Bethesda Painting Awards

Apply by March 1, 2019

The Bethesda Painting Awards is downtown Bethesda's annual juried art competition that exclusively honors painters from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. $14,000 in prize monies are awarded to the top four painters annually. 

They'd love for YOU to apply for your chance to showcase your work in June 2019.

THE JUDGES:

The competition will be juried by:

• Kyle Hackett, Professor of Studio Art, American University, and the 2014 Bethesda Painting Awards Winner;
• Sue Johnson, Professor of Art, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and
• Susan Zurbrigg, Painting and Drawing Area Head, Professor of Art, James Madison University.

TO APPLY:

Submit application, $25 entry fee and 5 images of your paintings. Artists must be 18 years of age or older and permanent, full-time residents of Maryland, Virginia or Washington, D.C. All original 2-D painting including oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, encaustic and mixed media will be accepted.



The maximum dimensions should not exceed 60 inches in width. All works on paper must be framed to full conservation standards. No reproductions. Artwork must have been completed within the last two years and must be available for the duration of the June 2019 Gallery B exhibition.

Applications are due Friday, March 1, 2019. 

Apply here.

Important Dates

Deadline for application: March 1, 2019

Notification Mailed: April 8, 2019

Exhibition Date: June 2019

Art Scam Alert!

Beware of this scammer trying to rip off artists:

Mark Lester - mark_l8@outlook.com

Hi 

    I am interested in your works,please kindly write me back so that i could let you know what i am interested in.

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Mark

Beer can collection... anyone?

From one of my neighbors:

I have a large, @500 cans, vintage beer can collection, circa 1980’s that my son had collected. They are from all over the world, many unique and interesting cans. I have a full list of them if anyone wants to see it. I am redoing my basement and have to get rid of them. Does anyone know someone who would be interested in this collection before I put them in the recycling bin. I have saved them for so long I hate to just toss them if there is someone who wold want them, a business, a brewery, a collector?

 Anyone?

Call for artists

Deadline: March 29, 2019

Emerging artists living and working in New England, New York or New Jersey who are no more than three years removed from a full-time educational program, or artists with less than five years of exhibition experience are eligible to apply to this call. Artists working in all media are welcome. NO ENTRY FEE. Six artists will receive: $2,500 prize. Solo exhibit at Real Art Ways in 2019 or 2020. Exhibition publication with commissioned essay and documentation. Curatorial assistance. 

Opportunity for an artist talk. 

JURORS: Terry Jenoure, Artist / Curator, Director, Augusta Savage Gallery, Olu Oguibe, Artist / Critic, Will K. Wilkins, Executive Director of Real Art Ways. 

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Apply here.

Women who Work, Care, and Create at Zenith

l-r: Black Bird by Elizabeth Ashe,  Serenity Courage Wisdom by Jacqui Crocetta, 

Nasty Woman by Elissa Farrow-Savos, 

Neither Mine Nor Yours #11 by Michelle Dickson, Mari Virens (Green Ocean) by Susan Freda

Featured Artists: Elizabeth Ashe, Jacqui Crocetta, Michelle Dickson, Elissa Farrow Savos, Susan Freda, Katherine Owens, Lynda Smith-Bugge, Paula Stern, Emily Tucci. 

Women who Work, Care, and Create

Show dates: January 14 - April 13, 2019

MEET THE ARTISTS RECEPTION: Wednesday, January 30, 5-8 pm   

    

VIEW EXHIBIT

Zenith Gallery Inc., 1429 Iris Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012

RIP Michael B. Platt

DMV Photographer and printmaker Michael B. Platt died unexpectedly of a heart attack this morning... 

Platt has a show opening soon at American University and also in Australia... as a good friend put it succinctly: "Life is fragile."

Art Scam Alert!

Beware of this scammer!

From: Ralph ralphlauren0071@gmail.com

Subject: ***SPAM*** PAINTINGS INQUIRY !!!

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