Local storytellers and visual artists are participating in New Community ArtSpace’s third annual Common Threads exhibition. This year’s theme is focusing on rugs. The rug symbolizes the roots of our values and how they begin to develop. “Rug like” works are on display made of various medium along with stories that come from memory and/or imagination. Join us for our upcoming Community Event where stories will be shared and fiber projects for all ages.

Community Event at ArtSpace :: Saturday, June 1, 2019 5-7pm

Exhibit is on view at ArtSpace until June 30, 2019 and

at Touchstone Gallery July 1-31, 2019

For more info contact dc.artspace@gmail.com or www.artspacedc.org

ArtSpace is located in the heart of the vibrant Shaw neighborhood of Washington DC.  One block from the Shaw/Howard Metro Station. 

614 S St., NW; WDC 20001

Buy someone special something special from local artists! Handmade crafts, Demonstrations, Music, Festive Food, Drinks, Raffle Items. Come enjoy the festivities and support local artists!

If you are interested in selling your work please contact dc.artspace@gmail.com and fill out this form.  No table fee!  We just ask for you to submit a raffle item. 

Artspace is located one block from the Shaw/Howard Metro station.

614 S Street NW Washington DC 20001 www.artspacedc.org 

2018 ArtSpace Bazaar Vendors

 ArtSpace Fiber Arts Class (various artists)

Crochet, knitting, woven goods

www.artspacedc.org

Art Enables (various artists)

Paintings and mixed media

www.art-enables.org

tribe & the girl :: Agnesa Secerkadic

Handcrafted jewelry

tribeandthegirl@gmail.com

Osh Yosh

Designer clothing

https://www.facebook.com/Oshyosh-227850837284494/

Hadley Workshop – Chris Hadley

Handcrafted wall hangings and frames https://www.instagram.com/hadleywoodshop/

the bluest i :: Sophie Kanter

Naturally died scarves

www.thebluesti.com 

Zachary Flynt

watercolors

www.zacharyflynt.com

AndrewThis :: Andrew Williams

Original Prints and Paintings

Instagram@an_drewthis

Common Raven :: Rosalie Ferris

Bags and scarves

www.commonraven.work

www.patternsamplesew.com

Mayapple Soaps :: Amanda Frayer

Soaps, lip balm, lotion

www.mayapplesoaps.com

Sabina Harrison

Paintings and drawing

Manos de Maiz :: Joahna Hernandez

Prepared foods

www.manosdemaiz.com

Lita+Ro :: Tiffany Coln

Hand poured soy candles, room spray handmade pillows, upcycled tableware

www.etsy.com/shop/litaandro

Kristine DeNinno Fine Art and Interiors

Monoprints, collagraphs, linocuts, woodblock prints

www.kristinedeninno.com

moon boye :: Shayna Baggatts-Porter

Art prints, handmade menstrual positive jewlery

www.moonboye.com

Ida Mitchell

Prints, giclée prints, paintings

www.ida-mitchell.pixels.com

Safari Blankets :: Heidi Wright

Handmade blankets

www.safariblankets.com

Federman Artworks :: Felisa Federman

Small mixed media artworks

www.felisafederman.com

Morad Eghbal

Paintings and small sculptures

Jonathan Ottke

photography, sculpture, drawings, prints, paintings

https://ottkej.wixsite.com/jonathanottke

Frères Branchiaux Candle Company :: Celena Gill

Scented soy candles

www.freresbranchiaux.com

Created in 2018, Healing the Body is a series of a classes and workshops that aims to un-silence and empower its participants. It uses approaches to painting and drawing the body that do not rely on the gendered gaze typical of traditional figure painting. Built on an understanding of art as a wellness tool, Healing the Body serves as an informal support group, encouraging community building and open and safe discussion of the body within art and society.

Participants in the Healing the Body workshops create 72” x 42 “ abstract figure portraits and engage in relaxed discussions and meditations on feminist approaches to figuration and tactility in art. The facilitator will stimulate person-centered reflection and group conversation by periodically asking participants to discuss their abstract creations and to "verbalize the narrative" represented by the works. At the end of every session, participants are photographed in front of image projections of their creations. These portraits symbolize a psychic re-connection in consciousness between the body and spirit. 

