
Karen Van Allen “Groundlessness” Acrylic 20×20 $350. Karen Zens “Eruption” Mixed Media 12×12 $125. Elizabeth Eby “Yak,Yak,Yak” Oil 22×11 $150. Ellen Yahuda “London Pandemic” 10×8 $150 framed or $95 unframed. Gloria Grandolini Hanging On Photography 11.4×8 $150. Karen Cohen “Distancing” Photograph 16×11 $150 framed or 16 x 11 print only/signed $75. Julie Byrne Looking Down Photograph 10 x 17.5 $50. Mary Elizabeth Gosselink “Heatwave”, Acrylic 10×8 $150. Meera Rao “Regret” Multimedia 12×16 $200.
Nancy Arbuthnot “White House Meltdown” Multimedia 14 x 11 $250 framed or. Carolyn Rondthaler In A Mood Monotype 14×11 $150. Anne Albright Splashes Watercolor 11×14 $150 framed or $90 unframed. Victoria Lakes “Pandemonic” Acrylic 24×24 $450. Limited edition #1 in 5 prints/signed and numbered Sally Canzoneri One Thousand Dead Photograph 18×12 $325. Nan Raphael Silent Spring Digital Photograph 15×13 $150 framed.
Dee Ann Layton Global Meltdown Watercolor 18×24 $600 matted/unframed. “How would we persevere through the pandemic and protests without binging on junk food?” John Coppola, jurorĬongratulations to ALL artists who entered! Here are the 29 selected artists featured in MELTDOWN (in no particular order) Enjoy the show! Thank you to Karen Zens, exhibit Manager, and Karen Cohen, zoom video host and Web admin. You will need a video app on your device to view this and it has been shortened to post on our Website. Here is an edited version of our Zoom Reception dated Jwith our Juror, John Coppola, announcing his finalists. Please contact chalartists(at) 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.Ģ5% of the every sale go to CHAW for their children and adult programs. NOTE: All the artwork is for sale, framed or unframed, as noted in each image. 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!” Frankly, it was better than I did: My drafting table is cluttered with notes and sketches for work I never quite got to. Hats off to the CHAL artists who pushed through the pandemic and social unrest to create art. 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. Juror John Coppola’s Statement: “Edgar Degas pointedly said, Art isn’t what you see.
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. 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. This entry was posted in CHAL Artists Opportunities, Membership and tagged Anne Albright, challenge, Dee Ann Layton, Elizabeth Eby, Hill Center, Karen Cohen, Karen Van Allen, Karen Zens, Knives, Linda Noton, Louise Holland, Marian Wiseman, Mark Lindamood, Meera Rao, Nico Gozal on Augby chal. Hill Center staff members will chose ONE favorite “knife” image and award the artist a $20 gift certificate, announced the first week of September. Our artists will be posting images/artwork with the theme: Knives Out. 16 Wednesday from 6-7:30pm), our challenge art theme for August is Knives Out. To tie in with their ongoing classes (next one is Sept. Our neighbor, Hill Center, offers Knife Skill classes several times every year.