DCACSPARKPLUG: July 2008

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

July Update

Hi all,

Just a few quick notes.

Our regularly scheduled meeting in July was just Mark and I. We had a great conversation over some beverages at Angles Bar. We missed you all.

Mark, Peter, and I have been meeting about getting the Arlington Arts Center proposal together and hope to have it ready for roll out to the general Sparkplug population by our September meeting. We are hoping to meet with the AAC people very soon and are excited about the possibilities of collaboration.

We are hoping to have an August meeting. So please stay tuned. If anyone has any questions, please contact me.

Jenny Walton

What is DCAC's Sparkplug?

Currently composed of eight DC area artists and curators, DCAC's SPARKPLUG meets regularly to discuss their work, explore common concerns, grow their community and dream up creative engagements both in DC and around the world. Through its support of Sparkplug, DC Arts Center provides meeting space, legal and technical resources and exhibition opportunities to emerging artists, curators and arts writers without current gallery representation or institutional employ. Via a continuing dialogue encompassing the theoretical and the practical, the group’s members share experiences, perspectives, preoccupations, challenges, and topics informing their ongoing artistic practice.

The goal of DCAC's SPARKPLUG is to identify superior artists, curators and arts writers without current gallery representation or institutional employ, provide an environment to help foster their development, provide legal, technical and other resources, and provide opportunities for them to exhibit both in DC and around the country.

DCAC's SPARKPLUG will actively seek its membership from all communities in the Washington, DC region with the goal of bringing together emerging artists and curators with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, a diversity of professional preoccupations and creative visions.