Author: John Paradiso

Fall of Freedom Event.

Portico Gallery at Studio 3807

3807 Rhode island Avenue. Brentwood Maryland 20722 (Front Entrance) 

Saturday November 22 from 2-4:00 PM.

2:00-2:30 light refreshments

2:30 -3:15 Video Screening Degenerate Art 

3:15 -4:00 Open Discussion

In conjunction with the Fall of Freedom, a national call to artists, Portico Gallery will host a video screening of Degenerate Art (David Grubin, 1993) followed by an open discussion of ways we might move forward as an art community in these trying times.  

Fall of freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation: our democracy is under attack, threats to free expression are rising, dissent is being criminalized, and institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda.”

Degenerate Art, 1993, examines the historical context of the infamous ENTARTETE KUNST (degenerate art) exhibition mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937 and the far-reaching effects of the Nazis vilification of the avant-garde in Germany. The film includes archival footage of Nazi book burnings, installation shots of the original ENTARTETE KUNST exhibition, and interviews with historians, art critics, family members of several defamed artists, and eyewitnesses to the 1937 exhibition which lend a poignancy and immediacy to this powerful story of the Nazis’ attack on modern culture 

https://Portico-Fall-of-Freedom.eventbrite.com

Arts District Open Studio Tour

Saturday, May 14 From 12-5 PM
With an After Party at miXt Food Hall from 5-8 PM
Portico Gallery and Studios invite you to visit the Gateway Arts District for an afternoon of Visual, Musical, and Culinary Arts. Tour open artist studios and view art at Portico Gallery and Studios and the Art Annex at Artisan. In addition, the musicians from Just Rock will have live music throughout the day. miXt Food Hall will have Culinary Arts Demonstrations as well as offer coffee, food, and drink specials. Visitors can stroll through the art studios, engage with artists and experience the rich vibe of the Gateway Arts District. There will be something for everyone, young and old, come out for the day and bring a friend! For more information on all the studios participating throughout the Gateway Arts District go to artsbeatseatsdmv.com

The Music Ritual, an Artist Talk with Jodi Beder
February 7, 1:00 – 2:30 PM on Zoom
(Scroll down for Zoom information)Please join the Portico Gallery for an artist talk with our friend and colleague Jodi Beder. We are honored to have Jodi as part of our “All Artists Talk Series” sponsored by Studio 3807 Contemporary Apartments in Brentwood MD.”When I started playing on the porch last March, I had no idea of anything except that I needed to do it every day, at the same time. Playing on the porch regularly, without question, however exhausted or confused or angry, has made this year one large performance piece embracing our street and garden, friends and neighbors, my parents, a crazy procession of composers and performers of the past, celebrating what melody, harmony, and rhythm are, and what they do.Music is itself ritual, serving as inner meditation and communal experience, all beyond words. Especially for the performer, it is muscle and neuron and breath and blood. For a cellist, also wood, metal, and hair, vibrating volumes of space. In performing for an audience, we are constantly dealing with ego and desire, anxiety and love. All the more to talk about in this year’s regime of pandemic and politics.”Jodi Beder
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