Arts Club Of Washington

The Arts Club of Washington has named Yaël Tamar Lewin the winner of the sixth annual Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing, for her biography, Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins (Wesleyan University Press, 2011) Lewin will be honored on Thursday, May 10 at an award dinner at the Arts Club. Lewin…

The recipients of the Arts Club’s 2012 scholarship competition in digital design have been announced. They are: Bailey Kelliher, Virginia Commonwealth University (First place); Marie A. Jarrell, Hampton University (First runner-up); and Andrea Santelices, Georgetown University (Second runner-up). The annual competition awards three scholarships ($1,500, $1,000, and $750) to students between between the ages of…

Per the request of Club members, we have removed the password from the bulletin board located in the Members Section.    Please note that there is a limited amount of privacy afforded to the system.  To access the Bulletin Board please click on the following link:    http://www.artsclubofwashington.org/membership/members-bulletin-board/

October 2011 President’s Letter As of this writing, September is fading with fond memories of an exceptional month for the Arts Club.  To begin, we had our memorable retrospective exhibit of the works of Mathilde Mueden Leisenring, one of our founding members. Special accolades to Pat Moore, the exhibit’s Curator.  Secondly, we had an extraordinary…

The Cinematography Committee is ardently looking for a few good volunteers! The Arts Club is now recording its concerts and events for archival and website purposes and needs Club volunteers to assist with recording, editing and archiving. If interested, please contact the Cinematography Committee Chair, Larry Jarvik.

Lacquer Painting Technique Demonstration -an ancient Vietnamese art form- 1 hr. video – demo of materials -discussion by Master Painter  Prof. Trinh Tuan Fee $9 -includes refreshments- (free for weekend workshop participants ) Thursday, September 15th, 6:30 – 8:30 [ information 202-549-7245 ]

NASA/ART: Space as Artistic Inspiration is the topic of a presentation at the Smithsonian on Monday, September 12 at 7:00 pm. One of the founding and current directors of NASA’s Art Program, club member Bert Ulrich, will show highlights of the works in the exhibition and tell stories of working with artists like Robert Rauschenberg…

The Nation Parking Garage on 20th Street, NW, will be closed for the months of September and October. They are conducting structural repair to preserve the integrity of the building. They will be unable to accommodate Arts Club Members during this period.

Paul and Rhonda Mortensen, Residents, (Silver Spring, MD), architecture and painting. Sean C, Hall, Non-Resident, (Orlando, FL), sustaining. Lori Lofts, Non-Resident, (Tampa, FL), painting, sculpture, literature. Margery Benson, Non-Resident, (Waynesboro, PA), music and painting. Jeanne Sullivan, Resident, (Washington, DC), design arts and painting. Bruce White, Non-Resident, (Caldwell, NJ) architecture, photography. Lenora Conway, (reinstatement -Nonresident (Palmyra,…

September’s arriving and the dog days of summer wanting. Our dear house likely “aged” somewhat during the August 23nd earthquake, but we’ll keep good care or her.   In many ways, September is the beginning of our Arts Club year with a new batch of artists and performers queued to enter our galleries.   Many of the…