ART AS RESEARCH Opening Reception Thursday, Sept 25, 5 – 7:30 pm September 25 – October 24, 2014 Fine Art Gallery, Art & Design Building, George Mason University, Fairfax Campus Featuring: Greg Bloom with Jenn Stowe (DC), Gareth Branwyn (DC), Riah Buchanan (Los Angeles), Kate Chandler (DC), Edgar Endress (St. Augustine), Paul Farber (Philadelphia), Katie […]
When a DC citizen enters the federal penitentiary system they may find themselves thousands of miles from family and friends. Windows from Prison seeks to bridge this distance by asking prisoners: “If you could have a window in your cell, what place from your past would it look out to?” Based on hundreds of responses, photography students […]
An innovative four-day new media arts festival hosted by American University and Provisions Library, Multimediale brought together artists working with the theme of art as mediation. The festival, co-organized and curated by Randall Packer & Niels Van Tomme, included artists who are prominent faculty members of art schools and educational institutions from around the Washington Metropolitan area, such […]
Organized by Provisions, Aesthetic Justice was a group exhibition at the Lambent Foundation in New York, featuring works by Alyse Emdur, Rajkamal Kahlon, Carlos Motta & Josué Euceda, and Larissa Sansour. Introducing the concept of aesthetic justice, that is justice from an aesthetic perspective instead of a legal one, the exhibition underscored the transformative potential of […]
Curated by Niels Van Tomme, Director of Arts and Media at Provisions Learning Project and organized with the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in Baltimore, Where Do We Migrate To? explores diverging ways in which migration, experiences of displacement and questions of belonging have been addressed by artists in recent years. Calling for an increasingly […]
Revisiting Histories conceptualizes history as a multifaceted field of meaning and narrative, intentionally constructed and maintained by powerful social and political structures. Taking the distinct artistic practices of Sanford Biggers, Andrea Geyer, and Simon J. Ortiz as a starting point, the exhibition emphasizes possible ways in which prevailing historical scripts can be modified by critical artistic voices. Discarding […]
This exhibition documents two years of community and public art projects produced by the Floating Lab Collective, many of which were part of Provisions’ Brushfire initiative. Floating Lab partnered with a Casa de Maryland, Tenants and Workers United, and Life Pieces to Masterpieces to determine key community issues and coordinate community actions. It was […]
Presented by Provisions Library, Close Encounters: Facing the Future explores the national art initiative, focusing on social activist art. Artists include the Beehive Collective, Mel Chin, Mildred Howard, Yoko Ono, and Jon Winet. It was on display from June 25, 2009 – August 28, 2009.
The Big Picture, presented by Provisions Library, displays the work of artists Barnstormers, Nina Berman, Iona Rozeal Brown, Sue Coe, Brett Cook, Carmen Lomas Garza, Shilpa Gupta, Virginia Harris, Emily Jacir, Yun-Fei Ji, Rajkamal Kahlon, Shalini Kantayya, Lisa Kahlon, Hung Liu, Judith Lowry, Susan Meiselas, Shirin Neshat, Pat Owoc, Meridel Rubenstein, Betye Saar, Roger Shimomura, […]
Other than Art features the work of collaborators Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Ivan Navarro, and Elissa Levy. Artworks by the renowned Puerto Rican team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla include a series of photographs and a video installation documenting their protest performances on the island of Vieques, for sixty years a site used […]