Don't miss the theatrical debut of The Pink Line Project's founder and Chief Creative Contrarian Philippa P.B. Hughes when the makes a guest appearance (two lines!) in this drag outer space romp!

This fall some of the DC theatre community’s top professionals are joining together to give back to the community at large by producing Hope Operas. Hope Operas are five serialized shows that will run for six weeks. Each week each show will present a 15-minute episode ending in a cliffhanger and each show is raising money for a local charity. The audience will vote for their favorite serial and moneys will be distributed according to popularity with the most popular serial getting the most money for their charity etc.

The Hope Operas open Monday, October 5th and run Monday nights through November 9th at 8:00 PM at Miss Pixie’s Backroom Palace, 1626 14th St., N.W. Admission: $10

20 MILLION … stars Lucrezia Blozia, Nkemjika Ofodile, Oscar Ceville, Yasmin Tuazon and Hugh Bris with special appearances by local tv celebrity Dick Dyszel (Count Gore de Vol, Capt. 20), local drag royalty Shiqueeta Lee, art impresario Philippa Hughes and a host of great local theatre talent including Helen Hayes winner Jennifer Mendenhall, who are all generously donating their time to this Hope Opera. Proceeds benefit the Mautner Project.

Miss Pixie's
1626 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC

October 5, 2009, 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

CAA National Career Development Workshop in Pittsburgh "Artists and Communities: Hybrid and Hyphenated"

The next CAA National Career Development Workshop, entitled “Artists and Communities: Hybrid and Hyphenated,” will take place at the Society for Contemporary Craft (SCC) on November 10, 2009, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The workshop, held from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM with a postworkshop gathering for networking, is a collaboration between CAA and SCC. Price TBA.

After morning registration and a light breakfast, the workshop will be introduced by Susan Schear, CAA national workshop project consultant and president of ARTISIN. Possible topics may include urban communities, networking, internet communities, social networking, business models, community art projects, grant writing, and fundraising.

Presentations on the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and SCC exhibitions and programs will also take place. Lunch will be provided. After the workshop, participants can take part in a tour and reception at the Clay Penn, a gallery in Pittsburgh.

Workshop presenters include representatives from the Lawrenceville Corporation and the Penn Avenue Arts Initiative; John Fetterman, mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Perry, a writer and new-media artist; Brigitte Martin, a jewelry maker; Laura Jean McLaughlin, a ceramicist; Lea Donatelli, program manager of the Office of Public Art in Pittsburgh; and David Seals of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.

More details will be forthcoming from http://www.collegeart.org/careers/nationalworkshops and http://www.contemporarycraft.org/

When:	Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Time:	8:30am - 4:30pm
Location:	Society for Contemporary Craft
Street:	2100 Smallman Street
City:	Pittsburgh, PA

Gallery Talk with Artist John Dreyfuss

Please join us for a gallery talk with artist John Dreyfuss who will discuss his works on view in the Sylvia Berlin Katzen Sculpture Garden at the American University Museum.

Featuring six large-scale works by sculptor John L. Dreyfuss, this exhibition is an exploration into the evolution of form and the wonder of invention. Referencing bones and early tool shapes, each work examines the relationship between form, strength of materials and the harnessing of power. Beginning with sketches, wax, plaster and cast metal models, Dreyfuss has subtly refined each work over the past decade and, through an ongoing collaboration with aerospace engineers, has experimented with the fabrication process. Rendered for the first time at monumental scale in composite materials, these extraordinary works simultaneously draw on ancient and primal references, while being distinctly contemporary in their conception.


John Dreyfuss, Alexander's Lure , 2000-2001.
Reinforced Fiberglass. 4.69 x 4.69 x 7.37 ft.

This exhibition is generously supported by ATK.

Saturday, October 3, 2009
2-3PM
American University Museum
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC

JEREMY KOST in Dress Codes: ICP Triennial of Photography and Video

JEREMY KOST will participate in Dress Codes: ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center for Photography, New York, NY. October 2, 2009–January 17, 2010.

Jeremy Kost will open a solo exhibition with Conner Contemporary in January 2010.

Friday, October 2, 2009 at 10:00am

Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 5:00pm

International Center for Photography

I know it is in New York...but we do take a trip there soon!

