Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Weekend East City Arts Round Up

The following post appears courtesy of Phil Hutinet:


Weekend East City Event Round Up:  First Shows of 2011 Edition

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The art world in East City is off to a great start in 2011 with five openings this weekend to attend featuring everything from photography, painting, collage and artists who play live music at their openings!

Friday January 7, 2011
The Tubman-Mahan Gallery (3938 Benning Road NE) opens “Urban Landscapes from DC to Denmark” by photographer Kimberly Gaines.  The reception begins at 6:30pm and ends at 8:00pm.  The exhibition runs through January 22, 2011.

Saturday January 8, 2011
CITY Gallery (804 H Street NE) opens “Leaves, Words and Screens” by Ronnie Spiewak.  Spiewak’s masterful collage work will open to the public from 6pm to 9pm and the exhibition runs through January 29, 2011.

The Fridge (rear alley behind 516 8th Street SE) presents a series of new paintings by Laura Elkins entitled “White House Negligee” inspired by portraits of America’s First Ladies.  The opening will be held from 7pm to 9pm and runs through January 30, 2011.  In case you miss the opening, the artist will be interviewed Henry Thaggert on Saturday January 22 from 5pm to 6pm.

At Corner Store Arts (900 South Carolina Avenue SE) visual artist and musician Dianna Quinn will show her latest series of “Bubble Splash” paintings which are made using a hot air gun and a wide array of materials including stencils and spray paint.  Quinn and her band Honky Tonk Confidential will perform at her opening.  The party starts at 6pm.

Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (545 7th Street SE) hosts its Fifth Annual Juried Photography Exhibition.  Doors open at 5pm and the reception ends at 7pm. The exhibition runs through February 4, 2011.


Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art.  You can get more information about East City Art on Facebook  or follow them on Twitter

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's going on at Toyland this weekend?

Anonymous said...

Looks like ANC6A is going to protest the new CT license application of HR-57. Were they going to serve chicken wings?

H Street Landlord said...

Anon 7:57, do you have a link? 8th and H is a mess right now HR-57 will be great! If there ever was a place that allowed alcohol that shouldn't be contested, HR-57 is it.

Chris said...

All I've found is an agenda item for the January meeting indicating that the ANC's ABL Committee recommends protesting the license if they don't have a Voluntary Agreement with the owners. That's pretty standard.

Looking at the website and mailing list: the December meeting of the ANC-6A ABL Committee considered the license applications for Angelico's and HR-57; that was in the meeting's agenda. Minutes for that meeting haven't been posted, which is unusual: as the website shows, they're usually pretty good about posting ABL Committee meeting minutes. I presume there was some holiday or something afterwards that might have gotten in the way. I just wrote Mary Beatty, the current (and retiring) ABL Committee chair asking about minutes.

Anyway, a week later, there was a post to the ANC-6A mailing list containing a copy of a letter to ABRA about Angelico's; that letter included a Voluntary Agreement between the ANC and Angelico's that had supposedly been approved at the 9 December meeting of the full ANC. However, I couldn't find any reference to that in the minutes of the 9 December meeting. And since the dates on the actual document say 16 Dec and 19 Dec, something seems out of whack there, but anyway . . .no such email has appeared for HR-57. So I presume that the ANC has not yet arrived at a VA with the owners of HR-57 that has been signed by all parties. So there's an agenda item in case one has not been reached at meeting time.

As for getting one by meeting time, I have no idea whether there are issues in the VA negotiations, and if so, what those might be. Presumably any issues were discussed at the public meeting of the committee last month, since it was on the published agenda. The minutes may shed more light.