ART AS ACTION at Joan Hisaoka Gallery opens next week

 

THURSDAY, 25 JANUARY 2024 6 – 8 PM JOAN HISAOKA GALLERY @ SMITH CENTER FOR HEALING AND THE ARTS 1632 U Street NW, Washington, DC Wine and cheese reception — Free ticketed event Reserve your place by 22 January 2024

ArtWorks for Freedom presents a National Human Trafficking Prevention Month program featuring paintings by Helen Zughaib, live dance performance by Jenny Footle, and conversation spotlighting the travel and tourism sector as a key collaborator in global efforts to eliminate human trafficking, guided by industry leader Helen Marano. Additional remarks by: Julie Abraham, Director, Office of International Transportation and Trade, U.S. Department of Transportation Brian Beall, Director, National Travel and Tourism Office, U.S. Department of Commerce

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Volta Art Fair NYC has moved!

 

Change is coming for the 2024 edition of VOLTA New York. The new dates are

Preview: Wednesday, September 4

Public Days: Thursday, September 5 to Sunday, September 8

Moving to the Fall art fair season and the new venue of Chelsea Industrial (535-551 W 28th St, New York, NY 10001) places VOLTA in the heart of the city’s dynamic Chelsea district. 

As the first New York edition to take place under the helm of Artistic Director, Lee Cavaliere, the change gives VOLTA’s valued collectors and galleries a year-round outlook and ushers in a new era for the fair.

“VOLTA is entering a new chapter. That means showcasing art that speaks from the world we all inhabit. Art is a great unifier and force that brings people together. We’ll present global perspectives from artists at the cutting-edge of their practice, where tradition speaks to contemporaneity - both from our core VOLTA galleries and underrepresented voices from conflict areas, places with less access to the Western art market.

Moving to the fall season better supports our galleries through the year. VOLTA will bring new opportunities for collectors to discover rising talent and with this, a new energy to the September art fair season in New York.”

— Lee Cavaliere, Artistic Director of VOLTA

 

Situated between Chelsea and Hudson Yards, our new venue, Chelsea Industrial, is characterized by its soaring 22,000 square feet of exhibition space and a location central to the city’s arts economy during the September fair week; an optimum position for collectors to discover new artistic talent.

Bethesda Painting Awards

The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District invites local artists to submit work to the 20^th annual Bethesda Painting Awards. This juried art competition awards $14,000 in prizes to four selected winners. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, February 27, 2024. Up to eight finalists will be chosen to display their work at Bethesda’s Gallery B in June 2024.

 

A panel of esteemed jurors, including Virginia Anderson, Department Head of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Scott Hutchison, Associate Professor of Practice in painting and drawing at Georgetown University; and Nicole Santiago, Professor of Art at the College of William and Mary and the 2023 Bethesda Painting Awards Best in Show Winner, will curate the competition.

 

The first-place winner will be awarded $10,000; second place will be honored with $2,000 and third place will be awarded $1,000.  A “young” artist whose birth date is after February 28, 1994 may also be awarded $1,000.

 

Artists can apply online or download an application online. For information on the Bethesda Painting Awards, visit www.bethesda.org or call 301-215-6660.

 

Participation is open to artists aged 18 and above, residing in Maryland, Virginia, or Washington, D.C. The competition welcomes original 2-D paintings, spanning various mediums such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, encaustic, and mixed media. The maximum dimension should not exceed 60 inches in width or 84 inches in height. No reproductions. Artwork must have been completed within the last two years and must be available for the duration of the exhibition. Selected artists must deliver their artwork to the exhibit site in Bethesda, MD. Each artist must submit five images, an application and a non-refundable entry fee of $25.

The Bethesda Painting Awards was established by local business owner Carol Trawick in 2005. Ms. Trawick has served as a community activist for more than 25 years in downtown Bethesda and established The Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation in 2007. She is the former Chair of the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, past Chair of the Bethesda Urban Partnership, Inc. and founder of The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards.

 

 

Best in Show winners include:

2023  Nicole Santiago, Williamsburg, VA

2022  Andrew Hladky, Kensington, MD

2021  Megan Lewis, Baltimore, MD

2020  Lawrence Cromwell, Baltimore, MD

2019  Mary Anne Arntzen, Baltimore, MD

2018 Carolyn Case, Cockeysville, MD

2017 Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Washington, D.C.

