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2008 Marfield Prize

 2008 Co-winners

 Michael Sragow, Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master (Pantheon)

 and

Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Anchor Books)

   2008 Finalists

 Jonathan Lopez, The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

 Leonard Todd, Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave
(W.W. Norton & Company)

2008 Judges

 David Kipen, author and critic

 Linda Pastan, poet

 Reynolds Price, novelist

 

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Wednesday, January 18th

New Reciprocal Club

We are pleased to announce a the Players Club, located at 16 Gramercy Park in New York City, as a new reciprocal club.  The Players Club was founded by actor Edwin Booth in 1888.  Other founders include Mark Twain and General William Tecumseh Sherman.  The mansion purchased by Booth was redesigned by the famed architect…

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Monday, January 9th

The Arts Club’s 2012 Scholarship Competition in Digital Design

Digital design integrates and expands fine arts, photography, graphic communications, and digital media, offering artists and designers a wide new means of expression. In 2012, three scholarships ($1,500, $1,000, and $750) will be awarded to students whose work reflects an outstanding use of digital technology and techniques in 2-dimensional art and design. The competition is…

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Thursday, October 27th

2012-2013 Election Information

In accordance with the Bylaws of the Arts Club of Washington, the Nominating Committee that was elected at the October Bi Annual Meeting will meet and nominate a slate of eligible and consenting candidates for  Officers of the Club, Members of the Board of Governors, and Trustees of the Endowment.  The proposed slate of candidates…

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