Great Opportunity for Young Artists!
Children through age 19 are encouraged to enter original artwork for display at the festival.
Arts activities will also be made available for children to explore their own creativity.
To participate, download application materials here.
Get in on the Ground Floor of the new TOUCHSTONE GALLERY. Only four new memberships still available. Guys in hard hats wielding hammers and wires are putting the finishing touches on Touchstone’s new modern gallery at 901 New York Avenue NW, an attractive street-level space in the heart of Washington, DC. It’ll be fantastic! Members Benefits: a biennial solo show, monthly member shows, artist bins, gallery website/online artist pages/store, fulltime director.
Contact Ksenia Grishkova now [email protected] or 202 347-2787. She’ll answer questions and explain our flexible jury process designed to accommodate your individual circumstances and location. http://www.touchstonegallery.com.
CM Dupre’s new series Alice will be featured at the new Art League Gallery space in National Harbor, MD from July 20 – September 5, 2010. Opening reception: Tuesday, July 20, 6:30-8:30 pm.
Who else has continued to lead such an eventful and fascinating existence as Alice? Compared to saints, heroes, screen stars, musicians and artists, intellectuals, inventors, politicians, she’s given us more: in elaborate chains of circumstance, indelible processes of redefinition, psychological growth and exorbitance. Her strengths arose from curiosity and imagination. There is no doubt that Alice IS—and more—she is transformation.
So the titles tell part of her story. “Alice is the Variable ‘X’,” “Alice is a Leaping Metaphor,” “Alice is the Deus ex Machina,” “Alice Is and Alice Isn’t”: clues to Alice’s potential and her increasing influence (initiated by the spell-bound gaze of Lewis Carroll). Her potential is step-by-step, beginning in childhood calculations, punctuated rebuttals, word-games, chance meetings, and entry into several worlds at once. They award her perceptions while creating her as virtual abundance—a hybrid artwork in an interrogatory space.
The second series takes Alice’s motivated forces further than self-identity and the Self as inscribed, as expression, as contour-context, or as a subject-summary.
Alice’s role goes on from a reality-fantasy condition that can begin to remark on the world through her infinite varieties and shifting shapes—that give her fame and fortune—onto different terrains, times, places, including for instance, the year 2010 of inclusion.
Her inner complexities become a sifting, sieving, filtering drama that stretches out beyond Alice in Wonderland, the proverbial Looking Glass, or Alice Liddell, flowing onto a world stage of reciprocal cycles and surrounds of meaning: the air that is breathed by others, cures found only in the unknown, in the shade of mourning and memory. Alice begins to search through living archives, finding in them an inconsolable poetics as she discovers varied replacements to the ‘unknowable sublime,’ presentable for now in the most compelling language of all, imagery.
Location: The Art League at National Harbor is located at 120 American Way, Oxon Hill, MD 20745.
Hours: Wednesday–Friday, noon–7:00pm; Saturday–Sunday, noon–6pm.
Exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.
Our juror is Kathleen Ewing, owner of Kathleen Ewing Gallery, which specializes in photography. She represents over 40 contemporary photographers and maintains an inventory of 19th and 20th century vintage photographs. She was the Executive Director of The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, from 1991 to 2007 and is also the Executive Director of the Art Dealers Association of Greater Washington.
You can now apply online, follow the link below:
<http://www.torpedofactory.
For a hard copy of a prospectus, send a SASE to:
Target Gallery
Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 North Union Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
Call: 703-838-4565 x 4
Email: targetgallery@torpedofactory.
http://www.torpedofactory.org/
 Join internationally known stained glass artist and Art League instructor Jimmy Powers as he guides you through a day filled with incredible visual delights in Richmond, VA on Sunday, August 1.
First we’ll visit the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and view the Tiffany: Color and Light exhibit – the only US viewing of this exhibit celebrating one of America’s greatest artists, Louis Comfort Tiffany. The exhibition focuses on his primary achievements – the innovative techniques and artistry he developed to achieve original and spectacular effects in glass. Among the exhibition’s more than 180 objects are examples of the leaded-glass windows and lamps, for which he is best known, as well as blown-glass vessels and decorative objects such as mosaics, jewelry, bronzes, paintings, watercolors, architectural elements, and silver. Click here to read more about this exhibit. We’ll then go to the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden for the exhibit, Glorious Glass in the Garden: The Art of Hans Godo Frabel. This world-class exhibit by the renowned glass artist will feature more than one hundred pieces ranging from the realistic to the whimsical. Prestigious collectors of Frabel’s glass creations include Queen Elizabeth II, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and President Jimmy Carter. Click here for more details about this exhibit.
A motorcoach will depart the Torpedo Factory Art Center at 7:00 am. Cost: $105. Includes a boxed lunch and guided tours through both exhibits. Time to explore and visit the museum gift shops is included.
Spaces are extremely limited as Tiffany: Color and Light closes on August 15!
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This is a great opportunity! Visit their website for the entry form and prospectus: http://www.citygallerydc.com/
The 11th Biennial Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair and Conference presents an exciting weekend of events which will examine the evolution of the book as art and the latest innovations and interpretations of this versatile form. For the first time, this year’s Book Arts Fair will also include a contemporary print component, which will examine the print form as an independent medium as well as its relationship to the book.
