Brentwood Arts Center
3901 Rhode Island Ave, MD 20722 arts.pgparks.com
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Jan Acton
Fabiola Alvarez Yurcisin
Esperanza Alzona
Lisa Battle
Alan Binstock
Jeffery Cooper
Joe Corcoran
Pierre Davis
Joel D’Orazio
Annie Farrar
Luc Fiedler
Maria Karametou
Joanne Kent
Jin Lee
Ruth Lozner
Dalya Luttwak
Harry Mayer
Joan Mayfield
Louisa Neil
Jane Pettit
Iris Posner
Judith Pratt
Evan Reed
John Schaffner
Casey Snyder
John Totaro
Elizabeth Vorlicek
Steve Wanna
JUROR: Spencer Dormitzer
OPENING RECEPTION AND TOM ROONEY AWARD: Sat. January 19 (5-8pm)
ARTIST AND JUROR TALK: February 16 (2-4pm)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Brentwood Arts Exchange is collaborating with the Washington Sculptors Group members for an exhibition titled Sculpture Now 2019. Begun in 1987, the Sculpture Now series provides an annual snapshot of up-to-the-moment works by artists in the mid-Atlantic region and beyond. The series also includes the Tom Rooney Award of $500. Sculpture today is a rapidly evolving genre that reflects the volatile changes in global conditions. Whether conceptual, political, cultural, environmental or personal in context, the biography of the artist continues to be central to the artwork. In this spirit, Sculpture Now 2019 does not have a particular theme. It is an open and inclusive platform that invites artists to put forward their latest ideas on conceptual theory and best practices regarding materials used in sculpture. The exhibition is designed to give WSG artists free rein, to propose work to the juror, or to show work produced within the last two years. The exhibition will be installed at the Brentwood Arts Exchange main gallery in Brentwood, MD. This exhibition will take place separately, but in conjunction with the Tom Rooney Remembered Invitational exhibition at the Salve Regina Gallery and the Mullen Library on the campus of the Catholic University of America. Works by Tom Rooney and past Tom Rooney Prize winners from 2007-2019 also will be shown at CUA. Both shows – Brentwood Sculpture Now 2019 and the Tom Rooney Remembered Invitational – will honor the late Tom Rooney (1924- 2018), sculptor, educator, and WSG volunteer. During the Brentwood exhibition, the 2019 Tom Rooney prize will be awarded at Brentwood Arts Exchange.
ABOUT THE JUROR
Spencer Dormitzer, Director of Brentwood Arts Exchange, oversees the administration and development of the facility, as well as the changing annual exhibitions. Mr. Dormitzer attended The School of Art Institute of Chicago, and has been a working artist for over 25 years. He has acted as the studio manager for New York abstractionist David Reed, and as an executive producer for the New York Cosmos. Dormitzer has just concluded his tenure at Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery in Washington, DC after 3 years of service, where he managed or curated over 15 exhibitions. Spencer lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Brentwood Arts Exchange is a proud part of the Maryland – National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and serves as an anchor for the arts-based community development of the Prince George’s County Gateway Arts District. They support artist and community development by welcoming diverse audiences to experience high quality visual art exhibitions, concerts, and affordable art classes for all ages, and a local artisans craft store.
Hours:
Monday –Friday 10am to 7pm
Saturday: 10am to 4pm
Sunday: Closed
The Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness of sculpture and fostering exchanges among sculptors, sculpture enthusiasts and the public. Organized in 1984, WSG has grown to serve almost 400 members annually. WSG sponsors frequent public programs and organizes professional sculpture exhibitions juried by prominent curators. Visit www.washingtonsculptors.org to join WSG, to view the Web Gallery of members’ work, and to subscribe to the WSG newsletter. WSG P.O. Box 42534, Washington, DC 20015, 202-686-8696, .
WASHINGTON SCULPTORS GROUP
PO Box 42534
Washington DC 20015
(202) 686-8696 www.washingtonsculptors.org Supporting Sculptors and the Arts Since 1984.
SHADOWLANDS
October 23, 2018 – April 12, 2019
THE AMERICAN CENTER FOR PHYSICS
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 https://www.acp.org/
Image: Alan Binstock, Orb, Rebirth 2012, Glass, 12″ x 5″ x 10″. Photo courtesy of the artist.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Alan Binstock
Janet Brome
Shanthi Chandrasekar
Hsin-Hsi Chen
Elsabé Dixon
Emily Fussner
Jean Sausele-Knodt
John A. Schaffner
Bo Simeon
JUROR: Sarah Tanguy
OPENING RECEPTION:
October 23, 2018, 5:30-7:30 pm
GALLERY TALK:
October 23, 2018, 6:15 pm
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: For the artists in Shadowlands, the outward exploration of natural phenomena becomes a reflection of a personal, inner journey of discovery. Although their visions involve a different language and may appear opposed to those of scientists, the committed passion, the insatiable curiosity and the ongoing risk- taking make artists and scientists kindred spirits. Most importantly, their fundamental quest is the same – to understand why things are the way they are. As Sir Isaac Newton Mused in 1704, “ Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phenomena of Nature.
