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Saturday, April 1, 10:30 – 11:30am, Master Painter and Drawer, Ephraim Rubenstein
https://www.ephraimrubenstein.com/
Saturday, April 15, 10:30 – 11:30am, Charcoal Artist, Erin Fostel – presented by Friend of the ACO, Dana Maier
Saturday, April 29, 10:30 – 11:30am, Contemporary Sculpture, Painter, and Icon, Melissa Ichiuji
https://www.melissaichiuji.com/
Saturday, May 13, 10:30 – 11:30am, Contemporary Painter of Historical Women, Maremi Andreozzi – presented by Friend of the ACO, Adah Rose Bitterbaum
Saturday, May 27, 10:30 – 11:30am, Contemporary Sculpture, Anthony Cervino, presented by Friend of the ACO, Melissa Ichiuji
Saturday, June 10, 10:30-11:30am, Contemporary Sculptor, David Page presented by Friend of the ACO, Melissa Ichiuji
Link to the Zoom Artist Discussion- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84149389951?pwd=QkNqUU1ZMFJ5SXpSU1dFOVFTeXZZZz09
Ephraim Rubenstein’s work has been exhibited in premier galleries throughout the United States. He won the prestigious Emil and Dines Carlsen Prize in painting from the National Academy of Design and is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exxon Corporation, and Deloitte & Touche. His work has been featured in American Artist Magazine, American Heritage Magazine and Architectural Digest, among others. Several of his paintings have been exhibited internationally while on loan to the US State Department as part of its Art in Embassies Program.
Link to the Recorded Artist Discussion- https://youtu.be/CEPuPW6_kXY
Francie Hester has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. She has received honorary grants from the District of Columbia, from the Arts Council of Montgomery County, MD and from the Maryland State Arts Counsel. Hester’s commissioned works include a 2016 sculpture for Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City and an 18-foot atrium piece for the Chicago Kent College of Law. Her work is represented in numerous private and corporate collections including the World Bank, Airbus, Capital One and the International Monetary Fund. She received her M.F.A. in painting from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.F.A. in painting from the University of Michigan. Hester lives and works in Silver Spring, MD and Boulder, CO. She is represented by Susan Eley Fine Art in New York City.
https://www.franciehester.com/
Link to the Recorded Artist Discussion- https://youtu.be/pIe62T_jyf4
Blair Anderson brings over 35 years experience of silversmithing to Glen Echo Park as founder of SilverWorks Studio & Gallery and Studio 2: Hot metal. An award winning artist, represented by thirty+ galleries throughout North America, Blair has shown her work in one-woman shows as well as juried fine craft shows. Previous awards include a Canadian grant for The Works, a public installation of her framed wearable art and a NICHE award for her one-of-a-kind eyewear. Taking silversmithing to a new level, Blair’s work combines storytelling with metal and precious stones. These stories often deal with themes of social justice, spiritual awareness, and women’s issues.
www.silverworksglenechopark.com/
presented by Friend of the ACO, Marybeth Mullen
Link to the Recorded Artist Discussion- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6EJ7z4iWVQ
Ted Frankel, lifelong collector and owner of SIDESHOW, the award-winning gift shop in The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore joins ACO guests on February 18. Known fondly by his many fans as Uncle Fun, Ted’s philosophy for collecting is an ideal complement to the museum’s intuitive approach to self-taught artistry. SIDESHOW is packed with fun and wonder as well as original art, books, and oddball gifts.
Recorded Artist Discussion– https://youtu.be/Eh91oJ80IjI
Kristina King creates site-responsive installations and work in handmade paper. Her work investigates place, process, community, turbulence, fragility, decay, and the ephemeral. She was awarded a residency at Vermont Studio Center (2020) and a Studio Workshop Residency at Women’s Studio Workshop (2019). She received the 2019 Individual Artist Award (Visual Arts – Works on Paper) from the Maryland State Arts Council. She received her BFA from Denison University in 2014. Her work has been reviewed in BmoreArt and The Washington Post. Her work has been exhibited at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Allegany Arts Council, Willow Street Gallery, Via Umbria Galleria (solo show), Takoma Park Community Center, among others.
Recorded Artist Discussion– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEut7ESYiWo
Dana Jeri Maier is an artist and cartoonist, and the author of the upcoming book Skip to the Fun Parts: Cartoons and Complaints about the Creative Process (Andrews McMeel, May 2023). She has been a contributor to the New Yorker Daily Shouts since 2018.
