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May 14, 2013 · 4:49 pm

(Not Just Another) Free Museum Day on June 1 & 2

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Stretch your legs and your mind during the 30th Annual Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk (June 1 and 2, 2013). June 1 10am-4pm June 2 1pm-5pm. Nine diverse museums will open their doors free of charge for this weekend long celebration in one of Washington, D.C.’s most beautiful neighborhoods.  Discover Anderson House, Dumbarton House, Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center, Heurich House Museum, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, National Museum of American Jewish Military History, The Phillips Collection, The Textile Museum, and the Woodrow Wilson House free of charge.

Family Fun… Free Admission…Shuttle Busses…Fun Scavenger Hunts for All! Stretch your legs and your mind as you take in some of the priceless art usually only seen for the price of admission.  In addition to a wide variety of exhibitions and a neighborhood-wide scavenger hunt, many sites are offering special programming. Enjoy period music in the gardens at Dumbarton House, stop by The Textile Museum’s Celebration of Textiles, take part in Jazz n’ Family Fun Days at The Phillips Collection and celebrate the memory of a loved one at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History with a skit, video, journal, or other creative format.

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October 11, 2012 · 1:43 pm

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Outsider Art Edition

pic courtesy Art Enables

Saturday October 12

 

Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) (10am)

CHAW will be hosting a film festival in honor of their year-long 40th anniversary celebration.  Featured films include “Attack of the Giant Pants” and “Alien Invasion,” short films made by CHAW students, and “CHAW@40,” a 15 minute film stitching together vintage footage, video interviews, historical and contemporary photographs, bulletins, flyers, and more.  A $5 donation is suggested.  For more information click here.  CHAW is located at 545 Seventh Street SE

 

Art Enables (1pm to 4pm)

Art Enables is hosting its Seventh Annual Outsider Art Inside the Beltway at their Brookland Gallery.  Many well known national organizations are participating and are coming from as far away as rural Maine and San Francisco, CA.  We have it on good authority that this year’s show is the best one yet. For more information click here.  Art Enables is located at 2204 Rhode Island Avenue NE

 

Capitol Hill Art League (CHAL) (5pm to 7pm)

The Capitol Hill Art League is hosting an all media exhibition juried by Michele Hoben.  Viewers will find a wide range of media from photography to painting to installation pieces.  Work is shown at CHAW’s gallery space on the first level.  For more information click here.  CHAW is located at 545 Seventh Street SE

 

Sunday October 14

 

Art Works Now Studio School  (7pm to 11pm)

Leverage the power of art to inspire activism- build bones at the Art Works Now Studio School to raise awareness about genocide.  Over a million bones (including the ones created at Art Works Now) will be on display at the National Mall in June 2013.  For more information, click here.  Art Works Studio School is located at 3711 Rhode Island Avenue Mount Rainier, MD .

 

 

Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art.  You can get more information about East City Art on Facebook  by follow them on Twitteror click here to sign up for their newsletter.

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July 26, 2012 · 12:17 pm

Weekend [East City] Arts Roundup

Artwork for electronica band Mariner Project for the song “Red” as part of the Lyrical Visions art series. Image Courtesy of Russ McIntosh

Friday July 27

 

Tubman Mahan Gallery (6:30pm to 8:30pm)

Russ McIntosh’s Double Take solo first solo exhibition at the gallery features digital images that challenge the viewer to look beyond the initial composition and see beyond the original composition.  For more information about the exhibition click here.  The Tubman-Mahan Gallery  is located at 3839 Benning RD NE

  

DeanwoodxDesign (6pm to 8pm)

Concurrent with the Russ McIntosh Exhibtion is #myDeanwood: Honoring the Past to Create the Future. The exhibit features the work of artists Amber Robles Gordon, Sherry Burton Ways, Zandra Chestnut, Esther Iverem, Benita Elliott and Aaron Brown.  The Tubman-Mahan Gallery is located at 3839 Benning RD NE

 

Saturday July 28

 

Tilted Torch (9pm)

The eclectic cast of Tilted Torch wants you to join their Play Date at the Red Palace.  The variety show will raise proceed for the FIGMENT DC arts festival that will be held this fall at the Yards Park.  Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door.  For more information on this event and on how to purchase tickets in advance click here.  The Red Palace is located at 1212 H St NE

 

Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art.  You can get more information about East City Art on Facebook  or follow them on Twitter

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July 12, 2012 · 10:06 am

Arts [East City] Roundup: East of the River Super Weekend Edition

Panels from the CITIFIED exhibition. Artists: Isaias Crow, Leon Rainbow. Dimensions: 8 x 4 x 4 feet. Photo Courtesy Albus Cavus.