(Sarah Tanguy, 2018)
ABOUT THE JUROR: Sarah Tanguy worked at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery of Art, the International Exhibitions Foundation, The Tremaine Collection, the International Sculpture Center, as well as the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Hechinger Collection. In 2004, she became a curator at the office of Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, while continuing to pursue freelance projects. Tanguy has produced many exhibitions in the local DC area and written for Sculpture, and American Craft among other publications. Tanguy has curated an exhibition series for the American Center for Physics, which put her in touch with the latest in theoretical physics and led her to discover artists who explore the intersection between art and science.
The Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness of sculpture and fostering exchanges among sculptors, sculpture enthusiasts and the public. Organized in 1984, membership has grown to almost 400; WSG sponsors frequent public programs and organizes professional sculpture exhibitions juried by prominent curators. Visit www.washingtonsculptors.org to join WSG, to view the Web Gallery of members’ work, and to subscribe to the WSG newsletter. WSG P.O. Box 42534, Washington, DC 20015, 202-686-8696, .
Washington Sculptors Group
PO Box 42534
Washington DC 20015
(202) 686-8696
www.washingtonsculptors.org
Supporting Sculptors and the Arts Since 1984
MICRO-MONUMENTS II: UNDERGROUND
September 7 – October 28, 2018
Presented by IA&A at Hillyer (formerly Hillyer Art Space) in partnership with the Washington Sculptors Group (WSG)
Image: Jacqueline Maggi, Starry Night, ebony wood, zirconia, acrylic rod, and marble, 12 x 12 x 8 in., 2016.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Ursula Achternckamp, Alan Binstock, Janet Brome, Marc Fromm, Judith Goodman, Caroline Hatfield, Linda Hesh, Simon Horn, Margit Jäschke, Michael Krenz, Esther Eunjin Lee, Jacqueline Maggi, Georg Mann, Joan Mayfield, Nina Viktoria Naussed, Sara Parent-Ramos, Alim Pasht-Han, Kristina Penhoet, Judith Pratt, Diane Szczepaniak, Marilyn Ugiansky and Gil Ugiansky, Steve Wanna, and Janet Wittenberg
CURATED BY: Artemis Herber with Dr. Ines Janet Engelmann
JUROR: Laura Roulet, Independent Curator and Writer
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, September 7, 6-9 pm
CURATOR/JUROR/ARTIST TALK:
IA&A at Hillyer
Thursday, September 20th, 7-9 pm
ART ALL NIGHT AT HILLYER: CITYWIDE FESTIVAL
Saturday, September 29, 7 pm-midnight
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies
3100 Whitehaven St NW, Washington, DC 20008
Sunday, October 28, 2 pm
MICRO-MONUMENTS II: UNDERGROUND brings together 23 artists from diverse backgrounds to focus a contemporary lens on ideas and concepts that humanity has grappled with for centuries. Reflecting on the ring sanctuary of Pömmelte, often referred to as the German ‘Stonehenge,” the exhibiting artists investigate deep time and explore the idea of what is hidden below ground, as well as what will be discovered, unearthed, and revealed.
This exhibition aims to reveal a deeper understanding of people’s lives throughout history, and to allow contemporary artists to express their interpretations on topics of the cosmos, nature, current culture, and world heritage. Using the Nebra Sky Disc as a reference point—an artifact found near Pömmelte depicting a Bronze Age creator’s vision of the cosmos – the selected artworks are no larger than the Disc’s diameter of 12.6 inches. These archeological discoveries are evocative touchstones that invite contemplation of enduring questions about our history and place in the world. Can reflecting upon the past help broaden our understanding of ourselves and relationship to one another? Can rethinking how we study and understand the past give us insight into navigating the future? These are some of the questions examined by 15 Washington, DC artists along with 8 German artists, bringing global perspectives to shared human experiences.
The theme for the exhibition came from the vision of our coordinating curator, Artemis Herber, with assistance from her German counterpart, Dr. Ines Janet Engelmann, who invited the 8 German artists to take part in this trans-Atlantic project. A call for entries was organized by the Washington Sculptors Group for the selection of the Washington-area artists, with independent curator and writer Laura Roulet serving as the juror.
ABOUT THE JUROR:
Laura Roulet is an independent curator and writer, specializing in contemporary and Latin American art. She was one of five international curators chosen for the citywide public art project, 5×5, a major initiative sponsored by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2012. She has organized exhibitions in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S., including at the OAS Art Museum of the Americas, the American University Museum, Katzen Center, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Artisphere, Hillyer Art Space, Project 4, Fusebox, and the DC Art Center. Recent exhibits and programming include A Dark and Scandalous Rockfall (Mexican Cultural Institute), Foon Sham: Escape (Katzen Center), Come Back to Rockville! a participatory, public art project for VisArts (Rockville, MD), Washington Produced Artists (40th anniversary for Washington Project for the Arts), the National Drawing Invitational (Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR), CSA: 40 Years of Community-Sourced Art (Arlington Arts Center, VA), and Medios y ambientes in Mexico City. She was a mentoring curator for DCAC and the first mentoring curator for VisArts in Rockville, MD in 2015.
