Exhibition Openings: Metro Washington Chapter of the CPSA and Robert D’Arista & Lee Newman

Name: Exhibition Openings: Metro Washington Chapter of the CPSA and Robert D’Arista & Lee Newman
Start: 2025-02-01T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-01T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Delaplaine Arts Center

Schedule

Sat Feb 01 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Delaplaine Arts Center | Frederick, MD

View exhibitions and meet the artists! 3-5pm FREE
These exhibitions are opening on Saturday, February 1 and can be viewed starting at 9am. Beat the crowds and visit us earlier in the day! PLEASE NOTE: The very popular downtown event, Fire in Ice, will be taking place on February 1.
Metro Washington Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America
The Power of Color
Colored Pencil
Feb 1–23
Wassily Kandinsky said, “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” Join the Metro Washington Chapter 109 of the Color Pencil Society of America as they strive to bring awareness to the beauty and richness of colored pencil as a medium for creating fine art.
Robert D’Arista & Lee Newman
Lineage
Prints and paintings
Feb 1–23
The artworks in this exhibition are a reflection on the tradition of teaching in the visual arts and how aesthetic ideas and techniques are passed on to successive generations. Lee Newman’s own work will be accompanied by those of his teacher, Robert D’Arista.
Also on View
Jin Lee
Gash, Sculpture, Jan 4-Feb 23
Provoked by recent political controversies surrounding women’s rights, Lee’s work focuses on conflict and responses to conflict’s power to result in transformation for the individual and society.
Noelani Jones
Time is a Place, Works in a variety of media, Jan 4-Feb 23
Jones’s work in this exhibition focuses on the accrual of thread in woven cloth and its metaphorical and actual connection to time and place. All of the textiles in the exhibition have been made with reciprocity with the land in mind, from the cultivation of plants for dyeing to the utilization of a foot-powered loom.