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DC:ART:Around My Way: Organica @ BlankSpace SE
ORGANICA : PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES
by Melani N. Douglass & Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday 10am -6pm
Opening Reception: November 6, 2010 at 7pm
@ Blank Space SE : 1922 MLK Jr Ave SE Washington DC 20020
The American Poetry Museum is pleased to announce the opening of ORGANICA: Photographic Series by Melani N. Douglas and Rachel Eliza Griffiths. The works to be displayed will allow its audience to appreciate the beauty in the simplistic nature of everyday life. The exhibit will feature the works of poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and photographer Melani N. Douglass. It will also introduce the works of student photographer James Holiday.
Rachel Eliza Griffith’s literary and visual work has been widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies, and periodicals including Callaloo, The New York Times, Crab Orchard Review, Mosaic, RATTLE, Puerto Del Sol, Brilliant Corners, Indiana Review, Lumina, Ecotone, The Acentos Review, PMS: poem memoir story, Saranac Review, Torch, The Drunken Boat, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Inkwell, Black Arts Quarterly, African American Review, Comstock Review, Hambone, and many others.
Melani N. Douglass has been a committed leader in urban education for over 10 years. After realizing the success that students achieve through arts integrated learning environments, Ms. Douglass began a dual career as a visual artist and an educator. As an artist and educator, Ms. Douglass has conducted student workshops, teacher trainings and lectures for the Dallas Museum of Art, Milwaukee Public Charter Schools, DC Public Schools, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum, The Maryland Historical Society, the Brooklyn Friends School in New York, and the Smithsonian Institution. She has been honored by the Artist and Elaine Thornton Foundation and David Parks, son of Gordon Parks, honored Ms. Douglass as the guest Lecturer for the R. C. Hickman Young Photographers Workshop and the Gordon Parks Young Photographers Competition.
AMERICAN POETRY MUSEUM
“The American Poetry Museum is dedicated to celebrating poetry, promoting literacy, fostering meaningful dialogue, encouraging an appreciation for the diversity of the American experience, and educating local, national, and international audiences through the presentation, preservation and interpretation of American poetry.”
For additional information, Contact:
La’Tasha Banks, Program Coordinator
The American Poetry Museum
202.494.4093
lbanks@americanpoetrymuseum.org
www.americanpoetrymuseum.org
DC: ART: PHOTO: Oct 12, 2010: The African Presence in Latin America Photography of Jonathan B. French
Hispanic Cultural Society and Library of Congrss present Jonathan B. French’s “Unexpected Faces in Unexpected Places” Tuesday October 12th at Noon- 1pm in the Pickford Theatre
Art openings this Friday July 30: News from the Anacostia Arts District: Honfleur, Vivid and Arch Openings
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We have just as many art galleries in Anacostia as they do on H Street NE (and we have had them for a while). Come check us out too, look here.
get educated..Cornel West Theory
Filmed by Jati Lindsay
Directed by DJ UNDERDOG
Management Edward G. Robinson
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APRIL 23 @ 7:30: FREE Concert with the Cornel West Theory, Intersections/Poetry and art show closings
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around my way: DISCOVER THE ANACOSTIA ARTS DISTRICT
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upstairs and see the art that Honfleur Gallery is exhibiting for the first BCCG art show!
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Honfleur Art Gallery | 1241 Good Hope Rd. SE | Washington | DC | 20020
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around my way: DISCOVER THE ANACOSTIA ARTS DISTRICT
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Honfleur Art Gallery | 1241 Good Hope Rd. SE | Washington | DC | 20020
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around my way: Anacostia Youth Build Solar Panels for Haiti
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
WDC Solar and ARCH Training Center in Washington D.C. have collaborated their abilities in Solar Power and Skills Training to bring much needed solar power to Haiti by building 5 portable solar panel systems, or ‘solar suitcases’. During the week of March 1, these two organizations are producing solar suitcases that will travel to Haiti where they will be easily assembled to deliver immediate power to hospitals, orphanages and immediate care facilities. These suitcases have the ability to power a hospital giving needed assurance of a much safer level of patient care. Because the panels are equipped with batteries, they will allow for facilities to provide power 24 hours a day. This will ensure support for surgeries and emergency care, as well as, needed electricity for communication and equipment that may include refrigeration essential to keep blood on hand where needed. These panels have the ability to be transitioned from a temporary location, to a final destination once rehabilitation is complete. The life-expectancy of each portable system is 20 years.
WDC Solar and ARCH Training Center are partners in bringing the first Solar Manufacturing Plant to D.C. and are currently building in Ward 8, Anacostia where both organizations are headquartered. The actual facility is located at Shannon Place Southeast, D.C. ARCH Training Center’s students, some of which are about to begin formal solar installation training, will be building the suitcases along side WDC Solar founder and CEO, Mark Davis who will be an intricate part of the Solar Training program at ARCH. “This is a great chance for the students at ARCH receiving an education to give back to Haiti while learning how to build these portable solar panels’, says Board Chair Rachael Schroeder, ‘the experience is a great jumping off point for the solar partnership ARCH and WDC Solar have created – renewable giving – through training, jobs and energy.”
More recently, the two groups decided to lend their expertise to the crisis in Haiti by recreating the ‘Solar Suitcase’ invented by We Care Solar of California. Laura Sachel, the founder of We Care Solar teamed up with WDC Solar to build several portable systems which have already been deployed to Haiti. We Care Solar has been part of WDC Solar and ARCH’s on-going professional solar installation training making this effort and future relief efforts a possibility.
The solar suitcase developed by We Care Solar, was originally invented to deliver much needed lifesaving power to hospitals in Africa. We Care Solar has been highly successful in their efforts. The invention of the solar suitcases are continuing to provide; renewable energy, withstand conditions of poverty and unpredictable weather, lower the death rate of women and infants in Africa and are able to be mounted and remounted onto new buildings sustaining their 20 year lifespan and further proving their worth.
WDC Solar and ARCH Training Center are both located in downtown Anacostia in the 8th Ward of Washington, East of the Anacostia River. The two organizations are in the process of building a solar manufacturing plant that will bring new industry to the District, as well as create jobs in one of Washington D.C.’s highest rate areas for unemployment.
ARCH Training Center has been a part of Anacostia for over 20 years, providing jobs, job training, job placement and social services to the residents of the District. More information is available at www.archdc.org.
For more information Contact: Mark Davis, WDC Solar/ p) 202.560.5171/ gogreen@wdcsolar.com