May 29 - July 3, 2009:

Idylls
in partnership with the World Bank Art Program
juried by Andrea Pollan, Director of Curator's Office
Opening Reception: Friday, May 29 6-8pm
(please rsvp to kbilonick[at]wpadc.org by May 20th to attend) RSVP's are no longer being taken for this event

Location: The World Bank
Main Complex, Front Lobby Gallery
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC

Featuring WPA member artists:
Joan Belmar, Christene Carr, Sara Clark, Benjamin Edwards, Amy Glengary Yang
Pat Goslee, Tom Greaves, Bridget Sue Lambert, Barbara Liotta, Isabel Manalo, Mark Parascandola & Diane Szczepaniak


works by Christene Carr and Joan Belmar

Washington Project for the Arts and the World Bank Art Program are pleased to present a collaborative exhibition, Idylls. The show features works selected by juror Andrea Pollan from submissions by WPA member artists. Andrea Pollan is an independent curator and director and founder of Curator's Office, a contemporary art gallery in DC. In this unique collaboration with Washington Project for the Arts, the World Bank Art Program will, for the first time, be working with a DC-based curator to show works by area professional artists.

The idyll is a special variant of utopia, an imagined paradise-like, timeless little piece of earth, but actually not of this world. Formally, the idyll is a literary category, a mode of narrating and writing. This literary mode was joined by a musical one, and later by a visual artistic one, a mode of the drawn picture and of painting. This mode is fully furnished...The premise of this exhibition, which was selected from a juried process across the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area, is to define how diverse that vision of an idyll can be. After all, most of the artists in this exhibition have urban lives... -Andrea Pollan

Visting the Exhibition:
The exhibition will be open for public tours on Fridays:
June 19 & June 26th at 12pm and 4pm.

To sign up for a tour, contact Kristina Bilonick at: kbilonick@wpadc.org at least 2 days prior to your desired tour date and note which tour you would like that day (noon or 4pm).

The works can also be viewed around the clock from the glass exterior of the building on H Street between 18th and 19th Streets, NW

For more information on the World Bank Art Program visit:
www.worldbank.org/artprogram
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COUP D'ESPACE installment III :

UNWRAP
featuring WPA member artist, Anita Walsh
June 5 - June 26, 2009

Opening Reception, Friday, June 5, 2009 from 6-8pm
at WPA, 2023 Massachusetts Ave. NW

WPA member artist Anita Walsh transforms the office into a room-sized installation of color and memory. This interactive project asks participants to type their memories of specific colors onto paper that were hand made by the artist from old crayon wrappers; these personal recollections become collaborative works which are then attached to the walls of the artist’s “castle” installation.

Opening reception on 6/5 in conjunction with Dupont First Friday Art Walk
Gallery Hours June 8-26: Tuesday - Friday 11-5pm

click here for the full press release >>