News and Notes

In June: The Source Theatre Festival in association with the Cultural Development Corporation has selected me to participate in this year's Artist Blind Date collaborative projects. The performance dates are Wednesday, June 23, Friday, June 25 at 8pm and Saturday, June 26 at 1pm at the Source Theatre, 1835 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009. Our piece, Memoria Brassica is an exploration of the intersection of memory, its disintegration, technology and cabbages. Using strong images-both visual and physical, and an intriguing juxtaposition of texts and sound we are creating an abstract narrative about aging, home and connection. My incredible collaborators are Kristina Bilonick, a print maker, and Tzveta Kassabova, a dancer and choreographer. http://sourcedc.org/sourcefestival/

In July: If You Give a Pig a Pancake is opening July 3 at Adventure Theatre. Jerry Whiddon is directing, I'm doing the movement work, and Holly Twyford and Branda Lock are playing Felicia and Laura.

On the craft work side: School's out so I'm in my studio working in blissful solitude. I'm planning on having a great inventory of new work. My Window Bowls line is expanding with new forms and sizes and surface treatments-I think you will be pleased. My inventory of functional work is also being replenished, as well as a more complete line of jewelry pieces.

I've been wait listed for the Washington Craft Show, which will be held at the Washington DC Convention Center on November 19, 20 and 21, 2010. I'm making work as if I'll be in the show, so send good thoughts to make it true!

Pottery & Jewelry

November 2009: Open House and Pottery Sale

So sorry to disappoint anyone, but due to unforeseeable circumstances I won't be having my Open House and Pottery Sale this fall. All is not lost however! For gift-giving this holiday season my pottery continues to be available at the Scope Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town, Alexandria, VA. And if you're interested in my jewelry work, I have a good inventory of brooches and earrings like the ones that are pictured here, please contact me at Kabromaitis@gmail.com.

October 2009: This is just the most exciting news!!! I've just been accepted into four, yep count them, four national exhibitions!

Cape Fear Studios-Nellie Allen Smith Pottery Competition in Fayetteville, NC. The show runs from October 23 to November 23, 2009.

The Pen and Brush, Inc. show, Home is Where the Art Is, in New York City, runs from October 29 to November 22, 2009.

Illuminations, at 18 Hands Gallery, in Houston, TX accepted three window bowls that will be exhibited from November 7 until December 2, 2009.

And closer to home, I've had my metal & mixed media piece, Oculus #1, accepted into the Pandora's Box Show at the Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory. That show runs from December 10, 2009 to January 10, 2010.

THEATER FALL 2009

Little Shop of Horrors open October 29 at George Washington University. I’m doing the puppet and fight choreography. For tickets and info: www.theatredance.gwu.edu or call 202.994.0995.

6 Characters in Search of an Author, adapted and directed by Derek Goldman, closes this weekend on October 25 at Georgetown University. Its a stunning production. I was delighted to do the fight choreography and movement coaching on that one.

An exciting new production of Go Dog Go that I directed is still running at Adventure Theatre and continues until November 8.

I had the pleasure of choreographing The Rocky Horror Show at Montgomery College earlier this month. Crazy good fun! Roberta Gasbarre directed. There are great photos on the Speech, Dance, Theater Department site. I will be posting photos here as well soon.

House of Blue Leaves opens at Montgomery College in November. I’m doing some stage combat on that one. Directed by Jessica Lefkow.

COMING IN WINTER/SPRING 2010

I’ll be directing a production of She Loves Me at Montgomery College and choreographing and doing movement work on Much Ado About Nothing at George Washington University, directed by Alan Wade.

THEATRE NEWS:

2008

The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang, that I've directed at Montgomery College, Rockville, opens on November 19 and runs through November 23. For ticket information, please check the Website:

http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/spdnth/theatre/thstart.htm

I'm also doing movement and puppet coaching for Alice, adapted and directed by Mary Hall Surface at Round House Theatre. Alice opens at Round House Theatre, Bethesday on November 26, 2008 and runs until December 28, 2008.

After 30 years of promoting and selling fine crafts, American Craft in Takoma Park has closed its doors. They carried my work for nearly 10 years and I will miss them. I'm still selling my pottery at the Scope Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria, VA, and the Pyramid Atlantic retail shop in Silver Spring, MD. So you can still get beautifully handcrafted gifts for all your friends and family! Or contact me on my website-I'd be delighted to sell to you via the web.

THEATER 2008-2009 season:

Theater is about to take the front seat in my life for awhile. I'll be working at Round House Theatre again-this time doing movement coaching for Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Derek Goldman. This will be the second time I've worked with Derek on this show-I'm thrilled!

Alice is still running at Round House-its a beautiful piece and great for the entire family. Alice runs through Dec. 28.

I'll also be working on two shows at Adventure Theatre coming up soon. Holes, which opens in late January and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, which opens in February.

Pottery & Jewelry

I'm currently on a new path to investigate and develop a series of Window Bowls with a narrative theme on journey (both internal/spiritually and external/physically). This idea was inspired by the Native Haida and Tlingkit art work I saw while working in Juneau, Alaska last August.

I’m interested in developing a narrative aspect for these pieces and looking for more ways to incorporate reflected and source light. I’ve started translating the basic idea of the window bowls onto slab wall pieces and am developing that farther.

The narrative themes I want to investigate are journey (on multiple levels), and personal history. Technically I’m interested in experimenting with new materials for the window treatments and ways to use light. In the past I’ve used found objects, natural materials-bones, stones, twigs, bark, etc and more recently metals-copper and silver. I’ve used primarily metal leafing to reflect light in the past and have just begun to use electrical light sources. Artificial light is an area I want to do more with and have very little knowledge about.

June 30, 2008

Other news! I'll be leaving for the Penland School of Crafts on Saturday, where I'll be spending two weeks as the movement instructor. Penland is such a magical place. I anticipate that I'll be soaking up an incredible amount of inspiration as I have in years past!

August 26, 2008

Wow! What a fantastic summer I've had. A class at Haystack with Ken Bova, that just rocked! And a fabulous session at Penland where I was the movement instructor and generally hung out in the Metals studio in my free time playing with the rolling mill. And to cap things off-I received a generous grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County! This website has been created with their help.

Theater

On the theater front: Things are pretty quiet right now. I try to spend my summers focused on pottery. I have just lead 4 workshops in PLAA (Physical Language Analysis for Actors) and mask for the Theater Summer Camp at the Bullis School in Potomac, MD. My friend, Lynn Sharp Spears directs a fabulous camp for teens there!

And the best news this summer, theater-wise for me, is that I've been accepted for the Artists' Roster for the Arts and Humanites Council of Montgomery County, MD. I will be available for leading a variety of workshops that will be listed with them as well as this website.