Arts Agenda
Photo of Jeffry Cudlin by Josh Cogan, courtesy of Flashpoint Gallery
>> Aleid Ford is celebrating six months of Art 2010 (and her corresponding Permanent Collection posts on DCist) at Head for Art's Hump Party at Hamiltonian on Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. with food, drinks, giveaways, and a performance by David Page.
>> Transformer opens their seventh Exercises for Emerging Artists exhibit on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. E7: Tetrad was curated by professor Page Carr and highlights drawing, painting and animation that depicts personal history, character study and the struggle for perfection. Head to the gallery on Saturday at 2 p.m. for an artists talk.
>> Consider pairing Friday's Transformer opening with a reception at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery on U Street, where National Geographic photographer Maggie Steber will join thirty Haitian artists in an exhibit that shows their post-earthquake experiences Through Their Eyes. The 6 to 8 p.m. opening will feature a Haitian music performance.
>> Conner Contemporary hosts DCCAH's 32 Under 32 art salon, which features recipients of this year's Young Artist Grants as well as performances by Yoko K. and KOLAI, on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Get to G Fine Art beforehand at 5 p.m. to meet with DCCAH's Catherine Cleary to discuss the grant program.
>> Head to the Embassy of Finland on Thursday for a Pink Line Project event featuring Finland's best short films and an open bar reception. $20.
Arts Notes:
- Remember it's Free Summer Saturdays at the Corcoran. This Saturday is Sketching in the Atrium from 12 to 3 p.m.
- Modern Art Notes interviews former Getty Museum curator Weston Naef on his thoughts regarding the authenticity of the Muybridge photos in the artist's current Corcoran restrospective.
- Lend Your Voice to a community-read audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Friday from 12 to 8 p.m. or on Saturday or Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Digital Bookmobile across from the Renaissance Hotel at 999 9th St NW.
- Get your applications in by Monday at 5 p.m. for the Honfleur Gallery's annual East of the River exhibition.
- Gallery Plan B opens an exhibit of Road Tattoos by Steed Taylor on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.
- The Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) opens their juried indoor/outdoor sculpture exhibition, Gaps, on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
- Bethesda's Gallery Neptune starts their Summer Artist Marketplace this Saturday from 12 to 5 p.m.
- Studio Gallery hosts an artist's reception this Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. for Nancy Frankel's solo show and their new member show.
- Natasha Karpinskaia's exhibit of monotypes opens at Georgetown's Susan Calloway Fine Arts on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.
- Catch an arts lecture at the Embassy of Japan on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. with artists Tadao Arimoto, Willi Singleton and Yoichi Nakajima.
- Saturday is your last chance to see Kathryn Cornelius' The Feeling of What Happens at Curator's Office.