By Artists For Artists
ARTist FORUM 1: Photographers
Saturday, November 22, 2008
3:30pm to 5pm at Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW, WDC, 202-347-0022
Free
Ken Ashton
As part of the programming for the citywide FOTOWEEKDC festival, Civilian is teaming up with the photographers in the exhibition Pastime to present the inaugural edition ARTist FORUM, a new series of bi-monthly discussions featuring established and emerging artists. ARTist FORUM will be a venue and opportunity for artists and their supporters to discuss issues pertinent to art-making, including surviving, and possibly thriving, as an artist in D.C.
Kate MacDonnell
ARTist FORUM 1: Photographers will bring together photographers Ken Ashton, Christopher Sims from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Michael Itkoff from Daylight Magazine, and Kate MacDonnell for a candid and open discussion about:
* creating, editioning, and pricing work
* working with a gallery and a museum
* copyright issues
* digital vs. film and processes
* and other topics that arise in
discussion.
There is no cost to attend this event and you do not have to be an artist to participate, but artists are encouraged to attend and participate.
* Special thanks to Emilia Olsen for designing the logo!
Michael Itkoff
Christopher Sims
STOP SMILING DC ISSUE RELEASE PARTY: NOV. 13th
You are cordially invited to celebrate the release of STOP SMILING's DC Issue. Cover stories on George Pelecanos and Anwan Glover, serve as centerpieces of a long look into the heart of our nation's capital. The issue eschews the political machine that the world associates with the city and instead focuses on the rich history and indigenous culture of the District of Columbia and its residents.
Our DJs for the night will be Ian Svenonious, who fronted legendary bands Nation of Ulysses and the Make-Up, along with Kevin Coombe, proprietor of DC Soul Recordings, the most comprehensive online resource for soul and funk from the capital city. The party's two guests of honor will be none other than the issue's cover story subjects: Anwan Glover, critically acclaimed actor from The Wire and member of DC go-go legends The Backyard Band, and DC crime writer, as well as a writer and producer of The Wire, George Pelecanos.
STOP SMILING's DC Issue Release Party
Thursday, November 13, 7 - 10pm
Civilian Art Projects - 406 7th St, NW, Washington DC
There will be a recommended $5 donation at the door.
Every guest will receive a copy of the new issue with the donation.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
7PM
Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace in conversation about Darfur and their work to aid survivors of genocide
Please join Civilian Art Projects, Brian Steidle, and his sister Gretchen Steidle Wallace, Founder & President of Global Grassroots, for a candid conversation on Friday, November 7, 2008 about their work to aid survivors of genocide while advocating for an end to the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
With the exhibition DARFUR/DARFUR as context, Gretchen and Brian will share first hand stories from their travels throughout East Africa including Brian's time in Darfur in 2003 as a monitor with the African Union of the peace agreement in Sudan. It was then he discovered and documented children hit by bullets, piles of bones and bodies, and villages burning. With his sister's urging, he would take the photographs to the New York Times beginning a story of tireless activism and the creation of the award winning documentary "The Devil Came on Horseback." Please join us to learn from their experience about the power of the individual to affect change.
WHEN: Friday, NOVEMBER 7, 2008, 7pm to view the exhibition, conversation begins at 8pm
WHERE: Civilian Art Projects, 406 7th Street NW, Third Floor, (between D & E Streets) Washington, DC / 202-347-0022 / www.civilianartprojects.com
HOW MUCH: The event is held as a benefit for Global Grassroots' programs (www.globalgrassroots.org). There is a suggested donation of $25. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
QUART BAG:
A Community Art Show
August 8 - August 16, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, 8/08/08
Inspired by the many things you can do with a quart bag, Civilian Art Projects has invited 100 DC area artists to participate in a community art exhibition called Quart Bag. The exhibition provides an imaginative opportunity for artists to use thirty-two ounces of space within a plastic quart size bag. All works of art will be sold for $100 or less, providing an opportunity for all people to walk home with a piece of art that is FAA approved.
