Check out the Obama Party in Silver Spring

Cheryl Edwards gave me this link. She is featured on the video. Check it out. <embed src=”http://blip.tv/play/Ac7+A46WCA” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”640″ height=”390″ allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”></embed> This is the link. I have not figured out how to embed it. I’m working on it.

Brookside Show Over – New Show at Willow Street Gallery in November

I will be showing in The Willow Street for the first few weeks in November.

More to come…. Julio Valdez will follow me for the last few weeks in November – That will be exciting.

The Willow Street Gallery is located at A.Salon, 6925 Willow St. NW, Washington, DC

About 2 blocks from the Takoma Metro.

Brookside Garden’s Show Aug. 16th to Oct. 10

Here are some of the pieces that will most likely be in my show at Brookside Gardens.

Some will be mixed media paintings, some giclees, some digital images…

Brookside Gardens is located at 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton, MD. 20902\hours are Monday – Saturday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Directions:

From I 495, The Capital Beltway, take Exit 31A ( north on Georgia Ave./Rt.97) toward Wheaton. Drive three miles north on Georgia Avenue to Randolph Road and turn right. At the second traffic light, turn right onto Glenallan Ave.

www.BrooksideGardens.org

Zoya took A.Salon by Storm

The local tornado touch downs were nothing compared to the commotion and energy Zoya brought to A.Salon this month. As a visiting artist from Belarus, in just two months, Zoya created more works than could be counted for her shows at The United Nations and at The Willow Street Gallery. There were the wonderful car windshields, but also, icons, flowers, whimsy and over one hundred fanciful bottles of that fantastic Petite Bistro wine – now emptied and adorned with Gieshas and shells and candles….

Mondano, a DC non-profit, teamed up with A.Salon to make this happen. This group of young activists are working to change the world, one person at a time, with their fund raising for victims of Chernobyl and educational projects. This is the first of numerous collaborations with A.Salon, I’m sure. The work will be in the Willow Street Gallery through the first week in July.

Here is some of Zoya’s work and the press release:

ZOYA www.mondano.net www.asalondc.org

PRESS RELEASE

WHAT: An innovative art project ZOYA showcases contemporary art from Belarus at The Willow Street Gallery and aims to establish art programs for young people in Chernobyl-affected areas.

WHERE: The Willow Street Gallery, 6925 Willow Street NW • (Takoma Park) Washington, DC 20012

WHEN: June 6, 2008, 7-9PM

Mondano and A.Salon proudly present ZOYA – an exhibition of new work by Zoya Lucevich, one of the most exciting contemporary artists in Belarus. The unique mixed media pieces are intriguing and rich creations on auto windshields, along with her paintings on canvas and solid wood – produced entirely during her stay in Washington DC.

ZOYA (means LIFE in Greek) is a living art project that brought this talented contemporary artist from the capital of Belarus to the capital of the United States to work in a studio and create new art pieces from scratch.

Coming from the land of Marc Chagall, Zoya reflects her impressions of America as well as projects her unique artistic and national identity through her colorful art pieces that blend tradition and modernism.

The ZOYA project is also a grass-roots collaboration with the Chernobyl’s Children Project International to help establish arts programs for young people in Chernobyl-affected areas.

This project is conceived and organized by Mondano (’world citizen’),
a nonprofit group based in Washington DC in cooperation with A.Salon, a nonprofit organization that has been providing affordable studios to artists in the DC metropolitan area for over 20 years.

To request more information and/or schedule interviews with project coordinators and participants please contact mail@mondano.net

Ben Kenney’s new video

Ben is a real sweat-heart of a guy. I met him before he became famous – Roots, Incubus… He’s a good friend of Stirling’s. Back when he recorded on Stirling’s label, ( Stirling Records of course) he was Supergrub.

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Sharon Farmer’s show was great

Gloria Kirk shot this while I was talking to Sharon Farmer at her wonderful show, Proactive Women, at the Sewall Belmont House and Museum, 144 Constitution Ave, NE . The show took me back to my photojournalist head, though, central Pennsylvania and suburban Philadelphia are certainly different from Washington DC, let alone the Whitehouse. Her eye is fantastic and she is particularly sensitive to hands. The hands tell the story in almost all of her photos. Sharon is a warm and open person, and that warmth is evident in her subject matter… the humor of private moments in the Whitehouse…women in the midst of passionate political action…average Americans gathering for patriotic celebrations….

I hope you get a chance to check out the show. You can always see her work on line. Just google her name – there are lots of links.

Still working on Harriton Carved Glass

We spent the last few days with Lynn Harriton. She brought an actual copy of the earliest catalog so I will be updating the photos soon. The old zeroxed images were so bad….

Also we found some new leads and images. We could not find an image on the web of the glass with fishes made famous in The Godfather…”Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes”… Looking for it was enough to give me nightmares of my own final season of The Sopranos.

This is a big project…looking for information and collecting images, and then boiling it down and putting it on a site that is worthy of the Harriton aesthetic.

If anyone has ideas, links, images of suggestions, they are certainly welcome.

Howard L . Chaney created this design for Harriton Carved Glass. It was to be at National Airport, but was not executed. The piece is gouache on board, 18.5 x 30 and done in 1940. It is a beauty isn’t it?

Sharon Farmer Exhibit Tonight

Sharon Farmer, official White House photographer for the Clinton administration, will open her show, “Pro-Active Women”  this evening, February 19, 2008 from 6:30 – 8:30 at the Sewall Belmont House and Museum, 144 Constitution Ave, NE, next to the Hart Administration Building. The show “is a declarative statement on the politics, creativity, evolution, and persistence of women to make a better world.” You can view the exhibit during museum hours through May 31, 2008

The building is amazing and a suitable environment for Sharon’s work. 

Pinko Magazine

you have to check out Stirling’s new magazine which he puts together with his friend Ben Wyskida in their spare time between their jobs and of course the one year old.

Stirling McLaughlin – Creative Director
Stirling McLaughlin is an Art Director, Designer and Illustrator in New York City. Stirling has a baby girl named Nika Bean, and a wife named Dawn. When he was in college, they put him on TV because he wore a mask and yelled at people. Recently he has been working on a reality show about himself that will be starting… any day now.

Ben Wyskida – Editor in Chief
Ben Wyskida is a writer, activist, conscientious hedonist and political communications strategist living in Brooklyn. Formerly a co-conspirator at Philadelphia’s design firm for the people, Design for Social Impact, and then the Communications Director at Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Ben is now Publicity Director for the Nation Magazine. Ben’s work has been published in Mother Jones, Yes Magazine, Fret Magazine and others. Ben has a remarkable gift for writing in the third person only when appropriate. -

This is my favorite post to their magazine lately.

You could take this two ways right?

New Work

Here is some of my new work. I’m having a lot of fun with mixed media and paper. I’m thinking of embedding these in Envirotec . I haven’t decided yet.

Check out Eleanor Clarkson’s work on our other site www.thedigitalfolklife.org. It’s on the Peace page – a show in Stroudsburg, PA just before the war started. Eleanor is a master of Envirotec

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