Coup d'Espace IV- 'The Miraculous Artist' by Carolina Mayorga Your chance to meet the Miraculous Artist in person...One night only! Do not miss!

Washington Project for the Arts presents the fourth installment of Coup d’Espace- a program that invites WPA member artists to stage their own exhibitions and programming in our Dupont Circle office space.

In this iteration, member artist, Carolina Mayorga, will transform the space with her installation and performance, "The Miraculous Artist".

On opening night, The Miraculous Artist, herself, will be gracing WPA visitors with her presence. Viewers will be able to meet with the Miraculous Artist and get free advice from her booth. Live music and video round out the 'experience' (Live music by musician, Greg Stivil).

For a small fee, the visitors can also purchase a variety of prayer-cards and posters so they can carry the wisdom of the Miraculous Artist with them when they go. (Now available in Spanish!)

Don't miss this special one-night-only event!!
for more information visit: http://www.wpadc.org

Friday, October 2, 2009

6:00pm - 8:00pm

WPA Headquarters

2023 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Washington, DC

Andrew Wodzianski's House | Opening Reception

The opening reception for Andrew Wodzianski's House will be Thursday, October 8 from 6-8pm. Andrew's paintings lift imagery from William Castle's b-movie horror flick from 1959, House on Haunted Hill. While a painting exhibition in its own right, House will also incorporate the gimmickry and audience participation for which director Castle was legendary. Visitors to the gallery will be invited to participate in a scavenger hunt and will ultimately have the chance to win a painting from the exhibition. On Friday, October 30, a costume party will be held in conjunction with the exhibition.

Starting October 8th, Andrew Wodzianski will be releasing clues for a scavenger hunt via twitter. Five lucky people will win paintings from Wodzianski's exhibition and receive invitations for an exclusive event with the artist immediately after the October 30th House Party. Follow Wodzianski on twitter for clues and more information at: twitter.com/househuntdc.

More information at flashpointdc.org or wodzianski.com

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 8, 6-8 pm
House Party: Friday, October 30, 9pm-12am
Exhibition: October 8 - November 7, 2009
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm or by appointment

Thursday, October 8, 2009

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Flashpoint Gallery

916 G St NW

Washington, DC

Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir

Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir
Tuesday, Sept 29th
Busboys @ 5th & K
1025 5th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 789-BBAP (2227)

7:30-10
(Cullen Room at BBandP) - New York City's Green Party candidate for Mayor brings his sacred deconstruction of Consumerism to Busboys and Poets. Bringing down Mike Bloomberg with the "Rise of the Fabulous 500 Neighborhoods," this OBIE-winning radical performance community specializes in defending independent shops and vulnerable families, immigrants and the homeless - against the demons of Bloomberg's economy. Join us - doing good with laughter and music. This is a fundraiser for the campaign, but no-one is turned away for lack of funds. The host is Code Pink's Ms. Medea Benjamin. --- Free and Open to the Public!

Closing Reception

If you plan on going to Baltimore, or even if you're not, there is a closing reception at Nudashank from 7-10pm.

Nudashank is located at:
H&H Arts Building
405 W. Franklin St.
3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21201

ARTISTS RESIDENCY: Lower East Side (WORTH APPLYING FOR!!)

ARTISTS RESIDENCY

LOWER EAST SIDE - ROTATING STUDIO PROGRAM 2010
POSTMARKED DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Artists Alliance (AAI) is pleased to announce its Open Call for the Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program (LES-RSP) 2010 sessions. Based in Lower Manhattan and supported by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the LES-Rotating Studio Program provides two FREE six- month residency sessions to 8 visual artists a year.

What the residency offers:

* Six-month long residency
* Free studio space (see description)
* Access to the studios 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
* Opportunities to present works to curators, critics, arts professionals, and the general public
* AAI organizes Open Studios during each session and an annual curated exhibition of all 8 residents at Cuchifritos gallery/project space, a program of AAI located in Essex Street Market

Located in the vibrant and historically significant multicultural neighborhood of the Lower East Side, the AAI Studio Programs underscores AAI's mission to support the careers of emerging and mid-career artists working in all fields. The LES-RSP Studio Program is open to emerging and mid-career artists from all cultural backgrounds and disciplines - painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation and new media will be accepted. Artists without a studio are encouraged to apply. Open to US legal residents only.

