Bethesda Art Walk tomorrow!

The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District invites you to join us tomorrow evening, Friday, December 13 from 6-8PM, for the Bethesda Art Walk. During this self-guided walking tour of the galleries and studios of downtown Bethesda you will be able to view the artwork, chat with the artists in residence, and enjoy light refreshments at each stop along the way. The participating galleries and studios are:

Amy Kaslow Gallery with two concurrent exhibits on view: "Jane Kell: Skyline" and "Joseph Holston: Black Lives, a Retrospective."

Gallery B will host artists Jennifer McBrien and Kate Norris, and their exhibition "Unraveling Narratives: A Dialogue in Toile."

Studio B is home to artists Linda Button, Shanthi Chandrasekar, Sara Leibman and Gloria Solomon. 

Triangle Art Studios is home to artists Stephen Estrada, Maruja Quezada and Barbara Siegel.

Waverly Street Gallery will hold their Annual Holiday Show, featuring the work of Waverly Street Gallery artists.

Art Walk

Another update to the list of confirmed artists

Here's another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far in he 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show! 

Loads more to come as I await confirmations! Still curious about a significant number of artists have not responded to my invitation, which affirms the power of the "Spam folder" to screw up once in a while.

Maremi Andreozzi

Sondra N. Arkin

Michele Banks 

Holly Bass

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Julia Bloom 

Margaret Boozer

Lisa Brotman 

Shante Bullock

Melissa Burley 

Rachel Carren

Anne Cherubim

Shanthi Chandrasekar 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Irene Clouthier 

Amanda Coelho

Ellen Cornett

Rosemary Feit Covey 

Jenny Freestone 

Andrea Cullins 

Joan Danziger 

Jenny Davis 

Tanya Davis 

Wendy Donahoe

Margaret Dowell

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Hyunsuk Erickson 

Cynthia Farrell Johnson

Helen Frederick 

Susan Goldman

Carol Brown Goldberg

Janis Goodman 

Elyse Harrison

Muriel Hasbun 

Rania Hassan 

Mira Hecht

Michal Hunter 

Melissa Ichiuji 

Selena Jackson 

Barbara Januszkiewicz 

Jessica Kallista

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz

Zofie King

Susan LaMont

Kyujin Lee

Laurel Lukaszewski

Akemi Maegawa

Joey Mánlapaz

Isabel Manalo

Anne Marchand 

Isabella Martire 

Amy Marx

Donna McCullough  

Maggie Michael 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan 

Camille Mosley-Pasley 

Jody Mussoff

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca

Betsy Packard 

Dora Patin

Judith Peck

Sandra Pérez-Ramos 

Susana Raab 

Marie Ringwald 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

Alexandra Silverthorne 

Pritha Srinivasan

Renee Stout 

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel 

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss 

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Sharon Wolpoff

Suzanne Yurdin

Helen Zughaib

Art Scam Alert!!!

And yet another asswipe trying to scam artists - Be careful out there!

Corrol Elizabeth - elizabethcorrol86@gmail.com

Hello,I just want to reach out and let you know how much I admire your artworks ,I stumbled upon your online gallery and was immediately captivated by the beauty of your arts .

I would like to know if they are up for sales, I would love to purchase some.

A Gentle Unroot: A Latinx Perspective

Opening Thursday!

A Gentle Unroot: A Latinx Perspective

Curated by Claudina Hannon

December 12, 2024 — January 12, 2025

Artists' Reception: Sunday, December 15, 4 — 6 pm

Artists' Talk: Sunday, January 12, 2:30 pm

I've never been a fan of the term "Latinx", as I consider it an invasion of the language and no single Spanish word that I know of ends in "x" - but I am guilty of employing it myself here and there... anyway from The Athenaeum in Alexandria:

A Gentle Unroot: A Latinx Perspective uncovers the possibilities for what happens when someone leaves their native Latin American land to reside elsewhere, and what they choose to keep with them physically and mentally throughout their daily lives.

Most people who have experienced an immigrant’s journey will tell you it is no “gentle” process. However, the humanistic wish and ideal is for all people to transition from one place to another gently and to carry one culture into another seamlessly. The exhibition's title suggests this concept as a wish for a gentle transition with almost blind yet faithful hope in unrooting one or more cultures and taking them with us as we move to a new country.

Many times, it is not just something that affects those who are first-generation immigrants. It is a process that affects future generations of families through the traditions and memories kept from that unrooting via language, family, culture, and history. But it is that unrooting that allows the travelers to almost transform their identities as they embrace a new country, culture, and language individually, while merging their Latin American identity with that of their new homeland.

