J. Jordan Bruns Personal Blog

“Coming Together, Again”

The Collaboration of 30 Yellow Barn Artists

Chautauqua Tower Studio, Glen Echo Park

7300 MacArthur Blvd

Glen Echo, MD 20812

www.yellowbarnstudio.com

For the month of February the Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery, which boasts 600 members and 40 classes per semester, will be showing off some of its best and brightest advanced level students in the Chautauqua Tower 1^st floor studio.  Starting February 2^nd, the Chautauqua Tower (“Stone Tower”), which usually houses one resident artist for one month, will display the collaboration between 30 Yellow Barn artists.  The artists will be working on one large 72 x 28” painting/drawing in a relay style fashion.  They will each display their unique styles and different approaches to painting.  The artists’ progress will be documented throughout the month with photographs that will be posted on the Yellow Barn blog (http://yellowbarnstudio.blogspot.com/) and Facebook.  These posts will allow each artist to discuss what they are working on as well as their different approaches and impressions of painting.   The Yellow Barn invites the public to visit the space, ask questions of our artists, and see the artists working together.

“I’m trying to show what makes the Yellow Barn one of the premier places to take art classes in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area.  While we have a reputation for great instructors that produce great artists, we also have a great community that enjoys working together.” says J. Jordan Bruns, Yellow Barn Studio Manager and collaboration organizer.  “Last year we did a relay with the instructors, this time I thought it would be fun to see how our members do.”

 The Chautauqua Tower Studio will be open to the public daily February 2^nd through February 28^th, 11:00am-5:00pm.

 For any additional inquiries please email J. Jordan Bruns, Yellow Barn Studio Manager at Jordan@jjbruns.com.

WAMU, 88.5 the DC area NPR station did a story on me for the “Metro Connections” program.  The original broadcast aired on Friday at 1:00pm, you can catch the interview here!  It’s also on a podcast off their webpage too.

Classes are over till Jan 18th.  Time to get down to work!  What better way to wake up the color senses than to tackle the colors I hate the most.  Green and Gold.

Get ready for a flood of new painting…

Also, tune in to 88.5, NPR Washington DC on December 9th at 1:00pm, or Saturday December 10th at 7:00am for the “Metro Connection”  I’ll be the featured story!