Session 1 begins January - June, 2010
Session 2 begins July - December, 2010

For More Infor:

http://www.aai-nyc.org/Studio_Programs/Rotating_Studios/index.html

RideShare to Red Dirt Studios (Planning for 9-24-09)

Please place a comment on this post if you are able to drive to Red Dirt Studios next Thursday. It looked like we did have enough cars so that everyone would be able to hitch a ride. Hopefully everyone will be able to connect this way. If it's best for everyone to meet at GW and come together we can talk about that as well.

Directions are on the studio's website:
http://www.margaretboozer.com/reddirt5.html

Please take some time to look over this website and as always come with questions.

People who are planning on driving please send me an email so I can give you my phone number in case you have any trouble getting there.

INK STORM OPENING DAY @ TRANSFORMER:

INK STORM OPENING DAY at TRANSFORMER:
September 19, 2009; 1 – 7pm

Transformer is thrilled to be partnering with Shigeko Bork mu projects and artist/guest curator Jennifer Wen Ma in the presentation of Ink Storm at Transformer, September 18 - October 31, 2009. This exhibition highlights how artists CHEN Shaoxiong, DAI Guangyu, and Paula TSAI, incorporate ink into their work, ink, and how each individual exploration offers compelling contributions to contemporary art discourse.

Following the success of Transformer’s 2007 Big in Japan exhibition collaboration with Shigeko Bork mu project, exploring duality in contemporary Japanese art through the work of emerging Japanese artists who respond to the tradition and popular culture of Japan - Ink Storm, guest curated by artist Jennifer Wen Ma, presents three emerging Beijing based artists who re-interpret and re-invent traditional Chinese uses of ink through video, drawing, and mixed-media installation.

The subject of ink play is important to curator and artist Jennifer Wen Ma, who works in a variety of mediums including: installation, video, drawing, fashion design, and performance, as well as pursuing architectural and public works. Originally from Beijing, and now based in New York, Jennifer has participated in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Friday Sept. 18: CURATOR & ARTIST TALK @ The Hirshhorn

CURATOR & ARTIST TALK:

September 18, 2009; 12:30pm
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden

The Impact of the Global Art World: an Artist's Perspective - Part of the Hirshhorn’s “In Conversation” series, this special discussion with New York and Beijing-based artist and Ink Storm guest curator Jennifer Wen Ma, and Hirshhorn Curatorial Research Associate and Transformer Board Member Ryan Hill, will explore: How does an artist's practice in an increasingly global art world find personally and culturally significant meaning? How do contemporary artists find a unique aesthetic vocabulary in this age of assimilation?

REMINDER: Professional Practices: Meeting @ Irvine Contemporary Art @ 1:30 (9-17-09)

Professional Practices will be meeting at Irvine Contemporary Art tomorrow.
http://irvinecontemporary.com

Location
Irvine Contemporary is located at 1412 14th St., NW, near P St., in the 14th Street Arts Corridor and Logan Circle area of Washington, DC.

Metro
The gallery is four blocks north of the McPherson Square Metro station, five blocks north-east of the Farragut North Metro, and five bocks east of the Dupont Circle Metro.


From there we will walk across the street to Curator's Office.
www.curatorsoffice.com

PLEASE BE ON TIME AND COME WITH QUESTIONS!!!

Small Projects Grants for DC Artists (up to $2000)

Small Projects Program
DC Commission on the Arts

The Small Projects Program (SPP) offers quick response grants of up to $2,000 to individual artists and arts organizations. The program seeks to make grant funds more accessible for small-scale arts projects with total budget that do not exceed $4,000. Projects may include but are not limited to:

* Art presentations
* Assistance in fundraising, marketing and management
* Documentation of artistic activities through photography, brochures, portfolios and demo tapes
* Conferences, workshops or seminars that will enhance artistic and professional development

Deadlines are:
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at 7 pm
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 7 pm
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, at 7 pm

Open Studios at AU

Hey guys...this is a great way to get to meet/see the work of other nearby MFA students. American University will be having open studios tomorrow, Saturday, September 12, 2009 from 6-9pm.