The Latinx diaspora of artists in this show share a multigenerational lens of experiences within Latinx and American culture. Their compelling stories and artwork provide a glimpse of what they experienced and witnessed, and this opens a greater understanding and sensibility for humanity through their first-hand experiences as immigrants or as descendants of immigrants within their family lineage.

Participating artists:

Ana Rendich

Francisco Juncadella

Katty Huertas

Paloma Vianey

Pedro Ledesma III

Rosa Vera

Ric Garcia

Athenaeum / 201 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314

703.548.0035 /  nvfaa.org

First work chosen for the "Women Artists of the DMV"

I've curated over 200 group art shows in the DC area since the mid 90s, and often I find that the first piece chosen often also speaks about the show as a whole.

My formula for group shows is essentially the same, and a proven, successful, and bordering on brilliant technique: the group show is a pyramid of artists at various points in their artistic career and development - blue chip, well-known artists; a large set of well-known, mid career artists, and the pyramid's wide and powerful base: a set of young (not simply in age, but perhaps also in artistic age - think of a 95 year-old artist who just started painting five years ago) artists who need the exposure and push that a well attended, widely publicized, and wildly successful art show offers their young careers.

In this latter set, I also include artists who are "new" to me. My logic is that if I haven't heard of them, no matter how advanced anyone else thinks they are (or perhaps even the artist her/himself), then they are in need of exposure.

Selena “Noir” Jackson, was born and raised in Washington DC, attended Montgomery College School of Art where she earned her A.F.A. in Studio Arts, and from what I can tell from her website, has not exhibited widely around here or anywhere else.

One of her works, titled "Comparative Anatomy (Petrus Camper)" and illustrated below, is the first piece that I have chosen for the epic "Women Artists of the DMV" survey show.  

Comparative Anatomy (Petrus Camper) - 24x36 by Selena Jackson
Courtesy of the Grace McNicolas Collection 

This is an immensely talented painter.  A quick walk through her website quickly reveals that Jackson already owns the technical skills of a much more mature painter. Her brush work is impeccable and her texture and color application techniques already at a top level.

I predict great success for this artist.

Clarification: What is the "DMV"?

Because I am receiving a lot of emails from interested women artists with regards to the 2025 "Women Artists of the DMV", to my surprise I have learned that I need to clarify what is meant by "DMV", which is somewhat of the local term for the Greater Washington, DC area.

Baltimore is not in the DMV, neither is Richmond, or Charlottesville, or anywhere where (in my definition (since I apparently may have invented the acronym) from the air it is impossible to tell where one street is inside the District and across the street in Maryland or Virginia.

If there's miles of uninhabited freeway between the District and wherever - Baltimore, Annapolis, Richmond, Charlottesville, Staunton, etc., then that is NOT the DMV.

If you live in Mars, but your studio is in DC, Alexandria, Bethesda, Rockville, etc. - then I am willing to accept that you are a DMV artist.

Baltimore: Especially you! Baltimore is a grown-ass city with its own art scene, art galleries, museums, art schools, colleges, etc.; you are NOT part of the DMV.

Baltimore and DMV from space

Quandary: What if an artist spent 40-50 years working and producing art in the DMV, but now has retired and lives somewhere else?  Tough call!

Leave suggestions as comments - I am willing to listen.

More added to the list

Here's another updated list of the DMV area female artists who have agreed to participate so far! Loads more to come as I await confirmations!

Maremi Andreozzi

Sondra N. Arkin

Michele Banks

Jennifer Lynn Beaudet 

Julia Bloom 

Margaret Boozer

Lisa Brotman

Melissa Burley

Anne Cherubim

Shanthi Chandrasekar 

Hsin-Hsi Chen 

Irene Clouthier

Ellen Cornett

Rosemary Feit Covey 

Andrea Cullins 

Joan Danziger 

Tanya Davis 

Wendy Donahoe

Cheryl Edwards

Dana Ellyn 

Hyunsuk Erickson

Helen Frederick

Carol Brown Goldberg

Muriel Hasbun 

Rania Hassan

Michal Hunter

Maria Karametou

Lori Katz

Zofie King

Susan LaMont

Kyujin Lee

Laurel Lukaszewski

Akemi Maegawa

Joey Mánlapaz

Isabel Manalo

Anne Marchand

Donna McCullough 

Maggie Michael 

E.J. Montgomery

Sharon Moody 

Ally Morgan

Georgia Nassikas 

Leslie Nolan

Teresa Oaxaca

Betsy Packard

Judith Peck

Sandra Pérez-Ramos 

Amber Robles-Gordon

Gail Shaw-Clemons 

Alexandra Silverthorne

Renee Stout 

Zsudayka Nzinga Terrel 

Andrea Way 

Ellyn Weiss

Sharon Wolpoff

Suzanne Yurdin

Helen Zughaib