Fred L. Joiner

@ Westminster Church

400 I Street, SW ~ Washington, DC 20024 ~ 202.484.7700

Have you heard about the V.O.I.C.E.S event that happens at Hillyer Art Space, every month?

Well it’s time for another one of these events designed to raise funds and awareness for grassroots organizations across the globe working to help youth, women and underserved communities through music, arts and culture.

Come out and enjoy an eclectic mix of music, drink and food. Network with like-minded people interested in activism, international development and social change. Enjoy DJs spinning global hip hop and international tunes, and then settle in for a multi-media presentation on a cutting edge, grassroots organization. Round out the evening listening to some skilled lyricists and emcees sum up the experience with a hip hop cipher.

On Thursday, February, 24, 2010, we will be highlighting the work of Step Up OLPC. Step Up OLPC is a division of Step Up, a 501C(3) non-profit that works with grassroots organizations to develop and facilitate projects for training and community improvement on the two-island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, just off the coast of Gabon and Nigeria. In 2009, students at the Sao Joao secondary school in Sao Tome’s capital were given 100 durable, energy-efficient laptop computers by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). Not knowing how to use the laptops, the school’s administrators kept them locked away in an office and out of use until Step Up OLPC was formed to address the school’s concerns. Today, 150 students in Sao Joao’s sixth grade class take the computers home and back to school everyday to write stories, paint digital pictures, record music and research online.

Gallery Hours: 10am – 5pm Monday, 10am – 7pm Tuesday – Friday, 11am – 4pm Saturday.
Otherwise by appointment

International Arts & Artists (IA&A) is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally. IA&A’s services include a Traveling Exhibition Service, the Hillyer Art Space gallery, the Design Studio, the Cultural Exchange Program, and Membership Services for artists and the arts-interested public.

Ms. Zazenski creates works inspired by touch, sound, relationships and communication, examining how these things help to establish a sense of place. Specifically she will be engaging with the community on a "Memory Mapping" project. This project is an on-going work which began in Fei Jia Cun, a village on the fringe of Beijing, China. The "Memory Map" project illustrates various forms of information collected as a way for Ms. Zazenski to come to a better understanding of her environment.

Using photography as a basis for his work, Khanh H. Le will explore the complex issue of his identity within the Anacostia community. Le says, "Photographs are evidence, but their interpretation is what makes them important. When people ask me about my identity it is almost like it is fixed or permanent, but it is always in flux with my environment." He intends to use this as a platform for discussion with the community for his project, while also looking at the notion of public and private identities and how they overlap with one another.

This program is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The program provides free housing and free workspace!! Apply now.

Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 5th Annual East of the River Exhibition, highlighting the creative minds of Washington DC’s Wards 7 and 8. Artists living, working or with roots in the communities east of the Anacostia River may submit up to 20 images for review by the panel of esteemed judges:

Stephen Bennett Phillips

Director of the Fine Arts Program at the Federal Reserve Board

Renee Stout

acclaimed Washington, DC based artist

Susana Raab

Photographer, The Smithsonian Anacostia Museum

This year’s exhibition will focus on the presentation of bodies of work from up to six selected artists, to be exhibited at the Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions. Proposals for works in progress will be accepted. A $300 award per artist will be presented to each artist selected for exhibition, and in addition, an individual work selected as Best in Show will be announced during opening night reception. The galleries are offering an optional Portfolio Workshop for interested parties, see the application for details.

Deadline for Submission: March 21st, 2011
Opening Night: Friday, August 5th 2011

To Apply:
Please submit the following in hard copy- email submissions will not be accepted:
$10 Application fee with check or money order

One Page Art Resume or CV
Artists Statement
Application Page with Image Info
CD with up to 20 jpeg images of work proposed for the exhibition.

Submit to:
Honfleur Gallery
c/o EOR Exhibit 2011
1227 Good Hope Rd. SE

Washington D.C. 20020

This exhibition is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities

Full details are available under the News & Events section at:

www.honfleurgallery.com & www.vividsolutionsdc.com

The Gallery at Vivid Solutions

Cartograph

Gerard Lange

works in mixed media collage and excerpts from artist’s journals

*opening reception March 4th, 6-8pm*

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Honfleur Gallery

Try A Little Tenderness As Painful As It Seems

Ben Skinner

curated by The Jealous Curator

www.thejealouscurator.com

Ben Skinner is an emerging Canadian contemporary artist. The artist’s work is heavily text-based, and ranges from site intervention to installations and lighting to wall-based. His work has been in several group shows in Canada and the US, and this is his first solo exhibition. *opening reception March 4th, 7-9pm*