Raya Bodnarchuk This is a True Picture of How it Was

ALPER INITIATIVE FOR WASHINGTON ART Raya Bodnarchuk This is a True Picture of How it Was

February 16 – August 8, 2021

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

Washington, DC

ALPER INITIATIVE FOR WASHINGTON ART Table of Contents

Foreword 5

Raya Bodnarchuk in Conversation with Jack Rasmussen 9

Biography 22

Exhibition Images 25

Dedication 50

Moon Shadows and Reflections, January 17, 2014.

2 | RAYA BODNARCHUK Foreword

Raya Bodnarchuk has been an essential part of the arts ecosystem in Washing- ton since Glen Echo Park was reborn by the National Park Service as a Center for the Arts in 1974. She became one of its first Artists in Residence and gave fourteen years working and teaching in that community. Her imagery was, and still is, closely identified with Glen Echo Park, appearing on publications, posters, and banners for many years. Then, for thirty-two years, she was a fac- ulty member during the golden age of the Corcoran College of Art & Design. Together with her extensive exhibition career and public commissions, Raya has been at the center of what was good in Wash- ington over the past half century. Through it all, Raya never wavered from her com- mitment to her art and to the craft of art, or from passing along her knowledge of making and her modeling of what it means to be a true artist to the next generation. It seems that Bruce Nauman got it right when he titled several of his works from the late sixties The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain. Nauman’s phrase can be interpreted in many different and conflicting ways, but con- sidered in the context of Raya’s work, art is pretty clearly a celebration of our humanity. Her art cele- brates the light, the positive side of our lives, even during our darkest hours. Raya is best known for her sculpture, collages, and silkscreen prints. This Is a True Picture of How it Was may seem like a radical departure from her life’s work, and it did come as a big surprise for me. What began as good advice for her students (“Do something you love every day”) evolved into

Photo by Claudia Smigrod. a brilliant chronicle of six years of her life beginning Glen Echo Park exhibition illustration by Raya Bodnarchuk. in 2013:

4 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 5 Every day I would find something I could use as a subject, come home and remember it, or bring something home, put it on my table and paint it. Then I’d paint all the things on my table, everything in my house, and then my neigh- borhood when I’d go for a walk in the dark before going to bed. The thing was to do one every day. That wasn’t the only thing I did, but it was something I did without fail. 1,926 paintings later, the advice for her students, which she took herself, seems like good advice for all of us. It was the museum’s challenge to show every painting, in order, as a fitting celebration of Raya’s life as an artist. Our Preparator, Kevin Runyon, managed this feat. His achievement is also documented in this catalog, and when the COVID-19 pandemic has at last receded, and you can come experience the physicality of this amazing body of work in the Alper Initiative for Washington Art and be richer for it. The Alper Initiative was created by philanthropist and artist Carolyn Alper in

the American University Museum to promote an understanding and apprecia- The White Sun and Swirling Clouds, April 22, 2017. tion of Washington regional art and artists. It is an exhibition space, a meeting place for people and ideas, and a place for celebration. We must thank the family of Carolyn Alper, and her devoted friends, for keeping her vision alive for the Initiative, and the Wolpoff Family Foundation for its continued support of the Initiative’s publications. Jack Rasmussen Director and Curator American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Washington, DC

Sticks in the River, January 22, 2018.

6 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 7 Raya Bodnarchuk in Conversation with Jack Rasmussen Director and Curator, American University Museum December 14, 2020

JACK RASMUSSEN: You have been an important artist and teacher in Washington since the mid-seventies. Where did you come from, and when did you first have thoughts about becoming an artist?

RAYA BODNARCHUK: I was born into a family of artists. My parents were artists their whole lives, and I liked what went on where we were living, wherever we were. My mother painted, and my father made sculp- ture. I started out, as a one year old, with a tiny wee paint brush and a little shot glass of water, and I painted on the refrigerator. It was fun, and just that simple.

My father came back from World War II and the Navy to meet my mother in NYC, where I was born. She had a job in the Education department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art working with the youngsters and the collection. She was a very good teacher and a very good artist. I was only a year-and-a-half when we moved to DC. I remember my father working with clay. Clay is so easy for anybody to touch, to be fascinated by, and to fall in love with. I think that’s where it all started. I made my choice of what I wanted to do in life from the very beginning.

Bodnarchuk at home with small paintings, 2014.

8 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 9 Bodnarchuk (age 3), watching father, Steve Bodnarchuk, work with clay, 1950. Raya Bodnarchuk's mother, Betty Bodnarchuk, with her young students at the Toledo Museum.

