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

Posted in Art, Community Service, tagged Art, Community on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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!

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Eye of the Beholder

Posted in Art, tagged Art on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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.

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These Boots are Made for…

Posted in Art, Community, tagged Art, Development Office on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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

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Shredding Guitar

Posted in Art, tagged Art on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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.

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Save the Date!

Posted in Community, Performing Arts, Uncategorized, tagged Art, Community, movies on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is cool. On March 5th at 5pm, Burke is joining with the Atlas Theater to debut Andre Robert Lee’s new film, The Prep School Negro. The film takes a poignant and unapologetic look at the life of a young man, who, through a scholarship, moved from poverty to prep school. Lee revisits the two worlds of his adolescence: inner city Philadelphia and an elite Philadelphia prep school. Afterward there will be a discussion with students from DC indepent schools. You can learn more and buy tickets for the event here.

Btw – The event is just one part of Atlas’ Intersections: A New America Arts Festival, which is showcasing a huge cross-section of multi-disciplinary arts from and for people from diverse races, ages and cultures from 2/19-3/7.

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Matter of Perspective

Posted in Art, tagged Art on December 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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: