Members of Capitol Hill Art League are invited to submit ready to hang artwork to be considered for public display in a busy medical office in Chevy Chase, MD. All sizes are acceptable with weight under 50 lbs. Artwork must be for sale/all potential buyers will be given contact info for each artist. Sales will be conducted between the artist and buyer. Artwork can be bought and removed from the walls if the artist agrees. The office will retain a list of prices/artist contact info of the artwork on display.
Online entry through smarter entry account.
Entry OPENS: Wednesday July 22 at 5pm. 1-5 entries for 2-D artwork only, 3-D not accepted for this show.Fees: $5 per entry – 5 entries maximum.
Deadline for entries: July 29! Accepted artwork must be hand delivered by the artist, ready to hang to the Chevy Chase office at the pre-arranged, designated date and time. Address will be supplied. Exhibit runs: September-October. Artists will be notified with all details for drop off and pick up of artwork.
Please use insurance for your artwork if that is a consideration. CHAL will not be held responsible for artwork on display.
September 8 – October 3, 2020 Frame of Mine Gallery, 545 8th St SE, Washington, DC 20003
Our new live gallery exhibit is dedicated to new members who joined our art league since January 2020. We invited our newest artists to display their art work at Frame of Mine Gallery, viewable from outside or INSIDE the shop! This talented bunch exhibits photographs, collage, watercolors, yupo paintings, acrylics, charcoal, and more and everything is for sale! Contact Frame of Mine for purchase or Capitol Hill Art League via email.
Featured Artists: Anne Albright, E. Lynn Coates, Ellen Yahuda, Jeffery Miller, KB Kessler, Kim DiDonato-Murrell, Lori Niland Rounds, Martina Sestakova, Mary Elizabeth Gosselink, Nan Raphael, Sarah Burford, Louise Holland, and Steve Kunin.
Members voted for their favorite artwork in this show and the top vote went to Louise Holland for her Georgetown photograph. Louise receives a $25 gift certificate from Plaza Arts in DC.
Zoom Reception: September 12, 2020, 5:30 pm
Georgetown C&O Canal in the Golden Hour Artist: Louise Holland Media: Photography Dimensions: 10″ x 10″ Price: $75
Frame of Mine is located at 545 8th St SE on Capitol Hill. They sell framing, matting of images and more! The shop will allow groups of five people or less in to view the gallery at one time.
Steve Kunin “Hello from Hon Soi, Vietnam, photograph
Steve Kunin “The Adorables” photograph
Martina Sestakova Footsteps that Follow the Sea (Inspired by a Mary Oliver Poem)
Martina Sestakova A Heart’s Strong Beat
Sarah Burford Passage
Nan Raphael Shadow Selfie
Nan Raphael LC Squared
Mary E. Gosselink Stargazing
Mary E. Gosselink Faraway City
Mary E. Gosselink A Square Affair
Louise Holland A Spark of Inspiration, maybe. photograph
Kim DiDonato-Murrell Moe No. 5
Kim DiDonato-Murrell Moe No. 4
KB Kessler Green With Envy
KB Kessler Last Night’s Makeup
KB Kessler Behind Herself
Lori Niland Rounds Celestial Dreams
Lori Niland Rounds The Hug
Lori Niland Rounds The Kiss
Louise Holland Monument Valley : Contemplation, photograph
Jeffery Miller
Louise Holland Georgetown C and O Canal in the Golden Hour, photograph
Welcome to CHAL and now is the time to sign up and become part of this active, presently zooming, art community for DMV artists, beginners and pros alike. We are a diverse group of all ages from Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia and feature all mediums including photography.
Our gallery is located on Capitol Hill and is closed for the summer due to you know what. Right now our exhibits and receptions are virtual and we keep creating artwork because artists naturally self-isolate to create work.
2021 New season runs: January through December for $60 and at least two volunteer hours. We used to follow the school year, Sept-August but that was too confusing! What this means is that if you join now, your membership will continue right into 2021 expiring 12/31/21. A deal!
Because we are unsure of our live exhibitions, we will have our themed/juried and unjuried art shows online with digital entry. We can say that we have our annual members’ exhibit at the Hill Center and a pop up show at Frame of Mine-if all goes well and these will be online also.
Join us! Create what you love and be a part of the Capitol Hill Art League, the only art group on the hill. Look for the BLUE membership button on the main page (like the one above) to click, enroll online, and pay with credit card safely.
Over 32 members and many guests attended our very first virtual reception held via Zoom for the awards and juror’s remarks re: Meltdown competition. John Coppola, juror and former exhibition director for the Smithsonian, selected 29 works of art for this exhibit and out of those 29 he awarded five finalists.
Juror John Coppola’s Statement: “Edgar Degas pointedly said, Art isn’t what you see. It’s what you make others see. In selecting works for this exhibition, I focused on submissions that made me–and I hope, those who see the exhibition online–look at our current state of affairs in all its complexity and uncertainty from differing points of view. Hats off to the CHAL artists who pushed through the pandemic and social unrest to create art. Frankly, it was better than I did: My drafting table is cluttered with notes and sketches for work I never quite got to. Thanks both to the Capitol Hill Art League for inviting me to jury “Meltdown,” and to the participating artists who got me to re-engage with art!”
NOTE: All the artwork is for sale, framed or unframed, as noted in each image. Please contact chalartists(at)gmail.com if you are interested in purchasing one of these artworks, arrangements will be made for easy credit card payment over the phone, and easy pick up in DC.
25% of the every sale go to CHAW for their children and adult programs.