Location:	The Katzen Building, 2nd Floor
Street:	4400 Massachussetts Ave.
City/Town:	Washington, DC

Need Inspiration, see Art House Co-op Projects...

For some reason, I cannot edit the blogs or websites so I will just post this as a post! There are tons of projects (you pay a small fee for shipping and materials) and you can be shown in a variety of places depending on the project(s) you sign up for. They are fun ways to make art outside of your practice and get inspired by crazy projects. Like the film one, you make a 30 second film and the following description/line/scene setup must be used at the end of your film: "Those were some good pancakes."
Art House Co-op

Conner Contemporary

Two shows opening on the same night what a bargain! Next Thursday, September 17, 2009 from 6-8PM is the day it all goes down. I will be bartending downstairs for the Conversations in Lyrical Abstraction show. Upstairs is the Options show, where Patrick McDonough will be featured. Visit Conner Contemporary for more info.



Conner Contemporary Art is located at 1358 Florida Avenue, NE –Washington, DC 20002 in the Atlas / H Street Historic District. Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11-5pm.

Civilian Art Projects

Hey guys. Tonight is the opening of the infamous Cara Ober and Nikki Painter from 7-9PM. For more info, visit Civilian Art Projects.



406 7th Street NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC 20004 /p. 202.347.0022 / f. 202-280-1086
Hours: Wed - Friday 12-6pm, Sat 1 - 5pm

Opening at Irvine, Sat. Sept. 12th 6-8pm

New Realisms
Sept 12-Oct24

Also a panel discussion Saturday 2-3:30 at Georgetown, info is on the website
http://irvinecontemporary.com/index.php

Metamorphosis Art Show, Sunday Sept. 13th

Cultural Development Cooperation

New listings have been posted to the current edition of Cultural Development Corporation's online bulletin board DC Artists.

(These postings are not limited to only DC artist)

Please visit the DC Artists site to view the latest postings:
http://www.culturaldc.org/scene/dcartists.asp

Conversation at the Mexican Cultural Institute: Sat. Sept. 12th

Please join Transformer at the Mexican Cultural Institute this Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 2pm, for a special artist talk and presentation of images from our Give & Take / Da y Toma exhibition in Mexico City

Transformer is excited to share a public conversation with Give & Take / Da y Toma artists - Holly Bass, Breck Brunson, Nilay Lawson, Solomon Sanchez, and Señor Tangcito (aka Tang) - at the Mexican Cultural institute on September 12, 2009. Please join us for this special presentation highlighting our exhibition and creative experience, including extensive images and a talk with the artists about their work. Attendance is free.

Strange Bodies: Figurative works from the Hirshorn collection

Strange Bodies: Figurative works from the Hirshorn collection

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

7^th Street SW at Independence Ave

Strange Bodies seems a perfect name for the exhibition of figurative contemporary works located in the lower level of the Hirshhorn Museum. The drawings, paintings, sculptures and film challenge the viewer’s perception of the human body. For example, Robert Gober's Untitled, 1990, is just a leg appearing to grow out of the gallery wall complete with pant, sock and shoe.

Walking to the back of the gallery one cannot help but notice Ron Mueck’s Untitled (Big Man), 2000. This oversize body sits dauntingly realistic alone in a corner with eyes that seem to follow you around the room as if at any moment he may come to life to attack. His figures are so human-like with fleshy skin and toenails it feels as though there is a hairless ogre in your presence.

Unlike Meuck’s overly realistic piece, Thomas Schütte created distorted views of anatomy in sculpture and photographic reproductions in the work United Enemies, A Play in 10 Scenes, 1994. The miniature figures tied to one another stand in glass cases on pedestals with spiteful looking faces. Behind the cases the wall of photographs close ups of the figures expressions.

