Millennium Arts Salon (MAS) announced its 2011-2012 season and new membership drive on September 11th with an event featuring a member's only preview of the Corcoran's fall blockbuster exhibition "30 Americans". This unique collection of Mera and Don Rubell shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from October 1 through February 12, 2012, and our members were treated to a special Corcoran Curator's introduction by Dr. Sarah Newman, welcomed by Henry Thaggert III, who sits on the board of both the Corcoran Gallery and Millennium Arts Salon.  Dr. Newman delivered superior scholarship in her presentation, and MAS members explored in great depth the exhibition as introduced, and its implications in the world of contemporary art.  Members commented that this program augured a great new season for MAS, and many renewed their memberships for the new season, with more to come.  New and returning members will be invited to a members'-only reception for our "In Unison: 20 Washington, DC Artists" exhibition on October 22nd, and we welcome your memberhsip to participate in these and other such exciting and educational events.  Come and be a part of our "arts and culture" community...

"In Unison:  20 Washington, DC Artists"

Millennium Arts Salon,  (MAS), exhibits "In Unison: 20 Washington, DC Artists", at Capital One in McLean, VA from February 6 through April 30, 2012.  This highly critically acclaimed exhibition consists of 20 established artists from the DC community representing a cross section of the ethnic and cultual mosaic and presents the inter-cultural dynamism that so defines the creative internationalism of the Greater Washington Area. The artists, each working in different styles and mediums, were invited by MAS of DC and the Print Studio of George Mason University (Virginia) to come together to create a series of five monoprints each, one of which was selected for the exhibition by a team including Judy A. Greenberg, Director of Washington's Kreeger Museum, and Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D., art critic and art historian, amongst others.  “The ideas of creating a group portfolio and exhibiting together express the ideas of unity and identity that are underlying motives of the project, and which are vital to sustaining a thriving artistic community,” says Rousseau.  Millennium Arts Salon, itself a partner to initiatives housed in New York, works with it parners to host the New York showing of MAS' structured strategy in intercultural dialoge between and amongst prominent mid-career artists.  This exhibition will also foster creative interchange between the artistic communities of Washington and New York.
 
MAS Arts and Culure Tour to China May 22 through June 3, 2012

In keeping with our theme "Globalizing Art", MAS presents its bienniel international tour, this time to China.  Following upon our very successful tours to Spain (2007) and Ethiopia (2010), we will take our members and friends to explore the arts and culture of China.  While our tour will include the traditional destinations of The Forbidden City, The Great Wall, The Yantzee River Tour, Shanghi, Beijing, the Birds Nest, Tianammen Square and others. the Millennium Arts Salon signature will also include: visits to MAS-related artists studios both in Beijing, and in artists communities away from Beijing; a visit to Chongqing, the largest city in the world both by size and population (29 million); and "Galleries 798"; in addition to our MAS' favorite duck, hot-pot, and specialty cuisine restaurants.  Our tour is completely 5 and 4 star quality, and is not to be missed.  Read more on our Current Seasons Calendar page...

Millennium Arts Salon

Millennium Arts Salon, founded in 2000, is dedicated to advancing cultural literacy through its arts and cultural programming, principally through salons, and also exhibitions, tours, and special events. 

Based in Columbia Heights, Washington, DC, USA, Millennium Arts Salon delivers artistic and cultural perspectives through the world's prominent artists and practitioners in the visual, curatorial, performing, film, historical narrative, musical, and literary arts to an ever-expanding audience in the mid-Atlantic corridor and beyond.  Millennium Arts Salon documents its "salons" through video-taping and photography, providing an archival repository of primary research in artistic and cultural content to be made available to generations of students, researchers, and appreciators of cultural and artistic development for generations to come.

Founded on the premise that amongst all members of the human family, we are more alike than we are different, Millennium Arts Salon is building a community of persons who find safety in exploring arts and culture in all its forms, as practiced by all groups in the human family, with appreciation for all aesthetic forms expressed by any and all peoples the world over, fostering and appreciating the collecting impulse in the relentless pursuit of beauty in our lives, and growing in our individual abilities to engage in the fine art of conversation.

Millennium Arts Salon provides an elegant and intimate space to gather, to reflect, to experiment and to grow our individual talents and appreciations in the world of fine arts and culture.