This Spring, WPA will mount the next installment in its Hothouse exhibition series at the Capitol Skyline Hotel, Hothouse: ImPRINT. The Hothouse exhibition series was created as a way to provide new opportunities for WPA member artists and to forge new connections within DC's creative communities.

Juried by Robert Bettman, Hothouse: ImPRINT highlights the creative work of WPA member artists Damon Arhos, Fallon Chase, Michael Fischerkeller, Jennifer Pizzillo, Maryanne Pollock, Rebecca Silberman, and Sylvie van Helden. Complementary to and enhancing the exhibition experience, each participating artist will publish articles in the arts magazine Bourgeon about their own work and creative process.  

In the weeks leading up to the May 7 exhibition opening we will be highlighting each of the participating artists and sharing their personal writing about their work and creative process. The second artist featured is Rebecca Silberman and her article "Modern Music Boxes."

...One of my most cherished possessions is a small, old, glass-domed music box. Inside the box is a captive little ballerina who performs a sleepy dance of jumps and turns to the mechanical tune of the music box, which is concealed under a palm-sized round stage. When I was a child part of the allure of this novelty was that it belonged to my sister. This did not stop me from trying to smash it open by pounding it against the floor when I was three years old. The dome, which is now cloudy with age, also bears the bruises and splits from my later attempts to liberate the delicate and perfect little human serenely trapped inside. Years later my sister allowed me to take possession of our childhood prize and to this day I am fascinated and delighted by it. Many influences have led me to the work I'm creating now, but the uncanny anima of this particular treasure has never faded for me. I hope to create something that will make the viewer wild with the kind of fascination and longing my childhood music box inspired in me. I'm currently on my fifth try, and each box is inspired by a piece of music...
 

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