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 days before the event. Individuals may respond to the offer by emailing info@sechristtravel.com

The venue seats 900!

Sechrist Travel Will be presenting the NATIONAL CAPITOL CHOIR FESTIVAL as part of our Neighborhood Concert Series on Monday, May13, 2013 at 7:30pm

We hope you are able to attend this special concert featuring two outstanding music programs and four amazing ensembles. The program is scheduled for 90 minutes.

Location:
THE NATIONAL CITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
5 Thomas Circle, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005

Participating Ensembles:
MidAmerica Nazarene University Heritage Choir (Olathe, KS) – Dr. John Leavitt, conductor
Newman University Chorale (Wichita, KS) – Deanne Zogleman, conductor
Trinity Lutheran Church Senior Choir (Leavenworth, KS) – Jean M. Romig, conductor
The Celebration Singers (Cranford, NJ) – Sean Berg, conductor

Featuring the music of John Leavitt. The program will reflect on our history as Americans and feature great spirituals and folksongs native to our country.

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.

Second Runner-Up ($750): Natalie Plumb, The American University, for A Grad’s Rainy Day.

Honorable Mention ($200) Alexa Jaenicke, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., for her untitled image.

The judges were photographer Robert Strawn of Arlington and Lisa Hostetler, McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The Arts Club of Washington sponsors the annual scholarship competition for students between the ages of 18 and 26 who are pursuing studies in the arts at a college or university in the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia.

The discipline for the 2014 competition, as well as entry information, will be announced in late 2013.

Photographs by (from top):
James Paul, Mark Thomas, Natalie Plumb, and Alexa Jaenicke

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.

Second Runner-Up ($750): Natalie Plumb, The American University, for A Grad’s Rainy Day.

Honorable Mention ($200) Alexa Jaenicke, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., for her untitled image.

The judges were photographer Robert Strawn of Arlington and Lisa Hostetler, McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The Arts Club of Washington sponsors the annual scholarship competition for students between the ages of 18 and 26 who are pursuing studies in the arts at a college or university in the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia.

The discipline for the 2014 competition, as well as entry information, will be announced in late 2013.

Photographs by (from top):
James Paul, Mark Thomas, Natalie Plumb, and Alexa Jaenicke

The finalists for the seventh annual Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing,

The Marfield Prize, sponsored by the Arts Club of Washington, awards $10,000 to the author of an outstanding nonfiction book about the arts. This annual prize is designed to recognize excellence in arts writing for a general audience and is one of the highest monetary awards for a single-author book.

This year’s award will be judged by Sophy Burnham, an award-winning playwright, novelist, and nonfiction writer; author and poet Grace Cavalieri, who produces “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress” for public radio; and Ira Silverberg, literature director at the National Endowment for the Arts. The winning author will be announced in mid-April.

The winner will travel to Washington in May for an award dinner and to present a free public reading. He or she will also speak to students at Duke Ellington School for the Arts.

The award was established by long-time Arts Club member Jeannie S. Marfield in honor of Florence Berryman and Helen Wharton. Publishers, agents, or authors may submit books for consideration. The submission for the 2013 award will begin in September 2013.

Previous winners include Scott Reynolds Nelson 2006; Jenny Uglow 2007; co-winners Michael Sragow and Brenda Wineapple 2008; Linda Gordon 2009; R. Tripp Evans 2010; and Yael Tamar Lewin, 2011.

Photo credits:
Michael Dirda: Chester Simpson; Timothy Egan: Barry Wong; Ann Marie O’Connor: Araceli Garcia; David Thompson: Lucy Gray

Annie Leibovitz photographed Eileen Collins -- the first female pilot (Discovery, 1995) and first female commander (Columbia, 1999) of a space shuttle mission

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 and William Wegman as they captured and interpreted space exploration in their work.

Since 1962 more than 200 artists have contributed their time and talent to document and interpret the accomplishments, setbacks, and sheer excitement of space exploration, creating thousands of pieces. An assortment of their work is on view at the National Air and Space Museum through October 9.

Mr. Ulrich, Jim Dean and NASA curator Tom Crouch will show highlights of the works in the exhibition and tell stories of working with artists like Robert Rauschenberg and William Wegman as they captured and interpreted space exploration in their work.

For Tickets Contact: 202‐633‐3030.

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, VA), music and drama.

In addition, we have our Bristol Dinner, a black tie soirée; Café Spilsbury, and Friday concerts.

Be sure to bookmark the events you wish to attend.

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 Art Bank Collection. We also strongly encourage submission by video artists and other technological innovators as we look to expand the Art Bank Collection to include more diverse and dynamic forms of contemporary art. Representational, conceptual, and abstract works will be equally considered.
This year, the Art Bank application process will be done entirely online. Please go to http://dcarts.slideroom.com to find the Art Bank 2011 Call to Artists. In order to access the application, all applicants will first be prompted to create a SlideRoom account, at no cost. Once an applicant artist is logged into his or her new account, he or she will be allowed to submit up to ten labeled images to be considered by acquisition into the Art Bank. All artworks submitted must be available for purchase upon submission and must be created with archival materials. An artwork shall not exceed 96 inches in any direction or one hundred pounds in weight. This call is open to all artists who reside or maintain studio space in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. However, preference will be given to District residents. Deadline for submissions in Friday, September 30, at 11:59 p.m. For more information, contact Zoma Wallace, curator and art collections manager of DCCAH at zoma.wallace@dc.gov or 724-5613