“She Pondered These Things”

By Marguerite S. Quinn

Opening Concert & Reception

Washington Arts Group Exhibition

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Love in the Crucible:
Washington, D.C. – St. Petersburg, Russia
Concert featuring the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra
Performing works by Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi.
Soloists: David Cho, cello & Eugene Dovgalyuk, violin.

Gallery Talk by Special Guest Dr. Tina Khmelnitskaya
Curator of Russian Porcelain, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Jerry Eisley will join Dr. Khmelnitskaya to discuss how the exhibition reflects the ongoing joint arts outreach in Anacostia and Russia through the Washington Arts Group.

Sunday, March 15, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
Truro Church, 10520 Main Street, Fairfax, Va. 22030

 The exhibition features Biblical narrative paintings by Marguerite Slocum Quinn.  One of America’s outstanding impressionist portrait painters and works of art by children from the Vladimir Romanov Palace Children’s Arts Outreach in St. Petersburg, Russia.  The paintings and children’s work celebrate the joy that comes in the presence of difficulty.  Quinn’s subjects for her Biblical narrative Paintings are African Americans from Anacostia.

Exhibition continues through May 17 at Truro Church Gallery.

For exhibition information, call the Washington Arts Group at 202-363-2345

If you’re a fan of Catholicism, good liturgy or music in any way, you may be interested in the Toronto Oratory’s free organ concerts:

Drunk artisans shine dull,
Striving, inebriated by the world’s narcissistic noise,
      and remembering
The beatific sound of byzantine bells.
Echoes of holiness, reflected dimly in the clouded mirrors
of disco ball souls.