Friday July 13 

 

Honfleur Gallery (7pm to 9pm)

The Annual East of the River Exhibition never disappoints.  In its sixth year, the group show features the work of artists who either work or live East of the River.  The multimedia exhibition features sculpture, digital media, photography and painting.  A steel drum band will also add to the festive occasion.  For more information, click here.  Honfleur Gallery is located at 1241 Good Hope RD SE

 

The Gallery at Vivid Solutions (6pm to 8pm)

More than just an exhibition, Gabriela Bulisova’s Inside Outside forces the viewer to experience the human toll of incarceration.  Bulisova’s photographs transcend statistics and policies to present a qualitative narrative of returned citizens’ struggle for redemption.  For more information about the exhibition, click here.  The Gallery at Vivid Solutions is located at 2208 Martin Luther King Ave SE

To read an in-depth interview with Gabriela Bulisova by East City Art’s Eric Hope, click here.

 

Albus Cavus- CITIFIED

The artist collective recently completed a series of panels for the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival that challenged the notion that folk art is primarily a product of rural life and can be found in urban areas like Anacostia.  The panels will be on display in Historic Anacostia and accessible to the public through September 30.  For more information and to preview the work click here.  The CITIFIED public art piece is located on the northwest corner of 13th and W Streets SE

 

Saturday July 14

 

Washington Project for the Arts (3pm)

The Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) collaborated with Patrick McDonough to complete a series of awning studies. McDonough created a similar project in 2011 in Trinidad along Florida Avenue NE commissioned by Conner Contemporary Art.  The sculptures will be on view at Marvin Gaye Park in NE DC through September 30.  The WPA and McDonough will host an artist talk at 3pm.  For more information and to preview the work, click here.  Marvin Gaye Park is located at 6201 Banks Place NE

DeanwoodxDesign Temporium (all day)

The temporiums continue East of the River in Deanwood.  A series of festive events will take place on Saturday all day as follows:

IDEA Public Charter High School Field & Wellness Center
1027 45th Street NE

  •     10:30 a.m. – Welcome and Opening performance by The East of the River Steel Pan Band / DxD Distinguished Community Leader Awards Ceremony
  •     10:30 a.m. – 3p.m. – Temporium Interactive Gallery and DxD Outdoor Market
  •     3 p.m. – Free concert featuring performances by  DJ Jahsonic of Main Ingredient, teen soul artist Keymace, and Grammy-nominated artist Kokayi

The Fishing School
4737 Meade Street Northeast    10:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. – Temporium Gallery featuring  family-friendly and interactive art

  •     11 a.m. – 1p.m.  – myDeanwood Storytelling project
  •     12 p.m. and 1 p.m. – POP-OUT Performances

Tubman-Mahan Gallery/Center for Green Urbanism
3938 Benning Road NE

  • 10:30 a.m. – 3p.m. – Temporium Gallery featuring photographer Maria Bryk’s photo essay “Chesapeake Bay Watermen: The Art of the Catch” and interactive art
  •     12 p.m. and 1 p.m. -  POP-OUT Performances

For more information about DeanwoodxDesign and these events, click here.

 

Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art.  You can get more information about East City Art on Facebook  or follow them on Twitter

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April 25, 2012 · 5:35 pm

Cherryblast from the Past: Weekend Wrapup

pic courtesy of National Cherry Blossom Festival

Cherryblast, the annual closing party of the Cherry Blossom Festival, sponsored lovingly by Philippa Hughes and her Pink Line Project, was, unsurprisingly, a blast this past weekend in Anacostia.  The art, the games, the shows, the people were all part of a new and exploratory DC.  There were the usual suspects: aerial trapeze artists, a Bluebrain collaborative feature (pretty cool: in a four story elevator shaft), and an all-girl drum corps.

