC area! The District Dreamers Film Festival is thrilled to announce its call for submissions for our upcoming independent festival. We invite creative minds to showcase their cinematic brilliance in narratives, documentaries, or animations that captivate and inspire. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Montpelier Arts Center Announces Library Gallery Competition 2024 — Laurel, MD
Deadline: March 17 Montpelier Arts Center is holding a competition for exhibitions that will be held in the Library Gallery between September 2024 and July 2025. Eligible artists must be 18 years and older and reside in Maryland. Previous winners from 2019 to the present are ineligible. The juror may elect to exhibit artists who apply for solo shows or artists who apply as groups. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, WINTER * NEW $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo
Deadline: March 21 Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. Submissions are being accepted for Winter 2024 grants. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, Winter * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo
Deadline: March 21 Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800 grants each quarter, to (1) Artist and (1) Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Click here for details.
Call for Photography, 2024 International Portfolio Review — N.Y.
Deadline: March 22 Soho Photo, New York City’s longest-running photography gallery, is awarding solo shows to three winning photographers.The competition is open to all photographers 18 years and older. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Falls Church Arts | Flora and Fauna: Thriving or Threatened — Falls Church, VA
Deadline: March 24 Artists are invited to submit work that celebrates the beauty and diversity of the natural world or explores the challenges it faces. Exhibition Dates: Saturday, April 20–Sunday, June 9, 2024 . Click herefor details.
Call for Submissions, Foundry Gallery: Helena Foundation Young Artist Grant — D.C.
Deadline: March 29 One of Washington’s premier contemporary galleries, Foundry’s mission is to promote the work of young emerging and accomplished regional artists. We are seeking D.C. area artists interested in gallery membership and the opportunity to learn how a co-operative gallery works. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, AcrylicWorks 11: The Best of Acrylic Art Competition
Deadline: April 29 Join artists from around the globe as they share their love of acrylics in our AcrylicWorks 11: The Best of Acrylic competition. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, From My Perspective 6th Annual National Exhibition — Virginia Beach, VA
Deadline: March 30 The Virginia Beach Art Center (VB-AC) presents its 6th annual national exhibit that’s all about viewpoint. What you’re seeing, what you’re feeling and what you want to say. What will you choose? Artists from Alabama to Wyoming and all US territories are invited to show off their personal best. What will you choose? Click here for details.
Call for Entry, Wyoming Game & Fish Department Conservation Stamp Art Contest — Online
Deadline: March 31 The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Collectible Conservation Stamp Art competition continues to lead the country in state wildlife stamp art competitions in number of entries, prize money and quality of artwork. The subject 2025 is the western tanager. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Montpelier Arts Center Annual Studio Jury Competition 2024 — Laurel, MD
Deadline: March 31 Join a thriving community of professional artists in the Montpelier Resident Artist Program. Resident artists work in a diverse variety of media and styles, maintain studio hours for the public to visit, and participate in community events. These artists are selected by an annual jury panel and exhibit their work in the Montpelier Arts Center’s Resident Artist Gallery on a revolving basis. Interested artists are encouraged to visit the Arts Center, located on the beautiful grounds of Montpelier Mansion in Laurel, MD. Click here for details.
Call to Artists, Calloway Fine Art & Consulting Second Interiors Exhibit — D.C.
Deadline: April 1, 2024 We are seeking artwork representing or inspired by interiors. Artwork must be 2D – painting, drawing, or mixed media (no photography). For more information, click here.
Call for Applications, 2024 Virginia Folklife Program
Deadline: April 7 The Virginia Folklife Program invites people who are experienced in a cultural tradition to consider teaching another community member through the Folklife Apprenticeship Program. We provide funding for an individual who is considered a master of a tradition to train an apprentice of their choosing. Projects in music, dance, crafts, community storytelling, cultural reclamation, traditional healing, agriculture, foodways, and specialty trades are all welcome. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, The Coral Reef Encounter 2024 — Columbia, MD
Deadline, May 1 The Coral Reef Encounter invites artists and crafters to create Coral Critters: three dimensional, fanciful fish and/or coral inspired by the beauty of a healthy coral reef. Your piece of art will be displayed prominently underwater in the Reef on June 22 and 23, 2024 at the Jeffers Hill pool in Columbia, Maryland. Click herefor details.
Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: Until filled The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to teach their medium to groups of beginning, intermediate, and/or advanced level students. Class sizes range, depending on enrollment, from around 5 to 30 students. Experience teaching is helpful but not an absolute requirement. To apply, send a cover letter with statement of intent, resumé, and 6-10 tiffs or jpegs of current work to Ariane D’Souza via email at [email protected].
Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.
Studio Sundays Submissions, Create! Magazine
Every month Create! Magazine! picks several winning images of artists’ studio spaces and features them on their website and social media along with artists’ work and story. Submit a quality image of your workspace, studio or kitchen table where you make work for a chance to be featured. For more information and to submit, click here.
Call for Artists, Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council
Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) is featuring county artists at its newest art space Arts’tination at National Harbor, the premier arts and entertainment destination in our regions Located at 162 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD. Arts’tination is dedicated to supporting local artists and curating immersive creative experiences. PGAHC is recruiting artists to show and sell their work and/or to conduct arts related workshops for the public. Artists should submit work samples and inquires to [email protected]. For more information please visit https://www.pgahc.org/artstination.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply. For more information, click here.
Call for Art, Links Bridge Vineyards—Thurmont, MD
Links Bridge Vineyards, a small artisan style winery located just outside of Frederick, Maryland, is looking to feature the artwork of various artists on the walls of their tasting barn for two weeks at a time. To learn more, call Joan Cartier 301-602-5733 or email her at [email protected].
Pyramid Atlantic offers year-round workshops in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and hybrids thereof. We offer multi-week, daytime, evening, and weekend intensives for adults in our fully equipped studios. As part of a robust and diverse schedule of offerings, we welcome unsolicited workshop proposals, and hope that you will consider applying! Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: 1/15 for Summer Workshops; 4/1 for Fall Workshops; 7/1 for Winter Workshops; 10/1 for Spring Workshops. Questions? Email Gretchen, Artistic Director, [email protected]
Call For Stories About Women in the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council
2020 has been dedicated to the Year of the Woman in Maryland. Do you have an inspiring story about vital contributions of women-identifying people who are artists, arts administrators, or cultural workers? Perhaps an exhibition, performance or project featuring women? Share it with the Maryland State Arts Council for potential use in marketing and communications! Send your ideas to [email protected], and include “Year of the Woman” in the subject line. Satff will contact senders whose stories are selected for inclusion in future newsletters, eblasts, or social media postings. Learn more about Maryland’s year of the Woman here.
Call For Artists, Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is looking for submissions from Maryland and Virginia artists as it expands to new locations in both areas. Submissions can include drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, fiber, quilts, etc. Art images reflecting life in the city, family, portraits, whimsy, abstraction, social uplift and life experiences within diverse cultures are encouraged for submission. For more information, click here.
Alterwork Studios Online Residency
This residency was designed to give emerging contemporary artists an online platform to create new work and explore their practice. Over the course of four weeks, artists will be encouraged to experiment and explore their concepts and move their work forward in the contemporary art world. Learn more here.
Accepting Artwork for Curatorial Review by AIWA
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art features five exhibitions per year in the newly constructed first floor space in the American University Museum. We accept submissions, on a rolling basis, from Washington artists of all ages and backgrounds, and working in diverse media. The museum’s Director and Curator, Jack Rasmussen, will select curators who will review these submissions for potential use in Alper Initiative exhibitions. For more information click here.
Call For Entry Hamilton Arts Collective Guest Artist Exhibition – Baltimore, MD
The Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery seek applications from artists for month-long Guest Artist exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery located at 5502 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD. The selected guest artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in Gallery I of the Hamilton Gallery. The Guest Artist exhibition is featured in Hamilton Gallery communications and will be promoted by the HAC and Hamilton Gallery. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply. Click here to learn more.
Howard County Arts Council Quarterly Call For Artists – Ellicott City, MD
The Howard County Arts Council gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and styles including time-based and installation artists, are encouraged to apply either individually or as a group. Proposals from curators and arts organizations are also welcome. Click here to learn more.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo Downtown Baltimore — Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Art Place (MAP) is working with Hotel Indigo in downtown Baltimore to offer rotating exhibitions in the hotel’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats restaurant. This opportunity is open to visual artists living or working in Maryland. ’s public art partnership projects (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo, is pleased to announce an open call to artists. MAP will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
Solo or Group Shows in Athenaeum Gallery – VA
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) and strives to present visitors with a wide variety of excellent art and unique experiences. In addition to the shows curated by the Gallery Director, the Athenaeum Gallery invites artists and curators to submit show proposals. For more information, click here.
The Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland (MD)
Deadline: Rolling. The purpose of the Creativity Grant Program is to strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. For more information regarding eligibility and funding timelines, please review the Creativity Grants Guidelines. For more information about the program, and to apply visit the Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland website.
Artist/Writers: Cover Art for Academic Medicine
Deadline: Rolling. Submit original works of art inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient (for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, being a research participant, teaching, or being cared for in a teaching hospital). The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. Images may be cropped or resized to fit into the allotted cover space. Artists must also submit a related Cover Art essay as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connection between the work and the “academic medicine experience.” The related narrative should be 250 to 600 words and is subject to editing. To apply for this opportunity, and to learn more, visit the Academic Medicine website.
The Awesome Foundation Accepting Applications for Art Projects
Deadline: Open. The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of “awesomeness in the universe.” Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing “micro-trustees.” The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. Apply on the Awesome Foundation website.
Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place Seeks Proposals for Rotating Exhibition Partnership with Baltimore’s Hotel Indigo (MD)
Deadline: rolling. Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPACT public art partnership projects, MAP is working with Hotel Indigo to offer rotating exhibitions in Hotel indigo’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. This opportunity is available to visual artists living or working in Maryland. Maryland Art Place will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Guidelines and information here.
Peripheral ARTeries – Biennial Contemporary Art Publication
Deadline: Rolling. Peripheral ARTeries is looking for artists to be featured in the new special Biennial Edition of their art publication, that comes to its 10th edition. This opportunity is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their artist portfolio. The 10th edition will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art: Peripheral ARTeries cultivates a spirit of openness through a unique collaborative and participatory approach.Each artist may submit a maximum of three works or projects made in any technique: painting, drawing, video art, experimental cinema, fine art photography, experimental media, mixed media, installations, public art, performance. The call is open to all proposed kind of art and media capable of challenging the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. To submit, visit the Peripheral ARTeries website.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo (VA)
Artists works will displayed in the hotel’s gallery (220 S Union St, Old Town Alexandria) for a six-month period. Two-dimensional, framed works only. Artists will install the work using the hotel’s mounting hardware. Labels will be provided by the hotel. All sales handled by artist, no commission. Preference for local or locally influenced selections but not required. The space measures approximately 7’10” by 8’3.″ If interested, contact Kate Ellis, General Manager, [email protected].
The New Project Studio – Ongoing Opportunity (VA)
Ongoing. Located in Studio 8, the New Project Studio is a community-focused arts incubator space that offers a short-term location to test new program ideas, spotlight underrepresented voices, and enhance community engagement. Projects rotate on a regular basis. For more information, click here.
Public Arts Grants & Opportunities (VA)
Ongoing. The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists. See all current opportunities and online applications here.
Residency: Maryland
Deadline: ongoing. Montgomery College, Rockville and Germantown Art Department is seeking proposals for its Artist-in-Residence Program, encouraging proposals that cultivate collaborative work between artists and students.
Looking for artists: Foundry Gallery (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Foundry Gallery is seeking a few artists in the greater Washington, DC area. If interested in applying for membership please send up to five images (jpg attachments) and an email letter to: [email protected]. The oldest cooperative in Washington, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows at its beautiful space north of Shaw near the 9:30 Club.
Looking for artists: Printmakers (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Washington Printmakers Gallery is seeking artist members specializing in printmaking, photography and book arts. An active cooperative for over 30 years, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows in its lovely space in upper Georgetown. Distant and shared memberships are available. If interested in applying for membership please email [email protected].
Our annual Student/Faculty Show gives adults and youth who take classes at The Art League, and the artists who teach them, an opportunity to shine. Unlike our monthly member shows where artworks are juried in, any student who took classes or workshops between the Winter of 2023 and Winter 2024 school terms could submit art for the exhibition as long as it was work created for, or inspired by, their coursework. This year’s exhibition features over 200 works in varied mediums from paintings and drawing to soft sculpture and metalwork.
“I was delighted to see such creative, ambitious and skillful work,” says artist Mark Thomas Anderson who served as this year’s awards juror. “As a previous Art League faculty member, I am well aware of both the expert level of instruction and the ambition of students working within this vibrant artistic community. The broad scope of aesthetic interest and wide variety of course offerings at The Art League is reflected in this show. I was delighted to see such creative, ambitious and skillful work.”
