Gallery
The mission of the Exhibitions Program is to support and enrich the College’s academic programs, the students and community, by providing a diverse range of visual arts. Gallery programs are used as an educational resource to promote the teaching and understanding of art. A flexible schedule of exhibits includes local, regional, and national artists. Other programs include artist lectures, panel discussions, and demonstrations. The program is integral to Montgomery College’s role as a vital center for the visual arts in the Takoma Park/Silver Spring community and the greater metro DC region.
2009–2010 King Street Gallery Exhibitions
September 18-October 19, 2009
King Street Gallery
Floating Lab Collective Res Publica des Usonia: Space as Essay
Floating Lab Collective is a community arts initiative of Provisions Learning Project, a research center for arts and social change with support from the Greater Washington Creative Communities Initiative, Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and Tides Foundation.
Reception: Friday, September 25, 2009, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
October 26-November 25, 2009
King Street Gallery
Unfinished Business: Spur Design & the Posters of David Plunkert
This exhibition features more than a decade’s worth of award-winning posters created at Spur Design, a design firm located in Baltimore and founded by David Plunkert and his partner, Joyce Hesselberth. In the words of David Plunkert, “Some of the posters are labored, some are quick, some are expensive, and some are inexpensive, but there is always more to do. This is work that is never done.”
Reception: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 6-8 p.m.
November 15-January 26, 2009
Annex Gallery
The Lyrical Minimalism of Erwin Lachman
Reception: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
December 10-January 28, 2010
King Street Gallery
Juxtaposition: The Annual Faculty & Staff Show
An exhibition featuring works created by the faculty and staff of the Department of Visual Arts and Design, and faculty and staff from the School of Art + Design at Montgomery College on the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus.
Reception: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
February 8-March 4, 2010
King Street Gallery
Lincoln: One Man, Two Views—StudioEIS and the Art of Visual Storytelling
Two new sculptures of Abraham Lincoln in his 200th year
Ivan and Elliot Schwartz from StudioEIS in Brooklyn present an exhibition on the art of visual storytelling, featuring two of their latest sculptures of President Abraham Lincoln created in celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth: Lincoln and his horse at Lincoln’s Cottage, and Lincoln at Gettysburg.
Lecture: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 1:00–2:00 p.m., in Theatre #2 of the performing arts center.
Working Dialog with Ivan Schwartz: Exploring the Art of Visual Storytelling
Join artist and visual storyteller Ivan Schwartz as he considers the complexities of capturing Lincoln's heart, mind and soul in two of his latest sculpture commissions of President Lincoln, completed in 2009 to commemorate the 200th year of Lincoln's birth. This working dialog with the artist, featuring an engaging, interactive discussion with art students and members of the audience, will be moderated by Professors Wilfred Brunner and Lincoln Mudd of the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Department of Visual Arts and Design.
Reception in the gallery following the lecture: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
March 10-April 8, 2010
King Street Gallery
On And Off The Wall: Painting & Sculpture by Dennis Beach
Dennis Beach lives and works in Wilmington Delaware and is represented by the Schmidt Dean Gallery, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His paintings and sculptures share an emphasis on a process which “..is very similar to the way that nature creates so much of what intrigues us…” The pieces created by this process, while abstract, resonant with the harmonies of the natural world.
Reception: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
March 10–April 8, 2010
Annex Gallery
“A Space Within: Self as Landscape, Landscape as Self” by Jim Condron
Reception: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
April 15-May 10, 2010
Transmuting Craft
This exhibition features the work of ceramic and glass artists who use these craft media along with metal and other traditional sculpture materials to make three-dimensional mixed-media art. Artists include David D'Orio, Sarah Lindley, Greg Nangle, and John Williams.
Reception: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:30-7:30 p.m
Thursday, April 22 – Thursday, May 6, 2010
Annex Gallery
Human Rights Painting Project
An exhibition of paintings by local artist Tom Block held in conjunction with the Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival, April 23–25, 2010.
May 20 – September 10, 2010
King Street Gallery
The Annual Student Art Exhibition
An exhibition featuring works created by students in the Department of Visual Arts and Design, and students in the School of Art + Design at Montgomery College on the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus.
Reception: May 21, 2010, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Teaching Collection
The Visual Arts Faculty is actively engaged in the assembling and organizing of a Teaching Collection of art work that has been donated to the TP / SS Campus from art collectors and artists. The collection was started in 1999 by Sandra and James Fitzpatrick who generously donated a significant number of art works by prominent Washington artists to the Takoma Park Campus of Montgomery College.
The Sandra & James F. Fitzpatrick Washington Collection has grown as the Fitzpatricks have donated additional works in subsequent years. Another Washington art collector, Vivienne Lassman, in support of the Fitzpatrick donation, decided to donate numerous works of art by Washington artists from her personal collection. In addition, when the Visual Arts faculty notified the artists individually that their work had been donated, several expressed willingness to make additional donations in the future. A significant collection of African Art was donated to the department by Frank and Bridget Erwin in 2004. The Visual Arts faculty use the work as a teaching tool that benefits students by exposing them first hand to the art work that well known artists have created.
The first exhibit of the collection organized by Joyce Jewell and Wilfred Brunner was held in March and April 2000 in the Gallery of the Pavilion of Fine Arts followed by the exhibitions of the Lassman Collection and the African Art donated by the Erwins. The opportunity for students to see and experience these works of art in the relaxed familiar setting of the campus art gallery is very unusual in a community college setting. It emulates the teaching collection at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, which is an important facet of that college’s art program. The collection now has its own dedicated curatorial area in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center.