Roulet is a frequent contributor to Sculpture magazine. Her other publications include many catalogue essays, encyclopedia entries, articles in American Art, Art Journal, Art Nexus, and the book Contemporary Puerto Rican Installation Art, the Guagua Aerea, the Trojan Horse and the Termite. She worked on the Ana Mendieta retrospective, organized by the Hirshhorn Museum in 2004, and contributed to that catalogue.
The Washington Sculptors Group and IA&A at Hillyer
The Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness of sculpture and fostering exchanges among sculptors, sculpture enthusiasts, and the public. Organized in 1984, membership has grown to almost 400; WSG sponsors frequent public programs, and organize professional sculpture exhibitions juried by prominent curators. Visit www.washingtonsculptors.org to join WSG, to view the Web Gallery of members’ work, and to subscribe to the WSG newsletter.
IA&A at Hillyer (formerly Hillyer Art Space) is the Washington-area initiative of International Arts & Artists, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally through exhibitions, programs, and services to artists, arts institutions, and the public. Hillyer fulfills this mission through a series of exhibitions and public programs that feature local, regional, and international artists. Hillyer’s exhibition series focuses on under-represented artists, both emerging and established, that have not had a major solo exhibition within the last three years.
Washington Sculptors Group
PO Box 42534
Washington DC 20015
(202) 686-8696 www.washingtonsculptors.org
Supporting Sculptors and the Arts Since 1984
IA&A at Hillyer
9 Hillyer Ct NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel. (202) 338-0325 www.athillyer.org
MICRO-MONOUMENTS II: UNDERGROUND is presented by IA&A at Hillyer in collaboration with the Washington Sculptors Group and State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.
This project is supported by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
ARTINA 2018: INTROSPECTIVE
A Sculpture Park at Sandy Spring Museum
June 21 – October 6, 2018
Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) and Sandy Spring Museum (SSM)
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Lynda Andrews-Barry, Adam Bradley, Elsabe Dixon, Bobby Donovan, Mary Annella Mimi Frank, Billy Friebele, Chas. Foster, Howard Goldfarb, Sanzi Kermes, Elizabeth Miller McCue, Sharon Pierce McCullough, Donna McCullough, Mike Shaffer, Diane Szczepaniak, Ira Tattelman, David Therriault, Michael Thron, Jenny Wu
EXHIBITION JUROR: Cecilia Wichmann, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art.
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday, June 21 from 6-9 pm.
JUROR TALK:
Talk and Tour with Cecilia Wichmann: Sunday, July 8 at 3:30 pm
PERFORMANCE:
Performance by Sinclair Dance, TogethR A Part: Sunday, July 29 at 7 pm
Now in its third year, the Washington Sculptors Group’s Annual Artina exhibition at Sandy Spring Museum will provide a sylvan venue for sculptors to display their work. Artists were invited to propose works that respond to the museum’s rustic grounds, exploring the landscape as a vehicle for human introspection. How does the outside world shape one’s inner life, and how do our imaginations, both collective and private, filter our perceptions of the environments we encounter? Artists were encouraged to engage the topography of the site, to incorporate time as an element of their work, and to elicit direct participation by visitors. The result is a sculpture garden created on the museum’s seven-acre, woodsy grounds.
The exhibition, juried by Cecilia Wichmann, features 18 works by 18 artists that reveal the varied and poetic ways humans can come to make and know ourselves in relation to our ideas about nature. Visitors will find numerous ways to connect with the work on view, from adding objects to an interactive, open-air museum to feeling the breeze from an oversized rocking chair. Human beings are, after all, inextricable from the natural world—part of its larger ecology. This exhibition is an open invitation to spend time with this concept, engaging it with all our senses. This outdoor exhibition will remain on view through October 6, 2018.
In thinking through the relation between introspection and the natural world, we might look to the poet William Wordsworth for one possible model. In his poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Wordsworth reflects on the power of natural scenes and objects to remain in our memory and imagination. After seeing a “host of golden daffodils,” the poet describes how
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
ABOUT THE JUROR:
Cecilia Wichmann is Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Prior to joining the BMA in fall 2017, Wichmann led the University of Maryland’s Stamp Gallery, an experimental exhibition space for contemporary art, and served as curator and advisor of its innovative Contemporary Art Purchasing Program.
Sandy Spring Museum
17901 Bentley Road
Sandy Spring, MD 20860
www.sandyspringmuseum.org
Tel. (301) 774-0022
Open Hours: Wednesdays–Saturdays from 10 am–5 pm
Free admission
Grounds are accessible any time.