Here, Anderson comments on his selection process and his prize-winning picks.
The Art League: You had a lot of artwork to choose from. How did you go about making selections?
Mark Thomas Anderson: It was a joy seeing so much quality work in the show. It was difficult to select awardees. In judging the show, I allowed myself to absorb, enjoy and admire the work. Each time I walked through the exhibition, I found many new things that excited me about the work. In the end, I selected work for awards that I emotionally responded to, and work that most captured my attention.
TAL: Did anything surprise you?
MTA: Having participated in previous student/faculty shows, I knew I was in for a treat with this exhibition. I was not at all surprised by the high quality of work in the show. It was a pleasure to see such creative, technically skillful, and ambitious work. I was surprised to see so many playful pieces.
TAL: Describe what found compelling about the prize winners.
Best-in-Show, The Art League Award: El Jineto by Frank Visco; Oil
MTA: I spent the most time looking at this small gem. Bold brushwork, clever interactions between paint layers, lively color shifts, and adjustments in color intensity fill this small work with excitement! An intriguing disconnect is created with the viewer by the sleepy eyes of the subject.
Best-in-Show for Classical Figure Drawing, Painting, or Sculpture John Foreman Award, The $38,700 Tax Bill Remained by Katherine Kokta; Oil
MTA: The underlying structure of value and shape in this portrait painting creates a strong base on which to lay color. Also, the coat was so nicely painted that I wanted to touch it. Painting a fur coat successfully is no easy feat, the edge quality, brush work, and color fluctuations really bring it to life. The viscosity and color of paint used to dab light onto each pearl rings true. The lavender background is atmospheric and complementing.
Dee Gee Watling Memorial Award, Best-in-Show for Pastel, Watching Over You by Chris Thomas; Pastel
MTA: This painting is wonderfully complex. Tension is created when a yellow background form breaks through branches and grabs our attention. However, a similar yellow form is dammed by branches, lying flat for the focus of the cardinal. Touches of red within the geometric and atmospheric background delicately meld the fiery and energetically described cardinal into the scene.
Dennis David Award for Excellence in Ceramics, Where Do We Go From Here by Sabine Arndt; Sculpture
MTA: Broken celestial serenity, the old nails are daggers in exclamation. This work seems to stress the trauma we now inflict on our planet, and may soon inflict on our satellite. The black soot covering this work of art reads as pollution, the dead floating heads are the victims of power hungry men, and the open wound is spreading beyond repair.
Best-In-Show for Watercolor, Potomac Valley Watercolorists’ Carolyn Grosse Gawarecki Award, Onions and Origami Crane by Ellen Kim
MTA: Economic, atmospheric and concrete. The confident brushwork and sensitively perceived temperature transitions bring the space to life.
Jeanie Lea Knight Award for Creative Risk Taking, Steve by Alexander Merica; Soft sculpture
MTA: This surprising work is frightfully hilarious. Playful and grotesque. This mythical creature is a clever amalgamation of found and skillfully constructed forms.
Equal Merit Award, Elsa by Christina Andreasson; Alabaster sculpture
MTA: An elegant work of art. I love the way the arms and legs of the figure are absorbed into the cascading hair. The soft and smooth figure are nicely contrasted by the fluting in the hair and the coarseness of the base.
Equal Merit Award, Best Friends by Kartaice Hooper; Stained glass
MTA: Wonderfully distilled figures. I absorbed the work as abstract shapes before the figures appeared. The balance of color, shape work, and subtle texture in this work are exquisite.
Equal Merit Award, Thistle by Teresa Casey; Printmaking
MTA: I was mesmerized by the sophisticated color transitions and strong shapes within this work. The hazy tendrils of the flower head beautifully interact with the white of the paper and contrast nicely with the geometric solidity of the flower bowl.
Equal Merit Award, Reichstag Dome (Berlin) by Chris Winther; Oil
MTA: A very ambitious painting in scale and complexity that is beautifully composed. The subtle color transitions and fuzzy reflections in the glass are carefully and precisely described. As a playful side note, the composition reminds me of the way young children draw quarter-circle suns in the corners of their landscape drawings.
Equal Merit Award, Untitled by Rebecca Kremidas; Silver jewelry making
MTA: I was attracted to the graceful motif of this shimmering and eye-catching piece. The intensity of the metal was made soft by the organic subtle textures. The tears, bends, and lines give this an interesting surface quality, leaving a crisp sunlit feeling that illuminates the viewer.
