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BOARD

CHARLES KRAUSE, Chairman ROBIN STRONGIN, Vice Chair MICHAEL HODGSON, MD Treasurer

ANDREW BRANDEL, PhD JUDY GREENBERG PHYLLIS GREENBERGER MELVIN HARDY KATHLEEN RAMICH K. CHRIS TODD, JD

Art You Won’t See Anywhere Else in the Nation’s Capital

MONDAY & TUESDAY, BY APPOINTMENT

WEDNESDAY–SUNDAY, 12-6PM

Defining, the first open-call exhibition presented by Washington’s new Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPArt), invited artists from all fifty states and Puerto Rico to submit original work, challenging the artists to respond with art as powerful as the times are dangerous, to help Americans understand what’s at stake—and why it’s their duty to vote—in the November 2018 midterm elections.

With more than 500 submissions by almost 300 artists, CCPArt hopes that the Defining exhibition will lead to a redefinition of the role artists play in our society; identify the country’s leading practitioners of political art; and demonstrate why political art should be recognized as a valued genre of American art in the twenty-first century.

As the nation’s first research institute and exhibition space devoted exclusively to the study and strategic use of the Art of Civic Engagement, the Center will provide a means for the nation’s artists to create and exhibit art that will enrage, engage, and better inform We The People about the most important and contentious issues facing the country today.

Charles Krause, Founder Robin Strongin, Co Founder

JURY

CHARLES KRAUSE, Founder and Chair, the Center for Contemporary Political Art. A former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, CBS News and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, his reporting was recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with an Emmy Award for his reporting from Israel and the Middle East (1997); the Latin American Studies Association Media Award for his Central America coverage (1987); and the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award for his reporting from Jonestown, where he was shot and wounded while on assignment for the Washington Post (1978).

DOROTHEA DIETRICH, PhD, a professor and curator of modern and contemporary art, has taught at Princeton University and held visiting appointments at Yale, MIT, Duke and Boston Universities, among others. She was last Chair and Professor of the History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute.

JUDY A. GREENBERG, Member, Board of Directors, the Center for Contemporary Political Art. She served as Director of The Kreeger Museum (1994-2017), retired in June 2017, and presently serves as its Director Emerita. She was Founder of VisArts art center (formerly Rockville Arts Place, RAP), established in 1988.

JACK RASMUSSEN, PhD, Director and Curator, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, the largest university-affiliated art museum in the Washington metro area. He was recently named Chair of the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC). In this role, he will drive the strategic direction of MSAC programs and funding for the state of Maryland.

Beth Heisinger

Michèle Colburn

Jim Boden

Bryan McGinnis

Juliette McCullough

David Estlund

George Kennedy Alfonse Pagano

Gary Aagaard