The not-so-usual suspects dropped in: The Floating Lab Collective, a group of artists who work to “expand the space of art into public space and to expand the discourse about contemporary art.”  Cool right?  As I walked into their van (I know, I know), the artist told me that there were paper bags of Mobile Memorials.  Anyone could take one (become a ReDistributor), providing they put it somewhere public and “check in” its location on the website.  Hopefully I’ll start seeing some of these objects around town!

The old DC Police evidence warehouse has effectively become Lightbox, an open and roomy space especially suited to video installations.  Listening to acoustic guitar strummed by a hipster-chanteuse while standing next to the old Medication Room and looking out the broken glass windows at downtown DC was…surreal.  And a ton of fun.

I’m eager to see how Anacostia develops as a new art hot spot in DC, “activating abandoned spaces with the arts“.  For more info, search #lightboxdc on Twitter.

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March 26, 2012 · 11:10 am

The Hirschhorn Turns On

pic courtesy of The Hirschhorn

Everyone should head on over to the Hirschhorn after it gets dark. “But doesn’t the museum close at 5?”, you might ask. No worries, my dear friends – Doug Aitken‘s got you covered with his latest work, a staggering 82 foot tall, 725 foot wide giant art exhibit on the outside of our favorite donut-shaped modern art repository.

You heard me right — an artwork projected on the outside of the entire building. Pretty surprising for a city not exactly known for engaging in artistic risks. Using high powered projectors circling the whole building, Aitken managed this incredible feat of displaying a film in 360 degrees. A visual treat consisting of a 24-minute looped melange of delightful doo-woppery, close-ups of spinning analog tape reels, cityscapes, and other urban flora and fauna, it’s pretty spectacular. It’s also site-specific, meaning it won’t be shown anywhere else in the world. In case y’all didn’t already know, DC’s special.

The best view is from the rear of the building by the sculpture garden. There’s a musical accompaniment that struck me as kinda lame, but the visuals make up for it. Imagine seeing something of this ilk while on a plane descending into National Airport. Whoa, Nelly. The future is here, my friends. Recommended.

Check out WaPo for an in-depth explanation of the exhibition.
Written by Joel Church. Buy his book Fingerprints here at Amazon.

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March 16, 2012 · 9:05 am

Weekend [East City] Roundup: March Super Saturday Edition

Janet Biggs. A Step on the Sun (still). 2012: 5-channel video + single channel video. Photo Courtesy Conner Contemporary Art.

Saturday March 12 

Conner Contemporary Art (5pm to 8pm)

The gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions by Janet Biggs and Wilmer Wilson IV.  In Bigg’s second exhibition with the gallery, A Step on the Sun, Bigg’s multi-channel video installation shows miners extracting hardened sulfur at Indonesia’s Ijen volcano; the video references natural beauty as a backdrop for human exploitation.  Wilson’s Domestic Exchange explores racial identity via a performance piece centered on the use of paper grocery bags- an item once used as a measure of one’s skin color.  For additional details, click here  Conner Contemporary Art is located at 1358 Florida Avenue NE

G Fine Art (6:30pm to 8:30pm)

Right next door to Conner, G Fine Art Presents Luis Silva’s The Fox’s Tail. Silva asks why a fraternal order cannot exist in the animal world as it does with humankind.  What if it were possible for animals to have an outcome different from the “eat or be eaten” law of nature.  For additional details, click here.  G Fine Art is located at 1350 Florida Avenue NE  

INDUSTRY Gallery (6pm to 8pm)

INDUSTRY Gallery presents the first US solo exhibition of Philip Michael Wolfson.  Wolfson’s will exhibit a new series of Tsukumogamis, a type of Japanese “artifact spirit”–living inanimate objects. Tsukumogamis originate from discarded items that have reached their 100th birthday and thus become alive and aware.  For additional details, click here.  Industry Gallery is located at 1358 Florida Avenue NE 

Wohlfarth Galleries (4pm to 6pm)

The Brookland Gallery will show the new paintings by Flynn Geissel.  Geissel’s work captures nature as seen by mankind.  Thematically, Geissel’s landscapes transcend darkness and manifest themselves as light filled subjects.  For additional Details, click here.  Wolfarth Galleries is located at 3418 9th Street, NE

Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art.  You can get more information about East City Art on Facebook  or follow them on Twitter

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