9th Annual Greenbelt Fall Harvest Festival

Live Music * Arts and Crafts Saturday, October 13, 10:00am-5:00pm Roosevelt Center Crescent and Southway, Greenbelt, MD CHEARS invites the community to join in celebrating the Harvest season, the milestone in the yearly cycle of our planet, to celebrate the work and creations of common folks, and the spirit of life that springs forth from the earth and reflects in our being. Come enjoy the live Music, Arts and Crafts, the exchange of ideas and a great fall day. The festival is held on the Roosevelt Center in historic Greenbelt, MD:  Come enjoy live performances by Tinsmith, Global Warming,  Raincrow, The Scrub Pines, Doug Way & Jeff King. Community Stone Soup Demonstration, starting at 11 am    Bring some veggies and herbs from the garden or stock beans and grains from your cupboard and help make the "Soup of the Day"   Get your hands on the Interactive Mosaic Mural project and add some pieces to express your own creative touch to the mural.   Get moving with the open air table tennis demo   And much more! Brought to you by the Stone Soup Project, a conspiracy for the Arts. A project of CHEARS.  For more information contact us at stonesoupchef@live.com.

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Girl Scouts at Portrait Gallery

Juliette Gordon Low and the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouts

January 13, 2012 - May 2013

Museum: Portrait Gallery

Location: 2nd Floor, South Rotunda

The iconic painting of Juliet Gordon Low, a patent award, a membership pin, and photographs of Low when she commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Girl Scouts are on view. Low founded the American Girl Guides on March 12, 1912; renamed Girl Scouts of the USA in 1913, the organization celebrates its centennial in 2012. Eighteen girls registered in the first American Girl Guide troop; now, one 100 years later, there are 3.3 million members, making the Girl Scouts the largest educational organization for girls in the world.

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American Art Museum Portrait Gallery
8th and F Sts., NW

Washington DC

Metro Stop: Gallery Place-Chinatown,
9th St. exit

40 under 40 - Renwick Gallery

Renwick Gallery 1st floor,

Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street N.W.

July 20, 2012 – February 3, 2013

40 under 40: Craft Futures features forty artists born since 1972, the year the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s contemporary craft and decorative arts program was established at its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery. The exhibition investigates evolving notions of craft within traditional media such as ceramics and metalwork, as well as in fields as varied as sculpture, industrial design, installation art, fashion design, sustainable manufacturing, and mathematics. The range of disciplines represented illustrates new avenues for the handmade in contemporary culture.

All of the artworks selected for display in the exhibition were created since Sept. 11, 2001. This new work reflects the changed world that exists today, which poses new challenges and considerations for artists. These 40 artists are united by philosophies for living differently in modern society with an emphasis on sustainability, a return to valuing the hand-made and what it means to live in a state of persistent conflict and unease.

Nicholas R. Bell, The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator of American Craft and Decorative Art at the Renwick Gallery, organized the exhibition. The museum hopes to acquire works by every artist featured in the exhibition to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Renwick Gallery. Click hereto learn how you can help in this effort.

Select works from 40 under 40:Craft Futures provided inspiration to the designers of Washington Design Center’s 2012 DreamHome. Visit dcdesigncenter.com for more information.

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Andy Paiko
born Woodland, CA 1977
Spinning Wheel
2007
blown glass, cocobolo, steel, brass, leather
60 x 38 x 20 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Peg and Bob Van Andel
Photo by Andy Paiko

The Peacock Room Book

The Peacock Room Comes to America

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Whistler's Peacock Room is one of the Freer Gallery's most beloved exhibits. The Peacock Room Comes to America details the amazing history behind this treasure, including Freer's acquisition of the Peacock Room and how he filled it with ceramics from China, Korea, Syria, and Iran, and incorporated into his Detroit home. Author Lee Glazer, associate curator of American art, explores the conservation and restoration of Whistler's masterpiece. The fascinating book includes 79 color and black-and-white photographs. 

Smithsonian: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | 1050 Independence Avenue SW | Washington | DC | 20560

Buddhism at the Freer Gallery of Art

Enlightened Beings: Buddhism in Chinese Painting

September 1, 2012–Februrary 24, 2013
Freer Gallery of Art

Smithsonian: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery | 

1050 Independence Avenue SW | Washington | DC | 20560

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Buddhism arrived in China during the first century CE and quickly grew in popularity, exerting a profound impact on all aspects of Chinese art and culture. Enlightenment is the cornerstone of Buddhist thought and practice. Accordingly, the exhibition focuses on four main categories of enlightened being: the Buddha himself; bodhisattvas, devoted to the salvation of all sentient beings; luohan, who protect the dharma, or teachings of the Buddha; and eccentric Chan (Zen) monks and lineage masters. Fourteen of the twenty-seven works on display date to the Song, Yuan, and early Ming dynasties (1000–1400 CE), and the remainder are from the fifteenth to nineteenth century during the later Ming and Qing.

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below: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva; China, Dunhuang, Northern Song dynasty, late 10th–early 11th century; ink, color, and gold on silk; purchase, F1935.11
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