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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
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Robert Hailey
Accomplished Percussionist
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Robert "Dupree" Hailey, an accomplished percussionist on instruments large and small, joins us on Artworks to shed light on a variety of percussion instruments (including some African instruments) and how, in the right hands, a triangle or a tambourine can open up into a sound big enough to fill the room. Robert "Dupree" Hailey appears April 24th (and every Sunday night) from 7-10 pm at Pete's Place Bar and Lounge, located at 322 N. Franklintown Road in Baltimore. Admission is free. Robert "Dupree" Hailey will also be teaching a "percussion clinic" for those interested in learning more about a variety of drums at Montgomery Community College located at 51 Mannakee Street in Rockville, MD ( View Map) on Saturday, May 21st at 11:30 am. Admission is free but participants must pre-register in the college's Music Department. Call the music department at (301) 279-5209 or register at Chuck Levins Music Center located at 11151 Veirs Mill Road, Wheaton, MD. Call 301-946-8808, or e-mail to register.
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Montgomery Community College
Chuck Levins Music Center
Kinetic Sculpture Race
Hobart Brown
Kinetic Sculptures are amphibious, human powered works of art. Each May, Kinetic Sculptures from the eastern United States convene at the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) on Baltimore's Inner Harbor for the East Coast Championship race. A few weeks later, the World Championships are held in Arcata, California. Folks have been racing in California since 1969, when a Ferndale artist named Hobart Brown made a few "artistic improvements" to his son's tricycle, and a friendly wager led to a race among weird sculptures, and the concept has been spreading ever since. In 1999, the first Kinetic Sculpture Race (KSR) was held in Baltimore, sponsored by AVAM. This year's race will be April 30!
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Kinetic Sculpture Race (More Photos)
Raiders of the Lost Art
Dr. Gary Vikan: Director, The Walters Art Museum
In the chaos after the Iraq war, looters purportedly plundered the Iraq National Museum of precious antiquities. There was a worldwide outcry from renowned authorities, including Dr. Gary Vikan of The Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. Now a new film by the BBC explores what happened in the days and weeks after the war, and learns that many of the treasures were not stolen, but secreted away. But does this discovery absolve the lax security after the war? Dr. Vikan will share his views about "Raiders of the Lost Art", airing on MPT on April 26 at 9 p.m.
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The Walters Art Gallery
Bennard Perlman
Bennard Perlman, a Baltimore native, is an artist, art critic, author, art professor, and lecturer. His art is included in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Peale Museum, as well as hundreds of private collections. As an art critic, Perlman wrote for "Baltimore Magazine," "The Daily Record," as well as our own Maryland Public Television's, "Critics Place." His articles have appeared in such publications as "ARTnews," "Art in America," "Art & Antiques," "American Artist," "Art Voices," and "Arts" magazine, plus "The New York Times" and "The Baltimore Sun." He is the author of eight books on American art, published between 1962 and 2002. He was guest curator for the "75th Anniversary of 'The Eight'" exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His career is as wide and varied as his artwork. He joins us this week to discuss his work and his thoughts on art.
Salon Artist
Creative Partners Gallery
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Displayed in this week's Salon are members from the Creative Partners Gallery in Bethesda. Creative Partners Gallery is a distinctive space in the Washington, D.C. area for connecting artists and collectors. Its juried members include painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers, potters, and jewelers from the Washington, D.C. area. The gallery presents a new exhibition every month, with a reception on the second Friday to coincide with the Bethesda Art Walk. Throughout the year, Creative Partners Gallery features national and international guest artists who have a unique approach to their medium. The current show features large water colors by guest artist Valerie Watson. The gallery also offers workshops, artist talks, and a bulletin board of area art events as a service to the local community. Creative Partners Gallery is located in the heart of Bethesda, at 4600 East-West Highway ( View Map). Entrance and parking garages are located on Waverly Street. The Gallery is one block from the Bethesda metro stop.
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Creative Partners Gallery
Art Chat
On ArtChat This Week, Nate and Rhea offer suggestions on constructive and fun ways to occupy young peoples time during the summer. The 5th Wall Young Filmmakers Workshop with Sundance award winning filmmaker Steve Yeager, is set to begin. The Young filmmakers workshop is for students ages 10-17 who are dedicated to the arts. It's a very hands on program. Students, act, write , direct, shoot and edit. And there work will be screened at a Baltimore theater in the fall. Full and partial scholarships are available for the 2005 summer program which begins June 27 to July 15 and July 18 to August 29. These are need based awards and early application deadline is May 1. The final deadline is May 15. It's been about two months since the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra helped inaugurate the $100 million dollar Music Center at Strathmore. Now the BSO is taking steps to give its Cathedral Street home and upgrade. The orchestra wants to renovate the exterior and main lobby of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, which opened in 1982. They've hired an architectural firm to develop some proposals. BSO officials say there's nothing wrong with the building, they just want to give it a facelift...make it a little more up to date. About six years ago, the mayor of a Japanese city gave our city a gift—a painting on silk. Unfortunately, the painting was quickly reboxed and shut away in a storage room in City Hall. Until now. City hall officials have granted a local restaurant permission to display the painting. The $20-thousand painting will hang at the Kawasaki, on Charles Street. At least now it can be appreciated...even if it's with an order of Sushi.
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