JR: Why did your family move to Washington, DC? During a year in Rome on the RISD European Honors Program, 1969. With the Colossus of Constantine’s foot on the Capitoline Hill, Rome, 1969.

RB: Neither one of my parents were RB: I did get it by osmosis. My mother was a good teacher. We always had mate- from New York City. They loved it, rials out, she was very understanding and helpful to a little child. My friends but there were job opportunities in would come over and we would make things. Sometimes it was just paper or DC that were doable. At the time, cloth, cutting out, gluing, making little buildings out of boxes and making all the that was the deal. They could make things that we wanted in there. I was a little kid, I would call it “Making Things.” a life, earn a living, and still make Talk to a friend and say “want to come over and make things?” We had clay, and their art. They both did that, I think my mother had a kiln, and we could make things out of clay and we could fire at a cost. It is hard to have a job and them. That was real. It took some learning about technical things, and about be a serious artist. Most of us have tools and equipment. Bodnarchuk (age 2) with a trowel, 1949. Raya and Betty Bodnarchuk, on 13th had to do that. I was lucky my jobs Street, Washington, DC. were in the art world and with art JR: You eventually went to some of the best art schools. institutions. I was surrounded by other people who had the same desires and the same interests. I didn’t have to explain or prove anything, just keep going. RB: I did. I went to public schools all the way through high school. Art classes weren’t a very big deal, but it was meaningful in its own small way because at JR: When did you start to receive your formal art training? It sounds like you least there were art classes. But when I went to RISD (Rhode Island School of got your early training by osmosis. Design), that’s when my connection to art expanded. All my friends were doing

10 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 11 the same thing, on the same path. It was exciting, it was fun. And RISD had everything you could ever want there. Not just new things, but the basic stuff. Design, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, the traditional style of art educa- tion at the time. That was worth so much to me, to go at it from the basics rather than from the more creative angle, but they all fit together without question. That’s a nice way to learn, and I loved what I did there.

The last year at RISD, I went to Rome for the year at their Palazzo Cenci. I had studio space and the beautiful places I’d studied in Providence were actually in Rome, and I studied them in person. That was just marvelous!

JR: What did you like the best? The outdoor sculpture?

RB: I loved everything, just being there. You mention outdoor sculpture. On the Capitoline Hill was the huge white marble head of Constantine, and the foot of Constantine, and his hand with the finger in the air. They were incredible. It just made me so happy being there. We were standing on the Apian Way, in the same place where people stood two thousand years before.

JR: Then you moved on to graduate school.

RB: While still in Rome, I applied to the Rhinehart School of Sculpture in Baltimore, part of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). At the time, that was pretty great for me. It was small, my class had five people in it, and I was the only woman. Norman Carlberg was the Artist in Residence. I had great opportunity there. It was lovely.

JR: After graduating, you moved to Washington. Why did you do that?

RB: After I graduated, I stayed in Fells Point for a while, periodically driving Clockwise from top left: Pouring aluminum, lost Styrofoam casting, late 1970s; Bodnarchuk's back to Providence to cast some things at RISD. I loved foundry work and what sculpture in preparation for lost wax casting at New Arts Foundry, Baltimore, MD; Bodnarchuk with her sculpture, mid 1980s; Bodnarchuk with sculpture made during her time at Rinehart I could do with metal. I moved to Washington because I heard about Glen Echo School of Sculpture, 1970. Park’s new life. It was an amusement park when I was little. When the Park

12 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 13 Glen Echo Park brochure illustrations by Raya Bodnarchuk. Before demolition, Bodnarchuk says goodbye to the studios at the Crystal Pool in Glen Echo Park. Photo by Tom Wolff. Part 1: Sculpture for lost Styrofoam casting. Part 2: Making the sand mold for lost Styrofoam casting.

RB: Most people have heard of the lost wax technique, an ancient technique. closed in 1969, the property went to the National Park Service, and they started For me, it was the lost Styrofoam process. You burn the Styrofoam out by pour- making it into an arts park. I heard they had a foundry. When I got there, I think ing the molten metal in, so there is no second mold. The limitations are many. it was 1973 or 1974, Jim Sanborn had already gotten there and set up a foundry You can’t make something huge, and you can’t make something super thick. and sculpture studio, and he said, “come join us.” So, I joined in. It was like the You had to learn how to do it. Nothing is really easy. It was really hard work, but wild west. It wasn’t like a 9 to 5 job, but we were there 24/7. it was my favorite thing. It was almost like drawing. Just do it. Just do it now.

