Arts Agenda
Tomorrow is the deadline for our contest with the Phillips Collection, Make Your Own Morandi. Get your photos in by midnight!
>> PostSecret opens a new exhibit with more of their profound, embarrassing, and uncomfortably poignant anonymous postcards at Hillyer in Confessions on Life, Death and God. Opening reception is 6 to 9 p.m. with DJ Fleg, $5 at the door. Since it's First Friday in Dupont, head around the neighborhood for more exhibits, such as Mother Nature and Friends at Foundry Gallery, 6 to 8 p.m., and a reception and artist talk for Coup d'Space at Washington Project for the Arts, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
>> Fashion/art mag Panda Head is having a launch party for their next issue at Comet Ping Pong on Friday. Preview short films and music videos featured in the issue and enjoy live music from New Rock Church of Fire. 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., free.
>> Crafters, direct yourselves to the Summit of Awesome, three days filled with business seminars for artists and crafters, workshops, film screenings, and parties. Get all the details here, and head to their kick-off party at Gate 54 from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight.
>> Civilian Art Projects opens two solo shows from D.C. artists Erick Jackson and Ken D. Ashton. Jackson's exhibit, All Night Flight, features over 60 drawings from his childhood memories of movies and television shows -- the stills that have been "etched into [his] psyche." Ashton's The M Street Project is a photographic story-board of this route through our city.
>> Eclectic collector of lost and discarded letters and notes, FOUND Magazine, presents its new book, Requiem for a Paper Bag, at Warehouse on Sunday. The night will no doubt be as strange and amusing as the items the mag features, including music, bizarre performance art, and more. $10 at the door, 8 p.m.
>> Support some talented kids at the fundraiser and opening of Through the Lens of D.C. Youth at ARTiculate Gallery next Wednesday, 6:30 to 9 p.m. The exhibit is made possible by Critical Exposure, which teaches kids photography to document their lives -- in particular, problems with school facilities -- and use the results to bring about change.
>> Art Whino opens Mayday: Global Politics in a three-party show. Australian artist Kareem Rizk features new works in Trapped in Paradise, along with an installation and mural from AM Radio, capped off with a group show by Art Whino resident artists. Check it out Friday from 6 p.m. to midnight with DJ Two Tone.
>> The Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm opens a collaborative exhibit with works by Rosemary Feit Covey in a reception that will feature a dance performance from BosmaDance in a "powerful multi-disciplinary project that explores the recurring nature of loss and healing throughout human life." Friday, 5:30 to 8 p.m.
>> Jean Shin opens her new exhibition, Common Threads, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on Friday, featuring her fascinating sculptures and site-specific installations, including Everyday Monuments made from trophies collected from D.C.-area residents over the last few months. Hear Shin discuss her work tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the museum.
Art Notes:
- D.C. photographer Nancy Ostertag is releasing a new book, Personal Geography, with a book signing at District Fine Arts on Saturday, 2 to 4 p.m. See her exhibit in the gallery while you're there.
- Govinda Gallery opens a show with new abstract paintings by Carlotta Hestor. Reception Friday, 6 to 9 p.m.
- Reyes + Davis hosts an artists talk with Jeff Huntington and Sarah Tanguy on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
- The collective Artists' Bloc will be at the Argonaut this Sunday for a meet and greet from 7 p.m. til close.
- Caos on F has their First Friday reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. with a mixed media group exhibit.
- The Greater Reston Arts Center has an opening Saturday for their 2009 Focus Exhibitions, featuring three artists. 6 to 8 p.m.
- Check out some "erotic, extraterrestrial floral" paintings by Andrey Bogoslowsky at the Aaron Gallery. Reception Friday, 6 to 8 p.m.