Art Purchase Awards

Heading out to hand out some art purchase awards from the Prince George's County Arts and Cultural Heritage Division... congrats to Robert W Kincheloe, Ric Garcia and Celestine Ranney-Howes!

Aqua Pics from ABMB

Carol Goldberg reception tomorrow

NT9, 2011, acrylic on canvas, with pulverized glass, 84 x 72 inches

  CAROL BROWN GOLDBERG

paintings & sculptures

December 7, 2012 - January 11, 2013

OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 5-7PM

When governments fund art...

Government support of the arts allows art to become definable by the state. That is, if the government is going to give tax breaks, grants, or funding to organizations or businesses that sell art, they have to define what art is. 

Read the whole piece by Lauren Galik by clicking here.

Art2Art Auction

TO PURCHASE TICKETS & MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE.

Online bidding of featured artwork in the show ends at 10 p.m. on December 20, 2012. Click here to visit the website.

All proceeds from artwork sales will support the DC Collaborative’s flagship program, Arts for Every Student, which provides arts experiences for 30,000 DC public school and public charter school students each year to attend Washington’s world-class art and cultural institutions.

What to do this Saturday?

The Washington Glass School is having their Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 15th, 2012.  The opening is around Noon, through 5:00pm on Saturday. 

As I've noted many times before, this is one of my favorite places to do some Christmas shopping for special people! What better present than original art?
 

Works by DMV uberstar artist Tim Tate will be available.

The artists and instructors of the glass school will be exhibiting artworks.

Beautiful works by Syl Mathis will be on exhibit and for sale!

Get yourself a Sean Hennessey - his work is hot, hot, hot!

Metal artist Chris Shea will be there with his stunning forged iron work

The WGS invites the community to visit and experience a unique DC area arts venue. And there's more: the adjacent studios - Red Dirt and Flux Studios will also be open - a great chance to see whats going on in the very vibrant Gateway Arts District!

Check out Nancy Donnelly's colorful artwork.

See ya there! 
 

Holiday Open House and Sale
Saturday, December 15, 2012, from Noon til 5 pm.
 
Washington Glass School
3700 Otis Street
Mount Rainier, MD 20712

The wake effect begins

I've described the art fair "wake effect" (wake in the sense of the wake that a ship leaves behind when it moves through the water) as a significant reason to attend and be present at art fairs: all the good stuff that happens "after" the fair is over and because of the fair.

First wake effect: Vogue magazine editors saw Cirenaica Moreira's work at Aqua and now we've been notified that they will be doing a feature article on her and her work in the near future!