CAMH for Katrina
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announced today the launch of the Katrina Artists Trust (KAT), a grant-making trust to provide financial support for visual artists in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama who were affected by Hurricane Katrina.
By focusing its support on the painters, sculptors, and other visual artists who lived in the regions damaged by the hurricane, the Museum’s KAT program provides a unique source of revitalization for a community with a long artistic tradition. By helping artists rebuild their studios, purchase new materials, and even salvage damaged works, the Trust’s grants will also contribute to the economic revitalization of the devastated region, aid these communities in their reconstruction efforts, and help renew cultural tourism.
The Museum welcomes other organizations as partners and collaborators in this effort. For further information, please call 713 284 8250 or visit their website.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Moon for Katrina
Trawick Prizewinner Jiha Moon's donated piece from her show at Curator's Office sold last night at the opening for $800. Moon also donated the sales proceeds from one work at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, where she's in the group show called "Red Beans and Rice"; that work sold for $700.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Tapeman Cometh
Mark Jenkins raised $410 dollars today for Habitat for Humanity's Katrina Relief Fund.
A special thanks to our upstairs neighbor, the lovely Anne C. Fisher, who threw in a couple of nice checks both to Mark's fundraiser and one to be added to our donation to the Southern Arts Federation.
Monuments, TV and Tape
Saturday schedule:
1. Drop daughters off at the Mall for sightseeing, museum hopping and monument visiting.
2. Head to Alexandria for videotaping of ArtsMedia News' first segment: the Alexandria Festival of the Arts.
3. Head to Georgetown to Canal Square, where Mark Jenkins is having an installation "tape yard sale" going on from 12-6PM (lots of sangria and munchies). The Canal Square is at 31st and M Street, NW in G'town.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Trawick Prize Winners Announced
Jiha Moon of Annandale has won the $10,000 Trawick Prize.
Read the WaPo story by Jonathan Padget here, and see lots of photos from the opening and awards ceremony here.
Winners were announced last night at a private reception in Bethesda's Creative Partners Gallery, which is hosting the exhibition of work by the ten Trawick Prize finalists.
Dean Kessman of Washington, DC (who will be having a solo show coming soon at Conner Contemporary) came in second and received $2,000. The third-place winner, Denise Tassin of Baltimore, received $1,000.
Baltimore's Michele Kong, 30, won the $1,000 young-artist award, which we sponsor.
The Trawick Prize is sponsored by the amazing generosity of Carol Trawick, who also sponsors the annual Bethesda Painting Awards. Buy Jiha Moon now!
Art Season Opens Tonight
The DC "art season" opens tonight with a series of openings throughout the city and continues through the weekend...
Details here.
I'll be on the radio and on TV over the next few days and weeks discussing all the upcoming DC area gallery and museum shows. More later.
