Context Art Miami is coming!

Alida Anderson Art Projects will be in booth A29 at the Context Art Miami tent of Art Miami in Wynwood during the Art Basel Miami beach week of art fairs in Miami coming this November 29 through December 5th!

Harlee H. Little Jr. Artist Residency Program

Black Artists of DC (BADC), in collaboration with STABLE is pleased to announce the initiation of the Harlee H. Little Jr. Artist Residency Program. During 2022 – 2023 a residency is offered to locally based artists in the Greater Washington, DMV Area. 

DEADLINE: December 1, 2022

FEE: Free to apply 

WHERE: Washington DC

WHO: Local (DC area); All mediums 

Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grants

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who 1) have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding, or 2) incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000. Applicants must be individual artists, or an individual representing an artist collective, ensemble, or group.

DEADLINE: December 12, 2022

FEE: Free to apply 

AWARD INFO: ranges from $500-$3,000

WHO: National (U.S.); visual arts, dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry

Art Scam Alert!

 Beware of this dirtbag trying to rip off artists:

From:  Richard Albers  - albersrichard67@gmail.com -

My name is Richard Albers from Washington, DC. I have been on the lookout for some artworks lately in regards to I and my wife's anniversary which is just around the corner. I stormed on some of your works which i found quite impressive and intriguing. I must admit your doing quite an impressive job. You are undoubtedly good at what you do.

With that being said, I would like to purchase some of your works as a surprise gift to my wife in honor of our upcoming wedding anniversary. It would be of help if you could send some pictures of your piece of works, with their respective prices and sizes, which are ready for immediate (or close to immediate) sales. My budget for this is within the price range of $1000 to $9000.

I look forward to reading from you in a view to knowing more about your pieces of inventory. As a matter of importance, I would also like to know if you accept check as a means of payment.

Best regards,

Richard.

A Bruns and Campello work!

I am honored to... and cannot wait to share this: "Death on the March", assemblage of an original Campello graphite drawing on reclaimed unfired Bisque, and oil on panel, 18x8in, by DMV artist J. Jordan Bruns -- It will be at the CONTEXT Art Fair in Miami, Florida in a couple of weeks during Art Basel Miami Beach week in booth A29! Does this piece ROCK or what!

"Death on the March" by J. Jordan Bruns and Campello

Art Clinic Online to host J. Jordan Bruns

Please join the next ACO meeting, November 12th, at 10:30am. 

The featured speaker will be DMV artist J.Jordan Bruns, who will talk about his artistic path after three years of residence in Japan! It should be lots of fun.

ZOOM Link is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84149389951?pwd=QkNqUU1ZMFJ5SXpSU1dFOVFTeXZZZz09

Meeting ID: 841 4938 9951

Passcode: 593923

Bring your interest, questions, suggestions and comments. And as usual, you can view past presentations at: https://m.youtube.com/c/JJordanBruns/videos

Artomatic memories

Wednesday, November 9th and Busboys and Poets from 6 - 8 pm.

This Artomatic event is FREE to the public.

In 1999 a handful of visual artists decided to take control of their need for space to be seen, heard and experienced. Douglas Development offered them the 90,000 square foot Historic Manhattan Laundry on Florida Avenue, NW between 14th and 13th Streets. 

On Wednesday, November 9th they will discuss their unique effort to provide open access to all artists, on a first come-first-serve basis. Structured so participating artists would contribute their time and skills to organize the space that would be free to the public. 

HEAR THEIR STORY Wednesday, November 9th and Busboys and Poets from 6 - 8 pm. This Artomatic event is FREE to the public.

I did AOM 2 and 3 waaaay back.... Many of today's top DC artists have Art-O-Matic in their resume: the late Manon Cleary, Dan Steinhilber, Adam Bradley, Scott Hutchison, the Dumbacher brothers, Renee Stout, Tim Tate, Michael Clark, Allison Miner, Jordan Tierney, Richard Dana, Graham Cladwell, Judy Jashinsky, Richard Chartier, and many, many others.

Here's my review of the third AOM from 20 years ago!  A different review for another long-gone magazine is here.

