Coming Together, Again

“Coming Together, Again”

The Collaboration of 30 Yellow Barn Artists

Chautauqua Tower Studio, Glen Echo Park

7300 MacArthur Blvd

Glen Echo, MD 20812

www.yellowbarnstudio.com

  

For the month of February the Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery, which boasts 600 members and 40 classes per semester, will be showing off some of its best and brightest advanced level students in the Chautauqua Tower 1^st floor studio.  Starting February 2^nd, the Chautauqua Tower (“Stone Tower”), which usually houses one resident artist for one month, will display the collaboration between 30 Yellow Barn artists.  The artists will be working on one large 72 x 28” painting/drawing in a relay style fashion.  They will each display their unique styles and different approaches to painting.  The artists’ progress will be documented throughout the month with photographs that will be posted on the Yellow Barn blog (http://yellowbarnstudio.blogspot.com/) and Facebook.  These posts will allow each artist to discuss what they are working on as well as their different approaches and impressions of painting.   The Yellow Barn invites the public to visit the space, ask questions of our artists, and see the artists working together.

“I’m trying to show what makes the Yellow Barn one of the premier places to take art classes in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area.  While we have a reputation for great instructors that produce great artists, we also have a great community that enjoys working together.” says J. Jordan Bruns, Yellow Barn Studio Manager and collaboration organizer.  “Last year we did a relay with the instructors, this time I thought it would be fun to see how our members do.”

The Chautauqua Tower Studio will be open to the public daily February 2^nd through February 28^th, 11:00am-5:00pm.

For any additional inquiries please email J. Jordan Bruns, Yellow Barn Studio Manager at Jordan@jjbruns.com.

Now Accepting Applications for the 2012 Stone Tower Residency

Looking for a residency close to home?  The Chautauqua Tower 1st floor is a dream studio!  We taking applications for March, April, May and June now!

Application guidelines:

1) Demonstrate professional artistic credentials, including previous gallery exhibits (include biography and resume of art training)
2) Describe work you would do while resident in the Stone Tower Studio which would be inviting to the public, and enriching to the Yellow Barn community, include demonstrations & lectures. Certify your ability to keep the studio open at least 30 hours a week, including at least 16 weekend hours each week.
3) Explain what your previous experience with the Yellow Barn has meant to you, and how your presence in the Stone Tower studio will serve to introduce the public to the Yellow Barn, encourage new students, and attract potential buyers for art available in the Stone Tower, and at weekend shows in the Yellow Barn Gallery.  (If you have no experience with the Yellow Barn, please explain how and what you know about the Yellow Barn)
4) Submit a portfolio of photographs of recent work as email attachments (6 to 10 paintings/drawings) or provide the url of your website.

Outline of major requirements:

a) The Resident Artist (RA) must have the studio open to the public at least 30 hours a week (including noon to 6 p. m. on Saturdays and Sundays)

b) The RA contributes approximately $690 ($500 for Jan, Feb, and Aug) back to the Friends of the Yellow Barn toward rent and utilities-$200 non-refundable due to reserve a specific month check due prior to the month of residency.

c) The RA handles all sales, is responsible for paying MD state sales tax, and contributes back 30% of all sales to the Friends.

d) The RA must offer at least two events (lectures/demonstrations/reception)  free to members of the Friends, and the public.

e) The RA should be covered by professional or homeowner's liability insurance  ($1 million); may also wish to have personal property insurance, as none can be provided by the Friends or the Yellow Barn.

f) The RA is responsible for publicizing the residency. The Friends will provide wall lettering.

Once an agreement is reached to reserve a month for an artist (they must make a $200 non-refundable deposit before we post their name and month) this is what we need for the Yellow Barn website:

1)     A one-page poster to put up on the Stone Tower page--This should have a heading similar to the ones previously posted

Name

Artist-in-Residence

Yellow Barn Stone Tower

Dates

It should include a picture, preferably of the artist, perhaps in front of a painting, a paragraph describing the residency, and a schedule for open hours, and planned events. This can be posted by our webmaster any time it is ready, preferably one month ahead.

Text for informational box on homepage--this should have about 100 words of text (a brief artist's statement) and a file of an image of a piece of artwork. This should complement, but not be the same as the text on the one-pager, as people can link from it to the one-pager.  This box is posted by our webmaster on the first of the month and may be abbreviated or placed lower on the page, depending on other Yellow Barn information that needs to be included at any given time.

 Please contact Jordan Bruns at Jordan@jjbruns.com with any questions.