Lori Katz at the AAFNYC

Lori Katz
Wall of Squares
55” x 45” x 2.5"

Stoneware with slips, underglaze, glaze, and mixed media including high-temperature wire,
oil paint, cold wax, metal leaf

You will be able to see this piece and many others works by Katz in New York at the coming Affordable Art Fair.

This Friday: Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program Visual Arts Exhibition

 

Opening Reception

Friday, July 29, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

RSVP here.

DC Commission on Arts and Humanities
200 I (Eye) Street, SE
Main Gallery
Washington, DC 20003

Exhibition closes August 31

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

200 I (Eye) Street SE, Washington DC

The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities presents a  visual arts exhibition featuring some of the District's finest visual artists applying for the FY 2017 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP). Each artist has submitted a piece that represents their body of work and artistic perspective. This exhibition captures the broad scope of the District's dynamic art scene and provides an opportunity for the artists to express their visions directly to the panel of peer reviewers evaluating their applications and to the public

Opportunities for Artists

Non-DCCAH Calls for Artists (lifted from the DCCAH website:

• Center for Fine Art Photography, Deadline is July 27, 2016

• BWI Marshall Art and Exhibits, Deadline is July 29, 2016

• Anacostia Arts Center, Deadline is August 1, 2016

• Events DC, Deadline is August 1, 2016

• Linus Galleries, Deadline is August 3, 2016

• Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Deadline is August 10, 2016

• Hera Gallery, Deadline is August 12, 2016

• City of Las Vegas Office of Cultural Affairs, Deadline is August 14, 2016

• Linus Galleries, Deadline is August 17, 2016

• Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Deadline is August 18, 2016

• National Opera Center America, Deadline is August 31, 2016

• Digital Fabrication Residency, Deadline is September 1, 2016

• Greater Denton Arts Council, Deadline is September 30, 2016

• Strathmore, Deadline is September 30, 2016

Washington Area Visual Artists Registry

From Bill Roseberry:

Dear D.C. Artists,

I am in the very initial stages of compiling an historical comprehensive registry of Washington Area Visual Artists from pre-1800's to the present.

Besides names and dates, I wish to focus particularly on studio locations in and around the D.C. Metropolitan area, the neighborhoods they lived and worked, and other cultural and educational affiliations artists had or participated in.

I understand that this will be a very large project. But it is my wish that with enough individual responses and support I can demonstrate the need for institution support and funding in desire to create a larger centrally-located, interactive database with links to individual artists archives.

It simply seems to me that we need a shift in the balance the focus of research and funding in the arts from the end-product (objects on display and in collections) to the artist and his or her active community and primary means of moral and creative support.

To this end I have created this short survey to fill out and return:
https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSdQBHw5oMN8wNmxn…/viewform…

Please feel free to copy and share the form to as many D.C area artists (including former and current art students) you know and have contact with and ask them to return it. The more responses there are the better likelihood we can revive and reinvigorate the culture of artists in D.C. to fill the cracks and holes in the shared legacy that we've all contributed to create.

If you have ideas and suggestions please email me at bill.roseberry@gmail.com

I would very much appreciate your feedback.

If you know of a deceased artist and can enter the following information please feel free to do so on a separate form.

Also visit and invite artist friends to visit https://www.facebook.com/WashingtonDCAreaArtistsHistorical…/ for updates.

Thank you.

Review of Alma Thomas

Thomas, who died in 1978, at the age of eighty-six, was a junior-high-school art teacher in Washington, D.C., whose own paintings were modernist and sophisticated but of no special note until she retired from teaching, in 1960, and took up color-intensive abstraction.

Read Peter Schjeldahl's review here.

Call for Artists: Shockoe Artspace

Shockoe Artspace’s mission is to provide a vital platform for both student, emerging and professional artists from local and regional backgrounds as well as international. 

We are looking to promote a diverse array of works and exhibitions. Furthermore we exist to cultivate community through various forms and outlets that will deeply impact our city. We think it is vital to generate new and relevant dialogue surrounding the arts of all kinds that stimulates growth in the artist and increases interest and appreciation from patrons and supporters.
Through a diverse array of exhibitions, forums, and open critiques, we hope to extend the already flourishing artistic foundation and culture here in Shockoe Bottom and Richmond as a whole.

Submissions:

Artist submissions are welcomed. Submissions will be reviewed several times a year. If upon review, we have further interest, we will be in touch with you directly. Artists should include a C.V., and artist statement, along with a personal web address and or 5 to 10 jpeg images with captions. Submissions must be emailed to submissions@shockoeartspace.com.

Art Scam Alert!!!

This scam alert came from a mutant con artist attempting to rip off artists - the email is revd.henry@gmail.com: