Thursday, October 19, 2023

Artists showing at Superfine DC


Meet the artists showing at the 2023 Superfine DC Art Fair this weekend!

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Superfine DC Art Fair Next Weekend

Superfine DC Art Fair

Dock5 @ Union Market - Booth 931309 5th St NE, Washington, DC 20002-7003, United StatesVIP Masquerade Opening:Thu Oct 26: 6-10pmGeneral Admission Hours:*Fri Oct 27: 4-9pSat Oct 28: 12-9pmSun Oct 29: 12-6pm

Go see Jennifer Brewerstone in Booth 93 - she writes:

I've been looking forward to doing this indoor art fair for some time. I'll be showing my original artwork, including paintings and resin work, my canvas and poster reproductions, and cards. The VIP night on Thursday will be a dress up/masquerade party, which should be fun, and this is in the same building as all the shops and restaurants at Union Market. Can't wait to see you!

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

DC Art Now 2023 Gallery Exhibition Reception - This Thursday!

DC Art Now 2023 Gallery Exhibition Reception --  200 I Street Gallery for a reception to celebrate the finalists for the FY24 Art Bank Program! On view in the gallery is the latest exhibition, DC Art Now 2023, an annual exhibition of selected work by Art Bank finalists. See DC come to life through photography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, textiles, and more! 

6 to 8 pm, Thursday, October 19, 2023

200 I (Eye) St SE, Washington, DC, 20003

Monday, October 16, 2023

It's the 20th Anniversary of DC ART NEWS!

It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Peppers taught the band to play... that this art blog got started in an effort to help the DC area visual art scene get a little online presence!

Read my first blog post ever here.

Sunday, October 15, 2023

"Living in Bethesda" by Anna Soevik at Gallery B

Don't miss your chance to visit Gallery B and view "Living in Bethesda" by Anna Rose Soevik. 

Anna, a UK-born artist who has called Bethesda home for 25 years, draws attention to notable figures and moments in Bethesda's history, and features pixel portraits of famous figures from around the world. 

Gallery hours are Friday-Saturday, 12 PM - 5 PM, and Sunday 11 AM - 2 PM. Gallery B is located at 7700 Wisconsin Avenue E.

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Downtown DC Public Art and Placemaking Strategic Plan.

The DowntownDC invites you to participate in an exciting new five-year initiative to install high-impact public art and streetscape improvements to rejuvenate our communities, attract more visitors, and create strong neighborhood identities.

They want to hear from you!
  • What areas do you think should be prioritized?
  • What kind of high-impact projects should we invest in?
  • Where do you currently visit in Downtown DC?
  • Who should be our partners, and how do we guarantee success?
These are just some of the questions we need your help with to develop our new DowntownDC Public Art and Placemaking Strategic Plan.  The Public Art and Placemaking Strategic Plan for DowntownDC is a visionary five-year plan aimed at rapidly and seamlessly integrating new public art, placemaking, and placekeeping initiatives into the area’s urban fabric in ways that enrich the character and identity of the DowntownDC neighborhoods that compose it. Please help inform it by joining them for the first stakeholder workshop on October 26, 2023, 2 pm - 3 pm. Please click here to RSVP to the meeting. They look forward to seeing you at the workshop and hearing your ideas! Please RSVP your attendance by using the link. Public Art and Placemaking Strategic Plan Flyer

Friday, October 13, 2023

Wanna go to an opening in Brandywine tomorrow?

Roxana Rojas-Luzón,Southern Area Aquatics Recreation Complex,Carlos Garcia,Ruben Salomon

 

Happy Birthday!

 

USS Curtis Wilbur
USS Curtis Wilbur

Happy Birthday to the US Navy and to all my U.S. Navy brothers and sisters at sea - we've got your back!

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Dr. Francesca Smith ’23 Wins 2023 CPED Dissertation in Practice of the Year Award

"I hope that my research can play a small part in aligning these bodies of research, in highlighting the assets that Spanish-dominant emergent bilinguals bring to learning ..."

Dr. Alida Anderson, SOE Professor and Dr. Francesca Smith

To complete her doctorate in education in educational policy and leadership, American University School of Education (SOE) student Dr. Francesca Smith ’23 centered her dissertation around research that she cared deeply about: bilingual students from Latinx immigrant families and their experiences in dual-language English reading instruction. The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) awarded her the prestigious Dissertation in Practice of the Year Award which she accepted in a ceremony in Florida this month...

“Dr. Smith’s dissertation of practice is specifically framed around questions of equity, ethics, and social justice in her interrogation of the promise of a dual-language community school within an urban, gentrified community context” said Dr. Alida Anderson, SOE Professor and the chair of Smith’s dissertation committee (pictured on the right with Smith). “Her dissertation embodies the values of CPED as it provides a roadmap for scholar practitioners committed to addressing systems-level equity challenges facing schools and teachers serving emergent bilingual students and their families.”

