The photography of Emma Spence is on display at the Westover Branch Library for April.
The exhibit is Emma’s senior AP photo show, and she is planning to attend the Rochester Institute of Technology next fall.
Learn more about Art Exhibits at the Arlington Public Library.
Black and white photographs by Cherrydale neighborhood resident Greg Embree will be on display at the Cherrydale Branch Library from Tuesday, April 3 to Tuesday, July 3.
Greg Embree is an amateur photographer living in Cherrydale. In 2010 one of his pictures won a “Print of the Year” award from the Northern Virginia Photographic Society. In the one juried show he has entered, his work was among 106 photographs selected for inclusion (from among 1,620 entries) by the legendary National Geographic photographer, the late Volkmar Wentzel. Popular Photography , the world’s largest magazine devoted to cameras and picture taking, has twice used Greg’s photos in its advertising.
DeBor’s first book for children, “Annabelle the Angler Fish,” has recently been published. Illustrations from the book were on display at Central Library during December, 2011.
Almost 2000 works of art were submitted and judged by three jurors. Out of these, the judges chose 376 to be awarded either a Gold or a Silver Certificate. These works are on display on the first and second floors of the Arlington Central Library. In addition, our Youth Services staff will chose one piece to add to our own permanent collection.
The official event opening will take place at Central Library directly after the awards ceremony.
In 1923, M.R. Robinson founded this prestigious art exhibition for students with artistic talent. Each year, Regional Art Competitions across the nation select over 12,000 Gold Keys out of 100,000 submissions. These 12,000 Gold Key individual and portfolio works of art are then juried on a National Level in New York City. On a National Level, over 1,000 works of art are awarded as Gold and Silver Keys. In the past seven years, Arlington County alone has received between 7-11 National awards for both individual and portfolios works of art.
The exhibit will be up at the Central Library through the end of March.
Installed: 2007
Materials: Oil on canvas.
On permanent display at Central Library.
Learn more about John Taggart, cherished friend and library colleague.
Installed: 1999 – 2000
Materials: Bronze plate, perforated plate, and rod anchored into a brick wall, finished with tortoise-shell patina
On permanent display at Central Library.
The sculpture was fabricated of bronze (plate, perforated plate, and rod). The finish is dark tortoise shell patina. All of the work was completed at Ms. Fedon’s studio in Pennsylvania and then transported to Arlington. The sections are anchored into the brick walls.
The artist, Lisa Fedon of Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, was chosen through a competitive process by a jury of community representatives, local artists, and staff from the Library and the Public Art section of the Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division.
In her design, Ms. Fedon combined images taken by local high school photography students with her own photographic record of “life in Arlington.” The sculpture is funded by monies raised raised in the Campaign for Excellence, by the Friends of the Arlington Public Library, and by other contributions.
Learn more about this piece from Arlington Public Art.
Installed: 2000
Materials: Ceramic Tile
Created with ArtsWork students Jerryl Chandler, Brenda Keating, Julia Siple, Donna Xizo, Jerome Young and Jeannette Yue.
Permanently installed at the Columbia Pike Branch Library.
ArtsWork was a summer program for teens coordinated by Arlington Cultural Affairs from 2000 – 2003.
Each year the Central Library hosts the Regional Scholastic Art Awards. After the show, we buy one piece of art for the Young Adult Room collection.
Landscapes by Westen Muntain will be on display in the Central Library from Wednesday, Feb. 1 – 29.
Julie Hart
Paintings on display at the Central Library during the month of January, 2012.
“I paint colorful, representational, oil paintings that capture a moment in mood, light, or composition. My subjects center around landscapes and other discovered items. Wherever I go I am open to possible subject matter for a painting. Oftentimes, this is close to home, in my suburban neighborhood.
I take photos and make mental notes about what I want to paint later. An idea usually starts with something that captures my eye like the interaction of angles and lines or an interesting texture or light quality. I’m not always captured by a beautiful scene, but by bits of that scene: reflections in the water, an interesting window, or an arrangement of rocks.
I usually compose images in my sketchbook after cropping images on the computer. After I decide what size suits the image I want to paint, I make my own custom-sized, wood panels to get the exact proportions I want. I like to apply a base color before painting. I choose this color based on what the painting is and what colors I want peeking through the top layers. Then I apply impasto paint in slightly exaggerated colors.
I like texture in my work and use a palette knife and brush, along with a scraper. The scraper allows me to draw into or remove some of the top layers of paint and expose the under-painting, incorporating sgraffito.My subjects focus on landscapes and still lifes.
I also started painting homeless animal portraits in correlation to my volunteering for an animal rescue group. Within this range of subjects, the same things attract me to an image. Usually the most important is great light, which I inherited from my background in photography. Another important element for me is good composition. The other element I concentrate on is conveying a mood or a personality.”
