glass3

Lenny Campello of Mid Atlantic Art News has a nice write up of the Glass3 show
check out the video tour too.

ACC Baltimore 2008

ACC Baltimore 2008
Originally uploaded by goshdarnknit

I went to the American Craft Council Show in Baltimore this past weekend. Goshdarnknit has the full report.

Glass3 @ Georgetown Park mall

Glass3 @ Georgetown Park mall
Originally uploaded by shop monkey

Glass3- reception Thursday February 21st.

Glass 3
I will be taking part in a rather interesting international event bringing together three important glass art studios:

Dualism Concrete, Glass 15" x 29"2008 Sean Hennessey





Glass3 is a collaborative exhibit featuring the works of The Washington Glass School, Cohesion Artists from Sunderland England, and artists selected by the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo.
Glass3
February 21st- March 9th
Monday- Saturday: Noon- 8PM
Sunday: Noon- 6 PM
Reception: Feb 21, 11AM -1:00PM and 6-8PM Two Receptions!


The Shops at Georgetown Park
3222 M Street, NW

More information can be found here



Dcist Review Here
Tracy Lee took some cool photos

Sculpture Now 2008 reception tonight.

Sculpture NOW 2008

February 4 to May 1, 2008

Washington Square
1050 Conn. Ave., NW at L Street
Washington, D.C. 20036

Reception: Thursday, Feb. 14 at 6:00-8:30pm


Christian Benefiel, Brent Crothers, Joel D'Orazio, Pattie Porter Firestone, Frank Fishburne, Breon Gilleran, Michael A. Guadagno, Leonard Harris, James Kessler, Jin Lee, Carol Gellner Levin, Mitra Lore, Phelan Meek, Judy Sutton Moore, William J. Moore, Lincoln Mudd, Mahasti Y. Mudd, Marie Park, Tom Rooney, Richard Schellenberg, Mike Shaffer, Bo Simeon, Frances Sniffen, Pamela Soldwedel-Barrett, Ron Van Delden, Raymonde Van Santen, George Tkabladze, Sarah Wegner, Elizabeth Whiteley, and Joyce Zipperer.

Juror: David Furchgott, President, International Art & Artists

concrete lighbulb sculpture

concrete lighbulb sculpture
Originally uploaded by Scenic Artisan

this is part of (another) new series i'm working on.

creation

creation
Originally uploaded by Scenic Artisan

i'm working on a new series of concrete covered glass panels. here is a section of one.

architectural sculpture

IMG_4893
Originally uploaded by Scenic Artisan

i love faded architectural sculpture. this building near 12th and g nw has beautiful tree and floral themes, but otherwise is bolted up like an urban fortress. one non-glorious utilitarian steel doorway. odd, and neglected.

Navy Memorial Relief Sculptures

Navy Memorial Relief Sculptures
Originally uploaded by Scenic Artisan

I've always had an affinity for the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the Archives.

My great grand father told me stories of his adventures as a shipworker in Baltimore and then in the navy in WWI. my grandfather raised me on his stories of service a PT boat in the south pacific during WWII.

I always think of them each and every time walk by this place. I also think about the terrific sculptures depicting different aspects of navy life.
here are all the relief sculptures

Tuesday-a happy hour for sculptors on 14th Street . Saturday: An artists talk at Strathmore

Washington Sculptors Group Happy Hour
Tuesday, January 29, 7:00 pm
There has been a lot of interest in opportunities for Washington Sculptors members to interact with one another in a more casual setting than many of our events allow and so we are proposing a Sculptors Happy Hour to meet chat, drink and eat.
We would like to suggest that we meet up for our happy hour at
Busboys and Poets in DC on Tuesday January 29th at 7:00 p.m.
Busboys and Poets
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/
2021 14th Street NW ( at V street )

You needn't be a member to join us.





Artist Talk
Saturday February 2, 1:00-2:00 pm
Hand-Made: A Washington Sculptors Group Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings
Mansion at Strathmore
10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD 20852

Artists’ work in the exhibition includes: Christian Benefiel, Adam Eig, Breon Gilleran, Jody Isaacson, Mariah Josephy,
Elaine Langerman, Magnolia Laurie, Foon Sham, Lucy Spencer, Elizabeth Whiteley, and Joyce Zipperer.



Washington Sculptors Group

Phil Nesmith,My Baghdad. This Saturday **** now with WaPo link!

