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  Happy Pride Month! On June 26, 2015 Marriage Equality became the law of the land. With hundreds of others I celebrated on the Supreme Court steps because the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, making marriage equality legal, granting due process and equal protection to hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples. Later that glorious day, I chatted with President Obama’s official photographer Pete Souza in front of the White House which was lit up in rainbow colors in celebration of the LGBTQ community. While we watched, the Presidential Marine Corps unit arrived. Onboard was President Obama returning from his moving speech at the memorial service for the church folks who were gunned down by a young white supremacist in South Carolina. President Obama sang "Amazing Grace" that day. Arrivals and departures… Gregg Chadwick Arrivals and Departures (June 26, 2015)  48”x36” oil on linen #art   #contemporaryart   #HappyPride   #Pride...

  by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick A Walk With Obama 30"x22"gouache on monotype on paper 2022 When in high school, I would often visit the Phillips Collection in Washington DC. I felt at home in DC. We were in NOVA because my dad was stationed at Headquarters Marine Corps in Arlington, Virginia.  During World War II, artist Richard Diebenkorn also served in the Marine Corps. From 1943 until 1945, he was stationed at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. During that time, Diebenkorn often visited the Phillips Collection in Washington DC.  I went to art school at UCLA as an undergraduate, searching for the spirit of Diebenkorn who had taught there in the 1960s. I didn’t meet Diebenkorn at UCLA, but I did eventually move to San Francisco after graduate school at NYU — perhaps in an artistic search for clues left by the Bay Area Figurative movement that Diebenkorn helped engender. As his health failed, Diebenkorn painted less but continued to create etchings at Crown Point ...

#BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/OQg6977n5r — Muriel Bowser (@MurielBowser) June 5, 2020   Welcome to Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC #DCProtests #DC #Washington #BlackLivesMattter pic.twitter.com/RTq8pk5ygd — Brendan Gutenschwager (@bgutenschwager) June 6, 2020 I will always say it. I am a black man first before anything! #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/E8a5ZmiIDR — Khaled Abdelghany (@Khaled_Da_Juice) June 5, 2020 Senator Kamala Harris at Black Lives Matter Plaza June 5, 2020 photo by Douglas Emhoff

A huge crowd of teens exiting Union Station and heading to the Capitol to  call for action on gun violence pic.twitter.com/5VVWGFTGij — Zoë Carpenter (@ZoeSCarpenter) February 21, 2018 Students at Maryland schools are walking out of classes today to take their message directly to the NRA sponsored representatives in Washington DC. As the Parkland survivors have demonstrated, now is the time for action against gun violence. “Don’t Shoot” was created in solidarity with Saturday’s #marchforourlives and in response to the horrific, senseless gun violence in America. The youth have stood up against the NRA and I applaud them. I will be at the March on Saturday and then make it back for the Santa Monica Airport Artwalk. May we join in the spirit of nonviolence and togetherness. #art #artandsocialjustice Jedediah Grady from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland: “I understand marching isn’t automatically going to change legislation...but it’s not just ...

Amazing rooftop view of the Women's March in Washington DC. Via @KerryGFleming #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/xn0BTcPaR3 — Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) January 22, 2017

by Gregg Chadwick Happy Birthday to Jean Honoré Fragonard, born on this day in 1732. http:// met.org/1NH0QHX     Nat. Gallery of Art I have loved this painting since I first viewed it at the National Gallery in Washington, DC as a young art student. Fragonard's rapid brushwork seems to capture the energy of this young woman's thoughts as she ventures into the realm of the mind. And for me, her rich yellow dress with the alizarin  violet bow brings forth the colors of Spring.  Jean Honoré Fragonard French, 1732 - 1806 Young Girl Reading c. 1770 oil on canvas overall : 81.1 x 64.8 cm (31 15/16 x 25 1/2 in.) framed : 104.9 x 89.5 x 2.2 cm (41 5/16 x 35 1/4 x 7/8 in.) Gift of Mrs. Mellon Bruce in memory of her father, Andrew W. Mellon

