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Artists Wanted for Upshur St. Arts Fair

By Prince Of Petworth

“After a year off, the Upshur Street Arts Fair, hosted by Domku Bar & Cafe, is back on for 2010. This year’s event will take place Saturday, December 11, from 11a-4p. This year’s fair will be co-hosted by CoreHaus DC, Upshur’s most recent retail addition.

Starving artists, MOMA stalwarts, papier-mache savants, and weekend dilettantes sign-up now to show at Petworth’s premiere seasonal artists’ festival! Get your craft on at the 2010 Upshur Street Arts Fair. We are looking for folks who can meet these criteria:

1. You have to be a DC-area based artist.
2. Your work must fall within the visual and plastic arts.
3. Your work must be all self-made.
4. Your items can be moderately priced.

The cut-off date to sign up is November 20, so don’t delay!

*Special consideration will be given to artists using recycled materials.

For full details visit here.”

Sweet Statehood Van

By Prince Of Petworth

If you listen closely you can almost hear the Dazed and Confused soundtrack playing in the background…

Fire Box Art Vol. 87

By Prince Of Petworth

And this fire box art is nearby the house of the day (below). And there’s a good bit of city history on the back:

The 5pm Post – Picture Equality: An Evening of Empowerment Through Photography

By Prince Of Petworth

From an email:

Picture Equality: An Evening of Empowerment Through Photography is our 3rd annual reception and silent auction to provide opportunities for low-income youth so that they can be seen and heard.

October 21, 2010
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

DLA Piper Building

Gallery Place
500 Eighth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004

Tickets $75
VIP Sponsors $250

Heavy hors d’oeuvres and
cocktails will be served.

Limited Tickets Available
To purchase, please visit:
www.criticalexposure.org/auction,
or contact Emma Scott at 202-745-3745 x20,
[email protected]

The auction will consist of images donated by world-class, professional photographers, including Pulitzer Prize winners and contributors to National Geographic and Getty Images.

Critical Exposure is a DC-based non-profit that teaches middle and high school students to use the power of photography and their own voices to become effective advocates for school reform and social change.

Cool New Art Display, District Modular, Goes up on Georgia Ave, NW

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoP,

Have you talked about “district modular” on GA Ave a few stores up from petworth liquors at kenyon? It looks like an art gallery.”

I’ve been getting a number of emails about this and walked by on Saturday. The display at 3216 Georgia Ave, NW is quite cool. Unfortunately the doors were locked and there was nobody to talk to, to get more info. According to the Pinkline Project:

“District Modular is a growing artists-collective with the goal of creating collaborative installation and experimental media projects to join/complicate/carry-on the cultural conversation at a local level.”

The 5pm Post – Fundraiser at Whole Foods Wed. and Art Project for Petworth Thurs.

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoP,

We would love if you would help draw a little attention to our 5% Day at Whole Foods this week. At all three stores on Wed. the 15th, 5% of sales will directly benefit The Farm at Walker Jones, an emerging urban farm serving the great kids, families and neighbors of Walker Jones Education Campus, a DC public school.

Our farm is huge by school standards, and was launched as part of larger school wellness initiatives for our school population. 100% of our kids receive free meals here at school, and we want to help both the children and the families realize that sound food choices are accessible to all.”

Dear PoP – Help Me Find My Art Please!

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by PoPville flickr user pablo.raw

“Dear PoP,

I dropped it off a piece at Art & Framing Express at 3421 M Street NW in Georgetown. I was suppose to pick it up 3 weeks later..but kept forgetting and putting it off because I’m never in Georgetown. As things got busy at work I actually forgot all about it!!! So I called the frame shop up only to find the number had been disconnected!!! and the shop was no longer there. I’ve been trying to track down information about this place but no one has answers. Do you have ANY guidance on who I can contact to get information on where the owners of this frame shop went?”

Yikes! It might be a shot in the dark but do any readers know what happened to Art & Framing Express. How would you advise the reader track down this piece?

Isn’t This Wildly Inappropriate?

By Prince Of Petworth

Last Wed. evening we learned of the horrific accident seriously injuring two SAIS students (last I heard they were still in the hospital) by a drunk driver who also plowed into the Keren Restaurant at 1780 Florida Ave, NW. After the Adams Morgan Day Festival I was walking past the storefront and noticed that it appears somebody put some graffiti art of a car in the window. For some reason the car also says NASA. I probably support some instances of graffiti art more than others but I found this to be really distasteful. I mean the injured students are still in the hospital.

Am I overreacting or does this seem wildly inappropriate?

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