Bethesda Fine Arts Festival Accepting Applications

The 18th Annual Bethesda Fine Arts Festival will be held on May 13 & 14, 2023 in downtown Bethesda, MD. All original fine art and fine craft is eligible, including ceramics, clothing/fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, wood and other.

Artist amenities include breakfast and lunch for participating artists and 24-hour security. Volunteers will distribute beverages and booth sit. All booth locations are accessible by vehicle for set-up and tear down. 

A jury will select award winners from on-site evaluation and $2,500 in prize monies will be given.

Deadline to apply is December 16, 2022.

Details and application link here.

MEG Photography Exhibition Juried by Karen Keating

Exhibition Dates: November 1 to November 27, 2022

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition of photography juried by Karen Keating.  The exhibition features the work of MEG member artists at our gallery in the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA.  

About Karen Keating

Karen Keating is a fine art photographer, educator, juror and curator. She is president of Photoworks at Glen Echo Park and has for many years been the photo studio teacher at The Field School, Washington, D.C. (now retired).  Karen has an MFA in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has studied at the Corcoran School of Art, Maine Photographic Workshops and the Santa Fe Workshops with Joe Cameron, Keith Carter, Arno Minkinnen, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, Eugene Richards, and Ernesto Bazan.  Karen Keating’s photography explores ordinary moments of everyday life and she is recognized widely for her beautiful and poetic silver gelatin black and white prints.

Art Inquiries and Acquisition:

All photographs in the exhibition are available for acquisition at Multiple Exposures Gallery in the Torpedo Factory Art Center.  Additional information about photograph image size and framing options can be provided by the individual artists, or you may send an email request directly to Multiple Exposures Gallery at info@multipleexposuresgallery.com.

Electro-etching Residency in Canary Islands

The artists will take part in the process of electro-etching carried out by the specialist Alfonso Crujera

An opportunity to take part in recent experiences in the process of electro-etching carried out by the artist and specialist Alfonso Crujera. The residency-workshop is located in the vicinity of the biosphere reserve of the island of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain). With excellent views to the Atlantic Ocean is surrounded by a quiet, natural environment, ideal for reflection and creation.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2022

FEE: Free to apply 

WHERE: Canary Islands, Spain

WHO: International; Non toxic Printmaking, Printmaking, Visual art

Erwin Timmers at Context Art Miami

"Hope", "Heart" and "V is for..." are cast glass, and steel frame artworks by DMV artist Erwin Timmers, -18”Hx10”Wx4”D- and will be at the Context Art Miami art fair in Miami in a couple of weeks during Art Basel week in booth A29! And meanwhile do not forget to check out Erwin's great solo show currently on view at Artists & Makers Studios in Rockville!

Christina

"Christina" is Kilnformed glass, glass powder imagery, and aluminum artwork circa 2022 and 49x37 inches by DMV artist Michael Janis -- It will be at the CONTEXT Art Fair in Miami in a couple of weeks during Art Basel Miami Beach week in booth A29!

Emergency Grant applications for Independent Maryland Artists

Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Emergency Grant applications for Independent Artists are currently being accepted for $2,000 grants! If you have experienced a loss of income due to an emergency scenario occurring after January 1, 2022 that impacts your work as an independent artist, we encourage you to apply. Reach out to Program Directors Laura Weiss at laura.weiss@maryland.gov and Emily Sollenberger at emily.sollenberger@maryland.gov for more information.

Applications accepted on a rolling basis and awarded monthly. Apply now!

More Clay! The Power of Repetition

American University Museum

at the Katzen Arts Center

Gallery Talk (hybrid):
More Clay! The Power of Repetition
Saturday, November 5, 5:00 - 6:00pm
-free-

Join my good friend curator Rebecca Cross for an after-hours Gallery Talk. In this hybrid event, artist Connor Czora will join Cross in person at the museum while artists Walter McConnell, Zimra Beiner, Bean Finneran, Vanessa Ryerse, Kahlil Irving, David Hicks, and Kate Roberts join via Zoom. This event is also available for you to view virtually by registering here. 

