The Target Gallery is reaching out to colleges and universities in the surrounding DC metro area to participate in an exhibition benefiting the March of Dimes and the Target Gallery’s outreach programming. This is an excellent show for young artists to participate in because they’re guaranteed an opportunity to exhibit in this nationally recognized art center. The exhibition will be juried for prizes and five awards will be given at the Art Party on March 25. Four jurors will each choose their favorite piece. Then the audience at the Art Party will have an opportunity to select their favorite piece to receive a Best of the Rest Award.
The Target Gallery and the March of Dimes are teaming up to raise money for both organizations with the appropriate title, “March Madness.” March Madness is an exhibition of approximately 200 10x10-inch works of art. Torpedo Factory and DC-area artists, as well as local high school students and college students will create the artwork. It will be on display in the Target Gallery from March 17 – March 27. All work will be for sale for $100 with 10% of all sales being donated to the March of Dimes.
This exhibit is open to all artists with the requirement that the work is created on 10x10-inch wood panels provided by the Target Gallery. The $12 entry fee guarantees entry into the exhibit, one wood panel, a chance for jurors’ awards, and free entry with one drink ticket to the Art Party on March 25. There is a limit of 3 entries per artist.
Deadline for participation is March 7, 2011 by 6pm. Upon receipt of the $12 entry fee, the gallery will provide the artist with a blank wood panel, 10 x10 inches. The artist will need to pick the panel up at the gallery between 10am to 6pm. Completed artwork must be brought back to the gallery between March11-14, from 10am to 6pm, to be included in the exhibit. All artwork must be created on the panels provided by the gallery.
If you have any questions please contact the Target Gallery.
National Exhibition Space | Torpedo Factory Art Center | 105 N. Union St., Alexandria, VA 22314 mcook@torpedofactory.org | 703.838.4565x4 | www.torpedofactory.org
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Floating Lab Exhibition Opening Reception Cancelled
Due to inclement weather, the opening reception for the Floating Lab Exhibition is cancelled this evening, Wednesday, January 26, 2011. The reception has been rescheduled for Monday, February 14 from 6-8pm in the Fine Art Gallery, Art and Design Building.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Gwynneth VanLaven at Adam Lister Gallery until Feb. 21, 2011
Anna Jane Kocon, Bobby Coleman, Chris Duerk, Craig Hill, Eric Bos, Gail Vollrath, Geoff Ault, Glenn Fischer, Gwynneth VanLaven, Michelle Valenton, Phillip Scarpone, Sabine Carlson, Stephanie Rond, Steve Wanna, Travis Childers
Adam Lister Gallery is pleased to present our first exhibition of 2011, a group show featuring 15 artists, titled “Unfamiliar Territories.”
This exhibit brings together a group of artists that have a common ground of questioning our perceptions of the world within their work. Through modifying, investigating, and engaging in exploration for the purpose of discovery, each artist has formulated their own unique system of communication. The work in this show treads a fine line on the border of reality and imagination, incorporating elements and attributes from both sides. Visual language for these artists is not only a transmission of personal culture, but also a window into alternative views of the universe.
The artists exhibiting in “Unfamiliar Territories”, view the world through a combination of comparisons, calculations, schemes, concepts and recipes. They take the familiar and the obvious, and through a process of reformulation, present it as curious and unfamiliar. This reinterpretation defines itself as a pure, non-functional object introduced into the world through the mind and eyes of the artist.
For questions, email: adamlistergallery@gmail.com or call 646-263-7305
www.adamlistergallery.com
Adam Lister Gallery
3950 University Drive
*entrance on North St between University Dr. and Rt.123
Fairfax VA 22030
Helen Frederick's Upcoming Events
Helen Frederick, Printmaking Director, is the 2011 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at the Main Gallery at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, February 17-April 16, 2011. The opening lecture and reception will be February 17 at 6pm. Frederick is featured in DISSONANCE, an exhibition that develops her ideas through print media, artist books, video and installation works as a basis for commentary. Focusing on the themes of reflection and protection, she writes, "We use the process of memory to reduce dissonance. Recollections of the immediate and distant past allow us to...maintain a positive balance." After the initial installation of her work, university students will assist Frederick in creating images to be added in the museum's permanent collection and resource room.
A separate exhibition, COLORING OUR WORLD: Artistic Imprints from Pyramid Atlantic and Navigation Press, will run from February 17-April 16, 2011 in the Ballator-Thompson Gallery at Hollins University. Pyramid Atlantic (established in 1981) and George Mason University's Navigation Press (established in 2006) have empowered hundreds of artists by assisting them in papermaking, printmaking, book arts, and digital media through collaboration. The exhibition features selections that were produced under founder Helen Frederick's direction and include examples by renowed artists who play a substantial role in the art world, including Lonnie Graham, Enrique Chagoya, and Miriam Schapiro.
All events are free and open to the public, but some may require reservations. Please contact Laura Jane Ramsburg at 540-362-6081 or LRamsburg@hollins.edu.
