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Friday, August 17, 2012
Opportunity for PG County Artists
Thursday, August 16, 2012
The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund
Deadline: September 15, 12.
The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund invites visual artists (excluding filmmakers, video artists, and performance artists) to apply for grants to enable recipients to develop their talent and concentrate on their art. Artists must be 40 years or older, and must live within 150 miles of Washington, DC. Three grants totaling $60,000 were awarded in 2011. Applications must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2011. Application forms are available for download from www.baderfund.org. Send email inquiries to grants@baderfund.org or call 202-288-4608. Please note that the Franz and Virginia Bader Fund no longer accepts slides. All images must be submitted in digital form. For details, see the application form, which may be downloaded from the Fund's website.
The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund invites visual artists (excluding filmmakers, video artists, and performance artists) to apply for grants to enable recipients to develop their talent and concentrate on their art. Artists must be 40 years or older, and must live within 150 miles of Washington, DC. Three grants totaling $60,000 were awarded in 2011. Applications must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2011. Application forms are available for download from www.baderfund.org. Send email inquiries to grants@baderfund.org or call 202-288-4608. Please note that the Franz and Virginia Bader Fund no longer accepts slides. All images must be submitted in digital form. For details, see the application form, which may be downloaded from the Fund's website.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Opportunity for Photographers
Submissions accepted: June 15–September
15, 2012.
The Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography is a biennial prize offering $3,000 in grant money, a solo exhibit at the Center for Documentary Studies, and most importantly, the publication of a book of photography, published by Duke University Press in association with CDS Books.
To learn more, go to firstbookprizephoto.com or send an SASE to:
CDS/THF First Book Prize in Photography
Center for Documentary Studies
1317 West Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705.
Website: http://firstbookprizephoto.com
The Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography is a biennial prize offering $3,000 in grant money, a solo exhibit at the Center for Documentary Studies, and most importantly, the publication of a book of photography, published by Duke University Press in association with CDS Books.
To learn more, go to firstbookprizephoto.com or send an SASE to:
CDS/THF First Book Prize in Photography
Center for Documentary Studies
1317 West Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705.
Website: http://firstbookprizephoto.com
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Saturday: Procedures for Ground Loss Safety
Washington Project for the Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design present Procedures for Ground Loss Safety, a performance by Sarah Levitt, taking place on Saturday, August 15, from 12pm to 5pm.
Procedures for Ground Loss Safety asks the question: What
happens if the ground has an expiration date, if the solid foundation
on top of which we've built our homes, roads, and bridges suddenly gives
way? Taking inspiration from cheery Cold War safety films from the 1950's, Sarah Levitt will demonstrate Procedures for Ground Loss Safety,
instructing the audience through movement and sound on the appropriate
steps to prepare for sudden ground loss. Exploring the idea's literal
and metaphorical potential, the artist will investigate the relationship
between the body and the ground, utilizing the Performance Bridge's
invisible floor and proximity to the White House to further amplify the
body's new relationship to eroding foundations.
Procedures for Ground Loss Safety is part of Take It to the Bridge,
a nine-week series of installations and performances taking place
through September 15 in the new Performance Bridge located inside the
Corcoran's glass entryway on 17th Street. The Performance Bridge was first constructed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art as the stage for Holly Bass's performance Moneymaker,
a seven-hour endurance work that took place on February 11, 2012,
during the final weekend of the Corcoran's landmark fall exhibition 30 Americans. For Take it to the Bridge,
eleven artists living and working in the DC-Baltimore region will
present nine installations and performances, investigating the Bridge's
physical characteristics and pushing the boundaries of this
non-traditional space to explore a variety of social, political, and
aesthetic issues. Installations will open on Wednesday and remain on
view through the following Sunday for all museum hours. Performances
will take place on Saturdays, from 10 am to 5 pm unless otherwise noted.
The first seven weeks of the series coincide with the Corcoran's Free Summer Saturdays promotion, which run from May 26 - September 1, 2012.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Tomorrow: Chat with Lionell...
