Touchstone Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists

Touchstone Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists (2016-2018)

Open Call for Applications

Deadline: March 31, 2016

 WHAT is it?

The Fellowship provides a 2 year membership in Touchstone Gallery in downtown DC. This guarantees a solo exhibition as well as participation in gallery group shows, mentorship and a presence on the gallery website. The monetary value of the fellowship exceeds $4500.00

WHO can apply?

The Fellowship is awarded to 1 or more emerging artists in the Washington area who have not been represented by a commercial gallery in at least 10 years.

HOW to apply?

The application process for the 2016-2018 fellowship program is now open. The application and related information can be found on the TFA website,
www.touchstonefoundationdc.org

Openings and ongoings...

DMV area artists openings around the DMV and the nation:

Carol Reed at Susan Calloway Fine Arts on February 23 - March 23

Felicia Avalos, Irene Clouthier, Anthony Gongora, and Giselle Ruzany at Little Salon on  February 23

Maida Withers and Annika B. Lewis at Arts Club of Washington - Monroe House on February 28

Fran Abrams at Foundry Gallery on March 2 - March 27

Anna Demovidova at Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital on March 3 - May 1

Roxana Alger Geffen and Fabiola Alvarez Yurcisin at Olly Olly on March 5 - March 31

Richard Paul Weiblinger at 47th Annual LAG Open Juried Exhibition on March 6 - March 27

Amy Hughes-Braden at Montgomery College's Open Gallery on March 23 - May 2

Alexandra Chiou at Vivid Solutions Gallery on March 25 - May 13

Carol Barsha at Nesto Gallery on April 1 - May 6

Ongoing: 

Dafna Steinberg and Jenny Walton at Flashpoint Gallery to March 19

Jung Min Park at District of Columbia Arts Center to March 20

Nara Park and Dane Winkler at Hamiltonian Gallery to March 26

Mike McConnell at Strathmore, curated by Adah Rose Bitterbaum and Harriet Lesser, through February 21

Gail Rebhan at Lentos Art Museum through February 21

Stephen Schiff at ARC Gallery through February 27

Catherine Day at BlackRock Center for the Arts through February 27

Marc Robarge and Alex Porter at Hillyer Art Space through February 27

Gordon Binder at Studio Gallery through February 27

Stephanie Firestone at Salzland Museum through February 28

Linda Larochelle at 1st Stage Theater through February 28

Becky S. Kim at Foundry Gallery through February 28

John M. Adams, Barb Januszkiewicz, and Jennifer Lillis at 34zero9 Art Studios and Micro Gallery through February 29

Richard Weiblinger at Marymount University's Barry Gallery through March 3 and Maryland House of Delegates through April 6

Fabiano Amin, Joel D'Orazio, Sylvia Gottwald, Oenone Hammersley, Kathryn McDonnell, Elba Molina,and Helen Zughaib at Watergate Gallery through March 5

Lilian Hoover at Honfleur Gallery through March 11

Cedric Baker, Daniel T. Brooking, Edward Savwoir, Eric Celarier, and Gloria C. Kirk at Pepco Edison Place Gallery through March 11

Cianne Fragione at AU Museum at the Katzen Arts Center through March 13

Athena Tacha at Marsha Mateyka Gallery through March 19

Alexandra Chiou and Mike McConnell at Maryland Art Place through March 26

Jarvis Grant at Walton Gallery through March 3

Rebecca Clark, Joan Danzinger, David D'Orio, and Rachel Schmidt at Arlington Arts Center through April 3

Brian Dailey at Curator's Office through April 16

Lillis Werder at cove through May 12

Brian Feldman at Chinatown Friendship Archway through December 31

Artomatic is coming to Frederick!

The amazing artistic spectacle that is Artomatic is returning to Frederick, Maryland! Official announcement, dates and venue coming soon.

Here's my review of the last Frederick AOM.

NASA plans to send art to asteroid Bennu

And you are all invited to submit work!

You have until March 20 to submit your artwork. It would join the 442,000 other entries submitted through NASA's "Messages to Bennu" campaign.