2016 Tanja Softic, Richmond, VA

2015 Bill Schmidt, Baltimore, MD

2014 Kyle Hackett, Baltimore, MD

2013 Barry Nemett, Stevenson, MD

2012 Ali Miller, Baltimore, MD

2011 Alison Hall, Roanoke, VA

2010 Nora Sturges, Baltimore, MD

2009 Camilo Sanin, Jessup, MD

2008 B.G. Muhn, North Potomac, MD

2007 Matthew Klos, Baltimore, MD

2006 Tony Shore, Baltimore, MD

2005 Joe Kabriel, Annapolis, MD

 

From award-winning theatre to independent films, downtown Bethesda’s Arts & Entertainment District is filled with inspiring artists and art venues. The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District is managed by the Bethesda Urban Partnership, Inc., and is the producer of The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards, Bethesda Painting Awards, Bethesda Fine Arts Festival, Bethesda Film Fest and Play In A Day.

 

Established by Montgomery County in 1994, Bethesda Urban Partnership, Inc. (BUP) is a downtown management organization that markets and maintains downtown Bethesda. The BUP team works in marketing, maintenance, transportation and administration to produce cultural events and community festivals and attend to landscaping and maintenance needs. BUP also manages Bethesda Transportation Solutions (BTS), the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, and the Bethesda Circulator as well as the non-profit art spaces, Gallery B, Studio B and Triangle Art Studios. For a closer look, please visit www.bethesda.org.

William Demaria, Erin Owen & Oliver Stern at Washington Printmakers

 William Demaria, Erin Owen & Oliver Stern

AFTER THOUGHT

– emotional landscapes –

January 18 – February 25, 2024

Reception: Saturday, Jan. 20, 2-4:00 pm

After Thought explores overlooked aspects of the landscape with personal significance for each of the three artists, recording emotional experiences as opposed to simple observation.

Demaria attempts to capture the emotions he experiences within the natural landscape using a visual language inspired by Rorschach tests. He is focused on the emotional connection between humanity and the landscape, seeking to preserve his experiences with the hope it will inspire others to value the natural landscape more. 

Owen’s artwork, Dreams of Glacier National Park, is a sculpture based on the framework of the children’s game Kerplunk. Rather than marbles, the sculpture contains etched fragile glass balls filled with crude oil, barely held in place, echoing our endangered glaciers and illustrating the dire position of our ecosystem, a consequence of our dependence on crude oil and other fossil fuels.

Stern, native to Pennsylvania, grew up surrounded by the postindustrial landscape of the anthracite coal industry. In this work, Stern records emotions and memories found on a walk along the Schuylkill River to its watershed, exploring places where human infrastructure and the environment overlap and shape one another, challenging and complicating the separation between humans and nature.

Demaria and Stern look to the past to understand the present, Owen looks to the present to understand the future. While all three of these artists have different perspectives on the landscape, they share a focus on the overlooked / afterthoughts of the landscape, which tell the most about humanity and the real state of our world. 

VISIT THE SHOW

Local artist opens new gallery in Georgetown

 From the Georgetown Dish:

Washington DC based artist Robin Sutliff has opened her own gallery in Canal Square at 1054 31st St NW, #006.

She has been producing art for a majority of her life. Using acrylic and resin on multiple mediums that include metal, canvas, glass and paper, she favors rich colors, abstract minimalism, compositions that evoke the essence of nature and creations that evoke a unique spirit and response from each individual.

GREAT NEWS for the DMV art scene! As many of you may recall, Canal Square at one point three decades ago was the epicenter of the Georgetown art scene as it was the home of seven art galleries!

TWILIGHT by Robin Sutliff

DC ART NEWS wishes the best success for the new space - hopefully it will re-magnetize the Square and bring more galleries there! 

Read the full article here.

About Robin Sutliff:

Washington DC based artist Robin Sutliff has been producing art for a majority of her life. Using a mixed medium platform she used acrylic and resin, inks and powdered pigments to create extraordinarily textured pieces, Robin puts forth her emotional perspective as it manifests at the time of creation and the outcome has been a series of moving and visually compelling works of art. 

As an artist, she favors rich colors, abstract minimalism, compositions that evoke the essence of nature and that triggers a response from viewers. 

Visit her website here. 

2023 Baker Artist Awards winners to be highlighted

2023 Baker Artist Awards winners to be highlighted
during January 19 MPT Artworks special

Six Maryland artists earn prestigious award as part of annual program

Maryland Public Television (MPT) will profile the six winners of the 2023 Baker Artist Awards competition during a special Artworks episode airing on Friday, January 19 at 7:30 p.m. on MPT-HD and online at mpt.org/livestream. The program will also be available to watch on the free PBS App and MPT’s online video player.

