Trawick Prize Application Now Open - $10,000 Top Prize

The deadline to apply is Friday, April 6.

The 2018 Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards application is now available! 

Applicants must be 18 years of age or older and permanent, full-time residents of Maryland, Virginia or Washington, D.C. All original 2-D and 3-D fine art including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, fiber art, digital, mixed media and video will be accepted. The jury will select up to 10 finalists for a group exhibition in Bethesda in September 2018. For more information and to apply:http://www.bethesda.org/bethesda/trawick-application

Prizes:

• Best in Show - $10,000
• Second Place - $2,000
• Third Place - $1,000
• Young Artist (must be born after April 6, 1988 to be eligible for this category) - $1,000

2018 Judges:

• Christopher Bedford, Director, The Baltimore Museum of Art
• Valerie Fletcher, Independent Art Historian & Senior Curator Emerita, Hirshhorn Museum
• Michael Jones McKean, Artist & Associate Professor, Sculpture & Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth University  

Deadline: February 22, 2018

REVEALED is an all-media exhibition that aims to examine the relevance and value of self-portraiture, through the individual artist’s varied approach to self-representation. 

The exhibition is open to all artists, national and international, over 18 years of age. The exhibition is juried by Nicole Down, Program Manager for Halcyon Arts Lab. 

Entry Fee: $25 for three artworks; $10 for each additional piece. 

Awards: Juror’s Choice $100; Director’s Choice $75. 

Apply Here: https://hillyerartspace.submittable.com/submit/106273/revealed

Amy Sherald at the David C. Driskell Center

Amy Sherald will be at the David C. Driskell Center in conversation with Dorothy Kosinski, Director of The Phillips Collection on March 29th at 6:30pm. 

This is a free, ticketed event and tickets will be available tomorrow, February 15th at noon on The Phillips Collection's website.

Parking is available at meters or at the Union Lane Garage adjacent to Cole Student Activities Building. Free parking is available at Lot 1 after 4PM.

Come to this opening next week!

Zenith Gallery

1429 Iris St. NW, Washington, DC 20012-1409

Show Dates: February 14 - March 24, 2018

Meet the Artists Reception: Wednesday, February 14, 500-8:00 pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, February 17, 2:00 -6:00 pm

More Talks to be announced

FEATURING ARTISTS: F. Lennox Campello, Suzanne Codi, Chas Colburn, Lea Craigie-Marshall, Eric Ehlenberger, Connie Fleres, Margery E. Goldberg, Philip Hazard, Nancy Nesvet, Alison Sigethy, Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Mary Voytek, and Michael Young.

Zenith Gallery’s 70s-90s shows often featured neon artists.  To celebrate its 40th anniversary year, Zenith brings back the work of those artists and new ones using varied forms of light technology and mixed media in their work.  New technologies added to older ones present the best in artwork featuring artificial light at Zenith’s new show, Light Up Your heArt. 

Reaching global heights, neon launched within cities especially in Times Square and Las Vegas as signage. In more recent times, there was a resurgence of neon and light art that propelled artists to incorporate or use neon as the main medium in their works. Since the enhancement of technology, this has created a new frontier within the medium, encouraged by the  development with LED lights and video. 

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Zenith Gallery and to celebrate this milestone, we are hosting a series of exhibitions at our two locations; the 1111 sculpture space in Downtown DC and the Iris Street gallery off upper 16th street in the Shepherd Park Neighborhood. Downtown will host a retrospective of the three different locations of Zenith while, Iris St will host exhibits of artists that have been represented by Zenith gallery for decades and others we have recently are thrilled to be representing now. Zenith Gallery continues to be dedicated to finding the unusual and the extremely well-done art over our 40-year history. We like our arts and crafts unique,  with our art well crafted and our craft well art’ed! 

See ya there!

Artist As Entrepreneur Boot Camp

February 24–25, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PMAmerican University Museum
Alper Initiative for Washington Art
4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016

Cost: Free, Registration is Required. Click Here!

 

Through the support of the Stephen & Palmina Pace Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in partnership with the American University Museum is pleased to offer a free of charge opportunity for visual artists to participate in the Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp program. This two-day-long program will review the fundamental principles of sustainability – and ultimately profitability – in the arts. Topics will include strategic planning, finance, and marketing. Through a blend of formal lectures, breakout groups, and one-on-one meetings, participants will develop a flexible and dynamic “action plan,” and other entrepreneurial tools to serve as a blueprint for their practice or specific projects.

Our first international art fair!

As I've noted before, we're doing our very first international art fair and showcasing the spectacular work of DMV artist Amy Lin at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair in South Africa!

I am pleased to share that the official online preview of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair on Artsy has launched to collectors and art enthusiasts in 190+ countries. Starting this week, coverage of the fair is live at artsy.net/investec-cape-town-art-fair-2018 and on the Artsy app for iPhone and iPad.

Check out Amy's work here!

Or visit: http://artsy.net/show/alida-anderson-art-projects-alida-anderson-art-projects-at-investec-cape-town-art-fair-2018

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Zenith Gallery: Celebrating 40 Years in the Nation's Capital!

40 years for an independent fine arts gallery is like a million years in "gallery years"!

 40th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

In the Beginning -The Rhode Island Years 1978-1986

Zenith Gallery
Show dates: January 23- April 28, 2018
At 1111 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20004
Meet the Artists Reception: Wednesday February 7, 5:00 - 8:00 PM

Featuring Artists: Beatriz Blanco, Chas Colburn, Robert Freeman, Margery Goldberg, Stephen Hansen, Susan Klebanoff, Carol Newmyer, Guenther Riess, Ramon Santiago, Sica, and Ellen Sinel.

40 years in any business is a long time, 40 years in the Art Gallery business is a lifetime! To celebrate Zenith's 40th Anniversary we will be hosting a series of three different exhibitions at the Eleven Eleven Pennsylvania Avenue Sculpture Space, each representing different eras in the history of Zenith marked by location of the gallery, which moved several times over the course of 40 years.  

First of the In the Beginning series will embody the life of Zenith and its artists during the formative years at Rhode Island Avenue. Here is where it all started... when in March of 1978 wood sculptor and gallery owner, Margery Goldberg opened the doors to a 50,000 square-foot complex which became an artists' community and haven known as Zenith Square.