Phil Nesmith, Soldier, 2007, dryplate ambrotype (sandarac varnished silver emulsion on black glass)



Phil Nesmith, My Baghdad
January 12 to February 16

Opening Reception, Saturday, January 12: 6-8PM
Irvine Contemporary
1412 14th Street NW


Irvine Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Phil Nesmith’s first solo exhibition, My Baghdad, a series of photographs shot in Baghdad and produced on glass plates using a dry plate collodion process. A set of editioned C-print enlargements from the glass plates will accompany the unique images in the exhibition. Opening reception with the artist, Saturday, January 12, 6-8PM.

Contemporary photographers have frequently recovered earlier photographic processes to reinterpret image making and familiar genres of photography. Chuck Close’s daguerreotype portraits, Sally Mann’s wet plate collodion images, and Adam Fuss’s combined daguerreotype and photogram images have become part of the visual language of photography today.

The wet plate collodion process in the history of photographic images is inextricably connected to American Civil War photographs and to the look and feel of these images in our cultural memory. Phil Nesmith has recovered this early process for representing and reinterpreting photographs taken in Baghdad during the current war in Iraq. His new series of images are at once haunting, personal, and reflect back on our cultural memory of images in wartime.


Washington post article here

See Phil's blog here

DC call boxes

The Washington DC Southwest Neighborhood Assembly History Task Force Call Box Committee, in collaboration with Cultural Tourism DC, seeks artists to participate in Art on Call. This public arts project is a city-wide effort led by Cultural Tourism DC in partnership with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the District Department of Transportation to restore Washington, DC's historic abandoned police and fire Call Boxes as neighborhood artistic icons.
Art on Call challenges artists to use existing police or fire Call Boxes as frames for the artist's unique and creative image or design that can be permanently installed within the call box.

Deadline: January 11th at midnight.

For more information regarding this opportunity and for a copy of the prospectus please email swcallboxproject@gmail.com.

ARTOMATIC HAPPY HOUR

ARTOMATIC HAPPY HOUR

Happy New Year and Happy Hour!
Wednesday, January 2, 6-8 pm at The Science Club, 1136 19th Street NW, Washington DC 20036.

We are up on the 3rd Floor = it is quieter, easy to find us, has more room, and easy access to the bathrooms! Come on out!

Artomatic Happy Hour happens the 1st Wednesday of every month - the next meet up will be Wednesday, February 6.

poppytalk

i have a gallery on poppytalk.
look here

washington glass school annual holiday sale

washington glass school annual holiday sale
Originally uploaded by Scenic Artisan

Washington Glass School Open House/ Annual Holiday Sale- Tomorrow!

Washington Glass School's 6th Annual Holiday Sale and Party takes place at the school this Saturday, December 15th from 2 to 6pm. Tons of glass, class specials, work from a dozen prominent artists, music, food! This yearly event is always our biggest bash of the season ......and what a great way to pick up original holiday gifts!
MT. RANIER STUDIO AND CLASSROOMS
Washington Glass School
3700 Otis Street
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712

This week. Washington Glass School open house

Washington Glass School's 6th Annual Holiday Sale and Party takes place at the school this Saturday, December 15th from 2 to 6pm. Tons of glass, class specials, work from a dozen prominent artists, music, food! This yearly event is always our biggest bash of the season ......and what a great way to pick up original holiday gifts!
MT. RANIER STUDIO AND CLASSROOMS
Washington Glass School
3700 Otis Street
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712


Also, if you'd like to order some of my smaller sculptures in time for Christmas, there's still time:

Black Cat Rock‘n’Shop

Black Cat Rock‘n’Shop
Dec 9 :: Sunday :: 8pm-12.30am
1811 14th Street NW :: DC

Bloomingdale Holiday Art Market

Bloomingdale Holiday Art Market
Originally uploaded by Scenic Artisan

the bloomingdale holiday market was a huge success. thanks to everyone that came out! i hope you had fun.

Today! Bloomingdale Holiday Art Market

Local Artists, designers, and craftspeople will be selling their unique creations at the Big Bear Cafe on December 1, from 3- 9 PM.

Vendors Include:
Jesse Walker


Patricia Lee
Moira McCauley
Sean Hennessey
Rania Hassan
Debbie Lee


Kristina Bilonick





A. Drauglis