Takoma ARTery Exhibition Opening Reception on Sept. 20

TAKOMA ARTERY EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION

Friday, Sept. 20 at 7:30 pm 

Takoma Park Community Center 

7500 Maple Avenue 

Twenty talented artists from the Takoma ARTery group will display their work in a group exhibition highlighting the diverse range and vibrant creativity of the local artist community.

Their artwork spans many mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, encaustic, etchings, hand-cut paper, and mixed media. The artists explore a variety of themes from the deeply personal to global perspectives. The power, beauty and increasing fragility of nature provides inspiration for some artists. Others revel in the fleeting messages of street art, heartfelt portraits, or the minute details of everyday life.

The featured artists include Marilyn Banner, Paige Billin-Frye, Kate Childs Graham, Magalee Cirpili, Sara Daines, Tuula Ehn Smith, Dinesh Godavarty, Susanna Goldman, Li Howard, Julius Kassovic, Renee Lachman, Eleanor Landstreet, Janice Levitt, Ellen Maidman-Tanner, Jake Muirhead, Norah Neale, Becky Snider, Jeff Weiss, Randall Williams, and John Yao.

Due to ongoing library construction, parking is limited at the Community Center. Some parking is available behind the Community Center, in the police station parking lot, next door at Piney Branch Elementary, or on neighboring streets. On the Maple Avenue side of the building, you can enter through the police station parking lot or from the stairs near Piney Branch Elementary.

The City of Takoma Park’s Arts and Humanities Coordinator Brendan Smith curated the exhibition. “Takoma Park is home for many innovative artists, and it’s a privilege to showcase their work,” he said.

The Takoma ARTery was founded by local artists Eleanor Landstreet and Tuula Ehn Smith during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide an outlet for artists’ work through storefront window displays. The group has expanded to include an online artist directory, local artist meet-ups, and other events. For more info, go to takomaartery.org.

This exhibition is part of the Takoma Park Arts series organized by the City’s Arts and Humanities Division, which includes free concerts, theater, dance performances, film screenings, and other events at the Takoma Park Community Center. No tickets or reservations are required. To receive more info about all of our upcoming events, you can sign up for our weekly e-newsletter here.

Artwork image credits clockwise from top left: Norah Neale, Dinesh Godavarty, Sara Daines, and Kate Childs Graham