November 6–December 13
Location: Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery
Closing Auction Event: December 13, 6:00-8:00 pm
The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery has partnered up with All Fired Up ceramic studios to bring Home Plates to the Gallery. Basically, we handed 60 local artists a blank dinner plate to use as their “canvas.” The result will be a wonderfully colorful exhibition with ultimate functionality, and a window into the local art scene which is bursting at the seams.
Home Plates is thematically focused on the community table. It is a timely exhibition centered on Thanksgiving and the winter holidays, and brings something as familiar as a dinner plate to act as a canvas for a whole spectrum of interpretations. The finished plates should have the potential to be functional (actually used on a table if the collector chooses) yet stretch the boundaries of what it means to be an individual in our community (for example, one plate on a table set for 12).
In addition, through sales of the plates The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery has the opportunity to raise a much-needed portion of its budget. We held a similar fundraiser in 1997 with Continuum, shortly after the gallery opened its doors. Just as that exhibition highlighted many artists’ interpretations of community and the links between generations in the past and future, our upcoming exhibition Home Plates hopes to connect the Washington DC Jewish Community Center to the larger community surrounding it. A special children’s version of Home Plates will be exhibited in the Ina & Jack Kay Community Hall and the Harold and Barbara Berman JCC Café from December 1–December 31.
Click here for artist instructionsArtist list as of Thursday, October 23
Cecily Abram ¤ Debra Band ¤ Carol Beane ¤ Ella Benami ¤ Xiaosheng Bi ¤ Ed Bisese ¤ Karen Brown ¤ Ann Burdell ¤ Linda Burgess ¤ Judy Byron ¤ David Chung ¤ Sloveig Cox ¤ Steven Cushner ¤ Richard Dana ¤ Joan Danziger ¤ Mark Dassoulas ¤ Bill Dunlap ¤ Maggie Dunlap ¤ Helen Frederick ¤ Jenny Freestone ¤ Steven Frost ¤ Susan Goldman ¤ Michael Gross ¤ Ellen Hill ¤ Sue Johnson ¤ Beth Kendall ¤ Barbara Kerne ¤ Martin J. Kotler ¤ Bridget Lambert ¤ Harold Linton ¤ Lilianne Milgrom ¤ Wendy Miller ¤ Miriam Morsel Nathan ¤ Nathan Moskowitz ¤ Manuel Navarette ¤ Jeanne Odonnell ¤ Dennis O'Neil ¤ Marti Patchell ¤ Laura Peery ¤ Annie Peters ¤ Michael Platt ¤ Steve Resnick ¤ Marie Ringwald ¤ Brett Rodgers ¤ Robin Rose ¤ Hannah Rose ¤ Lisa K. Rosenstein ¤ Joan Samworth ¤ Nikolas Schiller ¤ Bernie Shleien ¤ Susie Sikorski ¤ Alec Simpson ¤ Renee Stout ¤ Lou Stovall ¤ Di Stovall ¤ Dhiru Thadani ¤ Erwin Thamm ¤ Judit Varga ¤ Anita Walsh ¤ Mindy Weisel ¤ Linn Woloshin