Millennium Arts Salon’s First Annual
Salon Club Meeting and Membership Drive
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
3 — 6 PM
1213 Girard Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Meet MAS Board of Directors and its newest members; Mingle with friends and art enthusiasts; Reflect on MAS’s past 10 years and what’s to come
Light food and beverages will be served
Tel: 202-239-8450, email: info@millenniumartssalon.org
About the Millennium Arts Salon
Now celebrating its 10th year, Millennium Arts Salon is committed to advancing cultural literacy through its art programming, which includes salon talks, exhibitions, tours and special events.
Based in historic Columbia Heights, DC, many of its intimate salon talks and art exhibitions are held in its beautifully restored 1923 town home. Through its outreach efforts, it also hostsprograms in various venues around the city and collaborates with art institutions, such as The Phillips Collection, the David C Driskell Center at the University of Maryland College Park, Pyramid Atlantic, and Parish Gallery of Georgetown DC.
Notable individuals have participated in MAS salons and/or exhibitions, including artists and administrators Allan Edmunds (founder/President of Brandywine Workshop) and EJ Montgomery, master artist Sam Gilliam, collector Paul Jones, writer and appraiser Dr. Halima Taha (author of Collecting African American Art), artist and master printmaker Lou Stovall, historian and dancecritic Richard Long, artist and filmmaker Camille Billops and writer, professor and filmmaker, Dr. James Hatch, singer Ysaye Barnwell (of “Sweet Honey on the Rock”), political scientist Dr. Ronald Walters, Director, African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland College Park, renowned artist and art historian, Dr. David C. Driskell, collector Dr. Robert Steele, Executive Director of the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland College Park,professor Leslie King-Hammond, Graduate Dean, Maryland Institute, College of Art, poet Sonia Sanchez, curator Ruth Fine of the National Gallery of Art, theatre director Chris McElroen, cofounderand Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Les Payne, editor of Newsday, art historian and curator, Dr. Beth Turner, and emerging and mid-career artists such as, Michael Platt,Margo Humphrey, Jack White, Ray Grist, Bill Hutson, Eric Mack, Preston Sampson, Sheila Crider, Paul So, Bryan McFarlane, Bill Dallas, Rachelle Puryear, and Billy Colbert, to name a few.
MAS’s groundbreaking program, On Common Ground, from 2000 to 2005, inspected the common links between seemingly divergent topics in art and culture. It’s current multi-yearprogram, It’s All About Art embraces and celebrates the various forms of artistic expression — visual and performing arts, film, and arts and letters. Its 2008-2009 program series, Between Eastand West, encompassed not only the east and west borders of the continental US, but reached globally to embrace Europe and Asia. It featured artists and art professionals who lived and worked in the US and abroad. MAS’s 2009-2010 program is fittingly titled, Celebrating 10, referring to its 10 years delivering art programming, as well as celebrating art and artists in the community it serves.
MAS is primarily funded through its membership organization, The Millennium Arts Salon Club, consisting of art interested individuals in the Baltimore-Washington-Virginia area and points northand west US, and supported by committed staff and volunteers, and an Art Advisory Board of accomplished artists and art administrators. Its Board of Directors appreciates all for your support.
