HOME (Hillyer Open Mic Event)

Join us at Hillyer Art Space this Friday, March 19th for our monthly poetry event, HOME.

Featuring: the Smart Chicks, Inc.
Sponsored by Soho Tea & Coffee

Sign up starts at 6pm and performances will begin at 7pm.

HOME is free for IA&A Members and for performers and $5 for non-members

Smart Chicks, Inc., based in Baltimore, MD, is a national membership organization comprised of independent female artists. Their mission is to advance women's visibility and leadership in the arts by providing independent artists and communities with an alternative series of performance and visual arts events and services. Across the country, the artists and non-artists who support Smart Chicks, Inc. are also teachers, corporate professionals, and grassroots leaders who embody the same values- Ambition, Brains, and Candor. They are the muscle behind the Revenge of the Smart Chicks movement, a reminder that the smartest chicks out there are the ones who make the daily, smart decision to be authentic. What decision will you make today?



Funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

V.O.I.C.E.S @ H I L L Y E R

March at Studio Gallery

Upstairs Gallery:
Bud Hensgen "Mindful of Morandi: An Exploration"
**50% of artist's proceeds for "Mindful of Morandi" will be donated to Haiti through Doctors without Borders













Downstairs Gallery:
Duo Show:
Harriet Lesser, "Geometry of Hong Kong"












Joyce McCarten "Sonia and Moonpie"











Third Floor:
"Carte Blanche" : Work by Members of Studiio Gallery in a Rotating Exhibit

First Friday Reception: March 5, 6-8 pm.
Artist Receptions: Friday March 12 6-8p.m. and Saturday March 20 3-5 p.m.

Studio Gallery 2108 R. St NW, Dupont Circle
www.studiogallerydc.com
202-232-8734
Studio Gallery is located in a beautiful brownstone in Historic Dupont Circle. The gallery features unique outdoor sculpture and is available for rental. The Gallery represents over 35 International artists residing in the metropolitan Washington area.

My Kurdistan: Paintings of Kurdish Life at Foundry Gallery

Paintings featured in the exhibition range from the well known and leading artists to emerging artists who are just now gaining recognition. The exhibit features Falah Shwan and six other artists: Raouf Hasan, Jamal Mushir, Hekmat Hndi, Sardar Kestai, Kurdo Hasan, Jawhar Mohamad. The show is sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government Office in the District of Columbia.

The exhibition opens March 3 and runs through March 28, 2010.
Opening reception: March 5 from 6-8 p.m.

Hours: Wed – Fri, 1-7 pm; Sat – Sun 12-6pm.

Foundry members showing in Gallery 2.

1314 18th Street NW, Washington, DC

March First Friday at Hillyer Art Space

Join us for First Friday at Hillyer Art Space this Friday, March 5th from 6:00-9:00pm to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions- Laborious Futility by Elena Patino and Purge/Deluge by Kate Kretz.

Free food and drink will be provided as well as music by artist Matthew Hemerlein.

$5 suggested donation altough any support is greatly appreciated!

Laborious Futility by Elena Patino
The accumulative processes used in the making of Patino's pieces make reference to a variety of different aspects of the human condition. Labor, migration, and consumption are all subtly examined through her obsessively replicative methods of construction and systems of assemblage.
Laborious Futility adapts from Patino's previous engagements in the construction of organic structures based on repitition with a strong connection to fiber arts. While not always made with fiber materials, the work borrows from the pliable quality of textiles.

Purge/Deluge by Kate Kretz
This show will feature an assortment of Kretz's multi-media work's ranging from drawings and paintings on paper to embroidery and fabric works. Focusing on the heaviness of day-to-day existence and her experiences with individuals whose lives' visible weight impacts her to the point of creative refuge, Kretz seeks to honor the fragility common to every human across continents and centuries.
Her highly crafted work is created in defiance of the virtual and disposable, and despite acknowledging there's a contemporary disinterest in detail-oriented modes of production. Kretz finds physical and emotional through her handiwork, a sort of catharsis for overwhelming interactions in life.



Funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

International Arts & Artists (IA&A) is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally.
Check out our website at www.artsandartists.org/hillyer.html for more information!

Abstraction/Representation: A Georgia O'Keeffe Art Workshop

March 25, 6-8 p.m. Georgia O'Keeffe, Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, 1930. Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington Instructors from Washington Studio School lead a gallery discussion of Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction, considering the artist's use of natural objects as a point of departure for her abstractions. Participants then explore their own artistic responses to O'Keeffe's work. All experience levels welcome. In collaboration with Washington Studio School. General $35; members $25, Patrons and Circle Members free. Registration is required: www.phillipscollection.org/calendar. All information regarding this event and for registration please contact: The Phillips Collection 1600 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 202-387-2151 ______________________________________________________________________

2129 S Street NW Washington, DC 20008 202.234.3030 admin@washingtonstudioschool.org www.washingtonstudioschool.org Located a few blocks North of the Dupont Circle Metro Station. ______________________________________________________________________

Washington Studio School announces Certificate Student Graduation Exhibition featuring artist Sally Levie.

Please join us, Friday, March 12, 2010, 6-8pm.
This is a free event. RSVP NOT REQUIRED.


Sally Levie, now a graduate of the Certificate Program at Washington Studio School, holds a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from the University of California at San Diego and a Masters in Education Degree from California State at San Jose. She served as the Chairman of the Art Department at Blessed Sacrament School in Washington, DC for 22 of the 30 years she has spent teaching art to children. For the past three years at Washington Studio School, Sally has pursued a Certificate in Painting. Sally's work has been exhibited at the University of California at San Diego; 222 Gallery, Leesburg, Virginia; Bethesda Community Center; Corcoran School of Art; The Washington Art League and Washington Studio School.

Artist Statement: My work draws heavily on observation and a direct response to images in the natural world. My overall objective is to rearrange reality in my work to attract the eye and provoke the imagination of the viewer. I like to take known objects and reconstruct them - remake them - to interpret shapes and colors. It is my goal to focus on the junctures in the geometry of objects to punctuate my interpretations and memory of the subject using small, moving, glistening areas against larger masses of color. I paint using the relationships between colors, as well as the texture of the media, particularly the malleable thickness of oils and washes, to build up the surface and to define form. My work has been inspired by well known artists throughout history, especially the artists Diebenkorn, DeStahl, Redon, Klimt and Bonnard as well as the jewel like qualities in Celtic art.

About Us: Washington Studio School, conveniently located near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., is a community of artists and art students dedicated to the practice of visual art. Washington Studio School offers a range of non-degree classes as well as an advanced graduate level certificate program. Classes in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking emphasize working from life and are offered to adults and high school students. In addition to its regular schedule of classes, the school provides a variety of lectures and exhibitions of work by students and faculty.

About the Program: The Certificate Program provides students with a structured course of study designed to advance a student's ability and comprehension and equip graduates with an applicable mastery of the visual language. Intensive studio classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, and related subjects are supported by seminars in history, theory, and critique. Our Certificate Program is directed to those whose primary goal is the making of art. Each Certificate Student who graduates from the program has his/her own solo exhibition in the school gallery.



Washington Studio School
2129 S Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
202.234.3030
admin@washingtonstudioschool.org
www.washingtonstudioschool.org
Located a few blocks North of the Dupont Circle Metro Station