Gregg Chadwick The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman - Washington DC 1865 30” X 24” oil on linen 2011 "The eyes transcend the medium." -R.B. Morris (Songwriter, Performer, Poet, Playwright) I have created an ongoing series of paintings that explores the history of nursing for National Nurses Week and the birthday of Florence Nightingale. Three of these paintings were exhibited at the recent UCLA symposium: The Image of Nursing. The artworks were then auctioned at a gala event (Nurse: 21) to help fund scholarships for UCLA School of Nursing students. The paintings adopt a look as viewed through the lens of time similar to the art of a period film. In my artistic practice, I create dream like images with space for the viewer to imagine their own paths to meaning. At times these openings may be found in the doorway of a subject’s eyes. Walt Whitman's poetry is a continual source of inspiration for me. Whitman's life as a nurse, helping wounded soldiers during th...

"June 09, 2010 — What if we could make a difference by doing something simple? A bunch of us walked into a bookstore in downtown Washington, DC, sat down and started chanting OM. Here's what happened." BuddhaFest "Om" Flashmob in a Washington DC Bookstore Produced by Cory Wilson DC's First Buddhist Film Festival runs from June 17th until June 20th. SCHEDULE All events at the Katzen Arts Center at American University unless otherwise noted on the schedule. A few events will be held across the street at the Kay Spiritual Life Center. Location 4400 Massachusetts Ave, Washington, DC, 20016 THURSDAY - JUNE 17 6:30 PM | Opening Reception: Featuring contemporary Asian refreshments from Mie N Yu of Georgetown and an opening ceremony led by Tibetan Drupon Tinley Ningpo. 8:00 PM | Opening Film: Cherry Blossoms FRIDAY - JUNE 18 4:30 PM | FREE SCREENING: Fire Under the Snow 7:00 PM | Program: Tara Brach and Lama Surya Das Living Buddha - Awakening in...

Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press We had friends from Washington DC over for a lovely dinner this week. It was great to share new work with them at my studio and talk deeply about travel and life. Safe travels from the rain to the snow! From the New York Times: "Pedestrians walking past the Vietnam War Memorial. An administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration called the blizzard "a potentially epic snowstorm" that could rival the 28 inches of snow that a January 1922 storm dropped on the capital." Much more at: Snowstorm in Washington

Kenneth Noland (1924 -2010) Spread 117" x 117" oil on canvas 1958 Gift of William S. Rubin, Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection. © Kenneth Noland / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY From the exhibition “New York Cool” held at the Museum of Art, Brunswick photo by Tommy Wilcox for The Bowdoin Orient "Mr. Noland’s signature motif was a radiant target made of rings of pure color strained directly on raw canvas, with that canvas contributing a wonderful sense of breathing room between each band of color. The power of the colors, their often discordant interaction and the expanding and contracting rhythms of the bands of paint and the raw canvas, could be stunningly direct and vibrant." - Roberta Smith on Kenneth Noland. "But beautiful ideas are rarely entirely wrong, and something close to Lorentz’s idea is embodied in modern QCD. Quarks carry color charge, and generate color electric fields analogous to the ordinary electric fields around electrons....

Photo by NASA Happy Holidays to all! *Note to DC residents - be careful throwing snowballs ...

"Once more we pause, once more we pray, as a nation and as a people. We read their names. We press their photos to our hearts. . . . We recall the beauty and meaning of their lives." THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 11, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY AT THE PENTAGON MEMORIAL The Pentagon Arlington, Virginia 9:34 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Secretary Gates, Admiral Mullen and members of the Armed Forces, fellow Americans, family and friends of those that we lost this day -- Michelle and I are deeply humbled to be with you. Eight Septembers have come and gone. Nearly 3,000 days have passed -- almost one for each of those taken from us. But no turning of the seasons can diminish the pain and the loss of that day. No passage of time and no dark skies can ever dull the meaning of this moment. So on this solemn day, at thi...