UPCOMING EVENTS
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"GO FIGURE!" Open LIFE DRAWING Sessions
Thursdays, 6:00-9:00pm
Male and female models. Warm-up gestures to long poses.
Come draw with your friends for fun, practice and inspiration!
"I say and insist that drawing in company is much better than drawing alone." —Leonardo DaVinci
Studies for Libyan Sybil by Michelangelo
WHERE Art Institute of Washington
Art Lab, Room 1104 (11th Floor)
1820 N. Fort Myer Drive
Arlington, VA 22209
METRO Rosslyn (Blue & Orange Lines)
Exit at rear of station (up the steps). AIW is across the street.
MEET IN THE LOBBY between 5:30 and 5:55pm to be escorted up to the 11th floor (elevator passkey required).
ADMISSION FREE for IC Members, AIW students & faculty. Non-members, others, $10.
FOR MORE INFORMATION Tom Broad 301.652.6738
PAST EVENTS
NOVEMBER 2011
BRAD HOLLAND: CONFESSIONS OF A SHORT ORDER ARTIST
The internationally acclaimed illustrator talks about his work, artists' rights & the state of illustration
© Brad Holland
Brad Holland is one of the most influential illustrators of the 20th Century. The New York Times, in nominating him for a Pulitzer Prize, wrote that his work goes "beyond the moment to illuminate a general condition universal in space and time. The images are sometimes brutal, but the feeling is almost always compassionate." The Washington Post has called him "an undisputed star of American Illustration," and the editors of RSVP, the artists' directory, voted him "the one artist, who in our opinion, has had the single greatest impact on the illustration field during the last twenty five years." Writing in Print magazine, critic Steven Heller concluded, "as [Jackson] Pollock redefined plastic art, Holland has radically changed the perception of illustration." [more]
WHEN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011, 8 - 9:30 p.m.
WHERE Montgomery College School of Art + Design (Takoma Park Campus)
The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center Auditorium
930 King Street | Silver Spring, MD 20910
MAP & DIRECTIONS Please note: The Arts Center (CF) is only accessible from Georgia Avenue and King Street.
METRO Silver Spring (Red Line). Walk 10 minutes southeast on East West Hwy. (Rte. 410) to Georgia Ave. & King St. The building is on the left, behind Holy Cross Health Clinic.
FREE PARKING in campus lot off King Street
ADMISSION $15; IC members & students $8; MC students & faculty, free.
RSVP Reservations for this program are strongly recommended. Please email info@illustratorsclub.org.
JULY 2009
© Mary GrandPre
CREATING CHARACTERS: AN ILLUSTRATIVE EVENING with Mary GrandPré
J.K. Rowling gave birth to Harry Potter, but world renowned illustrator Mary GrandPré breathed life into him for millions of readers. Educated at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, GrandPre has worked in many genres of illustration, attracting impressive clients such as Atlantic Monthly Magazine, Random House, Berkley, and Penguin. She was also featured on the cover of Time Magazine for her work with the Harry Potter series and worked on scenery development for the Dreamworks animated film, Antz. On this evening, GrandPre takes to the Corcoran stage to discuss her impressive career and to share her delightfully stunning illustrations which have earned her so much recognition.
WHEN MONDAY, JULY 13, 2009, 7:00pm
WHERE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART
500 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 (corner of 17th Street and New York Avenue, NW. Please use New York Avenue entrance.)
METRO Farragut West (Blue/Orange Line), Farragut North (Red Line). Walk 4-5 blocks south on 17th Street.
ADMISSION $15 for IC Members (see above), $20 for public
APRIL 2009
Louis Lozowick Self-Portrait (1930)
"REFLECTIONS/REFRACTIONS: SELF-PORTRAITURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" Private guided tour by Curator Wendy Wick Reaves for up to 25 IC Members.
This exhibition of approximately 75 works will probe the complex issues of understanding identity in the past century. Included in the exhibition are self portraits by Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Chuck Close, Larry Rivers, Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringgold. While the works by these artists reveal traditional themes, including impersonation, reinvention, self-consciousness, vanity and the complex game of seeing a mirrored image, the exhibition will also explore how issues of identity and self-portrayal were bent in new directions in the 20th century as if refracted through a prism.
WHEN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009. Tour begins at 10:30am
WHERE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Eighth and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20001
METRO Gallery Place (Red/Green/Yellow Lines)
ADMISSION FREE
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED! Please RSVP by Monday, April 27 Marie Dauenheimer 703.648.9038 or dauenheimer@erols.com "Self-Portrait Tour" in subject line.
SEE EXHIBIT ONLINE Reflections/Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century
Exhibit dates: April 10 through August 16, 2009
Museum Hours: 11:30am to 7:00pm daily
JANUARY 2009
Poster ©Richard Amsel
"BALLYHOO! POSTERS AS PORTRAITURE" Private guided tour by Curator Wendy Wick Reaves for up to 25 IC Members.
Exhibit features 60 pieces (from late 19th century to the present) demonstrating how posters function as portraiture. Subjects as diverse as General Pershing, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Joe Louis, Judy Garland, aviator Jimmy Doolittle and labor leader Lane Kirkland all enhance the poster's mission to attract attention and persuade. Dramatic, colorful and often enormous, these likenesses hardly seem subtle. But what a poster communicates about an individual is usually secondary to its principal message—selling war bonds, announcing the arrival of the circus, advertising a product, or publicizing a concert or film. Posters invariably project the public image, enhancing, promoting, exploiting, or upgrading the information we subconsciously absorb about celebrity figures.
WHEN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2009. Tour begins at 10:30am
WHERE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Eighth and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20001
METRO Gallery Place (Red/Green/Yellow Lines)
ADMISSION FREE
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED! Please RSVP by Monday, January 19:
Marie Dauenheimer 703.648.9038 or dauenheimer@erols.com "Ballyhoo" in subject line.
SEE EXHIBIT ONLINE BALLYHOO! POSTERS AS PORTRAITURE
Closing February 8, 2009
Museum Hours: 11:30am to 7:00pm every day (except December 25).
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