April 16, 2015
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Join Us TONIGHT to Celebrate Our Members and the Launch of Our 2015-2016 WPA Artist Directory!


Its Here! WPA is happy to announce the launch of its 2015-2016 WPA Artist DirectoryTo celebrate the launch, we are throwing a Party! Join us TONIGHT from 6-9pm in the lounge at the Capitol Skyline Hotel for a Happy Hour celebrating our Members and the launch of the directory.

 

Bring your friends, mingle with other members, celebrate spring, and pick up or purchase your copy of the Directory! 

 

Purchase Your Copy Today
 

ABOUT THE 2015-2016 WPA ARTIST DIRECTORY

Published by East City Art Media and printed in the United States, WPA's full-color, fully-illustrated WPA Artist Directory is the definitive guide to established, emerging, and mid-career contemporary artists throughout the region. Used by curators, art advisors, collectors, artists, editors, designers, and people with an interest in the arts, our bi-annual print directory is the primary resource for access to art and artists in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

The 2015-2016 WPA Artist Directory is available for purchase on our Online Store or can be purchased/pick-up at our office at the Capitol Skyline Hotel. 


WPA Members Write About Their Work and Process


 

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 HeldenComplementary 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 third artist featured is Silvie Van Helden and her article "The Ungrounded Course."

 

A year ago I quit my job as a full time art teacher to focus more on being an artist.

 

I had been working as a full time art teacher at the high school level for ten years. Prior to that I was an adjunct art professor, and I had stopped being a part time professor to take a full-time job with benefits. I was motivated to reverse course and again focus on art making after my brother's death in September 2013. His death was un-grounding for me, and I've been finding recovery in the studio...


Did You Miss the TechShop Experience Tour?

WPA members learning about the equipment and opportunites available at TechShop DC-Arlington during our Professional Practices: TechShop Experience Tour. More photos on our Facebook page and website.

 

WPA recently announced that we have added TechShop DC Arlington to our growing list of partnering regional businesses and arts-oriented retailers that offer special discounts exclusively to WPA members!


 

TechShop DC-Arlington is a membership based do-it-yourself workspace. Part fabrication and prototyping studio, part hackerspace and part learning center, TechShop offers artists, hobbyists, entrepreneurs, tinkerers, crafters, scientists, and students of all ages and skill levels access to over $1 million worth of professional equipment including laser cutters, plastics and electronics labs, a machine shop, a wood shop, a metal working shop, a textiles department, welding stations, and a waterjet cutter. TechShop members are provided open access to design software, featuring the entire Autodesk Design Suite. Huge project areas with large work tables are also available for completing projects and collaborating with others. 

 

As a membership discount partner, WPA members receive special discounted pricing on TechShop membership!

 

WPA member artists Interested in learning more about TechShop or seeing what the facilities are encouraged to arrange a tour. TechShop offers free tours every day of the week between noon and 9PM! Just stop in at TechShop's DC-Arlington location at 2110-B Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202 one of the friendly staff members will show you around the facility, describe what TechShop is all about, and answer any questions you may have about the shop.

 

More information about TechShop can be found at http://www.techshop.ws.

 

If you would like to learn more about WPA/TechShop Member Benefit Pricing or other WPA Membership Benefits or to Become a Member, please email Membership Director Jeremy Flick at [email protected].
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Do you know other artists who would benefit from the services WPA provides but they are not yet a member? If the answer is YES, encourage them to become a WPA member. 

 

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EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
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Saturday, April 25, 2015, 1-4pm

Community Engagement Workshop with Nina Simon

Artisphere, Dome Theatre
1100 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22209

Join Nina Simon, the internationally-recognized expert on active community participation in cultural institutions, for a FREE workshop designed to give you the tools to connect with arts audiences and unlikely community partners in effective, meaningful and lasting ways.



May 7 - June 20, 2015

Hothouse Video: Amy Finkelstein

Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 7, 2015, 6-8pm

Washington Project for the Arts presents Hothouse Video: Amy Finkelstein.  The exhibition is the first solo exhibition of Amy Finkelstein's film works which have been made over the course of ten years and include stop-motion animations, unedited shorts, and documentations of abstract form. 




May 7 - June 20, 2015

 


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. 




March 18 - May 3, 2015

Hothouse Video: Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker

WPA presents renowned Panamanian video artists, Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker, for their first solo exhibition in Washington, DC.

 

 

 


February 5 - April 24, 2015

Lobby Project: Erin Curtis

WPA Presents Diamond Landscape, a Dynamic New Installation by Erin Curtis

Diamond Landscape is a 6 foot x 21 foot installation of 126 brightly-colored, one-foot-square birch panels that are assembled to form a cohesive abstract geometric work. 