When:
Friday, August 8, 2008
7:00pm to 9:00pm
The exhibition will run from August 8 - 16, 2008.
Participating Artists:
Seth Adelsberger
Brian Barr
Matthew Best
Kristina Bilonick
Megan Blafas
John Bohl
Joseph Bradley
Reuben Breslar
Martin Brief
Breck Brunson
Lindsay Buhman
Colby Caldwell*
Joyce Campos
Page Carr
Emily C-D
Dick Cheney
Michael M. Clements
Erin Cluley
Joshua Cogan
Cynthia Connolly
Sarah Coombs
Patricia Correa
Caitlin Cunningham
Catherine Dunn
Mary Early*
Alex Ebstein
Cherya Esters
Briony Evans
Annie Ewasiko
Rachel Fick
Steven Frost
Alberto Gaitan**
Victoria F. Gaitan
Carlos Gomez
Annie Gray
Adam Griffiths
Jason Gubbiotti*
Brook Halvorson
Beth Hansen
Peter E Harper
Anamario Hernandez
James Huckenpahler*
Elizabeth Huey
David Ibata
Erick Jackson
Paul Jeanes
Yeonhee Ji
Sue Johnson
Rebecca Juliette
Amanda Kleinman
Bridget Sue Lambert
Nilay Lawson
J.W. Mahoney
Katherine Mann
Nathan Manuel
John Marra
Lisa McCarty
Patrick McDonough
Bill Newman
Cara Ober***
Mia Olsen
Breht O'Hearn
Betsy Packard
Nikki Painter
Carrie Patterson
Annie Peters
Zoe Pollock
Dana Reifler
Ding Ren
Lauren Rice
Josh Rodenberg
Vida Russell
Bonner Sale
Nick Schiller
The Scott Twins
Sara Seidman
Emily Slaughter
Casey Smith
Steele Art
Matthew Spahr
Monica Stroik
Ayodamola T.
Okunseinde
Noelle Tan
Denise Tassin
Champ Taylor
Dominic Terlizzi
René Treviño
Justin Tsucalas
Andrej Ujhazy
Carole Wagner
Greenwood
Anita Walsh
Rex Weil
Anna Wonson
YAY team
* courtesy of HEMPHILL
** courtesy of Curator's Office
*** courtesy of Randall Scott Gallery
APES/FIASCO
After the opening, head up to Comet Ping Pong for beer specials, pizza, ping pong and rock by Apes/Fiasco/Double Dagger. 10pm. $10.
Comet: 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC
202-364-0404
Hello! Civilian is going crazy with lots of summer events. Come to one or come to all:
Friday, July 25, 2008 – Music night at Civilian
Saturday, July 26th – An all day Summer Trunk Show for artists in “The Shop” on the closing day of Screams & Screens
Friday, August 8th – the opening of “Quart Bag”
MUSIC NIGHT AT CIVILIAN: Friday, July 25, 2008
Presented by Civilian Art Projects and Planaria Recordings
Featuring:
- ILYA MONOSOV (Planaria / Holy Mountain / Drag City / Language of Stone)
- DUANE PITRE (Important Records)
- PREE (May from Le Loup)
- SCOTT ALLISON (of Kohoutek)
and DJ sets from ED PORTER and SCOTT BAUER
AND SUPER SPECIAL GUEST DJs spinning between sets:
+++++++++++++++++
ILYA MONOSOV
+++++++++++++++++
Ilya Monosov has spent the last decade working with sound and objects and creating his unique form of ritualistic music performance. He has worked in collaboration or had co publications with Preston Swirnoff, Marc Schulz, Andrew Deutsch, Pauline Oliveros, Charles Curtis, Larry Polansky, Bob Cobbing, Makoto Kawabata, Radu Malfatti and many others. His output has been highly varied and has encompassed everything from gypsy folk music, to minimalist improvisation, to heavy rock in the wild California group, The Shining Path. He has also been involved in many performances and multi-media events (including performances and installations at the first lower case events in LA) and currently has a piece online in Frogpeak Unbound, as well as artist books in Printed Matter NYC. He has released records on Planaria Recordings, Holy Mountain, and Drag City imprint Language of Stone.
