Art,
Work, Love and Other Basics. A panel presented by The James Renwick Alliance
Date & Time:
Tonite Friday, June 22, 2012 -8:00pm-10:00pm
Location:
Renwick Alliance Room –
11th Floor Artomatic
Art,
Work, Love and Other Basics will be presented by the JamesRenwickAlliance on June 22 at 8 PM at theJRAEducation Room,11th floor.
The moderator of the panel will be the sculptor and educator Rick Wall, and the
panelists will be Brad Taylor, DonnaMcCullough, Julia Bloom, Matt MacIntire, and Michael Janis,
recognized by the JRAfor their outstanding work.
The artists will be discussing their creative processes, the body of their
work, their interests, and their inspiration. FREE and Open to the Public.
The Art Fair is almost over - if you have not yet made it over to see the exhibits - here's another invitation!
The James Renwick Alliance will also host a reception at Artomatic on Saturday, June 2 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM in the JRA Education Room, #1106, on the 11th floor. Many of artists whose work was selected the JRA as recipients of the Award of Excellence will be at the reception - starting around 6 PM. At the Prince George’s County Parks and Recreation Room on the 3rd floor @ 7:30pm, they will announce the Department’s purchases of artwork by Prince George's County artists for the Department's permanent collection - for a bit of art excitement!
Sean Hennessey leads a tour of Sculptural Glass at Washington, DC's Artomatic Art Fair
The Washington DC Metro area has a robust sculptural glass community spearheaded by the Washington Glass School and DC Glassworks. Sean Hennessey, resident artist at the Washington Glass School will be giving tours showcasing select examples of the works coming from these studios, as well as works of other glass artists in the DC region.
Date: Sundays thru June 17, 2012
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: Meet in Lobby of Artomatic @ 1851 S. Bell Street, Crystal City, VA, 22202 (one block from Yellow Line Metro - Crystal City stop)
The James Renwick Alliance (JRA) is an independent national nonprofit organization
dedicated to advancing scholarship and education on contemporary American
craft, to supporting activities directed toward this purpose, and to
encouraging connoisseurship and collecting. The JRA
assists the SmithsonianAmerican Art Museum in adding to its
permanent collection of American craft. For over 25 years, the JRA has supported
activities and programs involving hundreds of artists, art supporters,
galleries, and partnering institutions from across the nation and around the
world. As part of their mission for the arts, the JRA are sponsors of a workshop/reception "Renwick Alliance Room" in the huge DC Arts Fair - Artomatic. Located on the 11th Floor of the festival, the JRA has planned workshops and talks throughout the month long run of the show (thru June 23).
Members of the JRA has also went thru the 10 floors of artwork - selecting their Top 10 media-based artists for their 2012 Artomatic "Award of Excellence".
Congrats to the WGS/DC Glass artists & all the artists involved in the huge event! And a big hug to the James Renwick Alliance!
The James Renwick Alliance welcomes the public to join them in a pre meet-the-artists-night reception. Mingle with other craft lovers! The JRA will be distributing maps they have created to help you find the media-based artists of Artomatic. Saturday June 2 5:00pm-7:00pm The Renwick Alliance Room, 11th floor
Artomatic is a month-long art festival in the Washington, DC area that is "by artists, for everyone." It is an unjuried arts show that features 10 floors of art by more than 1,000 artists. The artists have taken over a building in Crystal City (right at the Crystal City metro stop - yellow line). The diversity of artwork and performances attract the broadest range of people, providing a forum to come together and illustrate the energy, vitality and strength of the arts in the community.
DC area artists take over 10 floors of Arlington, VA office building
No matter what kind of creative events you like, you will find something for you at Artomatic - visual arts, music, performance, film, fashion, and more. There will be workshops, tours, art seminars and other events held there all month long.
Artists have been working to transform the mundane into into an arts space that is choc-a-bloc with treats that require discovery.
No matter what kind of creative events you like, you will find something for you at Artomatic.Sean Hennessy's mixed media artwork combines glass, concrete and LED lighting. Sean is on Level 9
From the chaos of art - a moment of sublime. Tim Tate and Pete Duvall's video installation on Level 10.
This (free to the public) show mandates that you visit more than once - there is simply too much to see and do in one visit.
Artomatic is a multi-week, multimedia arts event held in the Washington, DC area since 1999. Washington Glass School has a long relationship with the DC-area arts showcase of visual art, music, film, performance, poetry and fashion. Tim Tate's artwork at Artomatic 2000 was seen by the curator of the Smithsonian's Renwick Museum, and that show both got his work into the Museum's permanent collection, and his sales at the show provided the seed money that started the Washington Glass School. Artomatic at Tenleytown's old Hechinger's space is where Tim Tate first saw the sculpture work of Erwin Timmers and they later teamed up to start the School & Studio. Michael Janis' first showing of his glass artwork was at the glass room at Artomatic 2004, where the Washington Post's art critic Blake Gopnick slammed the show in his review "Hanging is too Good For It" - but noted about the glass: "Some of the glasswork looked all right. (Glass is such a gorgeous medium
it's hard to screw it up, and you need some basic training even to
begin to work in it.)" High praise indeed. In 2007, the show was held in Crystal City, VA, in the old Patent Office. As a result of this Artomatic, Maurine Littleton Gallery began showing Michael's artwork.
