Monday, March 11, 2013
Home-brewers to compete across multiple categories for prestige, prizes.
This one's for the beer lovers out there. The Gateway Community Development Corporation will be hosting a home-brewing beer festival later this year. Dubbed the Gateway CDC Craft Beer Showcase, the event is designed to highlight the home-brewing scene in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The showcase will see 25 home brewers competing in a juried competition across five categories–lagers, brown and pale ales, stouts and porters, saisons, hefeweizens and witbiers, smoked or sour, and specialty beers–to see who brews the best beer. The craft beer showcase will be held on Saturday, June 1, 2013 at the Optimum Restaurant, Lounge and Sports Bar on Baltimore Avenue in Brentwood. The competition is open to non-professional home brewers …
Friday, March 8, 2013
Input sought from businesses in Mount Rainier, Brentwood and North Brentwood.
The Gateway Community Development Corporation is circulating a survey designed to gauge the needs of businesses in Brentwood, North Brentwood and Mount Rainier. Dubbed the Business Needs Assessment Survey, the resulting report will help guide the CDC's "economic development and business recruitment and retention strategies," according to an announcement from the Gateway CDC. The Gateway CDC will be partnering with the Mount Rainier Business Association to distribute the survey to businesses within those towns. The Business Needs Assessment Survey builds on an earlier survey conducted by the Mount Rainier Business Association. "That gathered great information from the business community," reads the announcement. "From these responses …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Artists sought for four month residencies at 39th Street Gallery studios.
The Gateway Community Development Corporation is looking for local artists to apply for three four-month residencies over the next year. It's part of the Artist in Residence Studio Program offered by the Gateway CDC, which promotes economic development in North Brentwood, Brentwood and Mount Rainier. Artists of all mediums and visual art disciplines are encourage to apply, according to an announcement from the Gateway CDC. However, because the studio shares space with other working artists and gallery visitors, chemicals and methods used will be considered when choosing applicants. Through the Artist in Residence Studio Program, selected artists will have rent and utility-free access to a 350-square foot studio at the 39th Street Gallery …
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Exhibition, opening tonight, highlights career of Manon Cleary, a prominent D.C. artist who died last year.
You remember how today is going to be a busy day in the Gateway Arts District? Well, it's going to be a bit busier than previously reported. Yes, in addition to the Tomes for Tunes Used Book Sale at Hyattsville Elementary, the Hyattsville Arts Festival and a book signing by author Keith Boykin at Urban Eats Arts and Music Cafe, there is also an opening reception at the 39th Street Gallery in Brentwood for an exhibition of works by the late Manon Cleary. Organized by the Gateway Community Development Corporation, the exhibit will highlight 14 of Cleary's drawings and paintings. Cleary, who died in November 2011 at the age of 69, was a world renowned artist whose photorealistic and figurative paintings reside in the permanent collections …
Thursday, September 13, 2012
New head of local economic development organization has years of non-profit experience.
For the first time in months, the Gateway Community Development Corporation has a new executive director. The Gateway CDC, a non-profit group which tries to use arts to encourage economic development in Mount Rainier, Brentood and North Brentwood, appointed Carole Bernard to head the organization. The Gateway CDC had been without an executive director since the departure of Michael Gumpert last year. "I'm thrilled to join the Gateway CDC and assist in its economic revitalization efforts along the U.S. Route 1 Corridor," said Bernard in a press release. "Mt. Rainier, North Brentwood and Brentwood are fabulous neighborhoods. I look forward to working with stakeholders on business and neighborhood development initiatives and promoting the …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
A contentious debate about the merits of the Gateway Community Development Corporation has taken root in Brentwood.
Concerns over communication and the pace of development along Brentwood's blighted US Route 1 corridor have a majority of its city council questioning how the Gateway Community Development Corporation works with the town. Brentwood's elected leaders are now embroiled in a contentious debate over the role of the Gateway CDC and have asked representatives of the group to come before the city council to discuss its plans for the area. "Since I've been here in December, they have not come into the town," said Councilor Ann Wells in an interview. Wells was appointed to a vacant council seat back in December. "So, we need to define what that relationship, what that partnership is, and our expectations of each other." The Gateway CDC is a …
Thursday, February 23, 2012
A series of workshops in Brentwood aims to teach local budding and experienced artists alike how to better manage the business side of their creativity.
A free workshop series at the Brentwood Arts Exchange aims to give artists a primer in good business practices. Organizers hope the skills imparted at the workshops will help local artists make more informed business decisions. "Artists spend most of their training focused on being a better artist," said Michael Gumpert, executive director of the Gateway Community Development Corporation. "Artists that choose to make this into a career, they often find that they have to spend an inordinate amount of time getting work and making that work more profitable." Students will learn about copyright issues in a workshop on March 24. Another two-day session on April 24 and 25 will teach how artists should price and preserve their work. There are …
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Michael Theis
11:41 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
I use Queens Chapel/Michigan when I'm headed to upper NW, like Columbia Heights, but if I am headed downtown by car, I usually take Rhode Island Avenue to North Capitol Street. The lights have never really been a problem for me. more ›