Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Emerging Print, Paper, and Book Artists to Show at Space 7:10

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

Image: Basement Cupboard by Lauren Atha


Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Painting by Joel Bergner Becomes Permanent Public Art at Kefa Cafe

Global Refugee Mural by Washington, DC artist Joel Bergner
Location: the alley wall of Kefa Café (click on the link for a music and video diary of the opening by Jonathan Vogel, Silver Spring Voice)
963 Bonifant St, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Bergner based the ideas for the mural on interviews he conducted with three refugees who live in Maryland. His mural explores the personal stories of the their homelands while celebrating the culture and traditions there.

The “Global Refugee Mural” is part of the Action Ashé! Global Mural Project, founded by artist Joel Bergner. Through this project, Joel creates colorful, intense murals with social and cultural themes in cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, Baltimore, Brazil and Peru. His projects have included solo work, youth projects, and he has directed a series of murals by international artists in DC. Aside from his art, Joel has done community-based work with emotionally disturbed teenagers, foster youth, the homeless, and the mentally ill, and has lived and worked in Central America, the Caribbean, and in the famous shanty town “City of God” in Brazil.

Funded through a grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, the project has a partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC)’s local Refugee Resettlement Center in Silver Spring.

Buffalo Soldier Autobiographer at Kefa Cafe

From left to right: Lene Tsegaye, Dorothy Daugherty, Abeba Tsegaye, James Harden Daugherty. The photo was taken after an evening discussion event on June 19, 2009 (Juneteenth) at Space 7:10, with James H. Daugherty, longtime Silver Spring resident and author of The Buffalo Saga.
A longtime Silver Spring resident, was the first African American to serve on the Montgomery County School Board, and later served for many years in a governor-appointed position at the Maryland School for the Deaf. He retired from an administrative position in the United States Public Health Service.

In WWII He served our country as a soldier in the army's 92nd Infantry Division in the European theater and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for heroic achievement and a Combat Infantryman Badge for outstanding performance of duty in action against the enemy.
Those soldiers were known as the Buffalo Soldiers in a unit made up of African Americans. He wrote the book in 1947 after he returned from the war. He was about 23 then. He was 19 when he was drafted and assigned to the 92nd Infantry all black Buffalo Soldiers unit.