Read the entire article by Jason Pier here.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Painting Missing Since WWII is Recovered in Chicago

Art Recovery International is pleased to announce the recovery of a painting by Viennese artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer (1700 – 1733). The painting was reported stolen from the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich, Germany, and has been missing since 1945.

In December 2022, Christopher A. Marinello, lawyer and founder of Art Recovery International (“ARI”), was contacted by an individual in Chicago who claimed to possess a “stolen or looted painting” and wanted to know how to go about returning it. It was alleged that the possessor’s uncle had brought the painting home from Germany after serving in the US Army in WWII.

The possessor sent only a few images of the landscape painting to ARI with no information about the artist or title.

Marinello and his team went to work. Turning to his colleagues in Germany, attorneys at WANTUCH THOLE VOLHARD, the artwork was identified as a long-lost Lauterer landscape once part of the collection of the New Bayreuth Palace, a branch gallery of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. The painting had been listed since 2012 on the Lost Art Database maintained by the German Lost Art Foundation which documents cultural property expropriated as a result of Nazi persecution and contains records of cultural property that was removed from Germany during the Second World War. The Lost Art database is accessible to the public.

Marinello explains the delicate negotiations with the possessor, “I shared all the evidentiary documentation of the loss with the possessor who initially wanted to be paid to release the artwork. I explained our policy of not paying for stolen artwork and that the request was inappropriate given the familial connection. We also know that someone tried to sell the painting in the Chicago art market in 2011 and disappeared when the Museum put forth its claim. Eventually, I negotiated an unconditional release of the painting and asked the FBI Art Crime Team to bring the case over the finish line. The FBI in Chicago confirmed the looting and provided the extra confidence to the possessor to surrender the painting unconditionally”.

“The crux of our work at Art Recovery International is the research and restitution of artworks looted by the Nazis and discovered in public or private collections. On occasion, we come across cases, such as this, where allied soldiers may have taken objects home as souvenirs or as trophies of war.  Being on the winning side doesn’t make it right. We expect everyone to do the right thing and return stolen artwork wherever it may be located. The problem of looted art will not go away but is often passed onto future generations to deal with”.

Marinello thanks Chicago-based FBI Special Agent David White, “This repatriation could not have happened without the swift action of the FBI Art Crime Team. Also particularly helpful was the entry of the painting as a war-related loss in the Lost Art database.”

The Lauterer painting will be formally returned to the Museum in a brief ceremony at the German Consulate in Chicago on the 19th of October 202

Monday, October 09, 2023

I stand with Israel


 

Sunday, October 08, 2023

DC’s Washington Glass School and Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington and Vets

DC’s Washington Glass School and Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington Join Forces to Empower Veterans through Glass Sculpture Workshops!

“What’s bad for your heart is good for your art.”


Perhaps no one understands this truth better than Veterans, many of whom endure pain of all types. It’s also true for many that creating something out of that pain promotes healing – so much so that DC’s Veteran’s Affairs has partnered with the Washington Glass School (WGS) and the Museum of Glass (MOG) in Tacoma, WA. to bring the restorative power of art to active duty patients and Veterans diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorders.  

Started in 2013 at Takoma’s MOG, the Hot Shop Heroes program has been dedicated to teaching glass safety procedures, fundamental glassmaking techniques and team building skills. In one of the first partnerships with the MOG, WGS will add metal working and special glass casting techniques to the intensive arts encounter.

A new arts community will be created, one that brings Veterans and artists together. For the next 8 weeks the healing power of glass as a sculptural medium will culminate in a special exhibition of artwork coinciding with the WGS Holiday Open Studio scheduled for December 9, 2023.

Founded in 2001, the Washington Glass School continues to engage the larger community through the promotion, development, display, and amplification of many voices, lived experiences and backgrounds. 

Saturday, October 07, 2023

Half a million hits in one day

About twenty years ago something odd happened that caused about half a million people to visit a gallery's website - read the vintage post here.

Friday, October 06, 2023

Meet the Artists

 


RSVP here!

Vanessa and Elise

My two beautiful daughters in 1989 - it was clearly hair day!

Vanessa Campello and Elise Campello


Thursday, October 05, 2023

Jambalaya (On the Bayou)

Thibodaux, Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'

A kin-folk come to see Yvonne by the dozen

Dressed in style, the go hog wild, me oh my oh

Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the Bayou


Tuesday, October 03, 2023

Are art critics objective? Hell No!

I think that the chances that Gopnik would be "amazed" by Anderson's art are about the same as the chances that Laura Bush will elope with Osama Bin Laden. In fact I think that in Gopnik's books, the Anderson show may just beat the J. Seward Johnson show at the Corcoran that Gopnik brutalized a few weeks ago when he wrote: "This is the worst museum exhibition I've ever seen."

Read this post from almost 20 years ago on the subject at hand.

2023 BLICK Pen & Ink Challenge

2023 BLICK Pen & Ink Challenge: Submit your original pen-and-ink artwork for a chance to WIN a prize pack worth over $500!

Prize Description: Five winners will receive a prize pack worth more than $500

No fee!

Enter here!