 

A preview of Artwork’s 2023 Baker Artist Awards special and individual artist profiles can be found at mpt.org/programs/baker-artist-awards.

 

Now in its 15^th year, the Baker Artist Awards celebrates the Baltimore region’s creative vitality and recognizes individuals with outstanding talent. Artists who create an online Baker Artist Portfolio and reside in Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Carroll County, Harford County, or Howard County are eligible for awards. The 2023 winners were announced by the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund in June, 2023.

 

Prizes are awarded to artists who exemplify a mastery of craft, commitment to excellence, and a unique and compelling vision across six creative disciplines: visual arts, inter- and multi-disciplinary work, music, performance, film/video, and literary arts.

 

The Baker Artist Awards has distributed $1.3 million in annual prize money since its launch in 2009. In 2023, one artist from each of the six artistic disciplines received a $10,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize. One of the six selected artists was also honored with the additional $30,000 Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize, taking home a total of $40,000.

2023 Baker Artist Award winners:

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson (literary arts; Baltimore City – Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize winner) – Dickinson’s writings span multiple genres, including narrative nonfiction, journalism, short fiction, and memoir. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Washington Post Magazine, and The Southern Review, among other publications. Dickinson has earned numerous awards and accolades for her work, and was named a 2018 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

Jordan Tierney (visual arts; Baltimore City) – Tierney’s experiential found-objects art is made mostly from trash collected from Maryland’s natural spaces. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution, Baltimore Museum of Art, and American Visionary Art Museum.

Abdu Ali (music; Baltimore City) – Ali is a musician, producer, poet, and multidisciplinary artist who works in sound, video, and live performance. Ali has performed at MoMa Ps1, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, and The Kennedy Center, and has had work featured in The New York Times, The Fader, and Elephant Magazine.

Oletha DeVane (inter- and multi-disciplinary work; Howard County) – DeVane’s multi-disciplinary work includes sculpture, mixed-media visual art, and video installations. Her work is on display in permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of the Bible, and Museum of the Americas, and has been featured in publications including B’more Art Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, and The Washington Post.

Colette Krogol (performing arts; Baltimore City) – Krogol is a choreographer, director, performer, and filmmaker. She is co-artistic director and co-founder of Orange Grove Dance, whose dance and film works have been produced and presented by The Finlandia Foundation, The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Lönnström Taidemuseo, Museum of Zhang Zhidong, Raumars AIR, Officina Creativa, CerCCa, and Klaustrid at Skriduklaustir.

Margaret Rorison (film/video; Baltimore City) – Rorison’s work has shown at festivals including The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, SF CROSSROADS, Open City Documentary Film Festival, and Mono No Aware Cinema Arts Festival. Her experimental short films have earned her the ORWO Award for Best Cinematography at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and a special jury prize at the New Orleans Film Festival.

Registration is NOW OPEN for the 37th Annual Northern National Art Competition

The 37th annual Northern National Art Competition will be held at the Nicolet College Art Gallery nestled among the trees in Rhinelander, WI.

More than $8500 will be awarded in prizes including three, $1000 awards of excellence. Open to US artists 18 years of age and up. $35 entry fee entitles the artists to submit one or two pieces for consideration. There is no theme and artwork must be 2D and hang-able.

Began in 1987, this show is a cooperative venture between Nicolet College Arts & Enrichment and the Northern Arts Council (NAC). The Northern National Art Competition strives to showcase a cross section of contemporary art in a variety of two-dimensional mediums. Each year, hundreds of artists nationwide submit work to be considered for inclusion by a judge, and the art is always both visually exciting and intellectually stimulating.

WPA: Open Call for Artwork: Collectors' Night 2024

Open Call for Artwork: Collectors' Night 2024

Deadline: Monday, January 29, 2024

Submission Portal Here

Collectors’ Night raises money for WPA’s artist-organized exhibitions, programs, and projects. Taking place each spring, this annual benefit sale includes more than one hundred artworks by artists living throughout the United States. Proceeds from the sale are split between the artists and WPA.

The auction will take place during the last week of April into the first week of May. We plan to hold the auction online on Artsy, and install all the artworks onsite in Washington, DC, for the closing gala event, Collectors' Night, on Saturday, May 4 (SVTD! subject to change).

There is no submission fee.