Soulstrong Arts Blog

On Hiatus

Justin — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:38:00 +0000

After a year and a half of chronicling my travels visiting art exhibitions, theatre performances, and finding fun neighborhoods, I am placing my blogging regularly on Soulstrong on a hiatus. The opportunity to locate new galleries, studios, and people, coupled with sharing this space with other artists and art-enthusiasts has been a great connector to come out of my skin and create an active life for both myself and those who have joined me on my travels.

With the opportunity of a new full-time position, I’m conducting a change in lifestyle. While I will continue to live-blog (tweet) @soulstrongarts when I can, and utilize my Soulstrong platform to advance promotion of my artwork and my work in the Gateway Arts District, my emphasis on continuing community will be shared through my work with MyGatewayArts.org (also on Twitter @MyGatewayArts.org). Similarly, as I focus my artwork towards regularly creating dry-media abstracted images of structure, space, and how people use their space, I am aware that I’ve been splitting my attention too many places and need to stop doing six things and focus just on two artistic endeavors on the regular.

I invite you to sign up for my monthly newsletter, which can tell you of what I’m up to. Thank you for your support.

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Portfolio Panel Workshop 5/5 at the Brentwood Arts Exchange @ #GatewayArts Ctr; plus Portfolio Review 6/2!

Justin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:44:59 +0000

Hi everyone, did you know there’s a Portfolio Panel Workshop at the Brentwood Arts Exchange this Saturday, the 5th from 3-5pm? More info below:

Upcoming Business of Art Workshops
At the Brentwood Arts Exchange @ Gateway Arts Center

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Portfolio Panel: The Inside and Out of Creating a Great Art Portfolio
May 5, 2012; 3-5pm • SMARTlink #883815

Learn from arts professionals about what makes a portfolio great and not-so-great. Hear what makes them look twice or not at all, what they’ve seen that works, and where trends are going.

Moderated by Alonzo Davis
Panel includes: Tosha Grantham • Philippa Hughes • Christina Marsh • John Yeh

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Portfolio Review: Student to Emerging to Established
June 2, 2012; in 3 sessions, from 10am-4pm • SMARTlink #883816

Artists of every level need feedback in order to move forward. This portfolio review is for everyone, students and seasoned professionals alike. This is a rare chance to hear what the person on the other side of the gallery desk has to say about how you present your artwork.

Artists must register for one of three sessions, of which they will later be notified of their
25-minute timeslot within the following sessions: 10am-12pm, 12pm-2pm, and 2pm-4pm.

Portfolios on disc must be received by Saturday, May 19th to ensure review. Portfolios will be evaluated for completeness and sent onwards to our reviewers. We will then notify artists of their designated 25 minute slot within their selected session.

Reviewers include: Margaret Boozer • Jarvis DuBois • Helen Frederick • Sheryl Ameen Fiegel • Katie Dell Kaufman • Michael McBride • Norman Parrish • Laura Rulet • Valerie Watson

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The Business of Art is presented by the Brentwood Arts Exchange and the Gateway Community Development Corporation and is sponsored by the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council.

All workshops are free and open to the public. Register today!

Register in person: At any Department of Parks and Recreation staffed facilities in Prince George’s County.
By phone: Call the Brentwood Arts Exchange at (301) 277 – 2863 or call the Helpdesk at (301) 699 – 2255.
Online: at arts.pgparks.com. If you have any questions, please contact pgp-brentwood-arts@pgparks.com.

Brentwood Arts Exchange – Exchanging Ideas Through Art
@ Gateway Arts Center • 3901 Rhode Island Avenue • Brentwood, MD 20722

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National Museum of Language, College Park, MD

Justin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:46:05 +0000

Just visited the National Museum of Language in College Park, just north of University Park. Initially hard to miss as I had a different idea of what I was looking for, the museum has two exhibition rooms and is located on the 2nd floor of an office building. Their current exhibition is on language: its writing forms and its uses. With plenty of informational material as well as cultural objects from various European and Asian cultures, their collection has been on exhibition since 2008. When I asked about South American and African cultures, their roots not on display, I learned that they do have materials in their collection, but that this exhibition focused on the European/Asian cultures, and that there’s plenty on Amharic if I’m interested. Good finds!

The docent I spoke with told me they’re planning a new exhibition after their annual membership dinner on May 6th, so I hope to stop back sometime. Today was a talk on computational language, that was really for their members than on behalf of their current exhibition. With more than 300 members she tells me, I’m pleasantly surprised as I always would see their sign out on Route 1 but hadn’t visited since I’m not a big linguistics-language-classics student (well plenty are!). Visit http://www.languagemuseum.org/ for more information!

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