Well next up UTP has a summer open mic series coming to you. Yes we just don't stop so stay tuned. If you plan ahead just go ahead and reserve every other Wednesday from May 11th to July!
To everyone who made it to Nova Rays thank you and for those who were there in spirit you are fully appreciated. The night was brilliant and I was taken back by all the love. Everytime someone walked up the steps to the 2nd floor of Tabaq an even larger smile exuded my face. I was glad to see people I hadn't seen in a while. Well all in all I sold 4 pieces last night. Muy bien!
Well next up UTP has a summer open mic series coming to you. Yes we just don't stop so stay tuned. If you plan ahead just go ahead and reserve every other Wednesday from May 11th to July!
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Nova Rays exhibition; an artists first An explosion in the sky is the definition of 25-year-old Oklahoma bred artist, Dawn J.’s first solo exhibit. Nova Rays, which coincides with the position she is now taking on within the D.C. art scene; a star that has been forced to explode and in the process emits valuable rays into the universe. Come Sunday, March, 27th Tabaq Bistro will be open for all those who want to view this cataclysmic occurrence. From 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. her art will be on display with the accompanying sounds of D.C.’s own DJ Natty Boom and up and coming, DJ Prizm. Dawn J.’s work displays a combustion of color, combining various mediums of material from aerosol, latex acrylic, water based acrylic, vinyl records and more. “My pieces often provoke my abstract thoughts on community, humanity, spirituality and connections of present and past,” Dawn J. says. “It’s somewhat conscious but I’m definitely aware of the freedom of the subconscious.” She often uses bright colors that contrast with each other; allowing the paint to tell a story while leaving it all up for the viewer’s interpretation. Quite possibly the phrase she uses, ‘life is an art form, expose your roots’ comes from her love of art at an early age. Art carved a niche in Dawn J.’s life in high school but after taking one drawing class in college, she quickly realized the art she wanted to create could not be taught. “Drawing 3 hours in class actually discouraged me from wanting to be creative and so I dropped art as a minor and pursued it as a hobby.” In 2006 Dawn J. sold her first pieces at the University of Oklahoma’s student art gallery while obtaining a journalism degree. Marketing relocated her to the D.C. metro though in 2008 but after a year the itch for pushing her creations came scratching hard she says. Since then, she’s found that D.C. has a pretty healthy love for artistic locality. “You wouldn’t think from the outside that D.C.’s underground art scene was a hit but as you move around and tap local venues, you learn the natives really love knowing where there art is coming from,’ Dawn J. says. “I’ve learned a lot in the two and a half years I’ve been here.” She began with a wall on U street in a store called Dekka, which relocated to Florida just last year and from there she’s participated in a market on Rhode Island, Baltimore’s Artdromeda, D.C’s 1st on First annual art walk and more. Now with the help of her business Underground Tree Projects and a new pseudo name, ‘Tree’, she’s standing alone and setting the stage for many works to come. “Life’s a journey and we should be set on taking leaps all the time,” says Dawn J. This is a free event with happy hour specials running all night at Tabaq Bistro, which is located at 1336 U Street, Washington, DC 20009. Healthy habits can protect you from the harmful effects of stress. Here are 10 positive healthy habits you may want to develop.
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Eleanor Whitney, Program Officer for External Affairs and Fiscal Sponsorship from Artspire, a project of NYFA, will present on Artspire/NYFA’s resources, fundraising and support programs available nationwide for artists in all disciplines at every stage in their careers. The presentation is geared towards individual artists across all disciplines and small/emerging arts organizations and will cover Artspire/NYFA’s extensive resources, fundraising and support programs. The lunch hour is a FREE event and will be held on April 1, 2011 from 12-1PM at Flashpoint (916 G Street NW, Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro). Bring your food, your questions, and register now for an Artspire One-on-One for after the talk! To attend, you must RSVP by Thursday, March 31st to Kate Judson, Program Coordinator, by e-mailing [email protected]. You’re probably well-aware that Facebook’s News Feed and Google’s search results adjust based on your behavior and demonstrated preferences. But are these and the web’s other algorithms making us collectively uninformed as a society? That’s the argument that Eli Pariser, the former executive director of MoveOn.org, made in a TED talk on Thursday in Long Beach, California. Pariser started his talk by noting a trend he saw on Facebook. Over time, he said, the conservative friends he had started following to ensure a diverse set of viewpoints (Pariser describes himself as “progressive” politically) gradually started disappearing. As he would soon discover, that was a result of him clicking far more frequently on the links posted by his more liberal friends. This “invisible algorithmic editing of the web,” as Pariser describes it, “moves us to a world where the Internet shows us what it thinks we need to see, but not what we should see.” Beyond Facebook, Pariser notes the huge diversity of search results his friends find on Google about topics like Egypt, where one friend sees news about recent protests and Lara Logan, while another sees results about travel and vacations. In turn, Pariser believes we’re collectively creating what he calls a personal “filter bubble,” which is also the title of a book on the subject due out in May. And while he falls short of arguing that the trend towards personalization must end, he says the likes of Facebook and Google need to “have a sense of civic responsibility, and let us know what’s getting filtered … [and offer] controls to let us decide what gets through and what doesn’t.” What he’d like to see is an information world that “gives us a bit of Justin Bieber and a bit of Afghanistan,” marked by controls that let us filter content by its relevance, importance, comfort (topics that can be difficult to discuss or read), challenge level, and points of view (with an option to see “alternative”). Of course, much of that goes against the history of the Internet, which has been marked by its ability to connect like-minded people, both for good and for bad. In other words, Google and Facebook could build such controls and even bake more human editing into their algorithms, but do people even want them? What do you think? Is the personalization of the Web making us less informed? Do the companies driving innovation on the web have a civic responsibility to give us a fuller world view? Sound off in the comments. Come enjoys the sounds of DJ Natty Boom & the up and coming, DJ Prizm! Happy hour specials and dope art from myself, Dawn J. aka Tree. FYI: I'vebeen working hard on some new pieces!!
A Nova is an explosion in the sky producing gamma rays in the process. I'm exploding. Rays are my soul. Tree |