Call for Art, Artists and Artisans for the AVON Walk Washington, DC

The Howard Ave. Arts Incubator is forming a team of artists, artisans, and friends to participate in the April 30th to May 1st Washington, DC AVON Walk for Breast Cancer. The Incubator is a new collaborative arts center in Kensington, MD which nurtures the artistic and professional growth of artists to enhance the greater Maryland community.

The Incubator is partnering with its neighbor Anytime Fitness Kensington to invite and train walkers for the team. The Incubator hopes to help walkers reach their fundraising goals with proceeds raised during a “Walking Wearables” show on Sat. April 23rd in the Incubator gallery featuring sales and auctions of donated and member artwork. Breast cancer-related themed and wearable works are being accepted at the Incubator now.

Anytime Fitness Kensington created a special Arts Extreme Walker 67% savings value package to get our team members moving: a 2-month temporary membership and 3 personal training sessions for $99. Package members can hit the treadmills at any hour just a few doors down from the Incubator, and increase their overall health and walking-related synergies with the safety and motivational expertise of Kensington’s finest personal trainers. The partners will also organize historic walks along Howard Ave. and other points of interest in Kensington.

For more information, please contact Joy Parisi, Assistant Director of the Howard Ave. Arts Incubator, at 301/897-4152 or joyartincubator@gmail.com. Please also visit the AVON website at www.avonwalk.org/washington-dc, or the Anytime Fitness site at www.kensingtonfitness.com.

A New Addition to the Gallery

We had to opportunity to acquire a baby grand piano for the gallery.  Here it is, just waiting for you to come play on!

HAAI is under construction!

I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to a new undertaking of Gary's that may be of interest to any of you who are local.  Gary is leading an effort to create an arts community here in Kensington, MD.  By creating the Howard Avenue Arts Incubator, he hopes to foster creative works and community, using art as a catalyst for even more.  There are a lot of interesting prospects with this project and I invite you to take a look at the website and add your name to the email list there.  The plan is to have a kick-off festival December 12th, 2010.

In preparation, there has been a lot of renovation going on at the studio as the downstairs gets a makeover and the newly acquired area upstairs is being rebuilt into a gallery.

This wall is soon to be history.

The wall is gone, as is a good portion of the old floor.

You can't really see them in this picture, but in addition to the new purple tiled floor, we built a couple of great walk-in closets that will really help to declutter!

The newly redone kitchen area is sure to get a lot of use!

Headed up stairs.  Once it's refinished, this wall above the landing will be a great place to display artwork!

Welcome to the third floor.

It's still very much under construction, but you can see that this can become a really great gallery space.  A few of Gary's larger pieces were set up as examples for a meeting this past weekend and we had a local artist in to symbolically hang the first artwork on the wall.

If you're interested in getting involved in classes or gallery exhibitions, or to learn more about all the cool ideas Gary has for this project, give us a call at 301.493.5577!