+++++++++++++++++
DUANE PITRE
+++++++++++++++++
Duane Pitre (originally from New Orleans) is a Brooklyn-based composer, improviser, and sound-artist. His primary instrument is electric guitar(s), which he plays in a nontraditional fashion, utilizing various objects such as mallets and rotary tools to coax unusual sounds from the instrument. His current works explore both chaos and discipline—and the territory that exists between the two. In summer of 2007 Pitre's album, Organized Pitches Occurring in Time, was released on Important Records (CD) and Trome Records (vinyl). This album consists of two versions of his lengthy drone/contemporary-classical composition Ensemble Drones. Ensemble Drones was performed live in December 2007 by a 13-piece ensemble in Burlington, VT, and future performances of the piece are planned for Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, and New Orleans. Pitre has a number of releases scheduled for 2008, including a track on a compilation of experimental/avant-garde guitarists, which
will also feature work by Keith Rowe (AMM), Tetuzi Akiyama, Sebastien Roux, and others. He is currently curating—and will be contributing a track to—a Just Intonation compilation that will be released on Important Records in late 2008. The compilation will include work by artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Fullman, Michael Harrison, and Arnold Dreyblatt.
+++++++++++++++++
SCOTT ALLISON
+++++++++++++++++
Scott Allison is a member of DC noise unit Kohoutek, and an independent sound artist in his own right works with field recordings, tapes, junk electronics, toy electronics, your mother's keyboard, and all of it with great taste
When:
Friday, July 25th, 2008
9:00pm - 1:00am
“THE SHOP” SUMMER TRUNK SHOW: Saturday, July 26th – LAST DAY OF SCREAMS & SCREENS
The Shop at Civilian will hold a Trunk Show in the Civilian Art Projects’ gallery on the last day of its current exhibitions “Screams & Screens” and “Process & Alchemy, work from the Hand Print Workshop International.” This event is free and open to the public. Drinks and refreshments will be served. Join us!
A ‘curated shopping experience’, The Shop is a store of regional artist made goods, presenting an opportunity for anyone to own a work of art. The unique items available include limited edition hand-printed tees, small works of art by hot local artists, limited edition art books, videos & DVDs, letter-pressed note cards, leather wristbands, silk-screened ties, scarves woven from recycled clothing and more!! Most merch is priced from $10-$50. It’s a great place to get unique gifts for friends and loved ones (yourself included!)
Featured artists include Richard Chartier, Cynthia Connolly, Fisticuffs, Glitterlimes, Anamario Hernandez, Linda Hesh, Erick Jackson, Jane Jerardi & Ginger Wagg, Karey Kessler, Betsy Packard, Valerie Soles & Ian Whitmore aka Valerian, Lisa Marie Thalhammer, and Anita Walsh. The Shop’s merchandise is scouted out by local artists Kristina Bilonick and Moira McCauley who also have work in The Shop.
Again, the 26th marks the last day of “Screams and Screens!” Pick up a limited edition screen-printed poster priced from $20 to $100. Music from the rock bands featured in the posters will be playing in the gallery during the Trunk Show. Get a drink, buy some stuff, listen to rock! See you on the 26th!
When:
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
3:00pm - 6:00pm
NEXT UP:
QUART BAG:
A Summer Art Community Show at Civilian
August 8 – August 16, 2008
Inspired by the many things you can do with a quart bag, Civilian Art Projects has invited over 100 DC area artists to participate in a community art exhibition called Quart Bag. The exhibition provides an imaginative opportunity for artists to use thirty-two ounces of space within a plastic quart size bag. All works of art will be sold for $100 or less, providing an opportunity for all people to walk home with a piece of art that is FAA approved.
