Out to Launch will be an evening of music, fashion and art, featuring the debut of Crylittle Millinery for Biribelle Accessories and a live performance by vocalist, Carolyn Malachi and her Band. Authentic Contemporary Art along with Bluffa Jo Cosmetics, Eye Catching Entertainment, are co-sponsors.

The event will feature an exclusive “Out to Launch” Bloggers Lounge (for more info on the Bloggers Lounge or to RSVP your blog, please contact Simone Jacobson at simone.jacobson@gmail.com)

For more information and to RSVP, please click here.

Here’s some of the original artwork in the gallery that was selected to be highlighted for the event. All artwork featured during the event will be available for sale.

Acrylic on canvas

Gorgeous pencil and graphite piece!

Mixed media work by Gasby Brown

FreeSoul @ ArtSpring
8519 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, Maryland
4:00pm – 7:00pm

Authentic Contemporary Art and Liberated Muse Productions present an afternoon of music, art and warm energy. Set in the new ArtSpring Pyramid Atlantic Community Arts Store in Silver Spring, MD, this afternoon features some DC’s hottest emerging artists.

A book sale and signing of Liberated Muse, Vol 1: How I Freed My Soul Anthology, featuring local visual and literary artists, will also be featured

Featuring live performances by Ne’a Posey, Quineice Clarkson, Gary Young & Sadie Flick, the musical sounds will entertain while you enjoy the artwork and activities. Bring the family out for arts, crafts & Halloween candy!

Face painting & artwork for sale.

Music for grown-folks, fun for the family! Halloween has never been celebrated in such style.

To RSVP, visit the FaceBook page here.

“For many of the 1.3 million young people who leave high school each year without a diploma, the path that eventually leads to this educational dead end begins in middle school. The National Assessment of Educational Progress [NEAP] provides a snapshot of student achievement in various subject areas at crucial transition points, including eighth grade. In June 2009, the results of the 2008 NAEP arts assessment in music and visual arts were released; it was the first NAEP arts assessment conducted since 1997. Those 2008 results tell a disappointing, but incomplete, story of eighth grade student achievement in the arts…Does it really matter if the performance of eighth grade students on the NAEP arts assessments is mediocre at best, or that significant achievement gaps based on socioeconomics and other characteristics continue to persist? It matters only if we as a nation are truly serious about reaching the president’s goal of preparing all K-12 students by 2020 to succeed in school, work, and life. Arts learning experiences play a vital role in developing students’ capacities for critical thinking, creativity, imagination, and innovation. These capacities are increasingly recognized as core skills and competencies all students need as part of a high-quality and complete 21st-century education. And, as a matter of social justice, we must be concerned when students are denied access to a high-quality education—one that includes learning in and through the arts—simply because of where they live or go to school.”

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