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.

Exhibiting at The Still Point

Half a dozen framed collages are hanging out at the new boutique in downtown Takoma Park. Other items include fine art and craft, textiles, glass, paper, jewelry, accessories for the home, baby, children. Slow and handmade. Check it out.

The Still Point Mind + Spirit Center
7009 Caroll Avenue, Lower Level
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301 920 0801

Artwork in Residence!

One of two large (for me) mountainscape collage-paintings is now in residence at the new location of Still Point Mind and Body. It's called Clear Cold Creek (27 x 32" framed). I started by laying magazine and found papers in a roughed-out landscape, then painted with acrylic, and then layered on more papers and made marks with pen and marker.

To visit (quietly) the painting-collage (and to explore making an appointment for a massage or other and to browse the artisan soaps and such):

Still Point Mind and Body
One Columbia Avenue Takoma Park, Maryland
(one of the houses next to the new cheesecake place/old Savory)

Monday - Friday: 12p - 8p
Saturday: 10a - 6p
Sunday: 10a - 4p

301.920.0801
info@stillpointmindandbody.com

Art Hop 2010 in Old Takoma

Mainstreet Takoma's ArtHop
March 20-21, 2010
Celebrating art in the shops and on the street of Old Takoma

I'll be the Guest Artist at The Still Point. Thanks to owner Tori Paide and to Art Hop organizer Bobbi Kittner.

Meet the Artist Reception
Saturday, March 20
11:00am to 1:00pm
The Still Point
7009 Carroll Avenue, Lower level
Takoma Park, Maryland 20912

Phone:
301.920.0801

In the community...

Sunday night, Takoma Park (Maryland) artists and activists met at the very groovy Jackie's for an evening of socializing and on-the-spot discussion and suggestions for the city Arts & Humanities Commission.

The very brilliant and capable John Borstel and his team facilitated an adapted open space meeting. Lots of assets and possibilities exist in this community. And (I'm afraid), quite a bit of stuck assumptions and thinking. Hoping and looking forward to some new directions, fresh energy, and dynamic collaboration to come.

Just some of the other movers and shakers there:
Stephane Janin
Adam Griffiths
Bobbi Kittner and her artwork
Alice Sims
Nicole Salimbene
Anne Becker
Sara Daines, City of Takoma Park
and maybe, me, too.