Takoma Park, Maryland's Art Hop 2012

I'm happy to be participating in Art Hop Takoma this spring. The weekend of art + local business + community is March 24-25, 2012 and will turn Old Takoma’s main street into a neighborhood arts district. Free to the public. Last year’s event featured a mix of including photography, jewelry and wearable art, sculpture, installations, collage and mixed media works in more than 30 businesses throughout Old Town, The Junction and Takoma DC. 

My collage-paintings will be in Rerun — Vintage clothing for the mind. 

Reception date and time: TBD

An Old Friend

Some months ago, I ran into someone who had purchased a Kansas-y collage a few years ago. I'd made it shortly before that show (at Kefa Cafe), and hadn't made a photograph. I asked him to do it and he kindly pulled it off his wall and photographed it on the floor. It was so nice to see this old friend. The painting, I mean. It was lovely to reconnect with the quiet, warm young gentleman who'd "just known" about that painting.

Clarksdale paintings

Two paintings that resulted from reflecting on a summer work trip to the Mississippi Delta. Overexposed and wiggly, as they were snapped by phone on the floor of my car before being framed for a show.

Description of Exhibit in Local Newsaper

Not exactly a review, but a description of the show in Connection.

November 2011 Exhibit

Thanks to Fran Abrams, polymer clay artist and retired Montgomery County Arts & Humanities Council grants director (and community arts org advocate), I'll be joining the November group exhibit at Gallery Har Shalom.

Here's a bit about the Fall Exhibit at Gallery Har Shalom.

All art pieces will be available for purchase, with part of the proceeds benefiting Har Shalom.The gallery is located at Har Shalom Congregation, 11510 Falls Road, Potomac, Maryland.

Come by if you can—the reception will be Sunday, November 6, 11am to 1pm.  I'm planning to bring a work or two in progress to the reception to show a bit about the process.

For more information and directions, please call the synagogue office at 301-299-7087.

Fall and Winter 2011 at Space 7:10

Photo by John Morris

Exhibits at Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe, Silver Spring, Maryland

SEPTEMBER

September 6 through October 1, 2011

Photographs of the American Vernacular

D. B. (Dave) Stovall

October

October 4 through November 12, 2011

Kanchan Balsé

Unfinished Business: Works in Progress

Reception: Friday, October 14, 2011, 6:30 to 8:30pm

November/December

November 15, 2011 through January 6, 2012

Axtmann Teen Art Workshop

Reception: Friday, November 18, 2011

Receptions and events are free and open to the public. To propose Friday evening talks, performances, and other community or art events, email space710.kefacafe@gmail.com

Community partners:

ChangeMatters, Authentic Contemporary Art, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

Kefa Cafe: 963 Bonifant St., Silver Spring, Maryland

Big Art in April

Two mountainscape collage-paintings in the Mama Earth show at Center for Green Urbanism, starting next week. Reception Friday evening, April 8th, 2011.

And at Art Hop Takoma, which is April 8 through 10, I have a half dozen or so collage-paintings on exhibit along with other artists and artisans at The Still Point Too.

And on Saturday, April 9th form 2 to 5pm, big Open House and Birthday Party celebration at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.