The Pelican Arts Studio — primary working space for resident artist Tom Cardarella — is no longer one of the 39th Street Studios in the Gateway Arts Center @ Brentwood.  It is currently a virtual studio awaiting rebirth into a new physical space in the Gateway Arts district, or perhaps elsewhere.

To find more information about the Gateway Arts Center and the Gateway Arts District go to these web sites:

• 39th Street Gallery (Gateway CDC gallery & events)
• Brentwood Arts Exchange (part of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Division of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission)
• Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center (gallery and offices)
• Gateway Community Development Corporation (building owner and developer)

Many of Tom's artworks can be seen here at Pelican Arts.  You can also see some of Tom's drawings and paintings in the artdc.org gallery, and in the Artomatic catalog.

May 11, 2013 – 12:00-5:00 pm
Pelican Arts will not participate in
but highly recommends the 2013
Gateway Open Studio Tour

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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 was discontinued.

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