In the Artist Studio: Who Supports the Arts? An Art Salon with Carol Dyson
Date and Time
May 10, 2015 5:00 pm
Location
Takoma
235 Carroll St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20012
May 10, 2015 5:00 pm
Takoma
How Does Socially Engaged Art Renegotiates the Aesthetic Experience?Â
“In the Artist Studio†is a Busboys and Poets original in-house series focused on bringing awareness to issues surrounding the arts and the artist themselves. Join Carol, Busboys and Poets’ own arts curator, every second Sunday in our continuing conversations regarding life as an artist and the sustainably of the arts in our community.
Joan Belmar, an artist currently exhibiting at Busboys and Poets, Takoma; will discuss and answer questions about his work.
Featured participants are:
Sheldon Scott and Deidre Darden.
Sheldon Scott and Deirdre Darden curated Black Lives/White Light which showed during April at ReCreative Spaces in DC and presented white artists engaging the movement Black Lives Matter. In addition to the exhibition a series of panels were curated into the show to create candid conversations around race and racial history in America.
Sheldon Scott is an artist, living and working in Washington, DC, whose performance and visual works have been exhibited throughout the United States.Â
Artist Statement: "My work surveys the intersection of Race, Economics, and Sexuality with a critical lens on ideals of exceptionality of the Black Male form, while assessing the social taxes levied on Black Bodies and Psyches."
http://sheldonscottstudios.com
Deirdre Darden is an emerging curator also living and working in her home city of Washington, DC. She's exhibited at District of Columbia Arts Center and Re(Creative) Spaces. Darden hopes to continue curating shows that show the possibilities and impact of art on society. Follow her art history blogwww.knowyourehistory.tumblr.com
Charles Krause – Charles Krause Reporting Fine Art Gallery (Image Attached)
Charles Krause’s interest in the art of protest, propaganda and political change developed over the course of his career as a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, CBS News and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. On assignment in Latin America, Central Europe, Russia, Asia and the Middle East, he witnessed many of the wars and revolutions of his time. His reporting earned him an Emmy for his reports from Israel and the Middle Est (1997), the Latin American Studies Association Media Award for his Central America coverage (1987) and the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award for his reporting from Jonestown, where he was shot and wounded while on assignment for The Washington Post (1978).
The name CHARLES KRAUSE/REPORTING FINE ART was chosen to reflect his twin passions, and his hope that the social and political impact of an artist’s work will be seen as another legitimate measure of its worth and value by the art historians, museum curators and collectors whose opinions, taste and decisions ultimately decide which artists emerge, and why they emerge, as the “greats†of their time. Isn’t the power of an artist’s work to inspire revolution, confront limits on free expression or challenge social attitudes, also worthy of serious consideration as a measure of their importance?
Artist Joan BelmarÂ
Joan (Joe-on) Belmar was born in Santiago, Chile in 1970. He left Chile for Spain, at the age of 24 and began painting professionally in Spain, using the Catalan name Joan for his first name John. He came to Washington, D.C. four years later in 1999, and was granted permanent residency in the U.S. based on extraordinary artistic merit in 2003, and became a citizen in 2010.
His latestseries of paintings is two-dimensional and it explores the psychological and cultural divisions that so affect the way we see the world around us. He was drawn to maps, especially as he researched the Selknam people, who inhabited the southern region of his native Chile and who were exterminated in the last century. In the maps, he encountered symbols, colors, drawings, grids, dots and lines. Accordingly, in the “Territories†series, he created certain structures, but then he let the organic qualities of the acrylics, gouache and ink mix and move spontaneously on the canvas or paper. Metaphorically, they are in search of freedom in a structured world.
He was a Mayor's Award Finalist in 2007 as an outstanding emerging artist in Washington, D.C. The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded him an artist fellowship grant in 2009, and in2011, theArts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County gave him an Individual Artist Grant.
The Maryland Arts Council awarded Belmar Individual Artist grants in Visual Arts: Painting, in 2010 and 2013.
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