Cross-Currents: Trends in Contemporary Art Media

October 13 - November 6, 2009

Panel Discussion: Wednesday, October 14, 4 - 5 p.m.
Opening Reception: October 14, 5 - 7 p.m.

Artists:
Dana Reifler Amato
Elizabeth Burger
Ian Davis
Mary Early
Leila Holtsman
Hadieh Shafie

Curators:
Michael Farrell and Ken Jassie

The Sarah Silberman Art Gallery is located on the second floor of the Paul Peck Art Building on the Rockville Campus, Mannakee Street.

The Sarah Silberman Art Gallery is an educational resource of the Rockville Campus Art Department. Its primary function is to augment, enhance, and promote the teaching and understanding of art through a diverse program of changing exhibitions, benefiting Montgomery College and the public.

Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Montgomery College
Rockville Campus Art Department
Sarah Silberman Art Gallery
51 Mannakee Street
Rockville, MD 20850
Tel. 240-567-5115
www.montgomerycollege.edu/artrockville

Baltimore Show

I use to work at the Walters, so I thought I would promote them a bit here:

The Walters Art Museum is proud to present selected works from the John and Berthe Ford collection of traditional Indian and Himalayan art in visual dialogue with contemporary paintings by India born artist, Amita Bhatt. Bhatt derives her imagery from Hindu and Buddhist Tantric sources infused with her understanding of Western philosophy. She explores classic themes of desire, conflict, struggle and transcendence as they manifest themselves in the present day. This thought provoking installation recognizes the power of visual expressions to articulate, to mobilize, to activate, and to provoke. Informed by tradition but speaking in the present, Bhatt’s works explore fundamental struggles and eternal tensions common to all cultures.

The show will run from October 31st through December 13th , 2009.
Opening Reception: 3 pm to 5 pm, October 31st, 2009
Walters Art Museum, 600 N Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Phone: 410-547-9000 Email: info@thewalters.org

Call for Artists

2009 CoCA Annual: Call for Artists Category: Exhibition Opportunities
Posted by: The Center on Contemporary Art
Deadline: 10/23/09
A $500 first prize and a $250 second prize will be awarded. A catalog of the show will feature artists statements, biographies, and images from participating artists.

Submissions are by email only:
* Submit up to a maximum of 5 different pieces, no more than 2 photos of each piece in jpeg. Maximum dimension of 1200 pixels in any direction
* A description of the images. Send as either .PDF or .Doc files. (title, dimensions, medium, year created)
* 250 word artist statement. (.PDF or .Doc files.)
* Biography of 150 words (.PDF or .Doc files.)
* Contact info.
* Artist web site
* $15 (US) entry fee (PayPal or check made out to �Center on Contemporary Art�). Make sure to note the artist name in the payment.

Selected work must be shipped to the gallery by November 16.
Send proposals to: annual@cocaseattle.org
Full details available at www.cocaseattle.org

Lunch after a great gallery visit

'The Cube'

The Office of Motion Picture and Television Development and HBO are bringing ‘The Cube’ to the District this weekend. ‘The Cube,’ a 16 foot x 16 foot, four-sided video display, is a unique, new storytelling device that offers four different perspectives on the same scene simultaneously.

‘The Cube’ features two films, each two minutes and each played twice successively, on a rotating basis. In telling the same story from four distinct points of view, each side of the cube stands alone as an engaging film, and as one piece of a larger puzzle. As viewers move around the cube, they watch the story unfold from different perspectives, forming different perceptions, and often misperceptions, of the characters and plot. Only by watching the story unfold from multiple sides of the cube can one begin to see the bigger picture.

'The Cube' will be installed Thursday, October 8, at the plaza on the corner of Columbia Road, NW and Adams Mill Road, NW in Adams Morgan, and will operate Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 8 pm to 2 am.

Remembering Things Past: A Conversation Celebrating Anne Truitt

Last nights discussion at the Hirshhorn "moderated by Tim Gunn, chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne and former student of Truitt’s. Artist Martin Puryear, filmmaker Jem Cohen, photographer John Gossage, and associate curator Kristen Hileman share their unique perspectives on Truitt’s career as artist, professor, and author."

This panel was very unique in the sense that I walked away with a much better understanding of Truitt as a artist and a person. The format was a somewhat casual conversation between people who evidently had amazing experiences having Truitt in their lives. It was interesting hearing the perspectives of her past student (Tim Gunn) as well as colleagues and dear friends.

Yesterday's Grant Writing Workshop by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

*** Remember the deadline to apply for a Young Artists Program grant is Friday, October 16, 2009, at 7 pm ***