Jamie Downs, Visual Artist

New Mixed Media Painting

jamiedowns — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:21:13 +0000

New Work

Oneness Series

jamiedowns — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:19:38 +0000

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jamiedowns — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:27:06 +0000

Some of my newer work is mixed media with encaustic on paper with silk. Some of the encaustic elements are under the silk and some are added after the silk has been applied to the surface. In places the silk is cut away to expose the mixed media work beneath.

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

jamiedowns — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:11:20 +0000

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

Still working on Harriton Carved Glass

jamiedowns — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:37:37 +0000

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?

New Work

jamiedowns — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:18:24 +0000

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

A Family of Artists

jamiedowns — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:48:50 +0000

At some point in the near future, (I DID IT. CHECK OUT THE PAGE LINK ABOVE. THE BOOK- “ARTS AND SOCIAL SERVICES: SEVEN YEARS IN THE LIFE OF A FAMILY OF ARTISTS” IS POSTED. I STILL NEED TO UPLOAD A COUPLE OF THE CHARTS )I will be adding information about the art center that I ran for ten years called A Family of Artists. A Family of Artists was an all purpose art center and 501c3 Arts Service Organization. Though we had gallery shows, general art classes of all kinds, a gift shop, and even a teen night club called The Gate, A Family of Artists and its sister organization, A Family of Artists: The Works, were known, primarily, for their summer camps, after school programs and arts alternative school, mainstreaming at risk kids, sent from social service agencies and psychiatrists and employing 28 staff members, mostly artists, paid by Medicaid funds – a first I’m told. At its height, A Family of Artists: The Works was housed in a 10,000 sq ft warehouse building with a gallery, ceramics and woodworking studio, computer art and computer music labs, a writing lab and library, visual arts studios, photography and papermaking studios, metal sculpture studio and more. The programs were highly multicultural and children sent from agencies could remain annonomous, being, in most cases, indistinguishable from children attending from the general public. This program was a major success, financially (at the end, bringing in 18,000/week in service fees until funds were cut), but more importantly, a success for families and participants who were overwhelmingly pleased with the program, until it was surprisingly defunded by medicaid cuts in 1996 – though the arts alternative school remained until 1997. There are many hours of videotape and many written accounts already available and some will be posted as an educational tool. A book, The Arts and Social Service: Seven Years in the History of A Family of Artists was published in 1994 by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania and it will be available on line along with updates detailing the final three years. This book tells the story of the beginnings of A Family of Artists when it was a labor of love, funded by The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Talbot Hall Foundation of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, PA., The Deutsh Institute and mostly by Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Planning Council.

A Family of Artists and A Family of Artists: The Works were social service providers and experienced stunning success. They were extremely rewarding for the remarkable artists who gave themselves to this endeavor and life saving for numerous children. These programs could serve as a model for others who wish to use the arts to reach at risk children through the arts. I look forward to offering here as much information as possible to help others pursue this rewarding adventure in their own communities. I will post testimonies from many of those who were touched by this amazing organization and encourage anyone with first hand knowledge, who happens upon this site, to join in. For now you can find a short video at http:/abstractart.hypermart.net

Click on arts administration.

jamiedowns — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:47:11 +0000

Harriton Carved Glass

jamiedowns — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:56:32 +0000

I’m working on a web site on Harriton Carved Glass, a company started in the 20′s in NYC by David Harriton. Harriton is the father-in-law/grandfather of friends. The web site will be up soon. Come back and see a link.