As a part of Art @ Work, the exhibit that open on Friday, January 13, 7-9pm in the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, we offer three on-site, mural workshops that will transform the Gallery into a working studio. Visitors of all artistic backgrounds, adults and kids (ages 12 and up) are invited to work with Albus Cavus to create a public art piece incorporating their unique voices and perspectives, which will eventually be installed in a local neighborhood as part of Albus Cavus’ Open Walls project.

Along with the community mural, Art @ Work will feature over 50 local, graffiti-style artists who routinely work with Albus Cavus to transform and beautify DC’s neighborhoods, including Ben Tolman, Kelly Towles, Aniekan Udofia, Decoy, Che, and Jazirock.

Click on the following links to learn more and to register:
January 14, 3:30pm: Mural Workshop #1: Line Drawing
January 28, 3:30pm: Mural Workshop #2: Stencils
February 4, 3:30pm: Mural Workshop #3: Painting

Art @ Work will run from January 13, 2012 to February 18, 2012. Regular Gallery Hours: W-F 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm, and by appointment
Learn more about the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery

Wishing you and your loved ones a happy, creative and healthy 2012 from Albus Cavus Family! We are looking forward to this year as it will be one of the most exciting years so far. To review 2011, please download our Annual Report.

Smith Center for Healing and the Arts and Albus Cavus are
excited to announce our upcoming community arts collaboration at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery this January 2012.

Photo by Yvette Mitchell; Perry Center Inc.; background art by Demer and Leon Rainbow

In partnership with Albus Cavus, a DC non-profit that transforms communities through creativity, the gallery will become an open and interactive forum for artists to visually discuss the effects of unemployment on the lives of DC residents. The current state of unemployment breaks families and communities as individuals fall into despair, depression, and isolation. This collaborative show will engage visitors and artists alike to directly experience the power of art by providing engagement, therapy, training possibilities, and a colorful tool to build a stronger and healthier community.

Through a series of three on-site mural workshops we will transform the gallery space into a working studio. Participating visitors of all ages and artistic backgrounds will be encouraged to become a part of the collective work of art. They will experience the positive impact of art through techniques and materials that are widely used by graffiti and street artists. The completed mural will later be installed on DC’s streets.

Community Mural Workshops: Everyone is an artist in these collaborative mural workshops, which will result in an on-site mural. Exercise you mind and get involved on January 14, 28 and February 4 at 3.30pm. Register online at www.smithcenter.org/gallery. The exhibit will be open from January 13 to February 18, 2012
Opening Reception – Friday, January 13, 7-9pm. Final Mural Unveiling Celebration – Friday, February 17, 7-9pm. Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery is located at 1632 U Street, in Northwest D.C. The gallery is open Wednesday to Friday, 11am-5pm, Saturday, 11am-3pm, and by appointment.

This mural was painted by the students at Ballou Arts and Tech Academy. We have provided little guidance, paint and art supplies…

via givemeavote.org

We are happy that you like our classes and that you always keep asking about the next workshop. Therefore, in January 2012 we will be opening a new art program for homeschoolers and kids who can skip Friday mornings from January 27 to May 18 (16 lessons with a one week break on March 23) to attend our “Classes for Young Artists”. The students will be in our studio on Capitol Hill every Friday from 9:30am to 11:30am. The lessons are customized for third-graders but suitable for all ages. We will also follow our text “Going Public: Guide to Creating Art in Public Space.”

The classes will be held in our mutlifunctional studio that will allow us to get experience with various techniques: painting, drawing, collages, sculptures, spray paint, stencils, woodwork etc… Please sign up your young artists today by contacting us.

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Maxx Moses is in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe as part of a U.S. Embassy program to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS through street art. Maxx will be working with a team of local artists on work to be unveiled on Thursday the US Ambassador and Bulawayo City Mayor.

More information via kubatanablogs.net and photos on facebook.

Sponsored and hosted by Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum: To help you discover the beautiful and unexplored world of color around us, artist Peter Krsko of the art and design group Albus Cavus leads a workshop that examines the phenomenon of color. What is it and how do we perceive it? Why is a sunset red and a rainbow always the same? To answer these questions, we will look at color from the perspective of an artist, physicist, neuroscientist, and biologist.

On Sunday, November 20, 2011, 2 – 3:30pm in Anacostia Community Museum, Program Room. Free; for reservations, call 202-633-4844

MONSTER MASH 2 was one of the most intense events we have ever organized. Despite freezing weather and snow, muralists, dancers, skaters and all the art lovers showed up and spent the entire day Garfield Park. It was beautiful! Thank you all for making this happen. Photos