Welcome to the District of Columbia Arts Center
The District of Columbia Arts Center is a nonprofit organization located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. DCAC supports emerging artists who are trying to get a foothold in the public arena.
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DCAC is a featured non-profit in the Catalogue for Philanthropy
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DC ARTS CENTER DECATHLON
The competition has begun! Follow the artists progress leading up to the exhibition!
After centuries of specialization in art that has relied on labels like painter, sculptor, photographer, etc., the District of Columbia Arts Center has asked individual artists who work or reside within a 100 mile radius of Washington, DC to submit proposals that explore the significance of what being “unspecialized” means to being a working artist today.
Submissions have been narrowed down by DC Arts Center’s Visual Arts Committee to a slate of semi-finalists: Shanthi Chandrasekar, Lee Gainer, Lisa Rosenstein, and Mary Woodall. These four artists will exhibit their works at DCAC from January 13 to February 5, 2012. The exhibition will culminate in a medal ceremony, but only one artist will walk away with gold.
During the six-month run-up to the exhibition, commentators will “cover” the progress of the decathletes as they create the work for the show. Each commentator will be assigned an artist and visit that artist once a month. After each visit the commentator will post on this blog, interviews, commentaries, photographs, and/or video. Artists are also encouraged to document their progress on the blog.
FOLLOW THE BLOG HERE
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