Planning proceeds apace for SW ArtsFest 2013. Our annual neighborhood arts festival this year will have the theme “Breaking New Ground.” Theme 2013 takes its inspiration from ongoing neighborhood redevelopment. The old EPA towers have already experienced extensive renovation. This year will see groundbreaking on the waterfront and on 4th […]
SW ArtsFest 2013 Scheduled for September 28
SW ArtsFest has big plans for 2013. SW ArtsFest 2012 saw a huge attendance increase over 2011. Highlights this past year included the first-ever SW ArtsFest Central Art Market, a parade of decorated bicycles, hand dancing at Arena Stage, sock puppets on the Waterfront, an end-of-summer fair, neighborhood walking tours, […]
Free Randall Day at Corcoran December 8
In 2007, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Monument Realty proposed to redevelop the former Randall Junior High School at 65 I St. SW. I chaired an ANC team that, as part of a deal for ANC support, negotiated (among other community benefits) an annual day of free admission for […]
Secular Columbarium for the Island at (e)merge art fair
Brooklyn artist Leigh Davis describes her art project, “Secular Columbarium for the Island,” as an installation that would be an imagined memorial of artifacts from Southwest’s history mixed with associated objects, to create a “mythologization.” Davis’s process uses art and research, blending interviews with residents with her inspiration to create […]
From Vacant to Vibrant, An Old Church is Transformed
A wrought-iron fence spray-painted neon pink is not something one would expect to see in an old southwest D.C. neighborhood. At 700 Delaware Ave. SW the fence is the last thing that stands out against an old church that has been completely transformed into a mural. Formerly a place of […]
Want to Go? (e)merge Art Fair
WHAT: (e)merge Art Fair Over 152 artists from 24 countries will show new works in performance, installation, painting, sculpture, video and other media on three levels of the Capitol Skyline Hotel in this years 2012 (e)merge Art Fair. The fair also includes panel discussions on the arts and many special […]
Secular Columbarium for the Island
This October I will install a new art project, Secular Columbarium for the Island, at the (e)merge art fair in the Capitol Skyline Hotel. When I saw the call for on-site projects, I knew I wanted to create a work that was connected somehow to Southwest DC, where the hotel […]