C'mon MoCo artists!

DEADLINE: FRIDAY APRIL 20, 2018

I'm not gonna take all the credit --- OK, OK... I will!  But, if you recall from multiple postings last year, I corresponded with all MoCo politicos last year and tried to shame one of the planet's wealthiest county's lack of support for its artists... And now: AHCMC and the Montgomery County Public Art Trust are proud to announce the 2018 Call for Art: The Contemporary Works on Paper Collection! This call seeks paper-based works including paintings in various media, drawings in various media, photographs, mixed media, and limited edition prints from artists in Montgomery county and the Greater Washington region.  These artworks should help create inspiring spaces that foster innovation, creative excellence and personal reflection. Artwork in this collection is owned by Montgomery County under the County’s Public Art Trust program and loaned to County agencies for display in public buildings. The Public Art Trust is especially interested in artworks that reflect the unique and diverse character of Montgomery County. The full call-for-art is available here: Montgomery County Contemporary Works on Paper Call for Art

Double Welcome, Most Everyone's Mad Here

One of my fave former DC resident artists will open soon at the Katzen!

American University Museum - Katzen Arts Center
April 3 - May 27, 2018

Artist Talk: Friday, April 13, 12 - 1 pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 14, 6 - 9 pm

Jiha Moon's works address the intersection of imagery native to Korea, Japan, and China and elements of the West in order to explore cross-cultural perceptions. Originally from Korea and presently based out of Atlanta, Georgia, Moon's work addresses the nature of our current global identity as influenced by popular culture, technology, racial perceptions, and folklore. By melding the artistic traditions and iconic imagery of both East and West, Moon's work explores ideas of both the foreign and the familiar. An internationally exhibited and acclaimed artist, this traveling museum exhibition is presented as part of the Visiting Artist Program organized by AU Studio Art.

Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone's Mad Here is organized by the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia in collaboration with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina. The exhibition is curated by Amy G. Moorefield, former Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Taubman Museum of Art and Mark Sloan, Director and Chief Curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art.

Monograph available. Hardcover, fully illustrated, 96 pages.

Essays by Amy Moorefield, Director, Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College and Lilly Wei, a New York-based independent curator and critic. Interview with the artist by Rachel Reese, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia. Edited by Mark Sloan, Director & Chief Curator, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston.

American University Museum - Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016
Museum Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 4pm

Art Scam Alert!!!!

Beware of this rip off artist trying to scam artists!

From:   "Elaine Spencer" jbeautyatop@gmail.com 

Good Day,

How is work and family? I picked interest in your artwork and decided

to write you. I will like to know if your artwork can be purchased and

shipped internationally?. I can email the artwork of interest and

payment will be completed in full once you confirm my purchase order

with a quotation. Kindly let me know when you are in office and ready

to take my artwork order also let me know if you accept either Visa

Card / Master Card or PayPal for payment

Best Regards

Elaine Spencer

Danny Conant!

Places in My Art: Paris and Beyond

Images created from 1990 through 2017. Silver Gelatin and
Archival Digital prints, including montages and encaustic

Exhibition: March 27 – May 5, 2018
Reception: Sunday April 8, 2-4pm

Multiple Exposures Gallery, Studio #312

Open daily 10-5pm, Thursdays 2-8pm
The Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N. Union St.
Alexandria, Virgnia 22314 
703.683.2205

MultipleExposuresGallery.com

Danny Conant Photography

www.dannyconant.com

If you see one photography show this year - this better be it!

What Happens When a Museum Closes?

Richard P. Townsend was in Italy when he got the call. The director of New York’s Museum of Biblical Art, he was in the midst of preparing for an exhibition of Donatello’s sculpture that would go on to be the museum’s most well-attended and critically acclaimed.

It would also be its last. The caller, a member of the museum’s board, broke the news that the American Bible Society would soon be selling its Upper West Side building. The Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA for short) had just 12 months to find another affordable home—a timeline that, in the end, proved too short. In June 2015, the institution closed its doors for good.

Read the whole story here. 

Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival is coming soon!

Presented in Reston Town Center, a suburb of Washington, DC, the festival attracts art lovers, affluent homeowners, corporate executives, and design professionals in addition to the broader community. This highly-anticipated cultural event draws up to 30,000 visitors and there is FREE garage parking all Festival weekend courtesy of Boston Properties. The Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival is the Greater Reston Art Center’s (GRACE’s) largest annual fundraiser.

The Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival as a long standing reputation for presenting high-quality work and now will become a three-day event, opening on Friday, from 10am-5pm! Making the very significant logistical investment in a Friday opening reflects our relentless focus on investing to grow our audience (and we typically draw tens of thousands of visitors already) and driving sales, explaining why ArtFairCalendar.com has described this as a festival where “the ‘art stars’ of the outdoor art fairs vie for spaces.”

I've done this show for several decades now... skipping a year here and there, but I will be back this year in booth 230 - so come by and say hi!

Check out the 2018 exhibiting artists here and also a festival map!

Montgomery County is buying art!

DEADLINE: FRIDAY APRIL 20, 2018

I'm not gonna take all the credit --- but, if you recall from multiple postings last year, I corresponded with all MoCo politicos last year and tried to shame one of the planet's wealthiest county's lack of support for its artists... And now: AHCMC and the Montgomery County Public Art Trust are proud to announce the 2018 Call for Art: The Contemporary Works on Paper Collection! This call seeks paper-based works including paintings in various media, drawings in various media, photographs, mixed media, and limited edition prints from artists in Montgomery county and the Greater Washington region.  These artworks should help create inspiring spaces that foster innovation, creative excellence and personal reflection. Artwork in this collection is owned by Montgomery County under the County’s Public Art Trust program and loaned to County agencies for display in public buildings. The Public Art Trust is especially interested in artworks that reflect the unique and diverse character of Montgomery County. The full call-for-art is available here: Montgomery County Contemporary Works on Paper Call for Art