When:
Friday, August 8, 2008
7:00pm to 9:00pm
The exhibition will run from August 8 - 16, 2008.
Note: Civilian will be taking a short summer break after Quart Bag. We will reopen on September 5, 2008 with Way Down in New Orleans, an exhibition of over 33 artists from across the country whose work and lives have been affected by Hurricane Katrina. The exhibition will be curated by Aubrey Edwards, organized by Civilian Art Projects, and fiscally sponsored by DC Arts Center.
New attitudes, techniques and cultural influences have created "hybrid" processes that have changed the face of collaborative screen-printing today. To better understand the history and future of the process, please join us for a conversation about screen printing with Director of the Hand Print Workshop International, Dennis O'Neil titled:
New Directions and Alternative Processes:
An informal discussion about prints from the Hand Print Workshop International at Civilian Art Projects
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 7:30pm
Refreshments provided
RSVP:
info@civilianartprojects.com
or
202-347-0022
PLEASE JOIN CIVILIAN ART PROJECTS for a talk with Jason Zimmerman and a closing party for his exhibition “Feel better, longer.”
Friday, June 13, 2008. 7pm.
Refreshments provided.
The more the merrier but seating is limited.
RSVP to info@civilianartprojects.com
“Feel better, longer” is an installation based exhibition where the artist explores the notion of “mediating” nature and human nature. To commemorate a time that has passed, to relish a moment of desire or fantasy, or to temper certain pervasive clichés, humans go to great lengths to negotiate our natural state and our natural environments.
In “Feel better, longer,” Jason Zimmerman delivers his most ambitious exhibition to date. Comprised of several interdependent projects that mediate nature or some form of what we perceive as natural, Zimmerman embraces the idea of recreational simulacra and replicas of truth or reality in place of the real thing. Seeing the world as a kind of Lynchian Disney World, Zimmerman’s work contains reality or explores the boundary between what is artificial, what is real, and what is remembered.
Often scratching the surface to reveal what is underneath, “Feel better, longer” shows the importance of process as a central characteristic in Zimmerman’s art. Many of the works deliberately reveal their mechanics including a choreographed, collaborative video where the artist surrounds a young man in a halo of artificial flowers and a table full of terrariums created by the artist and friends. The terrariums are small self-contained ecosystems made in commonly discarded plastic materials found and cleaned by the artist. The project grows within the gallery. Another project includes “specimens” or items collected over time in places of meaning, places the artist seeks to remember for their weight and importance. All
are displayed and shared with the visitor.
"Feel better, longer" and Jen Stark's solo exhibition "Much-much" close Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 6pm.
PLEASE JOIN CIVILIAN AND CURATOR'S OFFICE FOR A CONVERSATION WITH:
craigslist artists
John Dumbacher, Jason Horowitz & Jason Zimmerman
FRIDAY, April 18, 2008
7PM
Join co-curators Andrea Pollan and Jayme McLellan for a conversation with the artists featured in Civilian's current exhibition, craigslist, on display through April 26. Artists John Dumbacher, Jason Horowitz and Jason Zimmerman will discuss and share their ideas and artistic process with the audience.
RSVP to info@civilianartprojects.com or 202-347-0022.
Refreshments provided.
If you have not had a chance to read Blake Gopnik's studio review of the Dumbacher's, please click here.
Kate's conversation with photographer and art professor Colby Caldwell
Please join us on Saturday, April 26th (the last day of the show) for an "art conversation" with Kate MacDonnell, Colby Caldwell, and you. We are going to free form it as words and topics inspired from Kate's exhibition 100 ways to kneel and kiss the ground provoke thoughts and discussion. Join us. 3pm. Free.