Our long-term objective is to heal inter-generational trauma through meditation and art, as well as create programming with organizations and/or partners that support people with disorders, addictions or disabilities. Victims of abuse, marginalized communities and at-risk youth are also peoples that we plan to serve and support. The end goal is to provide a platform that highlights mental health wellness and the access to art therapy by challenging traditional methods of art instruction and art history education.

In April and May of 2017 Touchstone Gallery artists worked with youth and adults at New Community ArtSpace to create works of art in a variety of media through a program called Touchstone@ArtSpace. Our kid workshops included painting Mondrian style with Shelley Lowenstein and Claudia Samper, Rock City sculpture with Ann Gordon and Paula Lantz, story cloth printing on clay slabs with Susi Cora, and foam prints with Ellyn Weiss. Our adult workshops included intro to intaglio printmaking with Carol Moore, monotype printing with Mary D. Ott and landscape painting with Judith Guiliani. A vibrant selection of the work produced during those workshops is now on display at the ArtSpace Gallery through the end September. Now in its third-year Touchstone@ArtSpace is funded by the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.  The show will be up through September 30th.  

We are checking out some 16mm shorts from the Sights and Sounds department of the Enoch Pratt Library and showing them in the comforts of ArtSpace's cool basement.   We will have a line up of family friendly short films.  This is a FREE family friendly event.  Snacks and drinks will be on hand for purchase.  Space is limited so please sign up. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/movie-afternoon-at-artspace-tickets-35641516736?aff=es2

Zac Smith joins us to share his watercolor skills and guide you through a variety of watercolor techniques from mixing colors to creating values then participants will give a go at painting a composition. Open to all levels.  Ch

Zac is a watercolor artist from Arlington, VA.  He grew up in Richmond, VA and went to James Madison University in Harrisonburg.  He paints a variety of subjects from landscapes and cityscapes to animals and abstracts.  | zacharyflynt.com

In April and May of 2017 Touchstone Gallery artists worked with youth and adults at New Community ArtSpace to create works of art in a variety of media through a program called Touchstone@ArtSpace. Our kid workshops included painting Mondrian style with Shelley Lowenstein and Claudia Samper, Rock City sculpture with Ann Gordon and Paula Lantz, story cloth printing on clay slabs with Susi Cora, and foam prints with Ellyn Weiss. Our adult workshops included intro to intaglio printmaking with Carol Moore, monotype printing with Mary D. Ott and landscape painting with Judith Guiliani. A vibrant selection of the work produced during those workshops will be on display at the Touchstone Gallery through the end July. Now in its third-year Touchstone@ArtSpace is funded by the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.  The show will be up through July 30th.  

This Touchstone@ArtSpace workshop is offered for children 4-8 years old.  Siblings are welcome.  Caregivers are welcome to stay or drop off.  Children under 4 must be accompanied by a caregiver.  $10/child or $20/child for all 4 children's workshops. Sign up!

Children will learn about the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian - the meaning of his work, who he was and how music influenced him. Then using acrylic paint and canvas they will make their own masterpieces.  

Claudia Samper works in oil and acrylics.  She uses color to push and intensify emotions, depicting playfulness while masking the complexity of the human mind.   Shelley Lowenstein paints stories.  She captures moments in time - scenes of people engaged in the casual interactions that course through everyday life.  

The Touchstone@ArtSpace workshop is for adults.   $10/person or $20/person for all 3 adult workshops. Sign up!

This in-depth, hands on workshop, joins the radiant qualities of prints with spontaneity of painting called Monotype.  Participants will roll ink on a piece of plexiglass.  Using various tools and natural materials to work in the ink - an image will be created.  Open to all levels.  

Mary D. Ott is an artist working in acrylic, mixed-media drawing and painting, and printmaking. She has been a member of the Touchstone Gallery, an artist-owned contemporary art gallery in Washington DC since 2001.

The Touchstone@ArtSpace workshop is for adults.   $10/person or $20/person for all 3 adult workshops. Sign up!

Try your hand at drypoint, an intaglio printmaking technique.  We will be using a variety of tools such as a hard-point "needle", sand paper, steel wool and chine-colle' on plexiglass.  Open to all levels. Bring your line drawings and doodles for inspiration.  We will also have some images on hand.   

Carol Moore creates lithographs and intaglio etchings with a personal connection, including portraits focusing on her own human encounters, as well as images that address her interactions with the natural world. She is now in her 2nd year as a Touchstone Fellow.

