Arts Club Of Washington

On May 13th, Members of the Arts Club of Washington are invited to attend a classical music concert featuring the MidAmerica Nazarene University Heritage Choir (Olathe, KS) in Washington, DC. Tickets are listed at $20 and $15 but Arts Club members have been offered FREE tickets (mention Discount Code NCCF13). Please RSVP at least two…

  The Arts Club of Washington has announced the recipients of the 2013 Ann Bartsch Dunne scholarship awards. This year’s competition recognized outstanding work by student photographers. Winner ($1,500): James Paul, The American University, Washington, D.C, for his entry titled Whispers Into Eternity. First Runner-Up ($1,000): Mark Thomas, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., for Down the Road….

The finalists for the seventh annual Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing, have been announced. They are Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling (Princeton University Press); Timothy Egan, The Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); Anne-Marie…

We are pleased to announce a the Players Club, located at 16 Gramercy Park in New York City, as a new reciprocal club.  The Players Club was founded by actor Edwin Booth in 1888.  Other founders include Mark Twain and General William Tecumseh Sherman.  The mansion purchased by Booth was redesigned by the famed architect…

NASA/ART: Space as Artistic Inspiration is the topic of a presentation at the Smithsonian on Monday, September 12 at 7:00 pm. One of the founding and current directors of NASA’s Art Program, club member Bert Ulrich, will show highlights of the works in the exhibition and tell stories of working with artists like Robert Rauschenberg…

The Nation Parking Garage on 20th Street, NW, will be closed for the months of September and October. They are conducting structural repair to preserve the integrity of the building. They will be unable to accommodate Arts Club Members during this period.

Paul and Rhonda Mortensen, Residents, (Silver Spring, MD), architecture and painting. Sean C, Hall, Non-Resident, (Orlando, FL), sustaining. Lori Lofts, Non-Resident, (Tampa, FL), painting, sculpture, literature. Margery Benson, Non-Resident, (Waynesboro, PA), music and painting. Jeanne Sullivan, Resident, (Washington, DC), design arts and painting. Bruce White, Non-Resident, (Caldwell, NJ) architecture, photography. Lenora Conway, (reinstatement -Nonresident (Palmyra,…

September’s arriving and the dog days of summer wanting. Our dear house likely “aged” somewhat during the August 23nd earthquake, but we’ll keep good care or her.   In many ways, September is the beginning of our Arts Club year with a new batch of artists and performers queued to enter our galleries.   Many of the…

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Submission Deadline, September 30 Zoma Wallace, zoma.wallace@dc.gov The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities is seeking to purchase two- and three-dimensional works of art including, but not limited to, prints, drawings, mixed media compositions, paintings, photographs, ceramics, and moveable sculptures to be included in the…

Video recording and editing volunteers are needed to help the Cinematography Committee!! The Arts Club is now recording its concerts and events for archival and website purposes and we need Club volunteers to assist with recording, editing and archiving. If interested, please contact the Cinematography Committee Chair, Larry Jarvik at lajarvik at earthlink.net