Another new art venue in town...

Celebration of Women: Vision and Movement, curated by Gerald Malitz opens Thursday, April 8, 2004, with a reception from 6:00 - 9:00 pm at the new Pepco Art Center: Edison Place Gallery. This new space has been in operation since November 2002 and this exhibit will help launch it as another great addition the DC arts scene.

For more details, visit the exhibition website here. The show includes 81 pieces by 23 area artists. Included in the show are Susanne Carmack, Gloria Cesal, Victor Ekpuk, Patsy Fleming, Elsa Gebreyesus, Mina Hanig, Ahmed Kachmar, Barbara Kerne, Sofia Kifle, Sharon Killian, Lu Lan, Stephanie Lane, Susan Makara, Ruth Marcus, Andrea P. McCluskey, Leslie Oberdorfer, Muatasim Omer, Anna Otchin, Dot Procter, Anastasia R. Simes, Lida Stifel, Patricia Underwood and Helen Zughaib.

This coming Friday, April 9th is the second Friday of the month and thus the Bethesda Art Walk from 6-9 pm featuring 14 downtown Bethesda galleries and studios: paintings, sculpture, photography, pottery, jewelry and mixed media. Participating galleries showcase artwork created locally, nationally and internationally. Enjoy free refreshments. Art Walk attendees may walk throughout downtown Bethesda’s streets or take the free shuttle that will stop at each individual gallery. For more information, please visit www.bethesda.org or call (301) 215-6660.

We will have a group show of contemporary realism, featuring work by New York painters David FeBland, John Jacobsmeyer and Laurel Wells, plus work by our own area's John Winslow, Chawky Frenn, Heather Neill and others. We'll also have European artist Zigymantas Augustinas, a prizewinner in the 2002 BP Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Among the many excuses that the Washington Post has given me in the past for not having more extensive gallery coverage in our area is lack of printspace.

Today, their Chief Art Critic, who seldom writes about DC area art galleries' shows, gives us a review of a lamp show in London.

The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winners - Congratulations to all the winners!

Whitney Biennial Curator Lawrence Rinder will be in DC on Friday, April 23 to participate in a Hirshhorn Museum forum that "explores the artists' role in creating healing images and their power to influence a community. A process that starts with the artists' self-expression - continues with the individual viewers' response - and finally has the potential to inspire healing in a community."

The forum is on Friday, April 23,2004 at 2:00pm at the Hirshhorn (3rd Floor). In addition to Mr. Rinder, the forum also includes sculptor Tim Tate, Director of the Washington Glass School (and whose solo opens May 14 at Fraser Gallery Bethesda), and Curator Ken Trapp, former Curator of the Renwick Gallery.

This forum is part of a conference by the Society for Arts in Healthcare taking place in DC on April 21 - 24, 2004.

Exhibition Proposals Wanted...
Deadline: May 1, 2004

The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts is reviewing exhibition proposals for 2005-2006. Solo and Collaborative Exhibitions. All Media. Open to US residents 21+ in Mid-Atlantic States including PA, OH, NY, NJ, MD, DE, and Washinton,DC.

$25.00 review fee. 30% Commission. Insurance. Send SASE for a prospectus to:

Bob Karstadt
The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts
124 E Leasure Av
New Castle PA 16101

Or call 724-652-2882 or visit their website.

Washington, DC sculptor Robert Cole, whose piece "Madre DellaPace" (Mother of Peace) was exhibited at the 2003 Florence Biennale, and won the Lorenzo di Medici Gold Medal there, is having an open studio to allow people to view the 16 foot sculpture and other work. The sculpture will then be moved to Merriweather Post Pavillion, where it will be on exhibit along with several other pieces by Cole.

The Open Studio is April 17 and 18 , 2004 from 12-6 PM. The Cole studio is located at 1714 15th St., (rear) NW. See a map and more details on his website.

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For Photographers...

Deadline: April 15, 2004
The Center for Fine Art Photography is hosting its International Fine Art Photography Exhibition that is open to professional and amateur photographers, for all forms of fine art photography created in black and white or color, using traditional or digital methods or elements of both processes. Total awards over $6,200. The Exhibition is from June 29 through August 21 in Fort Collins, CO. View and download the prospectus at this website and visit the Center's web site here.

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Deadline: April 30, 2004

9th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition. Title: Visual Proof, Juror: Roy L Flukinger, Senior Curator of Film & Photography, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin. Open to all photographers, all photographic processes and all themes.

Entry Fee: $25 (for first three slides), $5 for each thereafter-up to ten slides total. Awards: $1000, $500, $250. Exhibition in Seattle at PCNW July 16 - Aug 29.

Visit their website for submission guidelines and entry form or send a 6 x 9 SASE to:

Photographic Center Northwest
Attn - 9th Annual Contest
900 12th Avenue
Seattle WA 98122

Questions? Contact Gallery Director: Ann Pallesen, email her at gallery@pcnw.org or call her at 206-720-7222x102