Artina 2017: Art In Nature – (Re)Use and Abuse of the Land
A Sculpture Park at Sandy Spring Museum
June 29 – September- 30, 2017
Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) and Sandy Spring Museum (SSM)
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
c.l. bigelow, Elsabé Dixon, Mary Annella “Mimi” Frank, Eve Hennessa, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Jin Lee, Cat Lukens, Raina Martens, Grant McFarland, Maryanne Pollock, Marc Robarge, Casey Snyder, Diane Szczepaniak
Juried by Ursula Achternkamp
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, June 29, 6:30–9:00 pm
Opening Ceremony at 7:00 pm, “Medicine Wheel” performed by Eve Hennessa with water from West Africa and Mecca.
ART IN NATURE – (Re)Use and Abuse of the Land marks the second collaboration between the Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) and the Sandy Spring Museum (SSM). The aim of ARTINA 2017 is to create awareness among visitors and communities of the need to reconnect with nature now and preserve nature for future societies. Art functions as a mediator between nature and people to generate public attention and awareness by promoting a healthier and more environmentally meaningful and sustainable life. Life in and with nature can be experienced as living systems and can be experienced as nature’s regenerative power to recover from damage. The diverse, layered concept of ARTINA 2017 helps us to understand, appreciate, and value the ecosystems within nature and the natural systems and cycles involved. Art functions not only as an aesthetic stimulator to design a creative and sustainable environment, it also helps us to understand the connection between humans and nature as well as to lead us to find beauty in materials, forms, and their importance within living systems.
In collaboration with the “International Visitors Program” supported by the NRW KULTURsekretariat curator program in Germany, WSG invited juror Ursula Achternkamp to make a connection between the continents and exchange contemporary perspectives on art in nature through Achternkamp’s selection of thirteen artists for ARTINA 2017.
With emphasis on the use, reuse and abuse of the land, artists will focus on local or regional findings or research that address global issues. Artists will also emphasize concepts of mapping and meaning, and identification of places. Exploring geographies inspired and motivated by the actual condition of the land, its surroundings, its history and deep time discoveries, or by suburban developments and their impact on the environment are additional aims of the Artina 2017 exhibition.
ABOUT THE JUROR:Ursula Achternkamp studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster (D) and the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Genève (CH). She freelanced at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Exhibition-Projects such as curating the Permanent Exhibition of the Bauhaus-Settlement Dessau-Törten of Walter Gropius, Archilab Europe–Strategic Architecture (Cooperation of the Bauhaus Dessau with the FRAC Centre, Orléans, France, at the International Building Exhibition IBA Urban Redevelopment Saxony-Anhalt Less is Future. She has shown her artwork in several group and solo exhibitions in the Czech Republic, Belgium, France, Germany, Latvia and Switzerland. Participating in an international and interdisciplinary Bauhaus-Kolleg EU-Urbanism (2006-07) she investigated “After-Effects for a City” at the European Capital of Culture program, Luxembourg LU, and Sibiu RU. Achternkamp also collaborated with The Philosophical Farmers (Die Philosophischen Bauern), participated in the development and landing of UFO with Niklas Nitzschke in the frame of CULBURB (Cultural Acupuncture Treatment for Suburb) of the Centre for Central European Architecture in Prague.
Sandy Spring Museum
17901 Bentley Road
Sandy Spring, MD 20860
www.sandyspringmuseum.org
Tel. (301) 774-0022
Open Hours: Wednesdays–Saturdays from 10 am–5 pm
Grounds are accessible any time. Image: Marc Robarge, Hemlock Conch, 2016, photograph courtesy of the Artist
ART IN NATURE – (Re)Use and Abuse of the Land
ARTINA 2017
An Exhibition Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group and Sandy Spring Museum (SSM)
LOCATION:
17901 Bentley Rd, Sandy Spring, MD 20860
(301) 774-0022
Website: www.sandyspringmuseum.org
Phone: 301-774-0022
Contact: Allison Weiss,
Open: Wednesdays–Saturdays from 10 am–5 pm. Open after hours for programming.
Grounds are accessible any time.
EXHIBITION DATES: June 20, 2017–September 30, 2017
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Entries must be posted on the EntryThingy website byApril 1, 2017 (midnight).
ENTRY FEE: $5 + current WSG membership
JUROR: Ursula Achternkamp
German born curator and artist Ursula Achternkamp currently lives and works in an international artist-in-residence program in Stuttgart at the Akademy Schloß Solitude, a joint project between Robert Bosch GmbH, Akademie Schloss Solitude and Wimmelforschung. The purpose of the Fellowship is to support encounters as well as interdisciplinary exchange in the context of science, economy, and art. The collaboration’s aim is not the production of a specific artistic work, but the encounter and the process of intercommunication itself.
Achternkamp studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster (D) and the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Genève (CH). Beside her own artistic works she freelanced at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and was part of several Exhibition-Projects such as: curating the Permanent Exhibition of the Bauhaus-Settlement Dessau-Törten in the Konsumbuilding of Walter Gropius; being part of the curatorial team of Archilab Europe–Strategic Architecture (Cooperation of the Bauhaus Dessau with the FRAC Centre, Orléans, France 2008); as well as contributing to Projectwork at the International Building Exhibition IBA Urban Redevelopment Saxony-Anhalt Less is Future. She has shown her own artistic works in several group and solo exhibitions such as in the Czech Republic, Belgium, France, Germany, Latvia, and Switzerland.
