Alchemical Vessels 2015
March 27 - May 22, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, March 27 | 7-9pm
Make your contribution starting on Tuesday, March 10th at 10am!
The
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
is happy to announce the return of the
Alchemical Vessels
Exhibition and Benefit in 2015! This year's exhibition will run from
March 27 - May 22, 2015,
with the special
by-contribution-only Benefit
on
Friday, May 1st,
where everyone who makes a $150 Benefit-Vessel contribution (beginning
Tuesday, March 10th at 10am) can select one of the works in the
exhibition to add to their collection! The vessels are selected in the
order contributions were made, so the earlier you make a contribution,
the earlier you can select your work of art!
This year's exhibition and benefit features works from
over 100 new artists hand-selected by 20 prominent curators.
See below for a list of this year's incredible line-up of artists & our invited curators, and visit www.smithcenter.org/benefit to learn more and
make your contribution beginning 10am on Tuesday, March 10th!
Artists:
David Alfuth, Beth Baldwin, Rhoda Baer, Emily Biondo, Ed Bisese, Julia
Bloom, Raya Bodnarchuk, Joseph Bradley, Judy Byron, Lenny Campello,
Jessica Cebra, Mei Mei Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Patterson Clark, Billy
Colbert, Susan Cole, Paula Crawford, Michael Crossett, Sarah Dale,
Catherine Day, JD Deardourff, Jennifer DePalma, Robert Devers, Jessica
Drenk, Patricia Dubroof, Pam Eichner, Dana Ellyn, Margo Elsayd, Susan
Finsen & Michael Holt, Sharon Fishel, Kathryn Freeman, Marcia Fry,
Adrienne Gaither,
Michael Gessner, Carol Brown Goldberg, Pat Goslee, Matthew Grimes,
Andrea Haffner, Courtney Hengerer, Jeff Herrity, Maurice "Mo" Higgs,
Ryan Hill, Joseph Hoffman, Jeff Huntington, David Ibata, Martha Jackson
Jarvis, Njena Surae Jarvis, Rose Jaffe, Mike Johnson, Mariah Anne
Johnson, Wayson Jones, Maria Karametou, Sally Kauffman, Elizabeth
Kendall, Joanne Kent, Hana Kim, Micheline Klagsbrun , Kitty Klaidman, PD
Klein, George Koch, Yar Koporulin, Peter Krsko, Bridget Sue Lambert,
Maria Lanas, Toni Lane,
Khanh Le, Jun Lee, Kyujin Lee, Nate Lewis, Mimi Logothetis, Steve Loya,
Akemi Maegawa, Alex Mayer, Donna M. McCullough, Kathryn McDonnell,
Maggie Michael, Vanessa Monroe, E.J. Montgomery, Lucinda Murphy, Ziad
Nagy, Leslie Nolan, Frederick Nunley, Cory Oberndorfer, John Paradiso,
Elena Patiño, Miguel Perez Lem, Brian Petro, Thomas Petzwinkler, Jeneen
Piccuirro, Michael B. Platt & Carol A. Beane, Pattie Porter
Firestone, Tom Raneses, Red Dirt Studios, Ellington Robinson, Carolyn
Roth, Bonner Sale,
Jean Sausele Knodt, Matt Sesow, Foon Sham, Janathel Shaw, Lillian Shaw,
Bernardo Siles, Steve Skowron, Jeffrey Smith, Anna Soevik, Langley
Spurlock, Stan Squirewell, Rebecca Stone Gordon, Lynn Sures, Tang, Lisa
Marie Thalhammer, Valerie Theberge, Michael Torra, Kelly Towles, Dan
Treado, Ruth Trevarrow, Tariq Tucker, Pamela Viola, Ellyn Weiss, Lee
Wheeler, Catherine White, Sharon Wolpoff, Sue Wrbican, and Jenny Wu
Curators:
Sondra N. Arkin, Artist & Independent Curator | Philip Barlow,
Associate Commissioner, DC Department of Insurance, Securities &
Banking; Board Member, District of Columbia Arts Center & Millenium
Arts Salon | Chuck Baxter, Artist | Robert Devers, Professor of Fine
Arts and Ceramics, Corcoran School of the Arts + Design, George
Washington University | Thomas Drymon, Curator, doris-mae | Charlie
Gaynor, Realtor and Photographer, member of the Mid City Artists | Aneta
Georgievska-Shine,
Lecturer in Art History, University of Maryland and Smithsonian
Institution | George Hemphill, Gallery Director, Hemphill | Francie
Hester, Visual Artist | Don Kimes, Professor, Director Studio Art
Program, American University Department of Art; Artistic Director,
Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution | Zofie Lang, Artist | Mary
Liniger, Executive Director, Art Enables | Akemi Maegawa, Artist | Jayme
McLellan, Director & Founder, Civilian Art Projects | Twig Murray,
Gallery Director, Athenaeum
Gallery | Victoria Reis, Co-Founder, Executive & Artistic Director,
Transformer | Nancy Sausser, Curator and Exhibitions Director, McLean
Project for the Arts | Andy Shallal, Founder, Busboys and Poets | Stan
Squirewell, Artist
