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Join Cory and me this Friday at the Honfleur Gallery in DC for an intimate duo set as part of The Hut Village Sessions!
**Show & filming starts at 6:30pm**
Event is FREE, but since there are a limited # of seats allowed in the gallery, guests must register via the event brite link:
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/296952532017
📸 by Mark Raker Photography ⚡️
On view, April 1 – 14 Honfleur Gallery 1241 Good Hope Rd SE Tues to Fri 10am to 4pm & March 28 - April 30 Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, 1550 Anacostia Ave NE, daily 8am to 4pm.
Nikki Hendricks, Spring Down to Earth Artist is featured in the February episode of WETA Arts (link in comments for the episode).
Nikki Hendricks, a DC Native created a 12-piece fashion collection during her 13-week residency. Nikki broke up the 12 looks into three social justice issues: Climate Change, African American Rights, and Native American Rights and created three fabric designs for each. Nikki used red rope in each look to symbolize white supremacy. How it affects and hinders each of these issues and ties them all together. The need for overproduction and capitalism affects climate change. The need for conquering and colonization has affected Native Americans and the Euro centricity; systematic racism is what has oppressed African Americans. Selected looks will be on view at the Down to Earth Exhibit this April at the Honfleur Gallery.
Down to Earth. A creative project partnership between the Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Caandor Labs, and Capital Fringe with the purpose of shining a light on the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens and Ward 7’s past, present, and future with a sharp focus on the climate emergency and its intersectionality with systemic racism. Using the creative process and through a diverse collection of media, we grapple with the preparation, incubation, and illumination that comes along with creative work and community advocacy. We evaluate our learning along with each season artist as they fulfill their creative visions of the community and environment.
Down to Earth takes place on the land of the Piscataway people of the Algonquin-speaking tribes, as well as the lands of the Native American people of the greater Anacostia, Potomac, and Tidewater regions.
Veterans Day Open House (awards, talks, performances):
Thursday, November 11 from 3:30-8:30 p.m. at Honfleur Gallery and Anacostia Arts Center See also Veterans Day 'Spectrum of the Arts' Artwork Tribute at Honfleur Gallery
Honfleur Gallery is delighted to announce an invitation to apply for the new Honfleur Women in Arts Grant Program. Established in loving memory of Sharon Hughes Gautier, a founder of Honfleur Gallery, The Women in Arts Grant Program focuses not only on the contributions that women have made to the artistic community in the District of Columbia, but also the hardships and discrimination that so many women artists have faced in presenting their work.
In 2022, this grant will be awarded to an individual or collaborative who propose the most compelling project surrounding the discrimination and misogyny women artists face, or have faced, specific to the music industry.
Learn more here:
http://anacostiaartscenter.com/news/
"Gesture" by Manju Shandler on view at Pelham Art Center Saturday, August 28 through Saturday, September 18th.
Reflecting the size of the tragedy with one painting for each person lost on September 11th 2001, Gesture is a meditation on the many facets of life, death, the past, and the future that have been inextricably altered by that single day.
850 GESTURE paintings were previously displayed in 2017 at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum for the 15th anniversary. In 2007 all 2,973 Gesture paintings were exhibited at Honfleur Gallery in Washington DC.
The Pelham Art Center gallery is free and open to the public. Our Public Meditation: September 11th 20th Anniversary is open to all who wish to remember, reflect, and invoke peace through meditation.
Honfleur Gallery is pleased to present "Keeping Pace," a solo exhibition by multimedia artist and VSC alum Sara Dittrich. Keeping Pace runs from August 13 – October 2 in the Honfleur Gallery in Washington DC.
Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 12 PM – 5 PM and by appointment.
Sara Dittrich is an interdisciplinary sculpture artist who builds introspective experiences that shift perspective from passive seeing to active looking, from passive hearing to active listening. Dittrich uses musical thinking to illuminate the dynamic and unconscious rhythms of the body and environments with diverse mediums that often include sculptural objects, musical performance, video, and interactive electronic technologies. From placing a cellist in a 9ft. tall chair, sculpting hundreds of tiny ears from clay, or performing with bio sensors that match breath to tidal movement, the work can be described as both absurd and meditative.
http://www.honfleurgallery.com/
One of our members, Sara Dittrich, is showcasing her recent work in a solo exhibition "Keeping Pace" at Honfleur Gallery space in DC! Sara has been using the Fab Lab's laser cutters to cut into cyanotypes (a photographic printing process using physical objects and light). Using the sun and objects from the land to create these paper collages that resemble nervous and respiratory system in the body, Sara is creating ties between the body, the land, and how the body and land adapt through time.
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Go show a local artist some support and view these amazing pieces! The opening reception for "Keeping Pace" will be held on Friday, August 13 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Masks are required and contact tracing is in sara. If you can't make it to the opening, the show will be up till October 2! Check out the gallery page for more details!
Honfleur Gallery is delighted to announce the launch of its new Artist-in-Residence program.
This annual program will be a vital realization of the vision of the late Sharon Hughes Gautier to provide artists with the necessities of time and funding to create their work.
This program is a melding of Honfleur’s ongoing commitment to artists that live and work east of the Anacostia River in Washington DC and it brings Sharon’s passion for art and her appreciation of a community that is so incredibly rich with history and creative talent. This residence comes with both specific project funding and a monthly stipend. Funding for this residency is provided by Sharon’s family.
The first recipient will be Jay Sun a multi-talented artist who grew up and currently lives in Anacostia and uses theater, music, comedy, storytelling and film to communicate with his audiences. He seeks to better the world by sharing thoughts, ideas and theories through various art forms.
Project funding will go towards the production of a film “Life: On The Rocks" written by JaySun. This film depicts how life-long residents of the District of Columbia are feeling the brunt of police brutality and gentrification and how “adjustments” have to be made to survive in a city that is pushing the local residents out of their own communities.
Hamiltonian Fellow Lionel Frazier White III and Asha Elana Casey’s show “Down in My Soul: Ancestors, Rituals, and Contemporary Practice” is on view at Honfleur Gallery and featured in Mark Jenkins’s latest review for the Washington Post: wapo.st/2NAsMdC.
Honfleur Gallery is located at 1241 Good Hope Rd SE, Washington, DC, 20020, and is open Tuesday–Saturday from 12 noon–5 pm, or by appointment.
Frazier’s work is also on view in Hamiltonian Artists’ annual group show “new.now.” at Culture House until March 21. The show debuts the work of Hamiltonian’s 2020–2022 cohort of five Fellows. View both shows now and be a supporter of the community!
Culture House is located at 700 Delaware Ave SW, Washington, DC, 20024, and is open Saturdays from 12 noon–3 pm, or by appointment.
Congratulations to alums/Visual Arts faculty members Asha Elana Casey and Lionel Frazier White III! They’re featured in a new Honfleur Gallery exhibition, “Down in My Soul: Ancestors, Rituals, and Contemporary Practice Art Exhibition.” Check it out!
https://fb.watch/3eTfBMOTj_/
🎨💓FREE EVENT! Honfleur Gallery presents Down In My Soul: Ancestors, Rituals, and Contemporary Practice TONIGHT at 6:30 p.m.!
A group show from the Washington DC-based duo Asha Elana Casey and Lionel Frazier White, explores the multilayered history of Black spirituality. The event will be held via Facebook live!
Click here to learn more and register:
http://ow.ly/8ca550DeP0c