National Small Works at WPG

 

National Small Works

including work from 36 artists,

representing the DC and 17 states



Opening: Saturday, July 8, 2:00-5:00 pm

It is with great pleasure that Washington Printmakers Gallery announces the 23rd year of the National Small Works Show: the first since 2019, due to Covid cancellations. This year’s exhibit honors Peggy Doole (1934-2021), long-time resident of the DC area who shared her love of art by giving lectures, sponsoring exhibits, and leading tours at the Hirshhorn, the National Gallery of Art, and other museums throughout Europe and the U.S. Her post-graduate museum work led her to a focus on, and a special passion for, printmaking.

The exhibition includes 36 pieces – fine art prints, photographs, and artist books chosen by  juror LuLen Walker, Art Curator for Georgetown University.

The Washington Printmakers Gallery is a members-owned cooperative dedicated to fine-art printmaking, photographs, and artists books. The Washington Print Foundation, sponsor of this exhibition, supports this mission through education, exhibitions, and community outreach programs.

Washington Printmakers Gallery ● 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW ● (202) 669-1497

info@washingtonprintmakers.com ● www.washingtonprintmakers.com

Memorial Day 2023

Have a grand Memorial Day! Our grateful thanks to all those who have served and their families, and our gratitude to all the soldiers, airmen/women, marines, and sailors currently serving all over the world and at sea.

We've got your back!

Congressional Art Competition: Maryland's 8th District

Many years ago, I had the honor of being asked to help select the winner of the annual Congressional Art Competition for then Congressman Chris Van Hollen, and thus this competition holds a special place near my art heart.

Jamie Raskin represents Maryland's 8th District, and as part of this year's competition, his office graciously sent me the following info:

The Memory Quilt: Pieces of Myself 
by Olivia Ensign of Albert Einstein High School

This year’s winner is Olivia Ensign from Albert Einstein High School in Kensington. Olivia’s submission, “The Memory Quilt: Pieces of Myself,” will hang in the U.S. Capitol Building for one year alongside winning art pieces from congressional districts across the nation.

The second place winners include: Alanna Sidlowski, Betsi Ralda-Romera, Dami Kim, Dhruv Narang, Elizabeth Daly, Ella Spirtas, Etian Huang, Joseph Bloomfield, Lily Pacuit, Lucinda Sun, Mikae Fasihi, Nari Kim, Natalie McMurry, Olivia Dietrich, Rebecca Rothstein, Ryan Crothers and Yael Chinn.

Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Now in its 42nd year, more than 650,000 high school students have participated since the competition’s inception in 1982.

And I approve! WOW! This artist is not only superbly talented, but already shows the skills of a much mature painter: The composition is brilliant and that elusive quality of self-portraiture - the ability to catch a psychological in-print - is there!

In an interview with WTOP, Raskin said, “the winner’s piece, I could only describe it as spellbinding!”

Congratulations to Ensign, and to the Congressman and his staff and whoever assisted him in the selection process - well done!

All the entries are online here. I also quite liked Streets of Singapore by Mikael Fasihi of Landon School and Birdie by Nadula Ediriweera of Walt Whitman High School.

Isabella Curerri at the US Capitol

The artwork of a Flagler Palm Coast High School student will hang in the U.S. Capitol for a year.

FPC junior Isabella Curerri won first place for Florida’s sixth congressional district in the annual Congressional Art Competition, a national contest in which high school students submit their artwork to their local representative

One piece is chosen per representative to hang at the Capitol for a year.

Congrats to the obviously highly talented Ms. Curerri - I'm gonna start asking our DMV representatives for name and image of their chosen artworks and post them here. 

Wanna go to an artist's talk this Friday?

Mei Mei Chang talks about her artistic vision of “NOISESCAPE  II” at the Willow Street Gallery.

There's also a workshop Saturday June 3rd 1 - 3 pm

Enrollment is limited to 10 people. Contact gallery@dcartsstudios.org for information about workshop pricing.

                                                            

6925 Willow Street, NW, 1st floor
Washington, DC 20012

They'll stone you

They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table.

They'll stone ya when you are young and able.

They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to make a buck.

They'll stone ya and then they'll say, "good luck."

‘Airbnb bandit’ mysteriously steals painting – and replaces it with new one

Does this sound familiar... cough... cough... ???

From the WaPo: Airbnb host said guest stole artwork, hung new painting. The internet rushed to help.

Amy Corbett was in a Zoom meeting when she spotted something strange in her own background. The black-and-white painting of a map that normally hung above her couch was no longer there. Instead, it had been replaced with a painting of an airplane propeller she had never seen before.

From Daily Dot: ‘I have never seen this picture before in my life’: Airbnb host says artwork was swapped by a guest.

It seems the person who stayed in the apartment most recently replaced the map of the world with a larger piece of artwork. It appears to be a vintage airplane propeller with warmer coloring, including orange, red, and brown tones—a definite style departure from the black and white art it replaced.

From Insider: An Airbnb host said a guest inexplicably swapped out a wall picture for a completely different painting. TikTok is gripped, watching as the saga unfolds.

An Airbnb host said that a guest swapped a picture in her apartment out for a completely different one, and is taking TikTok on a journey to find out why.

From The Guardian: ‘Airbnb bandit’ mysteriously steals painting – and replaces it with new one

When an Airbnb host in Virginia realized that a painting in one of her properties had been stolen and replaced, the internet came together to investigate the unlikely mystery.

Want some clues?

Check out this post from 2006, or a more recent one from 2010, Then in 2011 I taught all how to do it by doing an installation at the Arlington Arts Center - see it here.

Cough... cough...