Join us on Tuesday, August 14th to chat with D.C. Commission on the Arts
and Humanities' Executive Director, Lionell Thomas.
and Humanities' Executive Director, Lionell Thomas.
Do you have a question about upcoming programs?
Log on and ask.
Log on and ask.
Do you have a question about a funding application?
Log on and ask.
Log on and ask.
Have questions about deadlines, calls to artists,
or just want to be heard?
Log on and be heard.
LIVE DIRECTOR CHAT
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
2PM - 3PM
Sunday, August 12, 2012
George Bellows at the NAG
June 10–October 8, 2012 at the National Gallery of Art
When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he was hailed
as one of the greatest artists America had yet produced. In 2012, the
National Gallery of Art will present the first comprehensive exhibition
of Bellows' career in more than three decades. George Bellows
will include some 130 paintings, drawings, and lithographs. Bellows is
arguably the most important figure in the generation of artists who
negotiated the transition from the Victorian to the modern era in
American culture. This exhibition will provide the most complete account
of his achievements to date and will introduce Bellows to new
generations. The accompanying catalogue will document and define
Bellows' unique place in the history of American art and in the annals
of modernism.
The exhibition will begin with Bellows' renowned paintings of tenement children, boxers, and the urban landscape of New York. These iconic images of the modern city were made during an extraordinary period of creativity for the artist, from shortly after his arrival from Columbus, Ohio, in 1904, up to the Armory Show in 1913, and remain his best-known works. They include Forty-Two Kids, 1907 (Corcoran Gallery of Art), New York, 1911 (National Gallery of Art), Stag at Sharkey's, 1909 (Cleveland Museum of Art), and Snow Dumpers, 1911 (Columbus Museum of Art).
Complementing the earlier signature masterpieces will be groupings that bring to light other crucial, yet less familiar aspects of Bellows' prodigious achievement, including his Maine seascapes, sporting scenes (polo and tennis), World War I subjects, family portraits, and Woodstock, NY, subjects. Drawings and lithographs will illuminate Bellows' working methods and the relationships between his various media. The show will end with paintings from 1924, the year before his sudden death from peritonitis. These last works, including Dempsey and Firpo (Whitney Museum of American Art) and The White Horse (Worcester Art Museum), will prompt visitors to contemplate the artist Bellows might have become had he lived into the 1960s like his great contemporary, Edward Hopper.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he was hailed
as one of the greatest artists America had yet produced. In 2012, the
National Gallery of Art will present the first comprehensive exhibition
of Bellows' career in more than three decades. George Bellows
will include some 130 paintings, drawings, and lithographs. Bellows is
arguably the most important figure in the generation of artists who
negotiated the transition from the Victorian to the modern era in
American culture. This exhibition will provide the most complete account
of his achievements to date and will introduce Bellows to new
generations. The accompanying catalogue will document and define
Bellows' unique place in the history of American art and in the annals
of modernism.The exhibition will begin with Bellows' renowned paintings of tenement children, boxers, and the urban landscape of New York. These iconic images of the modern city were made during an extraordinary period of creativity for the artist, from shortly after his arrival from Columbus, Ohio, in 1904, up to the Armory Show in 1913, and remain his best-known works. They include Forty-Two Kids, 1907 (Corcoran Gallery of Art), New York, 1911 (National Gallery of Art), Stag at Sharkey's, 1909 (Cleveland Museum of Art), and Snow Dumpers, 1911 (Columbus Museum of Art).
Complementing the earlier signature masterpieces will be groupings that bring to light other crucial, yet less familiar aspects of Bellows' prodigious achievement, including his Maine seascapes, sporting scenes (polo and tennis), World War I subjects, family portraits, and Woodstock, NY, subjects. Drawings and lithographs will illuminate Bellows' working methods and the relationships between his various media. The show will end with paintings from 1924, the year before his sudden death from peritonitis. These last works, including Dempsey and Firpo (Whitney Museum of American Art) and The White Horse (Worcester Art Museum), will prompt visitors to contemplate the artist Bellows might have become had he lived into the 1960s like his great contemporary, Edward Hopper.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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