Chenven Foundation Awards

Deadline: July 15, 2019

The Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation gives annual awards of $1500 to individual artists living and working in the United States, and who are engaged in or planning a new craft or visual art project.

Apply here.

Gallery B in July

Gallery B has announced its July exhibition, “MFA @ Gallery B,” a juried exhibition of work by Maryland Federation of Art members. The exhibit will be on display from July 3 – 27, 2019 at Gallery B, located at 7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E, Bethesda, MD. Gallery hours for the show will be Wednesday – Saturday, 12-6pm.

Gallery B will be open for a public reception on Friday, July 12 from 6-8pm. Opening receptions will also be held that evening at Studio B, 7475 Wisconsin Avenue; Triangle Art Studios, 7711 Old Georgetown Road and Waverly Street Gallery, 4600 East West Highway in downtown Bethesda.

“MFA @ Gallery B” was juried by Robert Yi, an Academic Advisor in the College of Visual & Performing Arts, School of Art in Fairfax, VA. 

Selected works by the following artists will be featured:

• Fran Abrams, Rockville, MD
• Beth Altman, Washington, D.C.
• Diane Blackwell, Oakton, VA
• Stephen Borko, Bethesda, MD
• George Patrick Clagett, Upper Marlboro, MD
• Ron Colbroth, McLean, VA
• David Diaz, Annapolis, MD
• Marianne DiBrino, Silver Spring, MD
• Kay Fuller, Annapolis, MD
• Nico Gozal, Suitland, MD
• James Francis Hollan, Arnold, MD
• Jinny Dee Isserow, Fairfax, VA
• Judy Ann Jordan, Annapolis, MD
• Deborah Kommalan, Pasadena, MD
• Guy Terry Kuhn, Hagerstown, MD
• Malka Kutnick, Kensington, MD
• Susan La Mont, McLean, VA
• Jonathan S. Mann, Woodbine, MD
• Emily Carter Mitchell, Pasadena, MD
• Allen E. Neyman, Rockville, MD
• Mary Opasik, Catonsville, MD
• Ed Palaszynski, Clarksburg, MD
• William Peirce, Silver Spring, MD
• Dean Peterson, Salisbury, MD
• Susan F. Picard, Arnold, MD
• Will Scott, Annapolis, MD
• Meryl Silver, Bethesda, MD
• Timothy A. Stephens, Frederick, MD
• Gil Ugiansky, Annapolis, MD
• Marilyn Block Ugiansky, Annapolis, MD
• Dominique Vargo, Bowie, MD

The Brentwood Arts Exchange is Hiring an Assistant Director

The Brentwood Arts Exchange is Hiring an Assistant Director

The Assistant Director at the Brentwood Arts Exchange, under general supervision of the Director, performs a wide variety of duties to assist in managing a multi-faceted arts center that includes contemporary art galleries, small concerts, youth and adult art classes, and fine craft retail. Performs numerous tasks in support of the following job functions: supervises art center operations; participates in planning, organizing and implementing community based arts programs; create marketing and public relations materials. Volunteer coordination; assists in exhibition coordination and installation; participates in budget planning; supervises designated staff; maintains administrative records and cash reports; coordinates externally ad internally to perform other related duties as assigned. The arts center operates six days per week. Works various hours, which may include evenings and weekends.
The Brentwood Arts Exchange is part of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.

More information and the online application can be found here.

Wanna go to an art film tomorrow?

Halcyon - "By the People"

PLAY - PROTECTION - PERIL 

A Curatorial Project by Zenith Community Arts Foundation

 

HALCYON "BY THE PEOPLE"

Festival Dates June 15-23, 2019

 

On June 22, 2:00-7:00 pm, visit H-Space to see performances & interactive projects!

Rachael Bohlander, "U Street Scene"

Elizabeth Ashe, "Aim/Draw from 3 feet."

Katherine Smith-Morse "And Yet, We're Still Waiting" V. 2.

Heliosa Escudero, "Say it Nicely."

Jason Coile, Pierre Davis, & Sarah Klotz, "Ocean Walk."  

Afer 5pm, Music produced by AJ.

Activities will stagger between 2-7pm.

  

H-SPACE, 1932 9 and 1/2 Street NW, Washington DC 20001   MAP 

(An alley off U Street, NW)

New Summer Hours: Wednesday-Friday, 4-7pm. Saturday, 12-6pm. Sunday, 1-5pm

Artists' Boot Camp

The Artists’ Boot Camp

Saturday, November 2nd, 10am-4pm , in the John Addison Concert Hall of Harmony Hall

Harmony Hall Arts Center presents Mr. Lenny Campello’s seminar, “The Artists’ Boot Camp”, open to all Prince George’s County artists, 16 and up.  Mr. Campello is the Greater Washington D.C. area’s pre-eminent art dealer, critic, consultant and blogger as well as artist. He designed his seminar to deliver information, data and proven tactics to artists, and to allow them to develop and sustain a career in the fine arts. Some of the topics that he will cover are, creating a resume, creating a body of work, selling your art, juried shows and news releases, just to name a few. 

The seminar is free and lunch is included. Seating is limited so please call 301.446.3251 or email stuart.diekmeyer@pgparks.com to register and provide lunch preference.

Deadline is by 5pm, October 25th, but this seminar usually books very quickly, so I'd recommend that you RSVP as soon as possible!

Harmony Hall
10701 Livingston Road 
Fort Washington, MD 20744

Artist Talk this Sunday

WAVERLY STREET GALLERY

Artist Talk: Sunday, June 23rd, 2-4pm

Change/Transformation
June 9 - July 6, 2019

Women’s Caucus for Art of Greater Washington

Change/Transformation is presented by the members of the Women’s Caucus for Art of Greater Washington. The works carry the theme of personal, political, social, economic, cultural or any other kind of transformative change that occur throughout our lives. These works reflect change witnessed and experienced by the artists themselves, and also the transformation of the role of women in the society today.

Waverly Street Gallery 4600 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814
 301-951-9441
Open Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6 pm
Ample parking in the county lot next door: park free on the weekends. The Bethesda Metro takes you almost to their door.