What’s wrong with Showtime Dexter’s Cubans?

An oldie but a goodie!

Read this: http://blog.art-tistics.com/?p=211

Call for artists

Homegrown Opens Tomorrow!

OPENING RECEPTION OF HOMEGROWN 

APRIL 19, 2019  6:00–8:00 PM

 COMMISSION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES GALLERIES 

200 I (Eye) Street, SE Washington, DC 20003

Michael Crossett, Cheryl D. Edwards, Justyne Fischer, Ric Garcia 

Gail Shaw-Clemons, Henrik Sundqvist 

HomeGrown explores the creative process of six art­ists from the Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia region who utilize the medium of printmaking to express issues of racial injustice, genetics, ancestry, gentrification, cultural identity, and the environment    |   CURATED BY CLAUDE L. ELLIOTT

Mila arrives!

At 9:08 AM, my first grandchild - Mila Audrey Tarasova y Campello was born to my daughter Elise!

Mila Audrey Tarasova y Campello

Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Grants Winners

Congrats to all these talented and lucky folks - they are winners of the 2019 Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Grants!

That "Florence" down there is me - this is my first award since I was an art student at the University of Washington School of Art, when I received Ford Foundation art grants 1977-1981.

Painting

Lesa Cook Frederick

Bobby Coleman Baltimore City

Lania D'Agostino Baltimore City

Sally Davies Prince George’s

Brian Michael Dunn Montgomery

Ric Garcia Prince George’s

Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi Montgomery

Jahru Anne Arundel

Matt Klos Baltimore

Kate Kretz Montgomery

Lindsay McCulloch Montgomery

Gregory McLemore Baltimore City

Ping Shen Anne Arundel

Grace Doyle Baltimore City

Jessica Van Brakle Montgomery

Nicole Dyer Baltimore City

Taha Heydari Baltimore

Sam Lacombe Baltimore City

Giulia Piera Livi Baltimore City

Janet Olney Baltimore City

Randi Reiss-McCormick Baltimore

Carolyn Case Baltimore

Maud Taber-Thomas Montgomery

Deborah Tomlin Montgomery

Alice Valenti Baltimore

Karen Warshal Baltimore City

Lauren Frances Adams Baltimore City

Scott Ponemone Baltimore City

McKinley Wallace III Baltimore City

Works on Paper

Erin Fostel Baltimore City

LaToya M. Hobbs Baltimore City

LeJea Williams Howard

Amy Boone-McCreesh Baltimore City

Florence Lennox Campello Montgomery

Deborah Addison Coburn Montgomery

Elliot Doughtie Baltimore City

Ariston Jacks Baltimore City

Kristina King Montgomery

Angelo Kozonis Baltimore City

Mike McConnell Baltimore

Jerry Truong Montgomery

Lu Zhang Baltimore City

Amanda Burnham Baltimore City

Jackie Milad Baltimore City

Leslie Suzanne Shellow Baltimore City

Julie Wills Kent

Jowita Wyszomirska Baltimore City

On Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory Art Center

A decade ago I wrote this about the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria - one of my fave places in the DMV... how much of it has come to pass?

Read my 2009 thoughts here...

At the CATO Institute

Should art offend? Does it matter if people are offended? Should offensive art be displayed? Should it be censored? Who decides what is offensive or appropriate? Join us to hear a discussion of these questions and more.

A discussion panel featuring Philip Kennicott, Chief Art and Architecture Critic, the Washington Post; Janis Goodman, Panelist, WETA Around Town, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University; Lenny Campello, Author, Daily Campello Art News; and Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow, Cato Institute and Editor, Cato Books; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Cato Daily Podcast host, Director of Multimedia, Cato Institute.

REGISTER HERE

May 22, 2019 
6:30PM to 8:00PM EDT

Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001-5403

Phone (202) 842 0200