Wentworth Galleries are honored to present, in its DC Metro premiere, Rick Allen’s works from his latest collection entitled “Rick Allen: Angels and Icons” on Saturday, March 21. This collection of mixed media originals, featuring his personal photography, light art and painting, will be exclusively shown and available for acquisition in a dual-exhibition presentation at two Wentworth Gallery locations in Bethesda, MD and McLean, VA. Rick Allen will be making two very special appearances at these two charita
Programs exist now at the national, state, and local levels and we are here to highlight the ways you can help connect military service members and veterans, their families, and caregivers with the arts. Explore the opportunities in your region by joining at the national, state, or local levels. Or we propose that you can start your own grassroots creative arts programming with your own arts and crafts talents! Explore the many levels of involvement that exist as we serve those that serve.
During the first Discussion Series we will be looking at public artworks that speak to and about military veterans. We will hear about the national intersection between arts and the military and learn about the North Carolina Veterans Park as an example of a public art project honoring military veterans and a state-wide coordination over multiple government agencies. Both artists and administrators alike will learn how to work within the veteran community to create supportive public works of art.
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Americans for the Arts and the American Legion Auxiliary have joined forces to create a three part guide for starting a dialogue in your community to engage military service members, veterans, their families and caregivers through the arts to facilitate healing and well-being. In the first webinar, we invite you to learn the many ways the arts can be "deployed" in the community to serve the needs of local military and veteran populations by examples of existing programs at the local, state, and national levels. We will introduce the partnering agencies and how they are
The Theater of War: Soldiers & Citizens Tour presents dramatic readings of Sophocles’ Ajax — an ancient Greek tragedy about the suicide of a great, respected warrior — to diverse military and civilian audiences in order to engage communities in powerful town hall discussions about the visible and invisible wounds of war. The presentations are intended to foster understanding and compassion, while mobilizing citizens and resources to help improve the lives of service members, veterans, and their families and communities.
Veteran Artist Program (VAP) presents...December 5-7, 2014
Telling: Baltimore 2014
In partnership with Johns Hopkins University, this is the 2nd production of Telling that VAP has produced in Baltimore and includes 10 veterans and family members.
CRAFT IN AMERICA
Please join us for a screening of Craft in America's newest episode
SERVICE: Documenting craft and the military and the power of the handmade to inspire, motivate and heal
Q&A to follow
SERVICE premieres nationwide on PBS November 2, 2014
WETA airs SERVICE on November 7, 2014 at 10:00pm
(please check local listings)
Join us for a special screening of PBS Craft in America: Service, a Peabody Award-winning series, which continues to explore America’s creative spirit through the language and traditions of the handmade. The newest episode, "Service", part of the PBS veterans initiative Stories of Service*, is the story of craft and the military.
En Garde Arts presents BASETRACK LIVE, a multidisciplinary work that includes theater, music, news media, journalism, and technology. While embedded with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines in Southern Afghanistan, a group of photojournalists led by Teru Kuwayama started the online project that became the authentic dialogue of the performance. Connecting Battalion members with their families and others around the world, the online project became a platform for documenting the range of perspectives and the emotional tolls of deployment and beyond.
En Garde Arts presents Basetrack Live, a multidisciplinary work that includes theater, music, news media, journalism, and technology to draw on the power of individual stories to examine the collective experience of those who have served in America’s longest war. Adapted from the wildly popular Facebook page and website of photographs and videos taken in Afghanistan by embedded journalist Teru Kuwayama, Basetrack Live is a multidisciplinary work at the intersection of theatre, music, new media, journalism and technology.
AFGHANISTAN, 2010 -- a team of photographers and journalists, embedded with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines (out of Camp Lejeune), began composing a Facebook page and website which captured the stories and images of modern day Marines and their families. These social media pages (which to date have received over five million hits) became powerful tools for families and active military stationed overseas to communicate with each other. They also became the inspiration for a new a multi-media performance touring the nation during 2014/15.
BASETRACK LIVE, presented by En Garde Arts, is a multidisciplinary work including theater, music, news media, journalism, and technology. A group of photojournalists documented Marines in Afghanistan by taking photographs and videos using only an iPhone. This material, which enabled military families to communicate with their loved ones, began to tell an important story of ordinary people fundamentally changed by extraordinary circumstances.
Join us this November 8th and 9th at the Fashion Institute of Technology to celebrate veterans in the arts as part of Veterans Week 2014!
SATURDAY, NOV 8th – JOURNEYS in STORIES – From the Front to the Home Front in Words
PRESENTED by: Veteran Artist Program (VAP) w/ Voices from War
The Veterans Artist Program (VAP) presents Telling: Baltimore 2014 in partnership with Johns Hopkins University. This is the 2nd production of Telling that VAP has produced in Baltimore and includes 10 veterans and family members.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH – TELLING: NYC 2014
Join us for TELLING: NYC 2014 featuring Jerry Castanos, Michael Castelblanco, Elana Duffy, Natalie Lovejoy, John Manley, Letrice Titus and Adam Wojac
Created by Jonathan Wei
Directed by Max Rayneard and Alex Mallory
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