Meeting: WCA/DC March Planning Meeting

MARCH PLANNING MEETING

March 12, 9:30-12:30 2011
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20920

Please bring a snack or dish. You can RSVP to Cindyart1@yahoo.com

Member News: Bonnie MacAllister

WCA/Philadelphia
Green Light Arts

She Should Have Written It: A Story of Bohemian Surveillance

Date: March 12
Time: 7 pm
Location: Shubin Theatre
407 Bainbridge Street

Multimedia Performance and works by Bonnie MacAllister

Featuring the one act play, She Should Have Written It: A Story of Bohemian Surveillance

Starring:
Celeste Walker as Enyo
Maleka Fruean as Druka

A fundraiser for Green Light Arts
Featuring trunk sales by independent craft merchants.

http://greenlightarts.org/

Member Event: A Woman Like That

March 5, 1pm
A Woman Like That
National Gallery of Art
East Building Concourse, Auditorium

Explores the life and work of 17th Century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. RSVP Barbara Wolanin at bwolanin@comcast.net

Opportunities: Artists' Gallery and Cocoran

10th Annual Box Show and Silent Auction.
The Artists' Gallery
4 Eash Church Street
Frederick, MD
Opening Reception, Saturday, March 5, 5-9p.m
240.446.1094 gallery phone

This show is open to anyone, so consider participating next year. Participants get an 8" square plywood box and use it to create whatever you like. The auction goes on all month.

Gallery website is www.the-artist-gallery.org

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Business and Professional Women
WOMEN IN ART AT THE CORCORAN

Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Corcoran Gallery of Art

11:30 a.m. Networking
12 p.m. Luncheon with Remarks
1 p.m. Exhibition Open for Viewing

In honor of Women's History Month, this luncheon's program focuses on females in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Explore images of women as well as works created by female artists in the collection. Network with other area businesswomen and fellow art lovers, while hearing from Linda Powell, the Corcoran's director of interpretation.

Seating is limited for your enjoyment and will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is required by Thursday, March 10; no walk-ins permitted. Refunds are not permitted. NOTE: For ticket-holders who cancel by March 7, a receipt reflecting full tax-deductibility can be issued.

BPW members $35/ non members $50
go to www.Corcoran.org for more information.

Member News: Cynthia Farrell Johnson

Artist in Residence - Wesley Theological Seminary - Luce Center for the Arts & Religion
http://www.wesleyseminary.edu/lcar.aspx

Current Exhibition:
The Shape of Things to Come: A Creative Collaboration
Encore Reception - Sunday, March 13 (2 - 4 PM)
Sandy Spring Museum, January 5 - March 27, 2011
http://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/
Read The Gazette Article on The Shape of Things to Come:
http://www.gazette.net/stories/01262011/entemon105350_32534.php

C. Farrell Johnson Fine Arts LLC products are available at
ArtSpring/Pyramid Atlantic Community Arts Store & Gallery
821 Wayne Avenue (across from the Whole Foods exit)
Silver Spring, MD 20910
http://www.artspringsilverspring.com/

cfjfinearts@verizon.net or
cyn@cfjfinearts.com
www.cfjfinearts.com

Featured Member Artist: HIRO

images copyright (c) HIRO 2011
http://www.hiro-artist.com/

The Artist

HIRO is a visual and performance artist who combines her American experience with her Japanese cultural heritage to create artworks based on East-West cross-cultural themes. Her paintings concern many issues that impacted her life: identity and the community, cultural diversity, civil rights/justice and politics, cities, environment and technology, figure-in-motion and kinetics, self identity and community. In addition she has developed painting series with titles such as Portrait Biography, East-West Dialogue, Life Cycle, Constellation and Calligraphic Imagery. She curates Asian Pacific American and Cultural Diversity Exhibitons. Using expressionistic brushstroke methodology, HIRO demonstrates and conducts hands-on Creativity Painting Workshops and gives PowerPoint programs on her art and related topics including: diversity, identity, civil right/justice issues, the workplace, goals in education and occupations, and other issues.

The most personal and heartfelt of HIRO's art are two major acrylic on silk paintings, “SADA MEMORIES: Thoughts on Justice” and “Justice For All.” Both paintings were in the Smithsonian Exhibition, “A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution” at the National Museum of American History, 1987-2005, Washington, D.C. These works are a part of the 35-painting series entitled, “KIMONO AND BARBED WIRE: Breaking Barriers,” which have been exhibited nationally and internationally.

From her childhood fascination with the lights of the cities, HIRO's earliest crayon drawings featured the glitter of buildings, cars, and street lights depicted in broad brushstrokes of colors. Her “City Lights” series of artworks grew from this inspiration. In New York, HIRO began working on a series of Manhattan skyline paintings, then added other cities she had lived in or traveled to across the United States and overseas: Washington, D.C., Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, et al. The crowning joy came years later upon having been invited to the press opening topping-off ceremony of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center upon the completion of the elevator shaft to the rooftop. What a glorious sight to view the vast expanse of New York Bay from cloud level. From Soho she first noticed two towers rising up beyond the skyline during the construction period (1966–1973). Amazed at the sight, she quickly researched the World Trade Center project to discover that the architect was Minoru Yamasaki.

All of HIRO's New York series of artworks were painted before “9/11” except for one — which was finally completed after the terrorist attack. In the triptych painting “Before and After 9/11/2001,” she has an “ARROW” pointing up (third panel), to represent the construction of a “NEW” World Trade Center. These Manhattan paintings are in tribute to the beauty of the New York skyline before 9/11/2001, but also to mark the beginning of the “NEW.”

Exhibit Recap: Delaplaine Opening

THE WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART OF GREATER WASHINGTON, DC EXHIBIT (November 6 - November 27, 2010) RECEPTION SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2010 3P.M. - 5P.M. AT THE DELAPLAINE VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION CENTER