This Touchstone@ArtSpace workshop is offered for children 4-8 years old.  Siblings are welcome.  Caregivers are welcome to stay or drop off.  Children under 4 must be accompanied by a caregiver.  $10/child or $20/child for all 4 children's workshops. Sign up!

This very rewarding printmaking process uses thin sheets of foam, a sharp tool like a pen to turn a drawing into a print.  Children will learn how to make an edition of 5-10 prints of the same work. 

Ellyn Weiss works in a wide variety of media. The paintings and sculpture in her most recent solo shows have used wax, oil bar, dry pigment and tar.  Weiss's work has, for many years, been inspired by the imagery of biological and natural structures and most recently, by the threats posed to life by global climate change. She is a current Touchstone Foundation board member and former chair.

This Touchstone@ArtSpace workshop is offered for children 4-8 years old.  Siblings are welcome.  Caregivers are welcome to stay or drop off.  Children under 4 must be accompanied by a caregiver.  $10/child or $20/child for all 4 children's workshops. Sign up!

We are going to have fun recreating and decorating a city using broken sidewalk and other rock from construction sites in the neighborhood. Children are welcome to bring things they find in nature to help accompany their mini city.  

Paula Lantz paints using the energy of intense color and collage combined, the abstracted figures reflect mysteries in our personal, emotional and spiritual life.  Ann Gordon'swork reflects strains of classical American Realism through her passions of water, light, shadow, reflections, transparency, and translucence.  She works in watercolor, oil paints, stained glass.

The Touchstone@ArtSpace workshop is for adults.   $10/person or $20/person for all 3 adult workshops. Sign up!

We will be working with acrylic paint to create an abstract landscape painting.  Some collage will also be used.  If you have a favorite landscape photograph please bring it to use as a reference.  And remember.....grass does not have to be green.

After raising her family and a career as a college administrator, Judy Giuliani worked as a graphic designer. Her work in graphic design and a long held interest in art led to her current career as an abstract painter.  

This Touchstone@ArtSpace workshop is offered for children 4-8 years old.  Siblings are welcome.  Caregivers are welcome to stay or drop off.  Children under 4 must be accompanied by a caregiver.  $10/child or $20/child for all 4 children's workshops. Sign up!

We will combine clay and printmaking!  Children will be able to apply paint to leather hard clay to make monoprints or carve into the clay to create an relief prints.  

Susi Cora works from a lifelong interest in the natural world.  Her process-driven practice lets the materials form inherent abstractions. She is in her 2nd year as a Touchstone Fellow.

This community art project and social media campaign invites participants to share the stories of those everyday or found objects that hold special meaning. Follow the project via the hashtags #residentartifact and #petworthdc and @residentartifact.  Make a small collage using objects you bring - supplemental materials will be available.  ArasDance will performing.  Refreshments available.  Sign up because space is limited.  The event will take place at Petworth Neighborhood Library - 4200 Kansas Ave. NW; WDC 20011

ArtSpace and New Community Church are opening their doors on January 20, 2017.  Join us in silence, storytelling, scripture reading, meditation, prayer, yoga and art making. 

In light of our new political and national reality that's being inaugurated on this day, we will be using the powerful, thought provoking and relevant ancient story included in Michael Meade's book "Why the World Doesn't End - Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss" to weave our time together.  The story is about about an Old Woman who is weaving the most beautiful garment.  She is almost finished, but while she stirs the soup in a great cauldron a black dog awakens and moves to where she has left the garment on the floor. This story appears to be troubled with tragedy and filled with uncertainty but it also hints at new beginnings, renewal amidst the chaos.  Come hear more of the story, share, pray and create.  

8am - 9am:  Opening Service in the Sanctuary.  Joanna Andreae is graciously bringing us yoga to complete this special time.

9am-noon:  Open Studio at ArtSpace.  There will be projects for all ages offered during this time as an extension of the story by Michael Meade.  Other materials for poster making and other art will be avialable.  

$5 fee - supply donation welcomed.   

A fiber arts installation in the Shaw Neighborhood.   

New Community ArtSpace and the Shaw/Watha T. Daniels Neighborhood Library are joining fiber forces again to present a community fiber art installation as part of What's Going On: Voices of Shaw exhibit.  Fiber artists from the Shaw neighborhood will crochet a very long Common Thread in the comforts of their home, work, play and creative spaces.  