It was a privilege serving as the juror for the 2024 Student/Faculty Show at The Art League.
This weekend: 2024 Student/Faculty Show at the League; Metamorphic Reverie by Zofie King at Fred Schnider Gallery; Irresistible: The Global Patterns of Ikatat The Textile Museum; and Newly Selected Artists: Elaine Qiu, Kim Richards, and Alexandra Chiouat IA&A at Hillyer.
The Art League 2024 Student/Faculty Show
Where Do We Go From Here, by Sabine Arndt, received the Dennis Davis Award for Excellence in Ceramics in our 2024 Student/Faculty Show.
Our annual Student/Faculty Show gives adults and youth who take classes at The Art League, and the artists who teach them, an opportunity to shine. This year’s exhibition features over 200 works in varied mediums from paintings and drawing to soft sculpture and metal work. It opens Friday, February 23, and is on view through Sunday, March 3, with a closing reception from 2–4 p.m.
Metamorphic Reverie
Nocturne, Cyanotype by Kofie King; Charcoal, acrylic pen, watercolor
Artist and Art League instructor Zofie King presents Metamorphic Reverie, a solo exhibition at Fred Schnider Gallery. King’s artwork finds its roots in the Gothic aesthetic, where she merges surrealistic architectural elements with the organic beauty of nature. In the vein of Gothic literature, her work exudes a contemplative mood, woven with mysterious threads. The architectural elements pay homage to the grace of ancient cathedrals and forgotten spaces. Metamorphic Reverie opens Saturday, March 2, and is on view through April 21. Join King for an artist talk on April 6, 5–7 p.m., and a closing reception on April 20, 5-7 p.m.; 888 N Quincy Street, #102, Arlington, Virginia.
Irresistible: The Global Patterns of Ikat
Young adult’s robe, Uzbekistan, 1870s. The Textile Museum Collection 2005.36.144. The Megalli Collection.
Irresistible: The Global Patterns of Ikat, at The Textile Museum at George Washington University, celebrates the artistic and cultural legacy of ikat, a sophisticated resist-dyeing technique used across the globe to pattern textiles. Ikat designs come to life before the threads are woven into fabric through a meticulous practice of selectively binding and dyeing threads before weaving. The materials, skill and time required to create ikat fabrics have made them potent symbols of wealth and high status in many cultures. Irresistible takes visitors on a world tour of ikat that spans centuries and cultures, from India, Monsoon Asia, West and Central Asia, Japan, Africa and the Americas. It is on view through June 1; 701 21st St. NW
Washington, D.C.
Newly Selected Artists: Elaine Qiu, Kim Richards, and Alexandra Chiou
Elaine Qiu, Every Place We’ve Been, 2024, Ink, silk screen, markers, acrylic on Yupo paper
Exhibitions by Art League members Elaine Qiu and Kim Richards, along with Alexandra Chiou, are the feature of Newly Selected Artists at IA&A at Hillyer.
How have the events of the past years, from the pandemic to renewed global conflicts, affected our collective consciousness? Elaine Qui’s Every Place We’ve Been dives into the disorienting experiences of the last years on both collective and personal levels. Using images culled from various archival sources, as well as personal snapshots, the exhibition examines how history becomes a collective embodied memory and draws attention to the boundaries between the personal and the public.
Kim Richards, Into the Light, 2022, oil on wood
Kim Richards’ Into The Wilderness is a metaphor that encompasses times of struggle and peace. The paintings in this exhibition embody a narrative of being called by God to help us face the unexpected challenges that lie ahead, so that we can travel through the wilderness, restored and at peace.
Alexandria Chiou,This Path of Gold You Laid for Me, 2021, ink and cut paper
Remember / Renewcelebrates the life and legacy of Alexandra Chiou’s late father and her healing journey after his passing. In the exhibition, Chiou gives physical form to abstract concepts and feelings such as hope, love, joy and wonder, which defined the wonderful life and time she spent with her father.
Newly Selected Artists is on view through March 31. Join IA&A at Hillyer on Friday, March 1, for an opening reception; artist talk with Kim Richards Saturday, March 9, at 1 p.m.; and a discussion with Alexandra Chiou Thursday, March 21 at 6:15 p.m. IA&A at Hillyer is located at 9 Hillyer Court, NW, Washington, D.C.