More Clay! is a multi-artist exhibition that demonstrates the power of assembling multiples as a compelling vehicle for the artists to express their chosen subject-matter as they transform this humble, sustainable material…dirt! into something monumental in form and content. More Clay aims to physically demonstrate the unifying principle of “out of many, one” a concept absent in today’s fractured society.

Venusian Sigil Crafting Workshop with Jessica Kallista

 Forecast

Venusian Sigil Crafting Workshop with Jessica Kallista

Friday, 5:30pm–6pm

Opening Reception & Artist Talk

Friday, 6pm–8pm

Both events will take place at Tephra ICA at Signature and are free and open to the public. Please RSVP here for the workshop as capacity is limited.

Join them on Friday, November 4 for the opening reception for Forecast, an exhibition "presenting twenty-two image and text works that speak to our collective futures. Far from a singular vision, these predictions span the range from willing the utopic into existence to raising the alarm bells about what may be to come."

The predictions, or “Buoyant Oracles” as they came to be known, were created by a cohort of female identifying artists responding to Sue Wrbican’s public sculpture Buoyant Force, which is located in Reston Town Square Park in Reston, Virginia.  

Buoyant Force is a 50-foot steel sculpture by Sue Wrbican inspired by the paintings of American Surrealist Kay Sage (b. 1898, Albany, New York; d. 1963, Woodbury, Connecticut). In the tradition of the surrealists’ incorporation of magic practices into their art, exhibiting artist Jessica Kallista is offering a Venusian Sigil Crafting Workshop starting at 5:30pm in advance of the opening. The workshop is based on practices created by Peter Bebergal and Gareth Branwyn in the forthcoming book Roleplaying Magic: Gaming the Occult Imagination, and participants will be guided through a series of steps to craft their own pictorial symbols.

Forecast is presented in partnership with Mason Exhibitions from George Mason University. A concurrent exhibition, Cast/Recast, is currently on view at Mason Exhibitions Arlington located at 3601 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA through December 3. Cast/Recast is a group exhibition of photography, video, sculpture, painting, site-specific installation, and live performative work for select programs. Curated by Alissa Maru in collaboration with Hannah Barco and Sue Wrbican.

Forecast is on view November 3, 2022–January 22, 2023

Tephra ICA at Signature is located at the Signature apartment building (11850 Freedom Dr, Reston, VA), and visitors are welcome Tuesday–Saturday from 11am–5pm.

 

Tephra ICA at Signature is an innovative satellite gallery space that presents a year-round schedule of exhibitions featuring work by local and regional artists as selected by Tephra ICA curatorial staff. The gallery is provided in partnership with Boston Properties and Bozzuto, and generously sponsored by Reston Community Center.

In a galaxy far away

Will be at CONTEXT Art Fair in booth A29 during Art Basel Miami Beach week of art fairs in Miami!

The Home and the World

VASA Online Exhibitions introduces five perspectives by Argentinean artists that "photograph in the streets and at home. In some cases homes are turned into streets and the street becomes a home. In this sense the "street" becomes a performance platform for expressive gestures."

The five different perspectives on street photography is by five Argentinian artists: Patricia Ackerman, Ivan Komin, Jose de Rocco, Sofia Ungar, Diego Wisniacki.

The exhibition was curated by The Home and the World

Diego Wisniacki has some of my favorite images in this show - he certainly has a wide and diverse array of images, ranging from cats to someone on the throne... this subtle and beautiful photograph was my favorite.

He writes:

The house as the street

The confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic turned our family home into the only liveable space. With a lot of time at my disposal, I began to take photos of my family capturing our daily lives. I was in my element, I always liked to portray intimacy and the confinement brought this opportunity to my daily living. As a street photographer I have my camera with me all the time looking for images while reacting to the environment and the new way of living.

Jufre is the story of my family in a pandemic. A family which was already used to a certain isolation during beach vacations in a remote part of Uruguay. This experience facilitated our beginning of the pandemic isolation and made it easier for us to adapt to living together in the same space 24 hours a day. But it was different, it had no expiration date, it was our new reality.

But it is Patricia Ackerman who steals this show -- there's not a single mediocre photo in her large number of entries in this show and her images are by far the most interesting set of images, where Ackerman shows an enviable sense of composition and that critical aspect of a great street photographer: capturing the unusual from an even more unusual perspective.

