 | | Claire McArdle, "Prelude #1", Pink Portuguese marble, 31x8x8, 2011 |
Claire McArdle:
Preludes
&
Betty Press:
I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb
September 1st - October 1st, 2011
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 10th, 2011
6:30-9pm
 | | Betty Press, "Senegalese young women" Dakar, Senegal, Silver gelatin print, 1988 |
Betty Press features selected photographs from her new book I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb capturing East and West Africa through photography since 1987. Her timeless and engaging black and white photographs are paired with historic African proverbs that speak of identity, character, wisdom, and the concept of Ubuntu, the African philosophy of living harmoniously in community. The proverbs have been collected by Annetta Miller, an American born in Tanzania who has worked and lived in East Africa for the majority of her life. Betty Press's photography has been honored and exhibited nationally at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee Sate University in Murfreesboro, the Art League in Daytona Beach, Florida, Lycoming College in Williamsport Pennsylvania, the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver Colorado, in addition to many others. For more information about Betty Press and her book I Am Because We Are: African wisdom in image and proverb please go to her website. EVENT: Betty Press will have her book available for purchase and signing at the exhibition's opening reception (Sept. 10th), as well as in other locations in Washington including the Library of Congress on Thursday, September 8th from 12-2pm. ### Preludes: The sculpture of Claire McArdle 
The internationally acclaimed sculptor Claire McArdle, will present her latest body of work in the exhibition "Preludes" inspired by the World Dance Theater's reinterpretation of Chopin's 24 Preludes, "Preludes: Duncan, Sand & Chopin." Preludes features sculpture busts and figures in marble, terra cotta and bronze, alluding to the quiet nuances that occur in dance before the movement begins. Drawn to the quarries of Carrara in the Apuane Mountains on the coast of Italy from a young age, McArdle creates figures structurally influenced by the Classic European Master Sculptures infused with the spirit and soul of tribal art. McArdle's commissions for public, educational, and religious institutions include monumental works for Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL; Marian House, Baltimore, MD; The Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, MD; St. Bede, Williamsburg, VA; Holy Trinity Church, Washington, DC; Holy Redeemer College, Washington, DC; as well as many private commissions across the United States, Italy, Belgium, Germany and Japan. For more information on Claire McArdle please visit her website. EVENT: Accompanying her exhibition, "A Dance of the Preludes," a performance featuring dancers Ingrid Zimmer and Cynthia Word from Word dance theater, will be held at International Visions Gallery Thursday, September 15 from 6:30-8:30pm. To view the artists represted in our gallery check out our website: International Visions Gallery 
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