CIVILIAN ART PROJECTS at SCOPE Miami
Booth #23
Exhibiting works by:
Ken Ashton
Lisa K. Blatt
Martin Brief
Frank Hallam Day
Jason Falchook
Peter Garfield
Erick Jackson
Paul Jeffreys
Amanda Kleinman
Kate MacDonnell
Jen Stark
Noelle Tan
Jason Zimmerman
SCOPE Miami General Info
Location:
Roberto Clemente Park
101 NW 34th St
Wynwood Art District, Miami
Shuttles:
Shuttle buses run daily to the SCOPE pavilion from The Standard Miami Beach, the Raleigh Hotel and Art Basel Miami Beach.
HOURS:
First View-VIP:
Wed 12/5: 10am - 5pm
Daily:
Thurs 12/6-8: 10am - 8pm
Sun 12/9: 10am - 6pm
Civilian Art Projects and the BW Research Council present:
"Beyond Literacy: An Evening of Words and Verse"
Grace Cavalieri, Cathy Eisenhower, Stewart Lupton, Casey Smith
Reception 7pm, Reading 7:30 to 8:30pm
$ 3.00 donation
Grace Cavalieri is the author of several books, and 21 produced plays. She's produced "The Poet and the Poem" from the Library of Congress on public radio, now in its 31st year. Among honors, Grace holds the Allen Ginsberg Award for Poetry, A Paterson Prize for Poetry, the Pen- Syndicated Fiction Award, the Bordighera Poetry Award, the Folger's inaugural "Columbia Award" and CPB's Silver Medal. Her book What I Would do For Love (Poems in the Voice of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797) is the basis for her new play, "Hyena in Petticoats." Among production awards, her play "Quilting the Sun" received a key to the city of 
Cathy Eisenhower lives and works as a librarian in
Stewart Lupton is a writer and musician living in
Casey Smith teaches writing, literature, and cultural studies at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. He is a founding member of the D.Steel(e) Society of Advanced Poetics, and co-author of "Office Taste" (2006) a collaboration with photographer Vesna Pavlovic.
...
BE OUR MYSPACE FRIEND!
Civilian Art Projects has officially launched a MySpace page. Please add us as your friend and spread the word to everyone that you know that may be interested friending our civic-minded gallery. Exclusive to our page is images taken by fellow Civilian's at our events. Check them out!
PAST EVENTS
LAST CHANCE TO SEE MEGALOPOLIS AND AT STAKE AND RIDER!
In its final week, Ken Ashton's Megalopolis and Lily Cox-Richard's At Stake and Rider closes on Saturday, July 21, 2007. Join us for a talk with the artists to round out an amazing show. Open to the public, the discussion will begin at 3:00 p.m. and will be moderated by Civilian Art Projects' Director, Jayme McLellan. Refreshments will be served.
Exhibition hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. and by appointment.
...
After July 21, Civilian will be open by appointment only through September 6, 2007. On September 7th, Civilian Art Projects begins its Fall exhibit series with photographer, Noelle Tan and painter, Erick Jackson. The exhibition will feature Tan, who creates innovative photographs dominated by either white or black space, who will debut her new white series of large scale photographs (50" x 40") of desert landscapes and other ethereal subjects. Jackson's new series of paintings are based on an imaginative reflection of the interior of Dracula's house. Tan's exhibition is sponsored by the Creative Capital Foundation, a poem and essay by Grace Cavilieri, host of the Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress, will accompany the work.
...
SUMMER FUN EVENT! August 1
If you are like us, enjoying the baking asphalt and smells of summer in DC, please join Panache, Civilian, Reuben Breslar and the folks at 1644 N. Capital in saying a big DC hello to ....