She has illustrated for The Phillips Collection, the DC Public Library, Politics and Prose, and Museum Hack, and her artwork and murals can be seen at various restaurants in the DC area.
She lives with her husband and their two cats in Washington, DC.
Recorded Artist Discussion– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI35aNJAEWQ
Luvon Sheppard’s 50+ year career as an artist, educator and community collaborator cannot be summarized in a few paragraphs. From his early days as a student at RIT’s downtown campus, to his work at Memorial Art Gallery and the All of us workshop, to his advocacy for RIT City Art Space, to the opening of his own Joy Gallery and Studio, to the countless individuals who have benefitted from his mentorship, Sheppard’s creative life continues to grow in himself and within the creative lives he’s affected.
Recorded Artist Discussion– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qk2EMUZKlU
Glen Echo Park Resident Artist J. Jordan Bruns is excited to present “Japanese Influences: Three Years Abroad” for the Rockville Art League this November 3rd. During his sabbatical in Japan, Bruns explored new methods of making artwork that were very different from his large-scale abstract paintings that were his comfort zone. Some of this work developed out of a small Japanese studio space, and some influenced by the new culture. Through the images shown in his discussion, he hopes to map his search for inspiration, and why he eventually settled on ink wash as his medium that reflects Japan.
Recorded Artist Discussion– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qk2EMUZKlU
Adah Rose Bitterbaum is the owner and Director of the Adah Rose Gallery in Kensington Maryland. The gallery was founded in September of 2011 as a place to exhibit contemporary art in a variety of medium.
The gallery is a dynamic place and hosts artists talks, panels on issues in the art world, maintains an active intern program and shows art in a variety of spaces including law firms, pop ups and a number of Art Fairs each year.
The gallery hopes to create a shared culture and a broad one and values the ideas, comments and critiques of visitors and artists alike. We have received numerous reviews in the Washington Post and also exhibit on Artsy.net.
Prior to founding the gallery, Adah Rose worked as the Director of Studio Gallery in Dupont Circle and continues to curate shows there.
Recorded Artist Discussion–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4IG0JTW9EA
Nancy describes herself as an art evangelist, but sometimes feels like an “artoholic”, an addiction for which there is no cure. She loves to connect people with the visual arts and with artists. This may lead to a spread of the addiction and for this, she is not sorry.
After many years of working as a docent at the Smithsonian, Nancy also orchestrates special tours of exhibits at the Hirshhorn museum. Join us as Nancy discusses her point of view as an art enthusiast who loves to discover, collect, and discuss art that other souls were inspired to make.
Recorded Artist Discussion– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb3GBMiPUWo
Andrew Wodzianski is an interdisciplinary artist working in crocodile tears, puppy dog tails, and magpie chatter. His exploration into falsehood, adolescent nostalgia, and appropriation reflects a fantastical youth with generous sprinkles of reverence and satire. Artworks for Mazes and Maps examine gaming toxicity.
Wodzianski has an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a BSAE from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. A Professor of Studio Art at the College of Southern Maryland, Wodzianski has exhibited and curated nationwide. He lives and works in Washington DC.
Recorded Artist Discussion–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljLCX6JPblc
Join us for a quick discussion on pigment and paint. Why are some brands more expensive? Where do the pigments come from? What is the difference between all the different types of paint? So many questions to discuss!
Volumes 1-3 on colors and pigments from the National Gallery of Art- https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/pdf-library/artists-pigments-vol-1.html
Recorded Artist Discussion–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VT11nUXSA0
Recorded Artist Discussion– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAjH36VVUUc
Papers and their uses-final for ACO 8-25-2022-plus ACO poster for 9-3-2022
Jordan and Mariana give an open discussion on the paper we use as artists. Our focus is largely drawing and watercolor paper, but we do talk a bit about oil paper and the pros and cons of making your own oil paper vs buying it in the art store. There is also a little history on paper and look to the future to see what is in store for paper!
Ric Garcia works and exhibits in the DC metro area. He is a painter and digital printmaker. His work builds on the traditions of pop art and is infused with references to various cultures in America. These references are a meditation about identity rather than a cultural primer. Garcia’s perennial favorite is Latino culture and its consumer branded products.
Garcia thinks of his depictions of these everyday products as still lives, commenting that “ultimately the work is less about representing the product and more about eliciting emotional reactions, introspective questions and celebrating Latino culture.” The cans and packages in his work are based on real products, but the slogans and illustrations on the labels are re-imagined in ways that express and comment on his bi-cultural experiences as a Cuban-American.
