"Early Look"

My painting Blue Skies will be featured in "Early Look," an undergraduate art show curated by F. Lennox Campello. The show will hang in Long View Gallery in D.C. from June 7th to July 5th, with the opening reception on Saturday, June 7th, from 5-8PM.

More information about the show and sneak peaks of some of the work to be featured can be found on Mr. Campello's blog, Daily Campello Art News.

Long View Gallery
1302 9th ST NW
Washington, DC 20001
All week, 11 AM - 7 PM
202.232.4788

NSAL Traveling Show Comes to DC

The National Society of Arts and Letters' Water Media on Paper Competition traveling show will be in Nevin Kelly Gallery from February 27th to March 23rd. The show features the work of the competition's finalists. The opening reception is Thursday, February 28th, 5:30-7:30PM. (See press release for details.)

Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 U Street NW
Washington DC 20009

National Society of Arts and Letters

Art Activated (2)

Art Activated was a blast! Thanks to everyone who came, and a double thanks to everyone who volunteered to model!







I ended up going through 4 pieces of paper. It's interesting to see the progression of the drawings - the 3rd and 4th pieces of paper really show how much looser my hand got as time passed. Here's pictures of all of the drawings from that day.

Art Activated

As part of the Alexandria Festival of the Arts, the Torpedo Factory Art Center will be featuring Art Activated on Saturday, September 8. From 12PM-4PM, this free event will combine artist demonstrations with live modern dance by BosmaDance. I'll be giving drawing demonstrations throughout the day, and I would love it if audience members would model for me! My demonstrations will be from 12-1, 1:30-2:30, and 3-4, and I'll be on a different floor of the building each time. Here's the full schedule for the day:

12:00 – 1:00

On the Wheel, Pottery demonstration with David Norton - Studio 22

Bits and Pieces, drawing body parts with Jenny Davis - Mid area, First Floor - Audience is asked to model

Champagne Cork Chairs Workshop with Lisa Schumaier - Studio 16 **

History Inspired Drawing - Archaeology, Room 327 **

Draw or paint patterns inspired by designs discovered on salt-glazed stoneware pottery shards excavated from local archeological sites.

Fiber Production Techniques with Springwater Fiber Workshop – Dock Area Lobby

** Felting, spinning, weaving, knitting, and more


1:00 – 2:00

On the Wheel, Pottery demonstration with David Norton - Studio 22

History Inspired Drawing - Archaeology, Room 327 **

Champagne Cork Chairs Workshop with Lisa Schumaier - Studio 16 **

Fiber Production Techniques with Springwater Fiber Workshop – Dock Area Lobby **


1:30 – 2:30

Bits and Pieces, drawing body parts with Jenny Davis, Third Floor Central Area - Audience is asked to model

2:00 – 3:00

On the Wheel, Pottery demonstration with David Norton - Studio 22

Fiber Production Techniques with Springwater Fiber Workshop – Dock Area Lobby **

Champagne Cork Chairs Workshop with Lisa Schumaier - Studio 16 **

Clothed Figure Drawing with Marjorie Forgues, Art League Gallery, Studio 21

Immediate Figure Sculpture with Tatyana Schremko

Enameling On Silver with Don Viehman, Studio 205

History Inspired Drawing - Archaeology, Room 327 **

How I Designed Two Postage Stamps and Lived to Tell About It by Jim Dean -Studio 306 (From watercolor sketch to finished stamp)

Huge Blossoms on Tiny Canvasses with Joan Holoviak, Studio 342

What Was She Thinking, The story behind the painting -- Kathy Beynette, Studio 7


2 – 4 pm

Printmaking Demonstrations – Studio 325


3:00 – 4:00

On the Wheel, Pottery demonstration with David Norton - Studio 22

Fiber Production Techniques with Springwater Fiber Workshop – Dock Area Lobby **

Champagne Cork Chairs Workshop with Lisa Schumaier - Studio 16 **

Immediate Figure Sculpture with Tatyana Schremko - Studio 32 **

Watercolor Painting with Peter Ulrich, Location Art League Gallery, Studio 21

The New Silver, working with metal clay to create fine silver jewelry with Barbro Ericksdotter Gendel, Studio 201

Bits and Pieces, drawing body parts with Jenny Davis, Second Floor Crossover -- Audience is asked to model

History Inspired Drawing - Archaeology, Room 327 **

Small Portrait Painting with Mary Ann Stevens, Studio 314

Rocks in Acrylics or Metallics with Susan Makara, Studio 339

NSAL Career Awards Traveling Show

The work of the NSAL's National Career Awards finalists will be traveling the country through May of next year. The exhibition will visit El Paso, Texas; Birmingham, Alabama; St. Louis, Missouri; Marietta, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; and Champaign, Illinois. Here's the full schedule:

August 22 - September 16
International Museum of Art
El Paso, Texas

September 27 - November 11
Jewish Community Center
Birmingham, Alabama

November 20 - January 4
Centene Center for Arts & Education
St. Louis, Missouri

January 21 - February 15
Marietta College
Marietta, Ohio

February 27 - March 23
Nevin Kelly Gallery
Washinton, D.C.

April 1 - May 10
Green Street Studio, Inc.
Champaign, Illinois

NSAL 2007 National Career Award Competition (2)

I just got back from Arizona, and I'm pleased to announce that my Portrait of Tess won First Place in the National Society of Arts and Letters' National Career Award Competition.



The contestants were Carrie Tompkins, Birmingham Chapter; Maureen Forman, Bloomington Chapter; Vanessa Monot, Boca Raton Chapter; Ryan Rocha, Central Illinois Chapter; Erin Saladino, Clearwater-Tampa Bay Chapter; Alfred Perez, El Paso Chapter; Tawni Shuler, Greater Arizona Chapter; Morgan Canavan, Greater Chicago Chapter; Danielle Trejo, Evanston Chapter; Will Anderson, Kansas City Chapter; Gerren Dugger, Kentucky Chapter; Amber Carraway, Little Rock Chapter; Adrian Lyjak, Mid-Michigan Chapter; Mattias Lanas, New Jersey Chapter; Kelsey Berkley, North Florida Chapter; Mark Bush, Ohio River Valley Chapter; Thommy Controy, Pittsburgh Chapter; Timothy Rusterholz, Virginia-North Carolina Chapter; and myself.

Alfred Perez received fifth prize, Tawni Shuler received fourth; Will Anderson received third; and Mark Bush received second.

This year's competition in water media was judged by M. Stephen Doherty, Editor-in-Chief of American Artist magazine; artists Robert and Louise McCall; and Dr. Mel Yoakum, Director of the F. Gilot Archives. At the award banquet, Robert McCall was presented with the 2007 National Gold Medallion for his lifetime achievements. Mr. McCall is well known for his 6 story tall mural in the National Air and Space Museum, among many other career highlights.

On Friday, the other contestants and I were privileged to take part in a Master Class taught by Robert McCall and his wife, Louise McCall, who is known for her own vibrant work as well as her collaborative work with her husband. We watched a demonstration and received critiques and encouragement from the McCalls as we worked.

I sketched Mr. McCall as he worked, and he autographed the drawing.


An exhibition of the finalists' work is currently on display in the City Hall Gallery in Tempe, Arizona. The show will be traveling across the country over the coming months.

NSAL 2007 National Career Award Competition

The National Society of Arts and Letters' 2007 National Career Award Competition is taking place this weekend. An exhibition featuring the work of the finalists will be on display from May 14 to June 8 in the City Hall Gallery in Tempe, Arizona.

The Harriet Newbill Art Competition 2007

Portrait of Tess (watercolor, 23 x 23) won first prize at The National Society of Arts & Letters Washington Chapter Career Awards Competition 2007. This award, the Harriet L. Newbill 2007 prize for water media on paper, was judged by Walter Bartman, Director and Founder of The Yellow Barn, Bethesda, Maryland; Judith Brodie, Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Stephen Bennett Phillips, Curator, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and Nicholas Simmons, Artist, Washington, D.C.

The NSAL's Washington Chapter will sponsor me at the National Competition in May. Portrait of Tess will be one of 28 local chapter winners presented at the Performing Arts Center in Tempe, Arizona.
Nick Simmons represented the jurors at the reception and awards announcement today, and it was an honor to meet him! Visit his website here.

The competition was stiff and the show is beautiful. All the finalists' work will be on display through March 25 at Heineman Myers Contemporary Art in Bethesda, MD.

Sneak Peek of "Women's Work"

Julia Morelli, the Deputy Director over at Nevin Kelly Gallery, has posted some sneak peeks of the upcoming show "Women's Work" on the gallery's blog. The show opens this Wednesday, with the reception Thursday from 6-9PM. You can see some pictures of the work that will be on display, as well as the press release, here.

The Harriet Newbill Art Competition 2007

Four of my pieces (Katelynn, Megan, Portrait of Tess, and Margaret) have been selected for the National Society of Arts and Letters' Harriet Newbill Art Competition. This exhibit will take place in Heineman Myers Contemporary Art, in Bethesda, Maryland, from March 14 to March 25. The opening reception will be March 18 from 2 to 4PM.

Heineman Myers Contemporary Art
4728 Hampden Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814

Women's Work

This spring I'll be participating in a group show at Nevin Kelly Gallery in Washington, DC. Titled "Women's Work", the show will feature my work, as well as work by four other talented female artists: Molly Brose, Mary Chiaramonte, Laurel Hausler, and Abbe McGray. The show will run from March 14 to April 8, 2007, and the opening reception will be from 6-9PM on March 15.

Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 U Street NW
Washington DC 20009

The 2006 Tenth Annual International Art Competition

Two of my works - Katie Looking Down and Portrait of Katie - were selected for the 2006 Tenth Annual International Art Competition, in which I received Third Place. Juried this year by F. Lennox Campello and held at Fraser Gallery in Bethesda, the show will be up from July 14 to August 9 this summer.

The Fraser Gallery
7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E
Bethesda, MD 20814

The Jurying

I made it! I'm now juried into the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

The Newly Juried Artists Exhibition will be in Target Gallery from April 7th to April 15th. One piece from each juried artist will be on display.

Also, I have one painting hanging in the Art League Gallery (located in the Torpedo Factory Art Center) for the April all media show.
The Torpedo Factory Art Center is located at
105 N Union Street
Alexandria VA 22314


This one is on display in Target Gallery...


... and this one is in the Art League.

Lineup

Sorry it's been a while since my last post... I've been fighting a couple of nasty colds in a row this last week, so I haven't been doing much work. That and I've been busy getting things together for the Torpedo Factory Jurying. I've got eight things framed for that: Megan II, Tess I and Tess II, Margaret, Megan I, Hands With Bangles, Katie Looking Down, and the first Katie.
I can only enter six of those as my originals for the Jurying... Now that they're all framed, I'll stick them together and see how they look as a group. I doubt I'll enter the hands as an original - to small. My lineup will almost definitely include both Tesses.
Here's a picture of Tess, Megan II, and Margaret together. It's not a very good picture, but hey.


And here's the first Katie, Katie Looking Down, and the Hands with Bangles.