JR: When I met you, your studio was in what had been the amusement park’s I did some lost wax casting, but I’d rather have someone else make the molds for first aid station. that. When I got commissions that needed to be cast in bronze, I would bring the work to a professional fine art foundry. RB: Yes, that was connected to the pool. It was a wonderful little building. I was lucky. It was all luck for everybody in Glen Echo Park, really. I stayed until 1987, I stayed at the park for a long time and met some very good people. almost fifteen years. JR: You were making collages, too, at the time. JR: I remember you were carving these wonderful sculptures out of Styrofoam, which you would make a sand mold around right there and then pour in molten RB: I made cut-out paper things, besides the sculpture. I used colorful paper, aluminum that replaced the Styrofoam. All low tech, all wonderful. or silkscreened paper. They’re two-dimensional works, but since they’re cut out,

14 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 15 the pieces are actually objects. That appealed to me so much at the time. I was so bent on making three-dimensional stuff. There they are, you can experiment with them, move them around, see what they do, change it, put it back, take another one. It’s paper. It’s not carved in stone or cast in metal. I loved that.

JR: Your imagery was so closely identified with Glen Echo Park for many years, appearing on publications, posters, and banners.

RB: Yes. I enjoyed making the illustrations for the park for years.

JR: You are also known for your wonderful silkscreen prints.

RB: I made silkscreen prints in graduate school at MICA and assisted in teaching a silkscreen class. I had done it enough that I could help the Group exhibition Collage at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1981. students. Soon I was teaching at Glen Echo Park, and then at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, too. I taught drawing and design, mostly. I got a hand-written note back from him saying “Sure. I’ll let you know.” And he did. It was very lucky. That’s all I can say. JR: When did you start teaching at the Corcoran? JR: What did you teach at the Corcoran?

RB: I started teaching at the Corcoran in 1982. RB: I started out teaching design for freshmen. After a while, I could design courses I wanted to teach. We could change what we were doing into what we JR: You taught there during its golden age. really needed to do and wanted to do. Soon I was teaching a three-dimensional They had an amazing faculty. class which we called “Resources,” and it involved tools, materials and design: wood, metal, paper, plastic. We did it so students would learn a lot about tools RB: It was a fantastic group. I joined the faculty and materials and solve design problems and deal with craftsmanship and when the curator, Claire List, put my work in a skill also. show of collages with four other people in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. That was a great oppor- JR: What a fantastic training students were getting. I have known your sculp- tunity for me. I wrote a letter to the Dean of the ture, your collages, and your silkscreens since around 1976. I think that was the Corcoran School, Bill Barrett, asking for a job. first time I met you at Glen Echo Park. I’ve followed your work closely ever since.

With The Greek Slave at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Bodnarchuk with colleagues Janis Goodman and Sarah Marshall.

16 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 17 Winter Rainy Night, February 4, 2018.

A Fiery Maple in Bethesda, November 17, 2016.

When did you start painting? It seems a radical departure from what you had been doing.

RB: I always drew. And I used drawing to work out how I was going to make my cut-outs. But in 2013, I thought about how I had always told my students to do something every day. Do something, something you love to do, every day. You may not have time to do your main thing, but you have five minutes to draw something, or cut out something. I thought, well, I’ll just do it, too. I started While Driving on the Beltway, December 8, 2018. The Big Waning Moon Over the Union Arch Bridge From Cabin John to doing a little drawing on a 3 1/2 inch square piece of paper, like a Post-It note. Glen Echo, July 12, 2017. I got some decent paper, and I’d just draw or paint something every day. I did that for six years.

18 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 19 I kept going. I added a color, and then I thought I’d make them bigger. Over time I started using opaque watercolor, or gouache. Every day I would find some- thing I could use as a subject, come home and remember it, or bring something home, put it on my table and paint it. Then I’d paint all the things on my table, everything in my house, and then my neighborhood when I’d go for a walk in the dark before going to bed. The thing was to do one every day. That wasn’t the only thing I did, but it was something I did without fail.

Over time, they got more complicated, more involved, they took longer. I didn’t stop for six years. At that point I decided I would take a vacation. Everybody needs a vacation. It was time to look back and see what I’d done.

JR: This body of work began as good advice for your students: Do something you love every day. Don’t wait, do something now. Is that also good philosophical advice for the viewer?

RB: That wasn’t my goal, but people might take it that way. When a student says, “I don’t have time to make something,” I say, “you really do.” Do something that you like for five minutes. It adds up to be more. It really does. People who do a certain kind of exercise say they don’t have time. Well, you can move your skel- eton around, your muscles. You can breathe for five minutes. It’s worth it. Just live it up. Live it up! And then look back, make sure you really see what you’ve done, and proceed from there.