First Prize: LOST by Rindi O’Brien photograph 10×15 $200 “This is such a wry visualization of the uncertainty and confusion we have all confronted during the Covid19. Who can overlook the lampshade-as-hat party gag, but there is no party, and no guests, and what should illuminate our surroundings becomes a blinder,” John Coppola, juror
Second Prize: THE LONELY MAN WAS BLESSED WITH WISDOM TO THE POINT OF DESPERATION by J Jaffery
Second Prize: THE LONELY MAN WAS BLESSED WITH WISDOM TO THE POINT OF DESPERATION by J Jeffery Digital Photography 18×12 $275 “Both the composition and colors project the contradictions and ambiguity of the moment: We’re drowning, but still reaching out. But to whom?” John Coppola, juror
Third Prize: TIDAL BASIN MORNING by Judy Searles
Third Prize: TIDAL BASIN MORNING by Judy Searles Acrylic 20×15 $200 “The cherry blossoms that used to signal the advent of Spring now figuratively, and even literally, obscure the unknown, as crowds ignoring social distance to view them proved, ” John Coppola, juror.
Honorable Mention: TARQUIN AND LUCRETIA (After Tintorreto) No. 3 by Kim DiDonato-Murrell
Honorable Mention: TARQUIN AND LUCRETIA (After Tintorreto) No. 3 by KimDiDonato-Murrell Monotype 11×8 $350 “A subtle but welcome reminder of why we need art in these trying times,” John Coppola, juror.
Honorable Mention: QUARANTINE IS CRUMBY by Linda Norton
Linda Norton Quarantine Is Crumby Multimedia 24×18 $300 “How would we persevere through the pandemic and protests without binging on junk food?” John Coppola, juror
Congratulations to ALL artists who entered! Here are the 29 selected artists featured in MELTDOWN (in no particular order) Enjoy the show!
Dee Ann Layton Global Meltdown Watercolor 18×24 $600 matted/unframed
Nan Raphael Silent Spring Digital Photograph 15×13 $150 framed
Sally Canzoneri One Thousand Dead Photograph 18×12 $325 limited edition #1 in 5 prints/signed and numbered
Victoria Lakes “Pandemonic” Acrylic 24×24 $450
Anne Albright Splashes Watercolor 11×14 $150 framed or $90 unframed
Carolyn Rondthaler In A Mood Monotype 14×11 $150
Nancy Arbuthnot “White House Meltdown” Multimedia 14 x 11 $250 framed or 11×14 Giclee Fine Art prints for $75
Meera Rao “Regret” Multimedia 12×16 $200
Mary Elizabeth Gosselink “Heatwave”, Acrylic 10×8 $150
Julie Byrne Looking Down Photograph 10 x 17.5 $50
Karen Cohen “Distancing” Photograph 16×11 $150 framed or 16 x 11 print only/signed $75
Gloria Grandolini Hanging On Photography 11.4×8 $150
Ellen Yahuda “London Pandemic” 10×8 $150 framed or $95 unframed
Elizabeth Eby “Yak,Yak,Yak” Oil 22×11 $150
Karen Zens “Eruption” Mixed Media 12×12 $125
Karen Van Allen “Groundlessness” Acrylic 20×20 $350
Karin Edgett “Capitol Police” PhotographyFramed Print 8×8 $300 Canvas 16 x 16 print $300
Hernan Murno “Anartica 2020” Acrylic 36×12 $675
Ken Bachman “Keep on Coming” oil 18 x 24 $695
Nico Gozal “Gaia” Painting on Silk 25×25 $650
Vincent Iannacchione “Burning a Hole in the Grip of the Familiar” 12 x 18 NFS
Marilyn Christiano “Mind Melt” Photograph print 12×8 $100 unframed
Tara Hamilton “Meet the Sun” multimedia 10 x 8 $150
Kate McConnell “Staying Afloat” Oil 14×11 $450
1. Tara Hamilton Meet the Sun 2. Karen Zens ERUPTION 3. Rindy O’Brien LOST 4. Elizabeth Eby Yak, Yak, Yak 5. Nancy Arbuthnot WHITE HOUSE MELTDOWN 6. Kate McConnell STAY AFLOAT 7. Judy Searles TIDAL BASIN MORNING 8. Carolyn Rondthaler IN A MOOD 9. Kenneth Bachman KEEP ON COMING 10.Karin Edgett CAPITOL POLICE 11.Sally Canzoneri ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DEAD 12.Linda Norton QUARANTINE IS CRUMBY 13.Meera Rao REGRET 14.Hernan Murno ANTARCTICA 15.Karen Van Allen GROUNDLESSNESS 16.Karen Cohen DISTANCING 17.Marilyn Christiano MIND MELT 18.Gloria Maria Grandolini HANGING ON 19.Kim DiDonato TARQUIN AND LUCRETIA 20.Nico Gozal GAIA 21.Mary Elizabeth Gosselink HEAT WAVE 22.Julie Byrne Looking Down 23.Nan Raphael SILENT SPRING 24.Jason Jaffery THE LONELY MAN WAS BLESSED WITH WISDOM TO THE POINT OF DESPERATION 25.Anne Albright SPLASHES 26.Ellen Yahuda LONDON PANDEMIC OUTREACH HEROES 27.Dee Ann Layton GLOBAL MELTDOWN 28.Victoria Lake PANDEMONIC 29.Vincent Iannacchione BURNING A HOLE IN THE GRIP OF THE FAMILIAR
Plaza Art in DC has donated one gift card for the First place winner $100.
