Michael Thomas Listening Party

and CD signing.

Saturday, December 12, 2009 10am to noon
CD Release & Listening Party (“Live at Twins Jazz” Vols. 1 and 2)
Michael Thomas, The Michael Thomas Quintet

Exhibit of New Artwork and Prints

November 25 through January 2, 2009

In Good Company, new artwork by Pyramid Atlantic’s Fall interns, friends, and prints from the flat files. Curated by Krystal Hope (Juniata College) and Mingqian Liu (University of Iowa)

Reception: Friday, December 4, 2009, 6:30 to 8:30pm

Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe

963 Bonifant St. in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring's Buffalo Soldier Featured in Smithsonian magazine

Studio Insight Exhibits Outsider Artists at Space 7:10

Studio In-Sight
Exhibit by clients of St. Luke's House
October 5 through November 7
Extended two weeks through November 22!
Reception: Friday, October 16, 2009 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Artistic Statement
Artistic vision comes from many points of view. Everyone needs a place to create. Established in 2006, Studio In-Sight aims to bring space and inspiration to artists who may be outside the mainstream. Artists of the Studio In-Sight are clients at St. Luke’s House, a psychiatric rehabilitation facility in Montgomery County Maryland that serves those living with a chronic and persistent mental illness. The studio is a part of the Life Skills Program whose mission is to guide, train, and empower the clients in a social and supportive atmosphere.

The studio is dedicated to artists who want to work as artists. Here artists come together to work, explore and discover their creativity. Every artist needs a window, a viewing. The studio works to provide every opportunity for art to be seen by the public and purchased.

Canned Food Drive

Kefa Cafe Can Jam

Kefa Cafe will be collecting cans of food and dry goods for Progress Place, between 10 am and noon on Saturday September 26. Those bringing in cans will receive 10% off of their order, or 20% off of a French Press coffee.

963 Bonifant Street Silver Spring, MD 20910 - (301) 589-9337

Silver Spring Saturday! (Sept. 12, 2009)

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITY:
Spend a Saturday in Downtown Silver Spring [Sept. 12^th]

Start the day with coffee and art at Space 7:10 (Kefa Café) to view new painting by Burmese artist Kyi May Kaung; check out the Inaugural Fenton Street Market; pick up some veggies and more at the Farmers’ Market on Ellsworth; and stick around for the incredible Jazz Festival, this year featuring Allen Toussaint… It does not get any better than this!

Space 7:10 at Kefa Café -- 963 Bonifant St.

Fenton Street Market

Farmers’ Market

Jazz Festival

--Silver Spring Regional Center

New Paintings by Kyi May Kaung at Space 7:10

Kyi May Kaung
Identity: Mostly Burmese Monks
September 1 through October 3, 2009
Reception: Sept. 4, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Burma Update: Sept. 18, 7:10pm to 8:30pm

Words as Weapons of War, a performance piece: Sept. 25, 7:10 to 8:30pm

Identity
I belong in a different time and place I have nothing to do with you.

"During the Saffron Revolution of September 2007 in Burma, I painted these oil portraits and made these 'life extenders' of papier mache. In the viscious clampdown that followed the monks marching in the streets chanting the metta sutra, many monks were arrested and killed. The monks' leader was arrested in Nov. 07 during the UN Human Rights Rapporteur's visit. 'Life entenders' are decorated tree branches that sick people offer at Buddhist shrines to 'prop up the banyan tree.'" -- Kyi May Kaung

Kyi May Kaung has been a professional Burma watcher for over 15 years and has worked in the Burmese democracy movement overseas for over a decade. From 1997-2001 she worked as Senior Research Analyst and Broadcaster at Radio Free Asia and from 2001-2004 with The Burma Fund as Sr. Research Associate. Currently she consults about the Burmese political economy. She came to the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1982, after teaching 20 years at the Institute of Economics in Rangoon. She is on the boards of the Burmese Refugee Project and Burma Economic Watch.

A successful poet, Kyi has been painting professionally since 1999 and paints in acrylics and oils on canvas, and pencils, oil crayons, acrylics and water colors on paper. She also makes collages and 3-D constructions from found objects.

Her exhibit "Cut and Paste" is currently on display at Suriya Gallery, Huay Keaw Road, Chiangmai, Thailand. In March she had a show Splash, Drip, Pour in Ubud, Bali and showed her art also at Hotel Arthur in Helsinki in June. This is her 11th one-woman show (her first was called Flux at the Foundry Gallery in Washington, DC.); her 4th in S.E. Asia and her third in Thailand.

Late Summer and Fall 2009

AUGUST
Coat and Burn
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center's three summer studio interns explore the mediums of screen printing and cyanotype printing. Chrisi Atha, Nora Simon, James Orr.
Curator, Gretchen Schermerhorn
July 28 through August 28, 2009
Reception: Friday, August 31, 2009 6:30pm to 8:30pm

SEPTEMBER
Kyi May Kaung
Identity: Mostly Burmese Monks
September 1 through October 3, 2009
• Reception: September 4, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
• Burma Update led by Kyi May Kaung: September 18, 7:10pm to 8:30pm
• Words as Weapons of War, a performance piece: September 25, 7:10 to 8:30pm

OCTOBER
Studio In-Sight
October 5 through November 7
Reception: Friday, October 16, 2009 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Permanent Installation: Global Refugee Mural
Joel Bergner
On the alley wall, outside.