Participating in an international and interdisciplinary Bauhaus-Kolleg EU-Urbanism (2006-07) she investigated “After-Effects for a City” by taking part at the European Capital of Culture program (research in Luxembourg (LU) and Sibiu (RU) 2007). She was artist in Residence at the Nomadic Village organized by Klaus Mähring with ISIS Arts/ County Durham (GB) and AIR in Havelberg (D) and in Roja (LV). She was awarded residencies in 2011/12 at the Akademie Schloß Solitude in Stuttgart (D) Fellow Section Architecture, guest of the International Summer Program of the Raketenstation Hombroich (D) in 2012 and 2013, where she was invited as curator for the program in 2015.
Achternkamp also collaborated with The Philosophical Farmers (Die Philosophischen Bauern), participated in the development and landing of UFO with Niklas Nitzschke in the frame of CULBURB (Cultural Acupuncture Treatment for Suburb) of the Centre for Central European Architecture in Prague. With Stefan Gruber, Klaus Fischedick, Chloé Zimmermann and Tina Wintersteiger active as “C’mon C’mmons.”
She gained the Prix 2006 de la Fondation Gertrude Hirzel, Prix Neumann de la Ville de Genève in 2004, and in 2001 the Förderpreis of the Art Academy Münster.
ABOUT ARTINA 2017: ART IN NATURE marks the second call for a cooperation between the Washington Sculptors Group and the Sandy Spring Museum within a cross-Atlantic partnership of internationally acclaimed curators. Sandy Spring Museum is a special place, away from the bustle of daily routine and fashionable trends from the city. It is an invitation to enter into the adventure of a direct encounter with art and nature and its rural historically grown landscape. Visitors are free to walk their own way around the museum and its park and adjacent woods and make their own discoveries of art and nature alike. This freedom of the spirit is at the heart of the Museum’s particular charm. A day at the Sandy Spring Museum awakens the senses.
The aim is to create awareness among visitors and communities to reconnect with nature today as well as in the future. Art functions as a mediator between nature and the people to generate public attention and awareness by promoting a healthier and environmentally more meaningful and sustainable life. Life in and with nature can be experienced as living systems and can be experienced as nature’s regenerative power and the capability to recover from damage. A diverse layered concept of ART IN NATURE helps to understand, appreciate, and value the ecosystem offered by nature and its natural systems and cycles. Art functions not only as an esthetic stimulator to design a creative and sustainable environment, but helps to understand the connection between man and nature. One can find its beauty in materials, forms and living systems, and fields of science that artists can convey, in which the arts create the trans-disciplinary realm outside a world of utilitarianism.
WSG and SSM seek a collaboration to enhance communities’ social engagement with nature, and the environment through concepts of participation and collaboration and contemporary concepts. A diverse and multilayered program creates a broader platform for today’s highly diverse audience that needs to be approached through diverse artistic relationships to nature that can be natural, environmentally friendly, architectural, conceptual, narrative, representational, time-based, and interdisciplinary to regenerate our deep connection with nature.
CALL DESCRIPTION: ARTINA 2017 – (Re)Use and Abuse of the Land
In collaboration with the Sandy Spring Museum, the Washington Sculptors Group seeks to realize a Land Use Project that addresses issues of how we use our land today and in the future. Artists are invited to look into matters of deep time, the history or the current condition of local and regional observations (or through research) that will raise public awareness of environmental issues for the future.
In continuation of ARTINA 2016, WSG and the Sandy Spring Museum will proceed with their shared philosophy of connections between nature and humankind, including nature as a living system for a more environmentally meaningful and sustainable life, as well as key issues involving our ecosystem and its regeneration and recovery through the arts as a mediator.
With emphasis on the use, reuse and abuse of the land, artists will be encouraged to focus on local or regional findings or research that generate discoveries on a global level. Artists will emphasize their main focus with concepts of mapping and meaning, identification of places, or exploring geographies. Artists will also be inspired and motivated by the actual condition of the land, its surroundings, its history and deep time discoveries, or by suburban developments and their impact on the environment.
Artists will raise questions about their findings (such as with sticks, trees, mud, bricks, rocks etc.) and insights that create a preview of the work on site at the Sandy Spring Museum. WSG and the Sandy Spring Museum will seek outdoor artwork that engages concepts of the land we use, occupy, exploit, reuse or abuse within the given context of “Art in Nature” as a metaphor for an environmentally meaningful and sustainable life.
The Sandy Spring Museum will help to provide maps and to connect with schools or youth groups such as the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, or with the general public in order to link the artists’ concepts with their work and with visitors. The exhibition will engage artists on site that involves collecting materials on site or from home and connect with the artwork; include developing and gaining space-digital presentation or projection; incorporate a participatory artist project at the opening reception; and introduce a performance artist or dancer who interacts with the various art sites during the opening reception.
