Wolfe originally worked as a board game designer prior to her career as a fine artist. The focus was not on poverty, but on their beauty and how time and their lives shapes and changes that beauty.”ĩ21 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20003. The following explanation by Goertel for his process summarizes the description of his subjects perfectly: “I shot environmental portraits of 36 impoverished women in central Mexico, in and around their homes. While each solo exhibition is interesting in its own right, recent portraits by Thom Goertel who photographed women in Cuernavaca, Mexico, are especially worth the visit. Hill Center is hosting its annual solos exhibition consisting of eleven regional artists. Mayorga hopes the public will not only engage in art appreciation but will create artwork of their own by reinterpreting color variations of the artists’ original forms.ģ160 16th Street NW, Washington DC, 20010. She has created a coloring book consisting of the artists’ drawings which the library will distribute free of charge to the public on October 15. Mayorga will go a step further with regards to public participation this month. This is intentional artists Carolina Mayorga, Ric Garcia, Carlos Carmonamedina, Veronica Melendez, and Irene Clouthier, seek to connect library patrons and visitors with recognizable objects with the ultimate goal of art appreciation. Hanging throughout the Mount Pleasant Library, the works consist mostly of representational drawings and prints featuring everyday items like plants, cleaning products and canned goods, all of which will feel both intimate and familiar to the viewer. The first collaboration of its kind for DC Public Library, Mayorga assembled a group of fellow Latino artists. Įckington-based artist Carolina Mayorga, who is also one of Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s most beloved instructors (she redecorated CHAW’s exterior in 2021), formed a partnership with DC Public Library to exhibit work with a public participation component. Why is this important? This is your chance to not only see some great artwork by regional artists but an opportunity to witness history in the making-who among the artists exhibited this year may eventually rise to national and international prominence in the years to come?Ģ00 I Street SE, Washington DC, 20003. It is worth mentioning that both Gilliam and Thomas have works in the Commission’s Art Bank. Image courtesy DC Commission on the Arts & HumanitiesĬurrently on view at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities I Street Galleries is “DC Art Now 2022.” This is the Commission’s annual exhibition of selected works by finalists of its Art Bank Program grant. Gilliam had a retrospective at the Hirshhorn this summer and last year, Alma Thomas was the first Black woman to have had a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. These two DC-based artists gained national and international recognition in the last years of their lives and posthumously. Sam Gilliam and Alma Thomas are among those who come immediately to mind. There is no doubt that DC is home to some of America’s greatest artists and that these greats are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Tom Goertel “Julieta Jazmin and Dafne Beatriz Baldera Cruz.” 16x20.
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