 

 

 

February 2 - Extended through July 31, 2015

 

 

WPA presents a new work by DC-based artist Avi Gupta for the third and final installation of its South Capitol Skyscape series.




MEET A MEMBER 
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Yayo Tavolara

Yayo Tavolara Destination: Otherness, digital photgraphy.

My work is a representation of individual and personal reality in relation to contemporary daily living and behavior of society. It is a constant research through different techniques and materials, such as painting, video art, photography, installations, performance, sculpture and mixed- media. This allows me to keep my work innovative in every new production.


Personally, I do not relate to decorative art; I think Art should go beyond the form itself. The work of art should not be a representation of something but the space for a new interpretation or meditations of personal experiences as a viewer...


For me, moving on in life is like healing wounds. Organs and inner structures are analog to everyday?s emotional life. My background in Medicine showed me a deep relationship between emotions and physical human physiology. Now, as an artist I am trying to find the connection between both of them creating a language that talks about emotions through corporeal and organic visual effects... 

 
- Yayo Tavolara

 


MEMBER NEWS
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We want to share YOUR News! If you are a WPA Member and have an exhibition or piece of news you want us to share, you can submit via our Newsletter Item Submission Form.  

 

SELECT WPA MEMBER NEWS:

 

Felix Angel and Marta Gutierrez were recently featured on elmundo.com
 

 

SELECT WPA MEMBER EXHIBITIONS:

 

Openings:

 

Felix Angel and Marta Gutierrez at All We Art and Adah Rose Gallery on April 16 - May 24

 

David Carlson at McLean Project for the Arts on April 16 - May 30

 

Cianne Fragione at Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery on April 17 - May 29

 

Zofie Lang at NVCC Margaret W. & Joseph L. Fisher Gallery on April 18 - May 17

 

Kate Kretz, Dan Perkins, Paul Shortt, and Bridget Sue Lambert at Arlington Arts Center on April 18 - June 28

 

David Brown at VisArts on April 24 - May 24 and Goya Contemporary on May 20 - July 18

 

Alex Tolstoy at Foundry Gallery on April 29 - May 31

 

Jennifer Barlow at Park View Gallery on May 2 - May 31

 

Brian Feldman at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (Orlando, FL), Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC), and LOVE Park (Philadelphia, PA) on May 10

 

Phyllis Jaffe at Strathmore Mansion Gallery on June 6 - July 26

 

 

Ongoing: 

 

Richard Paul Weiblinger at Washington Artworks Gallery through April 27, and Art at Penn Place through May 3

 

Stephen Schiff at Off Rhode Gallery through April 17  

 

Helen Zughaib at Arab American Museum through April 19

 

MG Stout at Northern Virginia Community College through April 17

 

Monika Stroik at Artisphere through April 24 

 

Stephen Estrada at BlackRock Center for the Arts through April 25

 

Anna Fine Foer, Ruth Pettus, Judith Pratt, Marie Ringwald, Sylvie Van Helden, and Leda Black at Hillyer Art Space through April 25 

 

Margery E. Goldberg, Joan Konkel, Donna McCullough, and Lynda Smith-Bugge at Zenith Gallery through April 26

 

Michael Lang at Touchstone Gallery through April 26

 

Joan Belmar at Busboys and Poets through April 30

 

Andrea Collins at Spitzer Art Center through April 30 

 

Cynthia Bickley-Green at b.j. spoke gallery through April 30

 

Rujunko Pugh at Dominik Mersch Gallery through May 2

 

Jonathan Monaghan at bitforms gallery through May 3

 

Sondra Arkin and Eve Stockton at Long View Gallery through May 3 

 

Freya Grand at gallery plan b through May 3

 

Tomomi Nitta curated by Cory Oberndorfer at Montgomery College's King Street Gallery through May 9

 

Will Schneider-White and Dane Winkler at Hamiltonian Gallery through May 9

 

H. K. Anne at Workhouse Arts Center through May 10

 

Lucinda Friendly Murphy at GCDC through May 15

 

Stephen Schiff at Delaplaine Visual Arts Center through May 17

 

Pattee hipschen at Current Reflections Fine Art Gallery through May 31

 

Arlette Jassel at Strathmore Mansion Gallery through May 31

 

Brian Feldman at American Poetry Museum at The Center for Poetic Thought through December 27 (Sundays)

 

Howard and Mary McCoy at Robert E. Lee Park through December 31


MEMBER OPPORTUNITIES
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We want to provide our Members with Resources to help them further their careers.  We are always updating our Member Opportunities page for our Artist Members to find the latest Calls and Opportunities. Log into your account on our the WPA Website to view current listings.

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