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The Puffin Foundation provides grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities, and to emerging artists with work addressing environmental, social justice, civil rights, and other contemporary issues. They are accepting new proposals in the genres of theater, video/film, and climate/environmental art. Average grants are approximately $1,250; the maximum grant size is $2,500.
Art Maryland 2022, a biennial, juried multi-media exhibit features work selected from 369 entries from 136 artists working in a wide variety of styles and mediums.
Juror Schroeder Cherry, a Maryland-based artist and 2019 Sondheim competition finalist, selected a mixture of abstract and figurative paintings, photography, traditional and soft sculptures, and prints. Selected artists include: Camellia Blackwell-Taffel, Sabine Carlson, Kathy Daywalt, Bethany Douglas, Diane Dunn, Sharon Emery, Daniel Talib Latif Flounders, Caroline Garzon, Marilyn Gates-Davis, Mary Ellen Geissenhainer, Daniel Horowitz, Jennifer Hudson, G. Jameson, Teresa Jarzynski, Karen Jury, Kwame Kena, Beckie Laughlin, Diane Lorio, George Lorio, Lauren Lyde, Cheryl MacLean, Kevina Maher, Mike McConnell, Dominie Nash, Mead Notkin, Kira Notkin, Mary Opasik, Linda Popp, Dave Pumplin, Kim Rice, Ned Rosinsky, Paula Saneaux, Izya Shlosberg, Julie Simon, Nelson Steele, Tinam Valk, Michelle Venable, Karen Wallace, Jessica Walton, Karen Warshal, Richard Weiblinger, Pamela Wilde, Eileen Williams, Christy Zuccarini, and Bonnie Zuckerman.
Art Maryland 2022 is the 22nd multi-media statewide juried exhibit sponsored by the Howard County Arts Council. The exhibit began in 1984 as Maryland’s Best, an annual show running through 1989 and open to all Maryland artists. In 1990, when the show became a biennial, its name was changed to Art Maryland. The exhibit is open to artists who reside in Maryland or within a 100-mile radius of Ellicott City.
Howard County Arts Council
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Ellicott City, Maryland 21043
"Isla Rota y Encadenada" (Broken and Chained Island) will be at the CONTEXT Art Fair section of Art Miami during the Art Basel Miami Beach week of art fairs in Miami, Florida Nov 29 - Dec 4 in booth A29. Mixed media painting on reclaimed unfired Bisque with gold chains.
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| Isla Rota y Encadenada |
Adam Griffiths' graphic novel 'Washington White' has finally been released! Adam has been around the DMV art scene for over two decades and this amazing work capitalizes on this artist's hard work!
Washington WhiteAdam Griffiths. Secret Acres, $24.95 trade paper (244p) ISBN 978-1-73448-569-1
Gentrification and institutional racism get the fun-house mirror treatment in this hyperkinetic conspiracy thriller debut by indie cartoonist Griffiths. Set in a future D.C., the labyrinthine plot concerns the deliberate proliferation of a mind-control disease known as Charisma. First exploited by a propagandist called The Rev’rund to drum up subscriptions to his racist newspaper, Charisma’s powers of suggestion are quickly recognized by Beltway insiders as a tool to reshape the capital’s demographics. Charisma, it turns out, can also be used to construct entire alternate worlds. Trafficked into these surreal landscapes, mind-controlled Black folks are conscripted to harvest more Charisma. A subplot draws on a real-life 1977 civil rights suit won by Griffiths’s grandmother, and the specters of redlining, the war on drugs, and slave auctions haunt every page. Exploding with plasticine figures and otherworldly architecture, Griffiths’s illustrations pair simple ballpoint pen with sherbet-hued digital color, managing both a scrappy roughness and bubblegum excess. The colorful 3D lettering can make legibility a challenge, though, particularly in dense blocks of exposition. Topsy-turvy political intrigues veer into uncertain terrain, but Griffiths’s social critiques rise up vibrantly. It’s a dizzying, maximalist romp.
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!
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
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
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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!
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| "Death on the March" by J. Jordan Bruns and Campello |
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
Wednesday, November 9th and Busboys and Poets from 6 - 8 pm.
This Artomatic event is FREE to the public.
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.
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.
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.
DEADLINE: December 1, 2022
FEE: Free to apply
WHERE: Canary Islands, Spain
WHO: International; Non toxic Printmaking, Printmaking, Visual art
"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" 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!
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!
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.
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.
