Dear Friends of the Arts Community:

As we enjoy the last remnants of summer this Labor Day Weekend, we look with anticipation toward the Fall, which ushers in brilliant autumn colors and a lively new arts season!  Millennium is excited to enter its 13th program season - - beginning October 2012 and continuing through September 2013. 

Inspired by our successful Scholars Speak program season (2007-2008) in which we heralded art scholars, our 2012-2013 season, entitled Artists and Collectors Speak, will showcase both art collectors and artists.  New this season is the Artist Salon Series consisting of artist studio visits and salon talks with some of the Greater Washington Area's leading mid-career artists as well as emerging contemporary artists.  Among these are  Alonzo Davis, Ellington Robinson, Anne Marchand, GA Gardner, Joan Belmar, Stan Squirewell, and Jeffrey Kent.  

We are also proud to present our signature Collector Series, now in its 3rd year.  Participants will enjoy a personal tour followed by an intimate dinner in each of the homes of three prominent collectors.   We are pleased that Pat Walters has agreed to one of them.       

 This November, Dr. Patricia Banks, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College who has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, will discuss the sociological context of collecting art by African Americans. Next April, local artist and author Dorothy Fall whose book, Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier Scholar,  focuses on the life of her late husband, Dr. Bernard Fall  (Vietnam War era scholar, Howard University professor, and son of Jewish parents who perished during Hitler's regime) will provide insights about his life and her budding career as an artist and graphic designer. 

 "In Unison:  20 Washington DC Artists" Millennium's groundbreaking collaboration with 20 of Washington's finest artists, printmakers, and sculptors and George Mason University Department of Art, which was recently exhibited at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba in New York City, now moves to the River District Arts Center in Sperryville, VA.  The exhibition, on view September 7th through October 14th, will include an opening reception on September 15th and an artists' talk on October 14th.  

The MAS Board of Directors is delighted to welcome new members Sharon Burton and Neil Hartbarger - - both well known in the Greater Washington Arts Community for their knowledge, experience, and commitment.     

Millennium continues its commitment to collaborate with local institutions to bring you cutting-edge programs and we will advise you of new initiatives as they unfold.

Please join us on September 28th at our annual membership drive kickoff.  Hear more details about our upcoming program season, enjoy barbeque and beer, connect with other art-minded folk, and sign-up or renew your tax-deductible membership in the Millennium Arts Salon Club. We are a non-profit, 501(3)c community based arts organization and our programs are funded almost entirely by your memberships.  

We value and appreciate your support and look forward to sharing an amazing new season with you!

Sincerely,

Millennium Arts Salon Board of Directors 

In Unison represents a collaboration of a group of Washington, DC area artists, distinguished by their diversity in terms of accomplishments - emerging, mid-career, and masters; ethnicity - African American, White American, Asian American and Latin American; age - from the 30's to the 80's; gender - male and female; and varying artistic approaches - painters, sculptors, digital media and installation artists, and a few printmakers.   

Previously exhibited in Washington, DC at the Kreeger Museum and Hilyer Art Space and in New York City at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, this will be its first Blue Ridge exhibit. Rappahannock and DC artist, Patricia Underwood, a participating "In Unison" artist, is also featured with Kevin Adams in a concurrent show at Middle Street Gallery, adjacent to River District Arts.

The Participating Artists:  

Related Exhibitions: 1) "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe," October 14-January 21, 2013 at the Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.waltersart.org.

2) "Contemporary Response to the African Presence in Renaissance Europe", September 27 - January 19, 2013 at Gallerie Myrtis in Baltimore, http://galeriemyrtis.net/