This ACO meeting, Mariana will be doing a demonstration of how she uses a gelatin plate to make prints (without using a printing press) simply by using a gel-like plate. Such a plate can be homemade (with real unflavored gelatin!) or commercially prepared (not made with gelatin, although it resembles it). Mariana uses mostly acrylic paints to print onto various kinds of papers. She creates patterns and textures by using found objects, vegetation, stencils or stamps, and combinations of all to design the resulting mono-prints*. She will give a brief overview of her supplies and will demonstrate a few techniques of her process.
Recorded Artist Discussion–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTKHWwClUD8
Michael Janis was born in Chicago, IL and currently lives in Washington, DC. Trained as an architect, his glass figures showcase his very disciplined approach to the medium. He became Co-Director of the Washington Glass School & Studio in 2005, where he teaches and oversees the studio’s many site specific and public art commissions. His portraiture works often look, at first glance, to be made with graphite or pastels, but actually are made using crushed glass. He painstakingly manipulates the individual grains of the glass powder with X-acto blades and brushes on flat glass and fired (fused) in electric kilns.
Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012, Janis went to England’s University of Sunderland and taught at the UK’s National Glass Centre where he became an Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for International Research in Glass. The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities awarded him the 31st Annual Mayor’s Arts Award for “Excellence in the Arts”. This year, Janis’ glass sculpture, made in collaboration with artist Tim Tate, is featured in the 2022 Venice Biennale of Art exhibition, “Glassstress”. Janis’ artwork is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tacoma Museum of Glass, Florida’s Imagine Museum and the Fort Wayne Museum of Fine Art.
Recorded Artist Discussion–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyt5rhThlUU
This Saturday June 11, Jordan will be demonstrating the “alla prima/color spot” oil method based a small still life in our studio.
This “alla prima” (at first attempt) painting Art Clinic really gets to the heart of what representational painting is, just pieces of color on a canvas. Yet when the color is accurately mixed and placed next to other accurate pieces of color, the paint vibrates and tricks the eye into believing the marks are more than just paint. Alla Prima stresses application of paint and color mixing to get an accurate painting the first time.
Still life painting can look labored and lifeless. I believe this is a result of having too much time to finish the painting. Yet after changing the paint application method and shortening the amount of time allowed to complete the painting, the energy returns to the final product. This art clinic is about keeping the spontaneity and freshness alive in your still life painting. We’ll practice the three steps in creating a fresh painting. 1) Identification of the color 2) Mixing the color 3) Putting the color in the right spot. Simple as that!
In 2016 The Washington City Paper called Lenny Campello “one of the most interesting people of Washington, DC.” I promise you, that’s a very accurate statement. You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of the DC art scene than Lenny. He has certainly helped me along in my career. Join us for a very special ACO artist talk as Lenny Campello discusses his work and dishes out wisdom.Founder of Alida Anderson Art Projects and selected by well-known collector Mera Rubell for inclusion in the “Cream” art exhibition and auction at American University’s Katzen Art Museum. Author of the book 100 Artists of Washington, DC, published by Schiffer Press and the first of three volumes which catalogs the current contemporary visual art scene in the Greater Washington, DC area. Campello is also one of the Internet’s leading arts bloggers, and since 2003 his visual arts blog (Daily Campello Art News) has been one of the web’s first art blogs and currently has had over four million visitors, making it one of the highest ranked art blogs in the world.
Recorded Artist Discussion- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYQqcYIhFA
Felisa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and emigrated to the US in 1991. She studied painting and textile art at the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She moved to the USA in 1991 and has lived in Maryland since then. Her artistic objective is to create intriguing compositions with atmospheric sensations to
capture the viewers’ attention.
Her artworks are planned as puzzles, allowing people to develop their own interpretations. Her mixed media artworks are often layered assemblies using fiber and other 3D materials. She has participated in group and solo shows at art centers, museums, as well as private galleries in the USA and abroad.
Recorded Artist Discussion- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YQVOIWCjpg
Colin Campbell, is an extraordinary artist who is a fabulous sketch artist (chronicling a trip with his artist dad Alan Campbell to Antarctica on a National Science Foundation grant a few yrs ago). He is also a very senior video game designer who directs a crew of designers and is a published book author! These are only "some" of the accolades we can mention about Colin, but there are many more! His dad, Mr Alan Campbell, joined us for the session (what a treat!!) and shared some of his artistic journey and how he and his son are both connected to each other by art collaborations and artistic sharing. what an inspirational
story they both told us, thanks so very much dear Colin and Alan!!!