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Fall 2009 Workshops from Pyramid Atlantic

by Amanda on August 15, 2009

Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring just announced a whole slew of fall workshops in the areas of printmaking, papermaking, book arts, digital media, and collage, plus a handful of workshops for kids. For more information, call (301) 608-9101 or email: gschermerhorn@pyramid-atlantic.org

Here are a few of the workshops that caught my attention:

Introduction to Bookmaking
Saturday, October 17th, 10am-4pm
Have you ever wanted to learn how to make your own journals, notebooks, …

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Tagged as: art_classes, maryland, opportunities_for_artists

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Celebrating (Street) Art in DC and Beyond

by Amanda on June 12, 2009

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Last night I attended the DC premiere of a wonderful documentary called Beautiful Losers. I highly recommend this film – I’m still feeling the buzz of inspiration, almost 24 hours later. It’s about a group of punks, skaters, graffiti artists and other “outsiders” who start hanging around and making art together in New York’s Lower East Side in the …

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Tagged as: artistic_process, dc_artists, film, guerrilla_art, maryland, video

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Win the Strathmore for a Day!

by Amanda on July 8, 2008

Photo of the Strathmore Arts Center in Maryland, courtesy of dcJohn on Flickr

Thanks to Teague over at Still Indie for giving me the heads up about the The Great Strathmore 25th Anniversary Giveaway (if you don’t know, Strathmore is a gorgeous arts center in Bethesda, Maryland:”Strathmore invites …

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Photo of the Strathmore Arts Center in Maryland, courtesy of dcJohn on Flickr

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American Visionary Arts Museum, and Creative DC’s First Video

by Amanda on April 2, 2008

This weekend I took myself to the American Visionary Arts Museum (AVAM) in Baltimore, which I’ve been dying to visit – I knew I’d love it, and I did. (If you aren’t sure what “visionary arts” means, read this.)The main exhibit right now is All Faiths Beautiful (through August ’08) and includes postcards from the PostSecret project on which a self-proclaimed atheist confesses to secretly …

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Tagged as: maryland, museums_galleries, outsider_art, places, video

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Library Love

by Amanda on December 13, 2006

Photo of the new library in Rockville, Maryland

I’m in the new Rockville, MD library, and I can’t remember the last time I was in such a beautifully designed space. It feels more like a concert hall than like any library …

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Photo of the new library in Rockville, Maryland

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