THE SHOW IS THE RAINBOW
Wednesday, Aug.1, 2007
THIS EVENT IS NOT AT CIVILIAN, IT IS AT:
The Bobby Fisher Memorial Building
1644 N. Capitol Street
8 - 11 PM
Wednesday, Aug.1, 2007
$2 donation to help with gas for the band and refreshments
Joining THE SHOW IS THE RAINBOW:
Black and Tan Fantasy Band (Hash & Jay Conny)
Pontiak
---------------
Self Made: rock-band-style touring group of 3
7 - 10pm
Hopelessly Sad songs by Kevin Parks Hauser
THREE ARTISTS TOUR THE COUNTRY LIKE A ROCK BAND
(download full press release in PDF format)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Draw In" Happening Project
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007, 6-9 pm
Civilian Art Projects hosts this open to all community drawing event organized by artist and musician Reuben Breslar. About the project, Breslar says:
"The Draw-In project, as I have come to name it, is a community awareness happening composed loosely around art environments and the act of drawing. It is in continuum and will occur as often as possible. It combines issues of personal sincerity and interaction in the public scenario. The idea has evolved from the crossroads of two major influences in my life. The first being the joy of drawing amongst friends over drinks, and the conversation and serendipitous moments that come about from social engagement based around drawing. The second stems from issues of cultural awareness and identity- subjects that need to be addressed in the artworld as well as the public sphere amongst the contemporary artmarket and other pressing insularly 'conversations.' My end goal is to have the event serve as a reminder as to the potential of art and the need for wholesome human relations."
Come one, come all, and draw!
When: Wednesday, May 30th, 2007, 6-9 pm
Where: Civilian Art Projects (406 7th St., NW, Floor 3 WDC 20004)
http://civilianartprojects.com/ 202-347-0022
Why: Because fun times need awesome people in attendance
The event itself is an after work affair, an evening of drawing, drinking, eating and having a good time. Some drinks will be provided, all you have to do is show up. The project is about community awareness and bringing together as many strangers under one roof as possible.
Please come with your materials of choice.
Sponsored by Flying Dog Ale
------------------------------------------------------------
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2007 AT THE HOSIERY APES, DMBQ, FOOD FOR ANIMALS
This event is NOT at Civilian; it is at The Hosiery:
443 I Street NW
10pm
$8 donation
Sponsored by Flying Dog Ale
APES emerged from the wet, heavy jungle of Washington DC in 1999 to command the rock subculture. Their modus: uniting great warlords, absorbing rogue factions, and educating red-handed guerilla bands with a passionately wayward rock signal.
DMBQ: No discussion of Tokyo underground scene would be complete without mentioning DMBQ. They are the missing link between the much-divided Japanese Noise/Alternative music and garage rock scene. Their Hard Rock/Psychedelic-based music, infused with elements of Noise and Free Improvisation, still unleashes an unstoppable power to embrace the whole spectrum of underground music. Creating a sonic wasteland of instruments, they barrage you with a sound reminiscent to Led Zeppelin on acid. Defining that rockíníroll is still a forced to be reckoned with, DMBQ stretches the limitations of the human physique as well as the livelihood of their musical equipment with their deranged finales at the end of each show.
FOOD FOR ANIMALS: "Food for Animals step up to the plate and mostly obliterate the rhythmic conventions we've come to expect from hip-hop." -- Pitchfork
-------------------------------------------------------
TUESDAY, JUNE 12 ART FOR DARFUR
DC school children depict the crisis,
organized by filmmaker Aisha Bain (Darfur Diaries) and teachers of the DC Public School System
SEE the conflict in Darfur through the eyes of children
HEAR from activists working to end this crisis
LEARN about the simple things that you can do to end the genocide
Join us at Civilian Art Projects
6:30 to 8:30 pm
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Guest Speakers:
Julia Spiegel, ENOUGH!, the project to abolish genocide and mass atrocity
Scott Warren, STAND, a student anti-genocide coalition
Sponsored by Civilian Art Projects and DC for Peace in Darfur
------------------------------------------------------
FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH
7-9pm
Ken Ashton
Megalopolis
Lily Cox-Richard
At Stake and Rider
June 15 - July 20, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, June 15, 2007, 7-9pm
EXHIBITION HOURS:
Wednesday - Saturday, 12 to 6pm