The Pelican Arts Studio — primary working space for resident artist Tom Cardarella — has a new home!  Studio 205-C in the new Gateway Arts Center at Brentwood!  Within the Gateway Arts District of Prince Georges County, this newly renovated building has a dozen studios, three gallerys, offices and classroom space.

The Grand Opening will be March 19, 2010.
Dedication begins at 3:00 PM
Open House 5:00-8:00 PM

Gateway Arts Center
3901 Rhode Island Ave
Brentwood MD 20722

A detailed flyer is here: www.gatewaycdc.org/GatewayArtsCtrOpening.pdf

Further descriptions and photos are on the Pelican Arts blog.

To see some of Tom's artworks click here.  You can also see some of Tom's drawings and paintings in the artdc.org gallery, and in the Artomatic catalog.

The Pelican Arts Live section was a calendar of events (mostly musical, mostly "acoustic") in the Washington, D.C. area.  Due to lack of traffic here, and since there are other more useful and more thorough online calendars, this section is discontinued as of December 2007.

Here are a few other calendars you might find useful:

   WFMA (World Folk Music Association): http://www.wfma.net/DCEVENTS.htm
   Mary Cliff/Traditions: http://marycliff.net/whoswhere.php
   Musi-Cal Concerts: http://www.musi-cal.com

And, of course, you can always use your favorite search engine to find the web sites of your favorite performers and venues.

This section contains random quotes and written excerpts that appealed to me for some reason.  They come from various sources – mostly books, at least one verbal comment, perhaps some song lyrics.  Many are funny, some contain striking ideas, some are (perhaps) beautifully written, all are meant to be interesting, to stimulate thought about either form or content.

These are some of the organizations that I support as a member, a donor or a volunteer.  (Click on a logo to visit their web site.)

			ARTS RELATED
			artdc.org "the art forum" - a community of DC area artists
			Artomatic An occasional arts extravaganza - "By Artists, For Everyone"
			Focus Folk/acoustic music in Rockville, Alexandria...
			Joe's Movement Emporium Performing arts center - "Rare. Gritty. Brilliant."
			Gateway Community Development Corp. The Gateway Arts District of Prince George's County, Md.
			Hyattsville Community Artists Alliance An artist collective in the Hyattsville, Md., area
			Arlington Arts Center Artist studios and galleries
			The Arlington Philharmonic
			D.C. Arts Center An art gallery and a black-box theatre
			Washington Project for the Arts

			OTHER
			American Civil Liberties Union
			The Brights  [I'm a bright.  Are you?] "illuminating & elevating the naturalistic worldview"
			The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry [formerly CSICOP] publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine
			Council for Secular Humanism publisher of Free Inquiry magazine
			James Randi Educational Foundation
			Skeptics Society publisher of Skeptic magazine