Details at http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/21/us/nasa-art-asteroid/

Fields of Inquiry

Fields of Inquiry

Mei Mei Chang  Pat Goslee  Kathryn McDonnell February 27 – March 27, 2016 Opening Reception: Sunday, February 28, 2016  3 pm to 5 pm The Popcorn Gallery  (1st floor, Arcade Building)  7300 MacArthur Blvd.  Glen Echo, MD 20812 Gallery Hours:  Saturdays and Sundays, 12 pm to 6 pm or by appointment

In early December Mei Mei Chang, Pat Goslee and Kathryn McDonnell began working on two donated canvases. They moved the large canvases into Kathryn's studio and using paint that was also donated they began collaborating. They had to contend with busy work schedules, the holidays, travels, snowstorms, ice storms, blizzards and the pressure of a deadline, as well as unique artistic sensibilities. Will they be able to complete the paintings in time? And which one will they choose for the exhibition Fields of Inquiry? The gallery space at the Popcorn gallery is limited and will hold just one of the paintings. So they must choose. Please join them and see this unique collaboration.

State of the Art/DC - Part 3

By now you should all be aware of the three part "State of the Art/DC" conversation events sponsored by the DC chapter of the national professional women in the arts organization ART TABLE.

 

In the first two events (held at the NMWA and at Long View Gallery) they gave the floor to about a dozen DC based artists/art administrators/educators/organizers/thinkers each night for about 6-7 minutes to share thoughts about what they are doing now and their thoughts about the DC art scene in five years. 

 

There have been significant presenters and the event has been sold out both times.  

 

They are currently  accepting proposals for presenters for their last event, which will be late spring/early summer. You can submit a presentation proposal to programdc@arttable.org.  There is a jury involved.

 

Just so that you can get an idea, here are the presenters from the second session:

• Holly Bass, Artist and Director, Holly Bass 360
• Rhea Combs, Curator of Film and Photography at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Head of Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA)
• Tim Doud ( Artist and American University, Director, Studio Art) and Caitlin Teal Price (Artist and American University, Adjunct professor, Studio Art)
• Jarvis DuBois, Director, J. Dubois Arts
• Arthur Espinoza, Jr., Executive Director, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
• Philippa Hughes, Writer/speaker/flâneur/provocateur
• Brandon Morse, Artist and professor, University of Maryland, Dept. of Art
• Andrea Pollan, Founder/Director, Curator’s Office
• Tony Powell, Artist, dancer, composer, choreographer, writer
• Victoria Reis, Co-founder, Executive & Artistic Director, Transformer Gallery

Moderator: Elizabeth Blair, Senior Producer, Arts Desk, NPR

Opportunity for Artists

Going home

Going home today! This is my hospital allegory to Frida Kahlo's "What the water gave me."

The Baltic Sea Anomaly

Baltic Sea Anomaly - Image courtesy of

www.disclose.tv

Peter Lindberg, Dennis Åsberg and the Swedish “Ocean X” diving team are the Swedish folks who originally discovered this curious object in the Baltic in June 2011.


They also reported that this gigantic object was at the end of a 300-meter “runway” and that they had also found what looked like a staircase and a hole leading to the interior of the object.

More images here and lots more here.

For TBT: Teen paintings

Memories of Baracoa, Cuba
circa 1973, 20x16 inches
House paint on cardboard by F. Lennox Campello
In the collection of Ana Olivia Cruzata, Viuda de Campello, Hialeah, Florida

Memories of Cuba
circa 1972, 16x40 inches
House paint on found board by F. Lennox Campello
In the collection of Ana Olivia Cruzata, Viuda de Campello, Hialeah, Florida

For TBT: The fish drawings

As I've noted before, between 1992-1993 I was lucky to have lived in wondrous Sonoma, California, the real queen city of the wine country.

While I lived there, I used to drive down to Monterey and do an art fair there... one year, a local seafood restaurant owner who collected my work proposed to me to do a few drawings of some of the fish that he served in exchange for a lifetime free food at the restaurant (which had been on the Monterey Fisherman's Wharf for years, and it's still there to this day.

I agreed, and later on I drove down again, checked in, ate lunch and then went into the kitchen area, where they brought out the fish, nicely laid on a bed of ice.

I used a Sumi brush and ink to capture the images of the fish that they served... some of them are shown below: