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Obama Names President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities Appointees

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/11/09

“Ronald Reagan picked Frank Sinatra and Bill Blass. Bill Clinton appointed Quincy Jones, Rita Moreno, and violinist Isaac Stern. The Bushes, father and son, chose a whole bunch of people you probably never heard of. But when it comes to sheer glitz and celebrity firepower, Barack Obama may have outstripped them all with his recent nominees to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. They include Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, actors Edward Norton and Alfre Woodard, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, and ballet dancer Damian Woetzel…The committee’s 25 members—an eclectic list that, besides performing artists, includes business executives, educators, arts organization trustees, lawyers, and political supporters—were sworn in November 3 in Washington, DC.”

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Artist Reception for Celebration of Freedom, Curated by ACA This Saturday @ The Potter’s House

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

A Celebration of Freedom Featuring the Art of Liberated Muse
Curated by Sharon J. Burton of Authentic Contemporary Art

The Potter’s House
1658 Columbia Road, NW
Washington, DC

Artist’s Reception: Saturday, November 14, 2009
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Come for the OFFICIAL opening of the art exhibit “Celebration of Freedom” @ the Potter’s House. Liberated Muse Productions presents an art exhibit showcasing the talent of DC visual artists featured in the book Liberated Muse Volume I: How I Freed My Soul and the arts community www.LiberatedMuse.com.

Featured artists include: Prudence Bonds, Shan’ta Monroe, Sherry Burton-Ways, James Terrell, Jade Andwele, Sharon Burton, Choke, Stephan Cox, Marshetta Davis, Keisha Carroll and Khadijah Ali-Coleman.

Refreshments will be available. Additional artwork not shown in the exhibition by artists will be available for sale as well as the book.

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Fotoweek-In-Anacostia Highlights Over 40 Photographers

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

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Five different exhibitions premier in November, throughout the Historic Sector of Anacostia, East of the River. All the exhibits open Saturday November 7th at 7pm and are in walking distance of each other.

Honfleur Gallery
1241 Good Hope Road SE WDC 20020
Women Photojournalists of Washington : Launch

WPOW’s mission is to connect and educate the public of the work of women photographers.  The photographers featured in the juried exhibit are Astrid Riecken, Allison Shelley, Abby Greenawalt, Ashely Twiggs, Algerina Perna, Amanda Lucidon, Andrea Bruce, Carol Guzy, Gabriela Bulisova, Jamie Rose, Katie Falkenberg, Laura Elizabeth Pohl, Melina Mara, Sarah L. Voisin  and Yanina Manolova. Launch is generously sponsored by Camera Bits.  Learn more about WPOW at http://womenphotojournalists.org/

A Contact Sheet : Honfleur’s represented artists + local favorites

This survey of photography includes works in various techniques by Darren Smith, Renee Woodward, John K. Lawson, Antoine Sanfuentes, Joshua Yospyn, Jean-Francois Bauret, Jean Francois Rauzier, Jean Noel L’Harmeroult, Cyril Anguelidis, Andrea Hope, Jared Ragland, Sharon J. Burton, Sherry Ways and Deborah Terry.

Alternative Arts Space 2200
2200 MLK Ave SE, WDC 20020
BK Adams + Steven M. Cummings : I AM ART

Steven Cummings, DC based photographer, collaborates with BK Adams, Anacostia based sculptor and painter presenting an experimental installation with interactive components.

The Gallery at Vivid Solutions
2208 MLK Ave SE WDC 20020
Owen Franken : A Photography Retrospective

Owen has traveled to over 100 countries and covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the culture of food and wine in his home  city of Paris. *Special event: ARCH Art Auction and Fundraiser, and exhibition preview on Friday, November 6th with the photographer’s brother Senator Al Franken and Franni Franken. Please call 202-365-8392 for further information and tickets.

ARCH Training Center
1231 Good Hope Road SE WDC 20020                                                                Student Photography Exhibit : Eco-Action-Reaction

Student photography show focusing on the importance of renewable energy resources, such as solar power, and exploring the environmental juxtaposition between man and nature. This exhibition is funded in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

For further inquiries, please ca;; 202-536-8994 or arts@archdc.org.
For more information about FOTOWEEK DC, see www.fotoweekdc.org.

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New Art Dialogue Series Opens Second Season with International Curator Basualdo

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

 

Carlos Basualdo

Carlos Basualdo

The second season of the Baltimore-based  Contemporary Museum’s New Art Dialogue Series, a forum for discussion of contemporary art in Baltimore, will begin Wednesday, November 11 at 7 p.m. with Carlos Basualdo, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The lecture is held in collaboration with the Maryland Institute College of Art, and will be held in MICA’s Falvey Hall, located in the Brown Center at 1300 Mt. Royal Avenue in Bolton Hill, Baltimore, Maryland.

 

The Contemporary Museum’s New Art Dialogue Series presents lectures and conversations by distinguished artists, critics, art historians, and curators whose work is defining the field of contemporary art. The series will cultivate critical discourse responsive to the cultural, social and political issues of our time.

A renowned curator of international exhibitions, Carlos Basualdo will share his experiences curating at prestigious international art venues and museums. His most recent work includes the celebrated Bruce Nauman exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Other projects of note include the exhibitions Structure of Survival, also for the Venice Biennale, and Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany.

Later in the season, the New Art Dialogue Series will present managing editor of Art in America Richard Vine, who will explore the radical recent changes to art and culture in China; and artist Mel Chin, who will discuss addressing social and political issues through his art.

The New Art Dialogue Series has been made possible by a sponsorship from the Louise D. & Morton J. Macks Family Foundation. Additional support has been provided by Bodil Ottesen.

Admission to the New Art Dialogue Series lecture on November 11 is $10 for the general public, $5 for students, and free to members of the Contemporary Museum and MICA students.

The Brown Center is located at 1300 Mt. Royal Avenue in Baltimore’s Bolton Hill neighborhood.

For more information, visit www.contemporary.org

About the Contemporary Museum
The Contemporary Museum promotes the art and culture of our time by producing and presenting new works, new thinking, and new practices that are immediately relevant. The Contemporary has earned international acclaim for its thought-provoking exhibitions, innovative programming, and unique collaborations with artists, curators, critics, and members of the community.     

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U.S. Congress Approves Budget Increases for Arts and Humanities Endowments

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

The New York Times, 10/30/09

“The House and Senate on [October 29] passed a budget increase for the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA] and for the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Interior Appropriations Bill for FY 2010 sets budgets for each agency at $167.5 million; up $12.5 million from last year…The funding comes as Rocco Landesman, the new chairman of the NEA, prepares to start a nationwide Art Works tour next week. ‘It’s never enough,’ Mr. Landesman said. ‘But we’re looking for progress at a time when every dollar is precious. For us to get a notable increase is extremely heartening.’ The NEA is currently funded at $155 million, and the White House had requested an increase to $161 million. The agency received an additional $50 million through the stimulus bill. This summer, the House approved $170 million for the arts endowment, while the Senate proposed $161.3 million. The final budget was decided in conference [last] week and passed by a vote of 247–178 in the House and 72–28 in the Senate. ‘This important budget increase recognizes the essential role the arts play in our lives, schools, and communities,’ said Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts.”

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Check out Video Highlights of FreeSoul @ ArtSpring

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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