The Sandy Spring Museum and WSG intend to provide a program that relates to the exhibition between June and mid October 2017. We encourage artists to seek a relationship with its audience through socially engaged art through collaboration, participation, dialogue, provocation, and immersive experiences. The SSM and WSG focus on process and seek to embed themselves within the communities.
ABOUT THE SANDY SPRING MUSEUM:
The Sandy Spring Museum is a place where people make meaningful connections to community history through the cultural arts. The museum is a gathering place with interactive projects, artist studios, changing exhibits, evening programming, live music, and opportunities for the public to use the museum facility in order to build community.
ABOUT THE SITE:
The Sandy Spring Museum is located on 7+ acres of land, 3 acres of which are heavily forested. The remainder is naturally landscaped with mature trees. Sculptures can be exhibited throughout the property, including upon two 12’x 12’ concrete pads. Artists can also use a wooden trellis that blooms with wisteria in the spring and extends the entire length of the property.
ELIGIBILITY:
The exhibition is open to current members of the Washington Sculptors Group only. Artists may join WSG by paying annual dues of $45 ($15 for full-time students). Prospective members may download a membership form from the WSG website, www.washingtonsculptors.org and send in a check, or may join online with your submission to the exhibition.
WSG members must have paid their dues for 2017 by the entry deadline to be eligible for this exhibition. The address label is on this Call or the most recent copy of the WSG newsletter, The Washington Sculptor, will show your membership status (example: MEMBER THROUGH 2017). Notices for 2017 dues were mailed Dec. 2016.
HONRARIUM
The Sandy Spring Museum will award an honorarium specifically for those artists who develop concepts that are either socially engaged or include participatory, collaborative, or time-based projects with local communities or neighborhoods. The award of the honorarium is at the discretion of Sandy Spring Museum.
WORK TO BE CONSIDERED:
– Artist or artist teams are welcome to submit pre-existing artwork or a proposed artwork that reflects on the theme ART IN NATURE. Artists who apply will install their work in accordance with either the provided artist proposal or in collaboration with the exhibition team and Sandy Spring Museum.
– A maximum of 5 images per artist or team will be considered.
In addition, please include:
– A description of where the project pieces are to be placed
– The background or narrative information about the artwork or proposal
– An explanation of how the project relates to the site
– Any maintenance that will be required during the course of the exhibition
– A list of materials, machinery, tools, or volunteer workforce you want to request from SSM
– And whether there is light, sound, or movement that may impact the ability of others to experience nearby artworks
NOTE:
If an artist is proposing a work that involves community participation, SSM may be able to recruit volunteers to assist with the creation or installation of an artist’s work. Requested assistance will need to be coordinated between SSM and the artist. To make arrangements with SSM and get support from volunteers, selected artists will be required to discuss specifics about the site, setting, and layout of the installation with SSM staff and exhibition coordinators. Artists may choose to install their work with public participation and involvement during the installation period, or if required, over the life of the artwork.
Artists will submit a proposal in .doc or .pdf format containing the project description, concept sketches or renderings, and any other information pertaining to the proposed project. In addition, artists will provide up to 5 images of existing work in .jpg format titled portfolio001”–‘portfolio005”.jpg.” Submit all images with a resolution of 300 dpi and a maximum of 2MB each. It is recommended that artists visit the Sandy Spring Museum to get a sense of the surroundings and possibilities prior to submitting an application. Artists can visit the site seven days a week, at any time. If you wish to meet with museum staff, please contact Allison Weiss ahead of time at (301) 774-0022 or .
The official opening reception will be held Thursday, June 29th from 6:30–9:30 pm. Selected artists are invited to the reception opening to the public to engage visitors with hands-on activities. SSM reserves the right to make photo documentation for promotional and archival purposes, both print and electronic.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENTRYTHINGY
The EntryThingy website allows entering information about your entries and viewing by the juror.
1) Applicants should go to http://www.entrythingy.com/ and click on the tab (at top) “for artists”.
2) Click on “list of current calls”.
3) Scroll down and click on the ART IN NATURE listing.
4) Create a login account to http://www.entrythingy.com/ if you don’t have an account, or if you do, login to your existing account with the “Click here to login” button. After logging in, select theSculpture REMIX 2017: Craft/Technology/Artcall and complete the entry steps.
5) There is a $5 entry fee.
6) All applicants will receive ‘accepted’ or ‘not accepted’ notifications via email.
Assistance with submissions is available by email request: contact .
NOTE REGARDING ENTRYTHINGY FILES
When uploading your images, you will be provided space for six uploads. That number is for 5 images and an artist statement. Do not send any more than five images as if there is a sixth image it will be discarded.
INSURANCE, COMMISSIONS, AND SALES
SSM will insure the work after the work is delivered and the exhibition loan agreement is signed. Insurance during transportation is the responsibility of the artist. There will be no commission taken by the venue of any work sold during the exhibition. Purchase inquiries will be directed to the artist.
