Alchemical Vessels: April 4 through May 16, 2014
- Opening Reception - Friday, April 4, 7-9pm- Special Benefit (by contribution only) - Friday, May 2, doors open at 7pm
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Smith Center for Healing and the Arts and the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery are proud to announce the return of Alchemical Vessels, Smith Center's 2nd Annual Benefit and Exhibition. Learn more and support.
This is a great event that brings together curators, artists, and art lovers to support a wonderful resource in the Metro DC community... that in turn supports healing through the arts.
At right is my work-in-progress for the event. See the Facbeook Event for more alchemical vessels in process from this year's artists.
Alchemical Vessels brings together 125 local artists and 20 prominent curators
for a community dialogue on healing and transformation through the
arts. Each artist will transform a simple ceramic bowl by means of his
or her own personal aesthetic and medium, drawing inspiration from the
bowl as a place of holding, community, sacred space, and the alchemical
vessel.
The ceramic bowl was selected as the fundamental element of the exhibition to symbolize creating a space where healing can take place—an idea at the heart of Smith Center's work and mission. Metaphorically speaking, Smith Center—the space and the work we do within our walls—resembles an alchemical vessel. People bring their everyday burdens, fears, and pains to us, and in this place of holding, we help transform those toxic elements into hope, light, wisdom and strength.
The ceramic bowl was selected as the fundamental element of the exhibition to symbolize creating a space where healing can take place—an idea at the heart of Smith Center's work and mission. Metaphorically speaking, Smith Center—the space and the work we do within our walls—resembles an alchemical vessel. People bring their everyday burdens, fears, and pains to us, and in this place of holding, we help transform those toxic elements into hope, light, wisdom and strength.
Artists: Eames
Armstrong, Sardar Aziz, Karen Baer, Beth Baldwin, Michele Banks, Joseph
Barbaccia, Carolyn Becker, Jessica Beels, Joan Belmar, Lori Anne
Boocks, Anne Bouie, Amy Braden, Julia Brown, Karen O. Brown, Larry
Brown, Amanda Burnham, Lenny Campello, Shanthi Chandrasekar, Mei Mei
Chang, Peter Charles, Asma Chaudhary, Travis Childers, Eunmee Chung,
Wesley Clark, Chanel Compton, Michael Corigliano, Sheila Crider, Candy
Cummings, Anna U. Davis, Rosetta DeBerardinis, Tamara De Silva, Elsabe
Dixon, Joel D’Orazio, David D’Orio, Chelsea S. Dobert-Kehn, Thomas
Drymon, Nekisha Durrett, Victor Ekpuk, Laura Elkins, Dana Ellyn, Erica
Benay Fallin, Felisa Federman, Jeremy Flick, Suzi Fox, Barbara Frank,
Nancy Frankel, Shaunté Gates, Dawn Gavin, Bita Ghavami, Aziza Claudia
Gibson-Hunter, Melissa Glasser, Janis Goodman, Pat Goslee, Sherill Anne
Gross, John Grunwell, Nelson Gutierrez, Kristen Hayes, Eve Hennessa,
Sean Hennessey, Linda Hesh, Matt Hollis, Leslie Holt, Jessica Hopkins,
Karen Hubacher, Monica Jahan Bose, Barbara Johnson, Wayson R. Jones,
J’Nell Jordan, Mila Kagan, Sumita Kim, Joan Konkel, Yar Koporulin, Kate
Kretz, Randall Lear, Yue Li, Nathan Loda, Armando Lopez-Bircann, Laurel
Lukaszewski, James Mahoney, J.J. McCracken, Donald McCray, Jayme
Mclellen, Tendani Mpulubusi El, Komelia Okim, Amie Oliver, Luis Peralta,
Michael Platt, Maryanne Pollock, Lynn Putney, Maria-Lana Queen, Beverly
Ress, Kim Reyes, Glenn Richardson, Marie Ringwald, Amber
Robles-Gordon, Pam Rogers, Lisa Rosenstein, Nicole Salimbene, Samantha
Sethi, Matt Sesow, Amy Sherald, Shahin Shikhaliyev, Ellen Sinel, Casey
Snyder, Susan Stacks, Dafna Steinberg, Jennifer Strunge, Lynn Sures,
Lynn Sylvester, Ira Tattelman, Christine Buckton Tilman, Erwin Timmers,
Ben Tolman, Novie Trump, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, Laurie Tylec, Michael
Verdon, Jodi Walsh, Jenny Walton, Ellyn Weiss, Stephanie Williams,
Audrey Wilson, Sharon Wolpoff, & Carmen C. Wong.
Curators: Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Educator, Philanthropist & Founder of D.C.'s Duke Ellington School for the Arts | Jarvis DuBois, Independent Curator & Principal at J. DuBois Arts | Monica Jahan Bose, Artist & Activist | Anne L'Ecuyer, Arts Management Faculty at American University | Camille Mosley-Pasley, Photographer & Principal at Pasley Place Photography | B.G. Muhn, Professor of Art, Georgetown University | Michael O'Sullivan, Art Critic for The Washington Post | Dr. Frederick P. Ognibene, M.D., NIH Physician, Fine Art Collector & Past Board Chair, Washington Project for the Arts | Michael Platt, Artist & Professor at Howard University | Jennifer Riddell, Writer & Interpretive Projects Manager at the National Gallery of Art | Adah Rose, Principal at Adah Rose Gallery | Laura Roulet, Independent Curator & Writer | Molly Ruppert, Artist & Gallery Director at the Warehouse Theater | Terry Scott, Cultural Organizer & Independent Curator | Judy J. Sherman, Art Consultant & Principal at j. fine art | Thomas Stanley, Professor at George Mason University | Nuzhat Sultan, Independent Curator | Tim Tate, Artist & Co-Director of Washington Glass School | R.L. Tillman, Artist, Teacher & Curator | Dolly Vehlow, Fine Art Collector & Principal at Gallery O on H
Curators: Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Educator, Philanthropist & Founder of D.C.'s Duke Ellington School for the Arts | Jarvis DuBois, Independent Curator & Principal at J. DuBois Arts | Monica Jahan Bose, Artist & Activist | Anne L'Ecuyer, Arts Management Faculty at American University | Camille Mosley-Pasley, Photographer & Principal at Pasley Place Photography | B.G. Muhn, Professor of Art, Georgetown University | Michael O'Sullivan, Art Critic for The Washington Post | Dr. Frederick P. Ognibene, M.D., NIH Physician, Fine Art Collector & Past Board Chair, Washington Project for the Arts | Michael Platt, Artist & Professor at Howard University | Jennifer Riddell, Writer & Interpretive Projects Manager at the National Gallery of Art | Adah Rose, Principal at Adah Rose Gallery | Laura Roulet, Independent Curator & Writer | Molly Ruppert, Artist & Gallery Director at the Warehouse Theater | Terry Scott, Cultural Organizer & Independent Curator | Judy J. Sherman, Art Consultant & Principal at j. fine art | Thomas Stanley, Professor at George Mason University | Nuzhat Sultan, Independent Curator | Tim Tate, Artist & Co-Director of Washington Glass School | R.L. Tillman, Artist, Teacher & Curator | Dolly Vehlow, Fine Art Collector & Principal at Gallery O on H
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