Wednesday, June 15, 2011

PAST: ART: Guest Post from East City Art, FRI, July 15th & SAT, July 16th, Free




Weekend East City Event Round Up: Past, Present and Future Edition


Friday, July 15th

New Gallery - Inaugural Exhibit at Off Rhode Studio Gallery

5:00pm - 7:00pm
Free
On view July 15th - August 9th

(Rescheduled from last week due to a power outage)
The folks at Art Enables have opened up a new gallery space on Rhode Island Avenue NE. The inaugural exhibition will show work from artists living along the Rhode Island Avenue communities in NE Washington and just over Eastern Avenue in Maryland. For more info including a list of artists, click here.

Off Rhode Studio Gallery
2204 Rhode Island Avenue, NE

Saturday, July 16th
The Brentwood Arts Exchange - Exhibit in Honor of David C. Driskell's 80th Birthday

4:00pm to 7:00pm
Free
On view June 27th – August 13th

Artistic Reflections will showcase the works of David C. Driskell, Jeremy Austin, Starmanda Bullock, Sylvia Snowden in honor of David C. Driskell’s 80th Birthday. A world-renowned authority on African American ArtOver, Dr. David C. Driskell has created an unquestionable and profound impact in the arts through an extensive body of artwork, scholarship, curating, and teaching. This is an excellent occasion to see Driskell's work and meet him in person.

Brentwood Arts Exchange at the Gateway Arts Center
3901 Rhode Island Avenue
Brentwood, MD

Exhibit at artdc Gallery - "Emerging from Hyattsville"

7:00pm to 11:00pm
Free
On view July 10th – August 7th

Much like off-Rhode gallery who sought out local Rhode Island Avenue artists, artdc, now in its second year, will showcase the work of local Hyattsville artists in a show entitled Emerging from Hyattsville. For more information about the artists and to preview their work via video, click here.

artdc Gallery
5710 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD

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Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art. You can get more information about East City Art on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.

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