Another artistic distortion of the figure is captured in Yinka Shonibare’s The Age of Enlightenment—Antoine Lavoisier, 2008 is an example of some of his less provocative work. His installations often contain headless mannequins wearing detailed textures imported from Africa. Although the installation is slightly less provocative, the piece contains quite a bit of irony. Antoine Lavoisier, a French aristocrat was in fact beheaded. The headless mannequin sits in a wheelchair representing Shonibare’s physical disabilities that have left him in partial paralysis. The Age of Enlightenment—Antoine Lavoisier is one of the museums more recent purchases this spring.

The exhibition continues until November 8, 2009 with some of the works staying as part of the permanent collection. Hours to the museum are 10am to 5:30pm daily. Please also check out the Hirshhorn’s podcast about Strange Bodies is an informative short on the curator’s choices.

-Sarah Allison

Mark Your Calendars: This Friday Sept. 11

Civilian Art Projects
Opening reception: Friday, September 11, 7-9pm

Cara Ober: Love Letters
Love Letters is Baltimore-based artist Cara Ober’s first solo exhibition with Civilian Art Projects. Ober layers drawing, painting, and printmaking into mixed media works that examine and reinterpret sentimental imagery. Intricate and funny, Love Letters explores the relationship of the artist to image, word, and personal meaning found in the exploration of secret fantasy and expressive interlude.

Niki Painter: Debriscapes
With Debriscapes, her first solo exhibition in Washington DC, Richmond VA-based Nikki Painter exhibits new drawings and a site-specific installation that explore -- in bright neon colors, pencil lines, and various materials -- the relationship and continuum between the built and natural worlds.


Flashpoint
Opening reception: Fri., Sept. 11, 6 – 8 p.m.

Bradley Chriss: Visions from the End of the World
Bradley Chriss’ small, apocalyptic watercolors are situated at the unlikely interstice between the sentimental and the nightmarish. The intimate scale and seductive colors cajole and beguile the viewer into confronting the sinister reality that humanity is ultimately powerless within its own environment. Visions from the End of the World will open with a performance by Chriss’ performance art group, The Post-NeoAbsurdist Anti-Collective.

Flora: Growing Inspirations Exhibition

Flora: Growing Inspirations

United States Botanical Gardens

100 Maryland Ave SW

Washington, DC 20001

http://www.usbg.gov

For as long as I have been serious about my art I have wanted to have an exhibition of my ceramics informed by plant life shown at a botanical garden. The drive was sparked at the St. Louis Botanical Gardens with artists such as Niki de Saint Phalle and Dale Chihuly, who I also saw at the Phoenix Botanical Gardens. While touring the nation’s capitol I was pleasantly surprised by the show at the National Botanical Garden.

Flora: Growing Inspirations, a juried exhibition in sponsorship with the Washington Sculptors Group hosted art in the garden’s conservatory and outside in the yard featuring sculptures inspired by plants. The exhibition was the second of this plant inspired series, the first being Flora: Sculptures of the Natural World. The over thirty sculptural works from artists across the country consisted of various medias such as ceramic, wood, beeswax, steel, bronze, marble, wire and acrylics. A variety of themes were entertained while keeping in mind the plant muse such as high-heeled shoes made entirely of sage leaves or a mixed media construction of Porta Hedge, which is actually a library of field guides on wheels hidden by a wall of recycled Christmas trees.

The space of the exhibition was utilized with wall pieces, hanging forms, as well as free standing sculptures and garden decorations. The wall piece Botany by artist Jessica Broad from Pamplin, VA was of particular interest to me. The work was a group of porcelain cubes with microscopic, scientific plants drawings in red paint. Each of the drawings expressed biological forms that might be explored under magnification.

Not only were artists involved with the exhibition, specific garden rooms were designed to correspond with the sculptures by gardeners and landscape architects. Margaret Atwell and Nick Nelson worked on the modern interpretations of plants using aesthetics such as a garden of black flowers with distinct textures. Juxtaposed to the dark foliage they actualized vibrant colored, cheerful plantings.

After the visit I returned home and began working on site-specific sculptures for the gardens. I found the opportunity very exciting to show in a space surrounded by beautiful flowers. Currently I am exploring the steps to exhibit at the conservatory.

Flora: Growing Inspirations continues until October 12 and is free to the public. Hours to the conservatory are from 10am to 5pm and 10am to 7pm for the gardens.

- Sarah Allison

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