Torpedo Factory Art Center Residencies
The Torpedo Factory Art Center invites emerging and experienced artists to apply for one, two, or three-month residencies between June 1 and August 31, 2011. Deadline: February 28, 2011.
The Torpedo Factory Art Center (www.torpedofactory.org) in Alexandria, Virginia is home to more than 140 visual artists working in 82 studios. Artists create in a wide variety of media including painting, fiber, jewelry, ceramics, printmaking, cast and stained glass, and sculpture. The Torpedo Factory is open to the public every day; visitors are invited and welcomed into studios to watch artists at work, ask questions, and purchase original art – allowing the public an opportunity to share in the excitement and fascination of the creative process.
The projects undertaken by Visiting Artists for this self-directed, creative residency must be compatible with available working studio spaces and facilities.
Visiting Artists will be provided with studio space and will be able to display and sell original work.
Finalists will be selected by juror F. Lennox Campello. There is no application fee.
Download the Prospectus and Application Form from www.torpedofactory.org/vap. Send questions to: vap@torpedofactory.org. No telephone calls please.
The Torpedo Factory Art Center (www.torpedofactory.org) in Alexandria, Virginia is home to more than 140 visual artists working in 82 studios. Artists create in a wide variety of media including painting, fiber, jewelry, ceramics, printmaking, cast and stained glass, and sculpture. The Torpedo Factory is open to the public every day; visitors are invited and welcomed into studios to watch artists at work, ask questions, and purchase original art – allowing the public an opportunity to share in the excitement and fascination of the creative process.
The projects undertaken by Visiting Artists for this self-directed, creative residency must be compatible with available working studio spaces and facilities.
Visiting Artists will be provided with studio space and will be able to display and sell original work.
Finalists will be selected by juror F. Lennox Campello. There is no application fee.
Download the Prospectus and Application Form from www.torpedofactory.org/vap. Send questions to: vap@torpedofactory.org. No telephone calls please.
Monday, January 24, 2011
More Mondo Pics
More pics from the December 3 visit to the SoA Printmaking Studio: Mondo Guerra of Project Runway:
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Student selected for Apprenticeship
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| Photo courtesy of Justin Kass and Vina Sananikone |
The Undergraduate Apprenticeship Program pairs high achieving undergraduate students with faculty mentors to undertake original research or creative projects. It provides each apprentice with a small stipend for the semester to enable them to undertake twelve hours of research-related activities each week, plus a small allotment for the costs of materials.
For his project, Justin will extend and expand the work on popular culture and visuality that forms the basis of his Fall 2010 senior project exhibition. He will exhibit the new work deriving from the apprenticeship near the end of the Spring 2011 semester.
Justin's faculty mentor for the apprenticeship project is School of Art faculty member Lynne Constantine, who has worked with him extensively throughout his career at Mason.
This semester was more competitive than previous semesters, so his acceptance underscores the exceptional quality of his proposed project.
Two Students Receive Awards
Kannan Cangro, Master in Art Teaching candidate, received the 2011 National Art Education Association (NAEA) Higher Education Student Achievement Award. The award recognizes excellence in student involvement at the college university level. Kannan will receive her award in Seattle at the NAEA National Convention in March 2011.
Lindsay Hawks, BFA Painting, received a 2011 Student Membership Award from the Washington Sculptors Group. The Washington Sculptors Group has established a membership award program for undergraduate students at colleges and universities in the Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area. Eleven colleges and universities were invited to participate in this inaugural program for the 2011 academic year. Junior and Senior students with graduation dates between May 2011 and December 2012 and in good academic standing were eligible for this year’s award. The student membership award program is designed to provide visibility and exhibition opportunities to emerging sculptors, to avail students of the technical expertise shared by Washington Sculptors Group’s over 300 active sculptors, and to provide forums for the exchange of ideas among artists, curators, critics, and the public.
Lindsay Hawks, BFA Painting, received a 2011 Student Membership Award from the Washington Sculptors Group. The Washington Sculptors Group has established a membership award program for undergraduate students at colleges and universities in the Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area. Eleven colleges and universities were invited to participate in this inaugural program for the 2011 academic year. Junior and Senior students with graduation dates between May 2011 and December 2012 and in good academic standing were eligible for this year’s award. The student membership award program is designed to provide visibility and exhibition opportunities to emerging sculptors, to avail students of the technical expertise shared by Washington Sculptors Group’s over 300 active sculptors, and to provide forums for the exchange of ideas among artists, curators, critics, and the public.
Artistic Rain Barrel Program - Now Accepting Applications
Calling all artists! The Northern Virginia Rain Barrel Program is looking for volunteer conservation-minded artists to apply to turn rain barrels into works of art. The barrels will be displayed along with artist information at prominent local businesses and community centers. Create a design and send it in along with a simple application form by January 14, 2011. For details or to download an application, see www.fairfaxcounty.gov/nvswcd/rainbarrelart.htm
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