news & events (category: benefit)

Wool Exploratorium Gallery Launch and Exhibition: Bauble

Co-curated by Washington based artists, Billy Colbert and Ryan Hackett, the exhibition includes 31 artists from DC, Baltimore, and New York. For Bauble, each artist was challenged to create a piece of artwork inspired by a childhood toy and a portion of sales will be donated to Project Create. Project Create is a Washington, D.C. based non-profit committed to enriching and transforming the lives of at-risk children in the District by providing them with professionally-led arts experiences.

Participating artists include: Richard Dana, Caleb Woodard, Decoy, Trish Tillman, Rosina Teri Memolo, Holly Bass, Ryan Hackett, Joe Hoffman, Imar Hutchins, Gary Kachadourian, Matt Levin, Zack Repko, Billy Colbert, Richard Vosseller, Tim Tate, Lady Glock, Alan Turner, Kelly Towles, Dan McCauley, Christian Bennefield, Michael Platt, Kathryn Cornelius, Bridget Sue Lambert, Cory Oberndorfer Jati Lindsay, Rebecca Katz, Gary Kachadorian, Bandwagon, Dom Savini, M.Gert Barkovic and Adam Bradley 

Wool Gallery: Bauble
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Exhibition opening:
Thursday, December 17th
6 to 9 p.m.


Exhibition dates:
December 17th – January 5th
Gallery Hours 1 to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, or by appointment

Wool Exploratorium at The Lacey
2250 Eleventh Street
NW Washington, DC 20001

By Kathryn Cornelius

Transformer Annual Art Auction, November 7, 2009 @ the Mexican Cultural Institute

November 7, 2009
7 – 10pm
The Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street NW

By Kathryn Cornelius

10.10.09 @ 9pm: Performance Collaboration with Robin Bell @ Arlington's new cultural center

Robin Bell and I are bringing our first performance collaboration to the new Arlington's new cultural center kick-off event, Creative Briefs.  The event will also showcase "briefs" by:  Synetic Theater - Washington Shakespeare Company - Anthology of Booty DJ Crew - Hoop Dance - X Live Design Competition - Rosebud Film & Video Festival - Los Quetzales Mexican Dance Ensemble - Video Art Curator Amelia Winger-Bearskin - and Visual Artists Brandon Morse, Alexandra Zealand & Henrik Sundqvist

Monuments of Future Nostalgia
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Our piece, Monuments of Future Nostalgia, is a collaborative public performance engaging mobile technology, crowd sourcing, and auditory projections. 

PREVIEW:  
Hope masquerades as a vision, where the passion and insecurity felt by people become part of a call for national unity and identity, part of a community sentiment and future ideal of what we imagine ourselves to be.  It is a kind of future nostalgia, a 'fantastic hope' for national unity charged by a static vision of life and the exclusion of difference.  When, for the benefit of our security and belonging, we evoke a hope that ignores the suffering of others, we can only create a hope based on fear.  This hope lies in the heart of terror. 

Monuments of Future Nostalgia

October 10, 2009, 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
New Arlington Cultural Center
1101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA

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BEAUTIFUL LOSERS - Screening, Silent Art Auction and Reception

Thursday, June 11, 2009
7:00 p.m

@ the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road, Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.

**I've donated a video for the silent auction to support the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.

By Kathryn Cornelius

New work @ the DCAC 20th Anniversary gala

Friday, May 29th
6:30-10:30pm

@ the Halcyon House in Georgetown, Washington, DC 

I'll be presenting a new video/sound installation entitled, "Too Loud a Solitude," at DCAC's 20th Anniversary Gala.  The piece is a single-channel video projection/installation wtih a ladder, WWII & Vietnam war pup-tent, with a vintage military sleeping bag and duffel bag.  The audio is both spoken word and computer-generated voices, quoting from Immanuel Kant and Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude (1976).

I am very excited to present the new work and support the DCAC at this event!

 

By Kathryn Cornelius