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Burke Grad, Keinyo White ’88 gets a thumbs up in the Post

jaqheard — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:50:04 +0000

Keinyo White has been named RealArtDC Finalist #9. There is an article about him in the Post Metro section today. He is a successful artist, painter, and illustrator. Keinyo now lives in New Zealand, but he also has a studio here in DC where he grew up and attended Burke. His portraiture is amazing!

Self Portrait

Check it out. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/17/AR2010091703680.html

Find out more about his art on his website at www.keinyowhite.com.

Congrats to Keinyo!

Filed under: Art, Community Service Tagged: Art, Community

LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition

theatreproduction — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:21:44 +0000

This summer the featured exhibition at the National Building Museum is, LEGOs!! According to the website: “Piece by piece, brick by brick, this (Adam Reed Tucker) LEGO Certified Professional (one of 11 worldwide) creates large-scale artistic models of some of the world’s most famous structures including the Empire State Building, St. Louis’ Gateway Arch, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece Fallingwater. The simplicity and nostalgic quality of LEGO affords viewers a new, detailed look at familiar buildings. Visitors can lean in close to see the complexity of a building’s intricate design and engineering or take a step back to appreciate its stunning sculptural form in full.”

“Trained as an architect, Tucker rekindled his childhood interest in LEGO® bricks and began experimenting with LEGO as a medium for his art in 2003. The result of his vision—15 buildings from around the world made entirely from LEGO bricks—will be the centerpiece of the exhibition LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition.”

Go Check out this pretty freekin cool exhibition at the National Building Museum, running now through Sept. 5, 2011 (yea, you have a lot of time)

More Info on this Exhibition here

Filed under: Art, Community, Education, History, Musings

Summer in the City…

theatreproduction — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:35:01 +0000

Isn’t complete without the invasion of FRINGE.

What’s FRINGE? well it’s a worldwide performing arts festival that happens in 24 states and 60 countries throughout the year. (see the full list of festivals in the US HERE)

Fringe Festivals feature new, innovate work by both established theatre artists and folks just starting out. There are musicals, comedies, dramas, dance/movement, music, spoken word, improv shows, and more. All of the fringe performances cost the same amount ($15) and it’s guaranteed that everyone will find a show that interests them.

In DC, Fringe is celebrating it’s 5th anniversary this year! With 133 different shows happening all around Downtown DC, this is a festival that you can’t miss!! Check out the shows HERE.

I know – the list of shows is daunting. How do you figure out what to see? what’s good? what’s going to be bad? Who cares! it’s only $15. That’s what’s great about fringe – you can discover a new talented artist/group or experience something bad, either way you’ve not spent much money, and you’ve gotten the chance to support folks trying something new for them, and see something you wouldn’t see everyday yourself. Be the first to see a breakout show that everyone’s going to be clamoring to get in to.

Check out shows like: Super Claudio Bros., The New Video Game Musical, iSchool Musical, How to Be a Human, Cookin’ Up Numbers, or Assembly Required: How to Write, Produce and Stage a Musical – The Musical! and many, many, many, more.

Not sure what to see? There will be many reviews of the shows posted in places like THE WASHINGTON POST , DC THEATRE SCENE and WASHINGTON CITY PAPER. They will each have special fringe sections once the festival kicks off on July 8th. I’ll also post some shows you can’t miss on the blog.

Fringe is just two weeks away – so find some shows that interest you, pick up some tickets- and be prepared for 3 weeks of over 600 performances in and around downton dc!

PS: The idea of the Fringe Festival began in Edinburgh in 1947, where the biggest festival around the world is still held. Check out more of the Fringe History Here.

Filed under: Art, Community, Performing Arts

Eye of the Beholder

Ramaz — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:03:40 +0000

My iPhone pics don’t do justice to all of the great artwork that fills the Burke halls and open spaces for the Art Showcase. So, if you haven’t already, make your way over there this week to look through windows into other beautiful and strange worlds. Bravo to Maureen, Allen, Lucinda and Cory for helping to pull the show together. Click to see more photos at BurkePix.

Filed under: Art Tagged: Art

These Boots are Made for…

Ramaz — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:48:18 +0000

One of the many great things about last month’s auction was all the great artwork that was made by students, staff and parents for the event. High on the cool quotient was the collection of ‘reconditioned’ cowboy boots – which were done by an assortment of Burke artists. H/T to Maureen O’ for helping with the project. Some of the boots are still on display at Burke. Others were auctioned off for a pretty penny. If you missed ‘em, you can take a look at a few here and BurkePix:

Boots from Dalmatia

Italian leather and hipster boots

Winged boots

Filed under: Art, Community Tagged: Art, Development Office

Shredding Guitar

Ramaz — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:07:07 +0000

Not sure that Les Paul had this in mind when it comes to playing a Gibson. I don’t know whether I more enjoyed watching how the definitions of art, music and ornithology get mixed up in this video – or just the simple pleasure of seeing green grass after all this dang snow.

Filed under: Art Tagged: Art

MS Play students Hard At Work!

theatreproduction — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:55:28 +0000

MS Play Students Hard At Work

For the past two thursdays, the entire cast of “A Wrinkle In Time” (the middle school play) have been working furiously painting the set, building furniture, creating doors, painting a large mural on the back wall of the theatre, and getting the theatre ready for the show! All of the cast members have had a hand in the tech end this time around, and it’s been a great successes! (apologies for the slightly blurry photos, there were taken from my iphone)

I’ve also posted a few shots from today’s rehearsal. Check them all out here: Burke Pix

Stay tuned for more shots throughout the tech process through opening next Friday!

Purchase Your Tickets here: Tickets

Interesting Fact: A team of students actually created the mural on the back wall based on some art work from Peter Max – They used his color schemes and integrated them into ideas from the story of “A Wrinkle In Time”. Can you figure out what everything means?

Posted in Art, Performing Arts

In the Mail

Ramaz — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:13:04 +0000

Check out Letterheady – a cool site devoted to letterhead. You’ll like it.

Posted in Art

Matter of Perspective

Ramaz — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:45:29 +0000

Julian Beever is an artist. Well, there’s more to it than that. His work includes drawing, street art, neurology, politics, humor, etc. On the ‘surface’ his art is fun. But it also raises questions about what lies beneath, what it means to see, and the meaning of art – especially when that art disappears in days, if not hours. One of his specialties is drawing with chalk on sidewalks around the world to make “anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular viewpoint.” What’s that mean? Take a look:

Want to see how he did this one? Click here. Hat tip to my sister, Gail.

Posted in Art Tagged: Art