Events and Exhibits: LOTS!

Fall's a really busy time for art-related activities. I hope you can join me at all ... or at least some of these. Here they are, in date order.

Great Falls Farmer's Market: Saturday, September 25, 9am-1pm in the Great Falls Village Centre (off of Walker Road near the corner of Walker Road and Georgetown Pike in Great Falls, VA)
I'll have a booth there for the third time this year ... with paintings, drawings.

My booth at MPA Artfest 2009

MPA Artfest, an annual juried regional outdoor arts festival sponsored by McLean Project for the Arts: Sunday, October 3, 10:30am-4:30pm in McLean Central Park located at the intersection of Dolley Madison Blvd. (Route 123) and Ingleside Drive in McLean, VA.

"Expressions" Portrait Competition juried regional (MD, VA, DC, Delaware artists) exhibit: September 28-October 24, Reception and Awards: October 2, 7pm at ArtSpace Herndon, 750 Center Street, Herndon, VA 20170. "Nigerian Beauty" placed as a finalist and will be on exhibit at ArtSpace Herndon. (Judging for awards will be done from actual artwork after the show is hung.)

"Tranquility", 30"h x 24"w, oil

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club's 114th Annual Open Exhibition: October 6-October 29; Benefit Reception for the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Friday, October 15, 5:30-8pm; Awards Dinner: Friday, October 29, 6-9pm all held at the National Arts Club, a National landmark, 15 Gramercy Park, New York, NY 10003. "Tranquility" was juried into this exhibit at the National Arts Club.

Seventh Annual Great Falls Studios Tour: Saturday and Sunday, October 16, 17: 10:00am to 5:00pm DON'T MISS This! Join us on a free driving tour on the back roads of Great Falls, Virginia, to meet 48 painters, potters, photographers, sculptors, quilters, jewelry designers and other artists in art studios and other venues scattered around our village. (I'll be at the Artists' Atelier, the studio I share with a great group of other artists at 1144 Walker Road, Suites D&G, Great Falls, VA 22066.}October 16 and 17, 10:00 to 5:00. See unusual houses. Watch art demonstrations. Explore studios. Buy art. Celebrate creativity. Family friendly. Lunch/dinner available at many fine local restaurants.

To download a map and roster of artists and to register to win one of forty $50 gift certificates, go to www.GreatFallsStudios.com. You can also pick up a free map at any venue on Tour days.

Tour has become one of northern Virginia's most unusual and important art events. It is supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Arts Council of Fairfax County, Great Falls Foundation for the Arts, Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, and the Great Falls Business and Professional Association.


 A Note: The Artists' Atelier will be decked out with LOTS and LOTS of original artwork -- floor to ceiling -- in a very special exhibit specifically for Studio Tour. So ... you have to see it THAT weekend.


See more of my work at:

Market Cellars at 11873 Market Street, Reston, VA (the Reston Town Center near the Hyatt). A small selection of paintings and drawings. Buy some art and wine. Ongoing exhibit.
Chasen Galleries, Richmond, VA.
Keller-Williams Realty, 6820 Elm Street, McLean, VA 22101, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Eight of my still lifes are on exhibit in a two-person show with pastels by Pat Neumann through mid-October.

By the way, I've postponed the start of my portrait class by a week ... it begins Monday, September 20 ... due to coming down with the sniffles, cough, sneezes. Oh well. (See my web site for more info on classes: www.jillbanks.com.)

Web: www.jillbanks.com
Blog: jillbanks.blogspot.com
Email: jillbanks1@aol.com
Phone: 703.403.7435
For info on Fall classes: www.jillbanks.com/jillbanks/Classes_3.html
Great Falls School of Art registration form: www.jillbanks.com/jillbanks/Registration_Form.html