CALENDAR
February 15, 2017 CFE open call Entrythingy.com
April1, 2017 Application deadline midnight (EST)
April 13, 2017 Juror’s artist selection
April 16, 2017 Artist Notification
June 15-19, 2017 Artwork Installation
June 20, 2017 Show Opening
June 29, 2017 Opening Reception
September, 30 2017 End of show
October 1-8, 2017 De-installation
CONTACT – WSG EXHIBITION MANAGERS:
Assistance with submissions is available by email at:
The Exhibition Managers:
Tom Petzwinkler (703) 209-8786 –
Artemis Herber (216) 269-9983 –
An Exhibition Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group and the Glen Echo Park Partnership
LOCATION:
Glen Echo Park Partnership (Popcorn and Stone Tower Galleries)
7300 MacArthur Blvd
Glen Echo, MD 20812
www.glenechopark.org
EXHIBITION DATES: April 8 – April 30, 2017
OPENING RECEPTION: April 8, 2017, 6-8 pm
PANEL: April 24, 2017, 7-9 pm
ARTISTS’ DEINSTALLATION DATE: May 1, 2017
ISD Panelists: Jade Garrett (Director of MakerSpace REMIX); Sue Wrbican (Professor School of Art GMU); Alan Binstock (NASA architect)
Participating REMIX artists are:
Jon Lundak; Grant McFarland; Adam Bradley; Meirav Finn; Tory Cowles; Martin Feldman; Helen Glazer; Marc Robarge; Iris Posner; Jenny Wu; c.l. bigelo (yes, all lowercase) ;Judith Goodman; Siavash Tohidi; Judith Pratt; Linda Agar- Hendrix; David Alfuth; Julie Zirlin; Eve Hennessa; Adam Hager; Lynda Andrews-Barry.
JUROR: Allison Nance joined international Arts & Artists in 2013 as Director of Hillyer Art Space. Prior to this she was with the Torpedo Factory Art Center from 2008-2013. She co-founded Microwave Project LLC in 2010, a curatorial partnership that acts as a conduit between artists and businesses, exploring alternative exhibition venues with an emphasis on site-specific installation art. Allison is Vice-Chair of the Alexandria Commission for the Arts, whose role it is to advise City Council with regard to policies that would strengthen the arts and further public access to the arts and cultural matters. She is the Chair of the Commissions Grant Committee, and for the last three years has worked on the Commission’s Annual Work Plan Task Force, outlining which new public art projects the city of Alexandria will initiate, indicating where the projects are located, and what the proposal budgets will be. Allison joined the ArtTable in January 2016, and is currently the co-chair for the membership of the Washington DC chapter.
Sculpture Now 2017
SCULPTURE NOW 2017
Presented by Washington Sculptors Group & McLean Project for the Arts
MPA@ChainBridge
February 2 – March 4, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 2, 2017, 7-9pm
Washington Sculptors Group is pleased to present Sculpture Now 2017 in collaboration with McLean Project for the Arts. Sculpture Now is a non-thematic exhibition of new works, finished within the last two years. The Rooney Prize – an honorarium of $500 – will be given to an artist/artist team whose work reflects the best qualities for the overall WSG Sculpture Now 2017 show.
Participating Artists
Linda Agar-Hendrix, Lynda Andrews-Barry, Lisa Battle, Burton Blistein, Janet Brome,
Ann Citron, Irene Clouthier, Tory Cowles, Mary Early, Annie Farrar, Mary Annella Mimi Frank, Pamela Gwaltney, ,Malcom Hally, Artemis Herber, Susan Hostetler, Monroe Isenberg, Penny Jacoby, Joanne Kent, Jeremy Thomas Kunkle, Jin Lee, Liz Lescault, Yue Li, June Linowitz, Jon Lundak, Grant McFarland, Sara Parent-Ramos, Jane Pettit,
Barrett Ripin, Jean Sausele Knodt, John A Schaffner, Tatyana Schremko, Casey Snyder, Gil Ugiansky, Elizabeth Vorlicek, Jonathan Weiner, Michael West, Julie Wills,
Roy Ysla. About the Juror: Nancy Sausser, Exhibitions Director of the McLean Project for the Arts (MPA). Nancy Sausser has been the Curator and Exhibitions Director at MPA since October 2005. A sculptor and arts writer as well as a curator, her writing has been featured in publications such as the Washington Post and FiberArts Magazine, as well as in many exhibition catalogs. Her sculpture has been shown around the Washington, DC area, most recently at Greater Reston Arts Center, Montpelier Arts Center, and Glenview Mansion. Nancy holds a BA in Studio Art from Kenyon College and an MFA in Sculpture form the University of Washington in Seattle.
MPA at Chain Bridge (McLean Project For The Arts)
1446 Chain Bridge Road
McLean, VA 22101 (Located in the Chain Bridge Corner Shopping Center)
www.mpaart.org
Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group and the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Montgomery College, Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus
LOCATION:
King Street Gallery
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
930 King Street
Silver Spring, MD 20910
www.montgomerycollege.edu/arts
Gallery Hours:
Monday- Friday, 8am – 4pm
EXHIBITION DATES:
October 24 – November 22, 2016
JUROR:
Claudia Rousseau, PhD.