Photographer Tracy Lee captured the essence of the Artomatic mystery.
At that Artomatic, drama ensued after Tim Tate's artwork "The Rapture" disappeared under mysterious circumstances. After the Washington Post "Reliable Source"reportedthe disappearance of the artwork, and newspaper reporter Amy Argetsiner, was sent a ransom demand ($10,000 in monopoly money) from someone named "The
Collector " - along with a "proof of life" photo of the
rocket from the artwork in front of the previous day's newspaper. The reporter went to the late night ransom drop in a city park and tried to catch the perpetrator as it all went down. In the next day Washington Post, the story was almost full front page of the Style section, along with their prime suspects.
The Artomatic ransom note sent to the Washington Post's Reliable Source
The Post cast dispersions (along with thumbnail mug shots) onto : "Tim Tateglass sculptor, original
victim
Why him?: With a well-known
flair for publicity, Tate was suspected by many at Artomatic of faking his own
sculpture's disappearance.
He says:"I categorically
deny it."
Alibi: Tate was by our side
when we met The Collector at the ransom drop last year, so unless he's part of
a broader conspiracy . . .
Michael Janisglass sculptor, friend of
Tate's
Why him?: Artomatic gossips
theorize that Tate's Washington
Glass School
colleague may have helped pull off the stunt.
He says:"I'm denying
any kind of involvement."
Alibi:"Michael is too
serious" for pranks, says DCArtNews blogger Lenny Campello.
Jesse Cohen art photographer, overseer
of the Artdc.org forum
Why him?: Like the author of
The Collector's manifestos, a big booster of the local arts scene; resembles
the man at the ransom drop (young white guy, dark hair).
He says:"No . . . I
thought it was really crappy of anyone [to take Tate's art]."
Alibi: Skinnier than the man
we saw.
Kirk Waldroff printmaker and glass artist,
colleague of Tate 's
Why him?: Has The
Collector's build, coloring; his voice mail sounds like the man we talked to on
the phone; Tate is a little too insistent that Waldroff can't be The Collector.
He says:[In a voice mail
message] "No, I'm not The Collector"; says he'd be glad to talk more
but he's leaving town in a few minutes. (Hmm, getting too hot around here?)
Alibi:"He seems too
cool to be pulling stuff like that," says a fellow artist. "He's in a
band.""
Tim Tate created a new sculpture from the returned component, and the work was auctioned for the benefit of Artomatic.
Tim Tate later
created a new sculpture made from the remains of the old, and it was auctioned for the benefit of Artomatic; the drama of "The Collector" was never solved.
UK artist Stephen Reveley's fused glass, photo by Caroline Angelo
In 2009 the Artomatic was held at a new building near the new Nationals Baseball Statdium near Navy Yard Metro. This exhibition featured many glass artists from England. That year the Sunderland City Council had sponsored artists represented by Creative Cohesionto show glass, ceramics, paintings, bands and more, as part of the Sunderland, UK / Washington, DC Sister City agreement.
Artomatic 2012 is set to open May 18 - who knows what will be the result of this year's show!
Have a look a the great video made by 2012 Artomatic :
Registration is now open for artists and performers to display work at Artomatic, the DC area's biggest free arts festival!
Artists, performers, filmmakers, and creatives of all types may now register to participate in Artomatic at www.artomatic.org.
With no criteria to participate, anyone can show art at Artomatic. Exhibit space is allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. At our last event in 2009, Artomatic attracted more than 76,000 visitors to see work by more than 1,200 artists, as well as 600 performances. This year, we expect to attract more visitors than ever before.
"We are very excited for this year's artists to exhibit at Artomatic," says Barry Schmetter, Artomatic's Event Director. "It's always amazing to see the variety of work displayed by our artists and performers, and exciting to see how much our visitors enjoy discovering new art."
To register, and for more information about the festival, visit
(It may take a bit to get thru - the number of artists rushing to the site had overwhelmed the server on the first night - but there are plenty of spaces!)
Artomatic returns to Crystal City in 2012 for our signature free arts event, to be held in the biggest Artomatic building ever, from May 18 - June 24.
Artomatic will partner with the Crystal City Business Improvement District (BID) to transform the Transwestern Presidential Tower at 2511 S. Clark St. in Crystal City into a vibrant arts community that celebrates creativity and creates a unique and exciting event for tens of thousands of visitors - all free to visit.
Registration information to exhibit work at Artomatic will be available soon. To get the latest updates, keep an eye on your email, and subscribe to Artomatic by Facebook, or Twitter.
