via my friend Marsha…. Frida twittered us and says she’s baking her birthday cake and getting her papers in order. Hopefully the Border Patrol will let her enter Arizona without a hassle in time for her 103rd birthday celebration at Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop. Born on July 6, 1907, Frida has requested [...]
The Washington Post’s Peeps Show/Contest has become one of my favorite spring traditions. And this year is no exception in terms of creativity and talent. I never thought Peeps were food in the first place. Always left them in my Easter basket. My favorites were the chocolate anything and the colored eggs. This year the [...]
I don’t know if Kaira “Nikki” Johnson is positioning herself to be a curator, promoter, or impresario for a new generation of visual artists, including herself (graphic artist) but she’s pushing an exhibit of new work by women artists in DC titled “Art of the Soul.” Workshops are included presented by Words Beats & Life, [...]
This is the last week of the Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens exhibit at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. If you know DC, you know it’s tough for a native like me to shell out $12 to see an art exhibit with all the free Smithsonians in town. But even with [...]
For me origami has been more than just paper folding. Once you get the hang of the basic folds, it’s pretty calming for the head and the hands. I’ve used origami to center myself, to step away from the multi-tasked brain. I’ve also used it to calm tweeners. As I said, once you get the [...]
Two exhibits I’m definitely going to catch this month at the Smithsonian Institution museums: IndiVISIBLE: AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN LIVES IN THE AMERICAS Opens November 10. I got the heads up about this one a few weeks ago from Phoebe Farris who has an essay in the exhibition catalog. Click on the title or here to see [...]
Give me that Ole Time Photography! Phil Nesmith is an old school photographer. I mean ooooold old school – silver nitrate (heard that word lately?), glass plates (been antique shopping lately?), and no camera. Have you ever made a pinhole camera from an oatmeal box? Well, what was considered experimental and wierd science in its [...]
When DC artists come home for one of the city’s 3-H summers (hot, hazy and humid), you gotta jump on them and ask, “Why?” It’s like following Harriet Tubman south instead of north. That’s not the pattern for a DC born artist. “Go to New York, LA, Europe. Come back when you’ve made it, when [...]
Photo by Waldemar Hormat, 2008 The Burning Man Festival gates opened yesterday. The festival is one of those what you call “crazy fabulous things to do before you die.” Hat tip to my friend Naomi in Chicago who told me about it two years ago. It’s a high octane annual fringe desert festival of the [...]
Just this month O Magazine featured a house tour of Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s mansion on Chain Bridge Road in Palisades, an affluent neighborhood in Washington, DC. Sadly the virtual O Magazine tour is the only opportunity Cafritz or anyone will ever have to see her home and her art collection again. Last night the entire [...]
