>We mentioned in a previous posting about the Maurine Littleton Gallery show currently on in Georgetown – the gallery’s director, John LaPrade uploaded some images from the show. The show runs thru April.
Maurine Littleton Gallery
1667 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, Dc 
20007
www.littletongallery.com
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The kiln was loaded today for Erwin’s commissioned piece. The previously mentioned Happy Meal toy heads were used to form a sea of faces.
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Ok – attention all artists, art-wannabes, artistically inclined, and art collectors! The huge (non-juried) DC area art festival is getting ready to get into gear:
Artomatic 10th anniversary: Capitol Riverfront, May 29-July 5
Prepare to celebrate Artomatic’s 10th anniversary: The trademark, one-of-a-kind multimedia arts event will be at Half Street’s 55 M Street, S.E., in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood.
Artomatic 2009 will be held May 29 to July 5. Admission to Artomatic is always free for visitors.
Registration will begin in March and will be open to all artists — including painters, photographers, sculptors, graphic designers, musicians, poets, actors and dancers. Artomatic is an unjuried event, so all artists are welcome, from professionals to beginners.
To be notified of the date when registration will open or to stay up on other Artomatic news, sign up to receive ArtoNews, the Artomatic newsletter, on this web site.
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Artwork on exhibit at Maurine Littleton Gallery in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC include pieces by Allegra Marquart, Dale Chihuly, Tim Tate, Thermon Statom and Michael Janis.
Maurine Littleton Gallery
1667 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Tues – Sat 11 am-6pm
(202) 333.9307
http://www.littletongallery.com/
>Eco-Artist Erwin Timmers is working on a commissioned artwork glass panel. The cast glass panel is made from recycled glass and will incorporate many, many faces cast into the sheet of glass. As such, Erwin has been hitting the junk shops, looking for discarded toys to utilized their heads to create the form molds.
Erwin has been spending the better part of the day chopping little heads off little plastic bodies.
Ok, does anyone else find these little decapitated plastic bodies disturbing? 
No? How about when the little heads had a liquid core, and the green blood started spurting out? 
Who is not moved at the sight of these sad eyes staring at you?
>Everyone was participating at DC Glass Works bronze/aluminum/glass casting session this weekend
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Sean Hennessey’s resin sand casting mold
photos by Tracy Lee Photo
>Details of Nancy Donnelly’s upcoming show at Suffolk Museum is online –
website: Art of Glass 2 ( scroll across to ‘affiliates – Suffolk Museum’)
Personal Armor: Artists’ Look at Aprons
Suffolk Museum – 118 Bosley Avenue, Suffolk, VA 23434
May 2nd – June 12th, 2009 – 10-5 Tuesday – Saturday, Sunday 1-5
Personal Armor will feature artists from across the country interpreting Aprons and will include Judith Conway, award wining internationally exhibited warm glass artist of Vitrum Glass Studio and Gallery in Maryland. Ms. Conway will create new work for the exhibit . We will also feature Nancy Donnellly, an emerging glass artist and a member of the Washington Glass School. She most recently exhibited her pate de verre sculptural work from her dress series at “Artomatic” and will continue this series and present 3 new sculptures from this exhibit.
Looking forward to this show!
>What do you do once you learn some of the techniques in a class? Once you know the basics, you can practise your craft by taking the Washington Glass School’s open studio! Open Studio gives each student the opportunity to work independently in a world class studio.
Tuition includes a kiln firing per session, clear base glass and colored scrap glass, use of studio tools.
Nancy Kronstadt works on creating a glass table top.
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photo by anythingphotographic
>Yes We Can!
