Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Family Art Park, Flying Acrobats on the schedule for 22nd Annual Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival this weekend.
Are your kids into creating art instead of just looking at it? That's why the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival is fun for the whole family. The 22nd annual art festival returns to Reston Town Center this weekend. It will feature more than 200 artists displaying and selling their works. But there is a lot more to see and do. Here is what else is happening: Flying in the sky - Arachne Aerial Arts and In-Flight Theater return to the festival with Aloft! - elevated performances that will transform the Town Center Pavilion into an animated flying sculpture garden, organizers say. Both groups will perform original works incorporating bungee, rope & harness, and invented apparatus set to the recorded sounds by DJ Spooky, Alvin Hill Jr., and …
Friday, May 3, 2013
Region's largest fine arts festival returns to Reston Town Center May 17-19.
Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) is getting ready for the 22nd annual Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival. The juried show returns to Reston Town Center May 17-19. The three-day event attracts thousands of patrons from across the region and provides an opportunity to participate in the arts and purchase unique works. Over 200 master artisans will have works for display and sale in 16 different categories, including Ceramics, Digital and Multi-Media Art, Drawing, Fiber/Textiles, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Leather, Metal, Mixed Media 2D, Mixed Media 3D, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Wood. There will also be performances from Arachne Aerial Arts and In-Flight Theater, who will turn the pavilion into an animated flying…
Friday, March 15, 2013
Exhibit at Greater Reston Ars Center features works from Reston-area schools.
Multimedia works with personal meaning from students artists at South Lakes, Herndon and Oakton High Schools is now on display at Greater Reston Arts Center. The exhibit is Emerging Visions, and it was inspired by an exhibit, Campaign Re/Form, that was held at GRACE last fall, says GRACE associate curator Erica Harrison. "The theme is 'voices," says Harrison. "About 15 students per school have developed ideas on themes they are passionate about. For some, that is environmental and women's rights. Others looking more inward, with personal experiences and challenges, such as social anxiety or body image." "All of the students have really put forth a tremendous amount of effort,"said Harrison. "There is definitely a wide variety of great …
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Meet artists Beverly Ryan and George Smyth.
Greater Reston Arts Center's (GRACE) Winter Solo Exhibitions featuring artists Beverly Ryan and George Smyth opens Thursday. While the artists use different mediums, they examine similar themes: contemporary economic issues. "Ryan's paintings and mixed-media works address the recent financial crisis in America and the post-industrial landscape, while Smyth creates photographs that probe the psychological complexity of passers-by, and document the struggles of a steel town in decline," GRACE curators said. There will be an opening reception and gallery talk at 6 p.m. Thursday. Admission is free. The exhibition will run until Feb. 23. GRACE will host additional events related to the exhibition. Among them: Appetite for Art: Contemporary …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Annual raffle gives art lovers affordable access to artists' works while raising money for Greater Reston Arts Center.
Greater Reston Arts Center's annual Collector's Choice Raffle (formerly the C-Note Sale) returns Dec. 16. The event raises money to support GRACE programs and is a chance for local art lovers to win orginal works by regional and national artists. Close to 100 pieces have been donated for the event. The raffle takes place at 2 p.m. Dec. 16, but there are other ways to participate if you cannot make it in person (See below).There will also be other events making up Collector's Weekend at GRACE. Among them: Friday, Dec. 14 Film Screening: HERB & DOROTHY 6:30-8:30 p.m., Free Saturday, Dec. 15 Holiday Open House: Noon to 8 p.m., Free Silent Auction: 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, December 16 Collector's Choice Raffle: 2 p.m. Here is how Collector's …
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Photographer Chuck Veatch presents photography program.
Reston nature photographer, lecturer and photo editor Chuck Veatch will present a program on visual design in nature photography at the Greater Reston Arts Center on Monday. The program “Do You See What I See? Photography and the Art of Seeing," begins with a reception at 6:30 pm and the program at 7 pm. The digital presentation will feature Veatch's own work, as well as images from the Nature’s Best Photography Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Veatch, one of Reston's original developers, has given programs and judged competitions for major photography organizations across the country including the Meadow Lark and Nature Visions expositions here in Northern Virginia. He is also part of the Nature’s Best …
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Elementary schoolers try for a shot at their work being featured on K3's Thanksgiving card.
Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) recently teamed up with K3 Construction Group to sponsor the annual Thanksgiving Card Challenge for schools participating in the GRACE Art program. This is the seventh year that K3 has sponsored the program to select artwork that will be featured on its annual Thanksgiving card, and the sixth year that schools participating in GRACE Art program have been invited to participate. Twenty-nine students from seven area elementary schools, including: Academy of Christian Education, Dranesville Elementary, Forestville Elementary, Green Hedges School, Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic School, Terraset Elementary, and Westbriar Elementary, submitted entries. The school art teachers selected a maximum of five …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
In "Carins: Works by Pam Rogers," the artist uses natural materials to show connection between nature and people, life and death, bloom and decay.
Greater Reston Arts Center welcomes a new exhibit to the gallery beginning Thursday. CARINS: Works by Pam Rogers uses abstract works on paper as well as sculptural installations that utilize plants and soil pigments, to show a direct connection between events, relationships and materials. Rogers' work addresses the relationship between individuals and nature, exploring cultural issues related to sustainability and growth. She works with a wide variety of organic materials, including sculptural installations assembled from vegetation in various stages of bloom or decay. GRACE curators say her use of natural materials reinvents the classic still life and landscape traditions, placing a contemporary spin on the concept of beauty within decay…
Friday, September 28, 2012
Artists Renee Stout and Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) talk about their works Saturday.
The Greater Reston Arts Center will welcome Washington, DC, artist Renee Stout to the gallery Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. to talk about her work in GRACE's current exhibition, Campaign Re/Form. For the Campaign Re/Form show, she created a double-sided panel, Thoughts of a 99-Percenter, an observation on the Occupy Movement. She says it draws on her fascination with hand-painted signs. Stout works in a variety of media, including painting, mixed media sculpture, photography and installation. Joining Stout will be New York writer, artist and musician Paul D. Miller, also known as "DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid." DJ Spooky is currently an artist in residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. For Campaign Re/Form he created the campaign …
Thursday, August 30, 2012
New exhibit, Campaign Re/Form, turns gallery into a campaign office.
This presidential election season, what if campaigning was seen as art? That's the perspective of a new exhibition Campaign Re/Form opening at the Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) on Sept. 13. The exhibition includes new works and existing works as GRACE staffers "work" in a campaign office, says GRACE executive director Damian Sinclair. "We're turning GRACE into a working campaign office for this," Sinclair says, adding the campaign office will not be in support of any one party or candidate. "I will be working from the gallery whenever I am at work." "This is meant to me a participatory outlet," he added. "One that is meant as an escape the craziness that is going on." The exhibition was envisioned by Sinclair, new GRACE curator Holly …
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