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COVID-19 Pandemic Resources for the DC Area Visual Arts Community

The following is a list of relevant grants, loans and impact surveys East City Art has compiled to assist the visual arts community.  This list will be continuously updated during the pandemic. ++Last updated: June 15++ Continue reading COVID-19 Pandemic Resources for the DC Area Visual Arts Community

East City Art Profiles: von ammon co Gallery

Georgetown’s newest gallery, von ammon co, which opened in April, has an ambitious program to present internationally rising artists to the DC arts community.

East City Art Reviews: Bethesda Painting Awards 2019

Gallery B in downtown Bethesda is hosting the finalists of the annual Bethesda Painting Awards competition. This year’s selection exhibits a pronounced showing of painting, in the traditional sense, both figurative and abstract. It’s been some time since we’ve seen such a strong feeling of hand is in the works represented, that is, of paint on surface, made into recognizable or abstract imagery.

Recovering Tintoretto, Painter of the Venetian Late Renaissance

The retrospective exhibition of the work of Venetian artist Jacopo Robusti, known as Il Tintoretto, is still on view at the National Gallery. Although Tintoretto was enormously successful in his own time and place, he remains relatively unknown to the general public. The reasons for this are many. Not least among them are the many myths that stubbornly follow the artist’s reputation portraying him as an outsider, a rebel, a difficult and bizarre personality, and perhaps most problematically: a Mannerist.

Maker Space Comes to DC’s Ward 8

Nonstop Art Opens community maker space at the Overlook at Oxon Run. The Community-at-large is encouraged to tour the space and apply for membership

Hill Center Galleries Call for Artists

Deadline: Wed, 01 December 2021

The exhibition is open to artists residing in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.

East City Art Reviews —Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: Dutch and Flemish Paintings at the National Gallery of Art

An exhibition of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings acquired by the National Gallery of Art through the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund over the past 25 years is now on view in the Dutch and Flemish Cabinet Galleries there. These spaces aim at emulating the domestic environments for which works like these would have been made, and to provide a sense of this for the contemporary viewer.

October 18-24, 2021

DC AREA ARTIST TALKS, CLASSES, EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS for the week of October 18-24, 2021

VisArts 2022 Bresler Residencies

Deadline: Tue, 16 November 2021

https://visarts.submittable.com/submit/200007/call-for-2022-bresler-resident-artists Application Deadline:  November 16, 2021, midnight n honor of VisArts patrons, Fleur and Charles Bresler, VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for a four month residency at VisArts in Rockville, Maryland.  This residency provides a unique opportunity for a dynamic individual artist or collaborative artist team to...

Call for Entry: Anacostia Portraits

Deadline: Tue, 30 November 2021

Artist Elena Volkova seeks individuals with a connection to the Anacostia community for portraits.

Call For Entry: The Stamp Gallery Call for Student Artwork

Deadline: Fri, 19 November 2021

The Stamp Gallery is seeking artwork from students for their 2nd Juried Exhibition