Art Miami has a new owner

The Art Miami fair group, which includes Art New York, CONTEXT, Aqua Art Miami, Art Wynwood, and others, has been sold to Informa Markets... this is a seismic move in the art fair world!

“It’s a bold and very positive step for us,” Nick Korniloff, Art Miami’s director, who owns the company with two partners, tells artnet News of the sale. During his years with the business, he has grown the fair empire to include CONTEXT, Aqua Art Miami, Art Wynwood, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, and Art New York. Over the past year, those fairs have drawn in some 400 dealers and overall attendance of more than 300,000 people. 

Read the whole article here. 

Is this the voice of Frida Kahlo?

Lecture: Art with a Twist

Sunday, October 13, 2pm.

Lecture: Art with a Twist

Montpelier Art Center

9652 Muirkirk Rd

Laurel, MD 20708

Join me as I take a fun walk through art history that culminates in contemporary art where I will discuss the work of some DC area artists and our regional art scene, and answer questions.

Lecture is free and open to the public.

Picasso at auction

This gorgeous 1994 drawing of the great Spanish master - done way back then as a commission - in now up for auction at a fraction of its original cost... See it and more photos and bid for it here.

"Picasso, El Terrible" 1994 by F. Lennox Campello

Residency opportunity for immigrant artists

RESIDENCIA CENTRONIA:  AN OPPORTUNITY FOR IMMIGRANT ARTISTS AND TO CREATE ART ABOUT IMMIGRATION

With support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities CentroNia offers an opportunity for artists to make work in residence at the Columbia Heights campus. Through the residency, selected artists will be provided free and dedicated studio space during the months of July and/or August and honoraria of $500 or $1000 dollars.

There is no cost to to apply. To apply artists should submit at least an image and artist bio or statement about how you’d like to use the residency. The Residency will provide access to a non-exclusive studio space in the early childhood education campus of CentroNia in Columbia Heights. Because children use the building during the day artists can only use non-toxic and non-odorous materials. Artists are expected to store their in-process art work and art supplies and clean up their work space after each session. CentroNia will provide a locked storage space.

To learn more and to apply online visit www.ResidenciaCentronia.com

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