November 5-7, 2010
Silver Spring, MD (Washington DC Metro Area)
Fair exhibitor application due July 12!
Apply now at www.zapplication.org.
Details available on the website: http://
Confirmed Speakers:
– Peter Bushell, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, School of Art,
Illinois State University
– Deborah Cornell, Chair of Printmaking, School of Visual Arts, Boston
University
– Steven Daiber, Proprietor of Red Trillium Press
– Harry Lee Poe, Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture, Union
University & President of the Board of Directors, Edgar Allan Poe Museum
– Tony White, Head of the Fine Arts Library, Indiana University Bloomington
& Field Editor for Artist’s Books and Books for Artists, CAA.Reviews
– Guild of Book Workers, Potomac Chapter
Films:
– Between the Folds
– Proceed and Be Bold!
– Typeface
– Who Does She Think She Is?
More details forthcoming on the Book Arts Fair website and blog!
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The Art League is featured in this month’s Washingtonian Best Bet’s issue under “Zaniest Art Events” for “Best Art Fundraiser” for our Annual Patrons’ Show! Go grab an issue and check out the great review!
LAST WEEK TO APPLY!
MEZZ GALLERY @ ARTISPHERE
Deadline Extended to June 29, 2010
Artisphere, the metropolitan-DC area’s newest cultural center, is set to open in Arlington on 10-10-10 with multiple venues, including: a 4,000 square foot ballroom space, a wi-fi lounge, a café, three distinct gallery spaces, as well as three flexible theater/performance spaces!
MEZZ Gallery at Artisphere
CALL FOR VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION PROPOSALS: Deadline Extended: June 29, 2010
The Mezz Gallery at Artisphere provides Arlington artists, arts groups, organizations and curators a new and exciting exhibition opportunity.
ELIGIBILITY: Proposals will be accepted from individual artists, arts groups, organizations, and curators who live, work, study or maintain a studio in Arlington County.
AWARDS: $500 honorarium will be awarded for each selected proposal.
ENTRY FEE: $25 application fee per proposal.
PROPOSALS: May include themed or solo exhibitions by Arlington artists. Arlington based curators may propose exhibitions featuring multiple artists in or outside of Arlington. Proposals may include single- or mixed-media. Media may include photography, hand-pulled prints, letterpress, wall hung sculptural installations, crafts, textiles, fashion, drawing, painting, etc. All proposals must be submitted via https://arlington.slideroom.
In conjunction with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the juried show at The Art League Gallery in May 2010 was Curves, featuring works based on and celebrating the human figure. The Art League wanted to tie in a fundraising event for breast cancer awareness while maintaining a connection to the arts.
Art League member Paula Stern serves on the Board of Directors of Avon Products, Inc. and encouraged The Art League to donate the proceeds from the fundraising event to the philanthropic arm of the organization, which promotes a dual mission of supporting breast cancer research as well as domestic and gender violence awareness.
Lisa Schumaier, Torpedo Factory artist and Art League member, was approached to create a sculpture to connect the fundraising event and The Art League exhibit. She created a papier-mâché figure of Hygeia, the Greek and Roman goddess of health and cleanliness.
The Art League donated funds raised to the Avon Foundation through “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Ta-ta’s” team. Donations were collected as individuals wrote a message of remembrance or victory on a strip of pink paper. These strips were applied to the figure of Hygeia. Many Torpedo Factory artists donated pink paper in various shades, which was put to use overlapping Hygeia’s newsprint-covered frame. Lisa further encouraged the success of the drive by pulling the sculpture out into the middle of the Torpedo Factory on weekends, talking to people about the cause, and asking for donations. Throughout the course of the fundraising event, visitors to the Torpedo Factory and The Art League donated over $500.
View the journey of Hygeia here.
June 19 was a blistering day in the DC area, but the heat did not keep artists and art appreciators away from coming to Old Town Alexandria for The Art League’s first FREE “Paint” Alexandria event. Seven demonstrations were held throughout the day in a variety of media, and over 300 people came to enjoy the event! Thank you everyone!
Peter Ulrich’s completed demo piece during “Paint” Alexandria 2010.
Each day introduces a different medium, with the emphasis being on unusual and unique approaches to materials and their uses. The class can accommodate both the Realist and the Abstractionist in creating art that encourages exploration. Some techniques covered are: oil pastel and wax sgrafitto drawing, ink and crayon etching, multiple paper stencil monotypes, and multimedia collage. A materials fee payable to the instructor covers some items. 
Complete information and online application are available at www.diversemarkets.net. Contact [email protected] 202.543.3370 for more information.
The Art League is part of Handcrafted Alexandria – a collection of thirteen creative businesses in the Old Town and Del Ray neighborhoods of Alexandria, Virginia. Each business features one-of-a-kind handmade items and invites you to explore your creative side with classes and materials for your own projects.
Check out this great informational post about dealing with rejection as an artist!
Renee Phillips “The Artrepreneur Coach”: Hedging Against Rejection
by Nancy Jacques