This event is open to all ages.  Enter to win your very own tapestry loom.  

Saturday, September 24th 7-9pm @ Shaw Library As part of Arts All Night we will be offering painting and fiber arts projects. Come make something and help us crochet.

Tuesday, September 27th 6-8pm @ ArtSpace  Drop in, bring a fiber project you are working on, and help us crochet our Common Thread. 

Saturday, October 1st @ 5pm from ArtSpace - Register and help us unravel the thread in various directions throughout the neighborhood and end up at Shaw Tavern for the closing event.  

Shaw Library:  7th and R Street NW;  ArtSpace: 614 S Street, NW basement

We were invited to participate in Arts All Night this year.  We will be at the Shaw Library hosting painting and fiber arts projects for you to try your hand in.  

Dzifa's photos capture the extraordinary curves and bends in everyday life through faces, places, buildings and brightly colored things.  In a collage of images she uncovers the interesting and the unconventional in the ordinary, patched largely across the three places she has called home - DC, Mali and Ghana.  Come along to view the winding of colors and curves brought to life by her photos that will be on display through December 2016.  

To see the exhibit at another time please contact Rachel Dickerson at dc.artspace@gmail.com.

Get introduced to calligraphic lines and movements that lead to making letterforms.  Using a broad edge, we will do exercises that can be combined into letters that will start you on your way to writing in a calligraphic style.  This class is designed to be an introduction to an art form that can be a satisfying lifelong study. Open to all levels.  Work will be considered for the Touchstone Gallery exhibit in June.  $10 supply fee. 

Maureen began her formal art training as a painting major with an affinity for the alphabet at Seaton Hill University. Her current work focuses on developing layers that contain and reflect the words she writes.  We are very excited to have her join ArtSpace for this workshop. For more information on Maureen go to:  http://www.touchstonegallery.com/index/#/maureen-squires

Try your hand at making a one-of-a-kind print. This in-depth, hands on workshop, joins the radiant qualities of prints with spontaneity of painting called Monotype.  Participants will roll ink on a piece of plexiglass.  Using various tools to work in the ink an image will be created.  Then participants will incorporate printing things such as dried grasses, mesh, etc.  Open to all levels.   Mary D. Ott is an artist working in acrylic, mixed-media drawing and painting, and printmaking. She has been a member of the Touchstone Gallery, an artist-owned contemporary art gallery in Washington DC since 2001. http://www.touchstonegallery.com/mary-d-ott/ 

These workshops are in partnership with members of the Touchstone Gallery.  Please specify which workshop you are interested in.  Each workshop is $10.  Student work will be considered for the Touchstone Gallery exhibit in June 2016.  Open to all levels

Join ArtSpace as we celebrate the holidays.  This family friendly open studio is open to to anyone interested in being crafty this season.  We will set up all kinds of supplies for holiday cards, ornaments, books and unique pieces of art.  $10 donation.  

Artwork by Drew Feith Tye will also be on display from her#fortysevenpieces collection and for sale at a 20% discount.  

For more info contact dc.artspace@gmail.com. 

The Shaw Neighborhood Library and New Community ArtSpace are joining fiber forces to present a community art installation. Follow a colorful thread that runs from both venues and experience various fiber art techniques along the way. Master fiber artists will offer demonstrations and hands-on crafts. Enter to win a gift bag filled with fun fiber goodies. There will be demonstrations in weaving, crochet and knitting, projects for kids and handcraft books available for check out.  Light refreshments will be served at 5pm at ArtSpace. 

Shaw Library (7th and R St NW)  and ArtSpace (614 S St NW basement) 

For more info @ http://www.artspacedc.org or www.dclibrary.org/watha

Join New Community ArtSpace and Sally Canzoneri in a photo display of DC.  Explore many parts of the city through Canzoneri's pictorial style to photography.

Viewers are invited to rearrange photos on panels, constructing different visions of DC much as readers can construct their own story in Choose Your Own Adventure books. The larger DC community is invited to participate by entering their own photos to be printed and shown on the panels.  To submit your photos email: dc.artspace@gmail.com before August 2nd.  

The kids at ArtSpace have been busy!  Check out their amazing artwork.  We will have yummy snacks, music, games and more art to make!