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Art Exhibits

Extended Through May: D.C. Punk

Celebrate the D.I.Y. culture and working-class ethos of “D.C. Punk”

UPDATED 4/13: Due to popular demand, this exhibition will remain on display through May.

This engrossing exhibit of memorabilia from the regional music scene’s golden era of the 1970s and ’80s will be on display throughout April at Central Library.

Arlington County was a well-known base of operations for many of the musicians and music labels that created a straightforward Mid-Atlantic sound best known through now-legendary bands like  Slickee Boys, Minor Threat, Government Issue and later Fugazi.

The artifacts were culled from the DSI Archives, which is affiliated with Arlington-based Dark Self Image Records. One of the contributors writes,

It was a state of mind that we embraced because we felt as kids no one cared about what we were doing and saying, so if we wanted to do this we better be ready to do it all ourselves. This happened at the same time across the US and the world and somehow this ragtag bunch of teens and young adults managed to start a movement for themselves through a network of small independent communities that eventually influenced mainstream media.
So much of the “PUNK” movement was about “just doing it” and not caring if anyone else was into it or not.

View a selection of the flyers, artifacts and news articles on our flickr page. Learn more about the DC Punk scene on the Banned in DC website, or check out photographer Jim Saah’s archive of DC Punk photos.

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The DC Punk exhibit was inspired by Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, our Arlington Reads 2012 fiction title – a take on growing up and growing old in the digital age, with key scenes taking place during the 1970s San Francisco punk scene. Egan will speak at Central Library on April 26 at 7:00 p.m.

Also in conjunction with Arlington Reads 2012, Central Library will screen the documentary Instrument – Ten Years with the Band Fugazi: A Film by Jem Cohen and the Washington D.C. Band Fugazi, on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:00 p.m.

Arlington Reads is Arlington Public Library’s annual one-theme, one-community initiative promoting thoughtful discussion and the joy of reading throughout the County.

Arlington Reads is made possible through the generous support of the Friends of the Arlington Public Library.

 

 

 

Emma Spence's Photos

Motion

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.

 

 

 

Greg Embree's Black and White Photos

Eternal Washington

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.

 

 

Montana DeBor's Watercolors at Shirlington

“Strange and Interesting Plants: Watercolor Botanicals” is on display at the Shirlington Branch Library for March.


A native of Arlington, Montana DeBor’s most recent exhibit was at the UCDC Gallery. She describes herself as an all-around Renaissance woman, with interests in art as well as music. She also volunteers as an Art Therapy teacher to teen moms in the Borromeo Housing Program.

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.

 

2012 Scholastic Art Show

Each winter, the Central Library hosts the Regional Scholastic Art Award, a competition which encompasses all Middle School and High School students in Arlington County.

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.

Washington-Lee High School will host the awards ceremony on Wednesday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m., co-sponsored by the Arlington Public Schools, the Library and the Arlington Artists Alliance.

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.


Eternal Truths

Artist: Lisa Fedon

Installed: 1999 – 2000
Materials: Bronze plate, perforated plate, and rod anchored into a brick wall, finished with tortoise-shell patina

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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.

 

Triumph of Literature

Artist: Alfred Ratinoff

Installed: 2000
Materials: Ceramic Tile

Created with ArtsWork students Jerryl Chandler, Brenda Keating, Julia Siple, Donna Xizo, Jerome Young and Jeannette Yue.

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Permanently installed at the Columbia Pike Branch Library.

 

ArtsWork was a summer program for teens coordinated by Arlington Cultural Affairs from 2000 – 2003.

 

Young Adult Room Teen Art Collection

Artists: Arlington Teens

Teens using the computers under the teen art gallery at Central Library

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.

 

Westen Muntain's Landscape Prints

Landscapes by Westen Muntain will be on display in the Central Library from Wednesday, Feb. 1 – 29.

This series of large-scaled landscape prints is highly colored and abstracted, made through a process called reduction woodcut. Each print is hand-pulled, and is therefore unique.
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