Her succinct artist statement explains why:

I could stand on a corner or sit in a park for two hours looking up, looking around, trying to find the different constellations we make with the surrounding space and with the others. Everything is changing but at some point it freezes in a fleeting scene. That is what I try to find when I walk anywhere. With eyes with history and new at the same time. Eyes speak.

See the whole show here.

The DNC Plantation is falling apart

Texas GOP Rep. Mayra Flores on Wednesday tweeted that she was denied admission to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC). The CHC was originally founded as a bipartisan grouping of Latino members of Congress. They are all now essentially only DNC plantation Latinos.

I essentially predicted what is now happening... about 20 years ago.... follow the link below:

https://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2005/12/these-things-really-spin-me-off.html

Erwin Timmers at Artists & Makers Studios

Artists & Makers Studios on Parklawn Drive in Rockville will welcome invited Artist Erwin Timmers along with Artists of the Washington Glass School for the exhibit “A Show of Hands” with two additional exhibits and an Open Studio event. 

The November 4th First Friday evening opening will run from 5pm – 9pm. Enjoy additional exhibits - “X marks the spot” with Resident Artists, and Gallery 209 Artists exhibiting their latest work. 

Dutch-born Erwin Timmers is the both the co-founder and Director of the Washington Glass School and one of the planet's earliest "green" artists. 

His work "references sociological and environmental issues of concern to him, primarily how we, as a society, consume and discard precious resources. For this topic the choice of materials becomes a more important discussion, so Erwin endeavors to use recycled materials to express concepts and ideas of recycling and use of the environment.  Recycled glass is difficult to use, so he has had to develop new and experimental techniques to exploit the characteristics of this material. A Show of Hands explores personal and cultural traits as they relate to present day social trends. Technological “advances” have changed the landscape in human interaction, and social media focuses on aspects of cultural loss, fake news, mass manipulation, and diversion and division. This series is about the expression of nonverbal and abstract themes like trust, communication, and connection. Erwin’s portfolio showcases the possibility and beauty of recycled material, while encouraging the viewer to consider his or her environmental impact."

“A Show of Hands” with Invited Artist Erwin Timmers along with Artists of the Washington Glass School -- “X marks the spot” with Resident Artists The Artists of Gallery 209.

Opening Reception: 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Friday, November 4th, 2022

Artists & Makers Studios

11810 Parklawn Drive, Suite 210

Rockville, MD 20852

Artist Discussion with Erwin Timmers – November 12th, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Exhibits for Erwin Timmers, the Resident Artists, and Gallery 209 will run from November 1st through November 22nd. Viewing hours are 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Monday-Saturday, and Sundays by chance or appointment.

Artists Sunday is coming up!

Artists Sunday is an annual event that showcases the work of artists and artisans local to you! This year it takes place November 27, 2022.

✓ Artists Sunday is a day to support local artists in your community.

✓ Artists Sunday was created in 2020 to encourage people to shop with artists and buy art as gifts during the holidays.

✓ There’s perhaps nothing more personal than a gift of the arts.

✓ Give something special, unique, and handcrafted this holiday season and support local artists and the local economy.

✓ More than 500 communities across the United States have come together for the second year to champion local artists and promote the giving of the arts this holiday season.

✓ Communities from coast-to-coast, large and small, are celebrating Artists Sunday on Nov 27, 2022 by highlighting local artists, creators and makers and promoting the giving of artistic items and experiences for the holidays.

✓ Positioned during the year’s busiest holiday shopping weekend, Artist Sunday, falls between Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday.

✓ Artists Sunday unites artists and communities across the country, all promoting shopping with local artists.

✓ Artists Sunday, the Sunday after Thanksgiving (Nov 27 this year), is the world’s largest art event, dedicated to supporting artists and recognizing the impact they have in enriching our lives, communities, and the economy.

By supporting the work of these artists and artisans and creators we not only support and stimulate your local economy, which as most of us know is in dire need of stimulations, but as I’ve discovered over the years, it also offer all of us the opportunity to gift and/or collect one-of-a-kind pieces of art and crafts.