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday, October 27, 2016, 6-8 pm
Gallery Talk at 5pm
Participating Artists
Jan Paul Acton, c.l. bigelow, Alan Binstock, Nizette Brennan, Jacqui Crocetta, Alonzo Davis, Joel D’Orazio, Kate Doyle, Jeffery Cooper, Annie Farrar, Martin Feldman, Mary Annella Mimi Frank, Marilyn Geldzahler, Linda Hesh, Penny Jacoby, Craig Kraft, Ruth Lozner, Rosemary Luckett, Gordon Lyon, Joan Mayfield, Kass McGowan, Rob Muir, Iris Posner, Christopher Romer, Mike Shaffer, Diane Szczepaniak, L. S. Watson, Roy Ysla, Julie Zirlin
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION What is a landmark? It may be something built by human hands, or be something that exists in nature. It often connotes the idea of place, of a direction or a turning point. It could be a totem, a flag, or a magic symbol marking a liminal threshold. It could be a mark on the ground or on a wall, or it could be a tall structure. It could be a memorial or a monument. Landmarks can also be understood in terms of time; a moment between one period and another, or historically between one people and another. It can be seen as a sign of the times, a moment of crisis or change such as a “landmark decision” or “landmark legislation”. Landmarks are everywhere in our world and in our language.
– Claudia Rousseau
ABOUT THE CURATOR Claudia Rousseau completed her PhD at Columbia University in New York, and has taught at Montgomery College since 2003. An internationally published scholar, she is also a recognized critic of contemporary art and a curator of art exhibitions in the region. In 2010, she earned membership in the prestigious International Association of Art Critics (AICA) for her writing on art including 11 years of monthly reviews as art critic for the Gazette newspapers, Dr. Rousseau currently serves as a panel member of the Public Arts Trust Steering Committee of the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, as well as the Art Review Panel for the Maryland-National Capitol Parks and Planning Commission for public art.
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Presented by The Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) and Sandy Spring Museum (SSM)
Participating Artists: Allan Arp, c.l. bigelow, Jeff Chyatte, Eve Hennessa, Jin Lee, Darcy Meeker, Vanessa Niederstrasser, Salvatore Pirrone, Mike Shaffer, Diane Szczepaniak, Fabiola Alvarez Yurcisin
Exhibition Dates: June 30 – September 30, 2016
Opening Reception: June 30, 6:30 – 9:00 pm
An Opening Ceremony will be performed by Eve Hennessa at 6.30 pm titled “Medicine Wheel.”
ART IN NATURE marks the first collaboration between the Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) and the Sandy Spring Museum (SSM). The aim of ART IN NATURE is to create awareness among visitors and communities to reconnect with nature now as well as in future societies. Art functions as a mediator between nature and people to generate public attention and awareness by promoting a healthier and more environmentally meaningful and sustainable life. Life in and with nature can be experienced as living systems, and as nature’s regenerative power to recover from damage. A diverse, layered concept of ART IN NATURE helps us to understand, appreciate, and value the ecosystem offered by nature and its natural systems and cycles. Art functions not only as an aesthetic stimulator to design a creative and sustainable environment, but also helps us to understand the connection between humans and nature. One can find beauty in materials, forms, and living systems.
Renowned art historian Martine Van Kampen of the Netherlands served as juror for ARTINA 2016. She is Curator of the Land Art Live, a series of programs and performances taking place at the six major Land Art works in the province of Flevoland. Van Kampen also serves as a curator for TAAK, a cooperative of cultural workers who create projects, art, and educational programs related to public, social, and environmental issues. TAAK also serves as an international platform that develops innovative art projects and educational programs relating to social issues such as ecology, urbanization, social design, and human rights.
In 2015 Van Kampen was invited by the International Cultural Relations of NRW KULTURsekretariat, Germany to attend the International Visitors Program Research Trip: Dialogue between Art and Nature – Methods and Strategies of Curating Art in Public Space, creating a bridge between the continents, and exchanging contemporary perspectives on art in nature in the network between WSG and SSM. Van Kampen lives and works in Amsterdam.
WSG and SSM seeks a partnership to enhance communities’ social engagement with nature and the environment through concepts of participation, collaboration, and contemporary concepts. A diverse and multilayered program creates a broad platform for today’s highly diverse audience that needs to be approached through a range of artistic relationships to nature, which can be natural, environmentally friendly, architectural, conceptual, narrative, representational, time-based, and interdisciplinary, regenerating our deep connection with nature.
An invitation to help build works for ARTINA!
Help Create a River of Sticks: June 11, 12-4 pm with exhibiting artist Diane Szczepaniak. All ages are welcome; no artistic ability or experience is needed. Click here for details and to register to participate.
Help Build Day/Night, a Series of Woven Tree Structures: June 25, 12-4 pm with exhibiting artist Fabiola Alvarez Yurcism. All ages are welcome; no artistic ability or experience is needed.
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