The Cup of Coffee, October 11, 2015.

20 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 21 RAYA BODNARCHUK Select Group Exhibitions 2000 Flora and Fauna, The Arts Seeing, Thinking, Feeling, Employment 1981–83 Sculpture Instructor, and Humanities Council of Traveling Arts Show sponsored Smithsonian Institution, rayabodnarchuk.com 2015 New Works, Raya Bodnarchuk, 2014 Professor Emeritus, Corcoran Montgomery County, MD. by Maryland Art Place, Washington, DC. National Institutes of Health, College of Art and Design at Education Baltimore, MD. East Alcove Gallery, Bethesda, MD. Council Room, McLean Project George Washington University, 1979 Visiting Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, BFA for the Arts, McLean, VA. 1984 Proposals for Public Sculpture Rhode Island School of Design, 2013 Objects of Desire, Neptune Washington, DC. Rinehart School of Sculpture, MFA in Arlington County, Providence, RI. Fine Art, Washington, DC. 1998 Benefit Exhibition, Maryland 1982–2014 Associate Professor, Corcoran Art Place, Baltimore, MD. Arlington Arts Center, VA. 1977 Residency, The Millay Colony Select Solo Exhibitions 2012 Bookmarks, Betty Mae Kramer College of Art and Design, Small Works, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC. for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY. 2014 Letter to my Mother: Gallery, Silver Spring, MD. Reunion Exhibition, Maryland Washington, DC. The Work of Raya Bodnarchuk, In conjunction with Pyramid Art Place, Baltimore, MD. 1989–97 Chairman, Foundation 1974–88 National Park Service, th Corcoran Gallery of Art and Atlantic’s 12 Biannual Book 1996 ArtSites96, Greater Reston Arts Office of Mayor Marion Barry, Department, Corcoran College of Artist in Residence, Glen Echo College of Art and Design, Arts Fair. Center, Washington regional Washington, DC. Art and Design, Washington, DC. Center for the Arts, Glen Echo, MD. Gallery 31, Washington, DC. 2011 Ripple Effect, Museum of the biennial, Reston, VA. 1982 Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland 1976–81 Instructor, Montgomery College, 2013 Raya Bordnarchuk: Form, Americas, Washington, DC. Rinehart 100, Decker Gallery, Institute College of Art, Takoma Park, MD. Collections American University Museum Artscape, Baltimore, MD. 2009 Public Arts Trust and Montgomery Maryland Institute College of Art, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, College Exhibition- Selection Baltimore, MD. 1981 Jack Rasmussen Gallery, Artery Corporation Washington, DC. Commissions, Residencies, of Works from the Works of 1993 Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick, Washington, DC. and Awards Hyatt Corporation 2010 Colly Soleri Music Center, Art in Public Places Program, Washington, DC. Collage on Paper, Marriott Corporation Arcosanti, AZ. Takoma Park, MD. 2007 Corcoran Teaching Award. 1992 Black and White, Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Montgomery County MD- DPWT 2001–07 Commission, Sculpture for 2006 Sculpture and drawings 2007 Tails of Art, Kathleen Ewing Montgomery College, Washington, DC. Montgomery County Public Library the Forest Glen Pedestrian for Forest Glen Pedestrian Bridge, Gallery, Washington, DC. Takoma Park, MD. Eighth International National Institutes of Health Bridge project, Public Art Trust Smithsonian American Art Museum Pavilion of Fine Arts, 2005–07 Faces of the Fallen, Women in Miniature Prints Competition, 1991 The Child in All of Us, and Montgomery County, Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami Montgomery College, Military Service for America Pratt Graphics Center, NYC. Rockville Arts Place, Capital Beltway, MD. The Washington Post Takoma Park, MD. Memorial, Arlington National Rockville, MD. 1980 22nd Area Exhibition Works on Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission 2004 Borderline Gallery, Cemetery, Washington, DC. 1994 Washington Post Magazine 1990 Transformations, Paper, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Patagonia, AZ. Home and Design Issue Feature. 2003 Corcoran alumni, faculty and Contemporary Figurative Washington, DC. Educational Video on FORM for 1995 Millersville University, students, Washington Square, DC. Sculpture, Washington Square, 1977 July Show, Washington Project Selected Publications Calvert School, Baltimore, MD. and Illustrations Millersville, PA. Do’s and Don’ts, Corcoran College Washington, DC. for the Arts, Washington, DC. 1992 Memorial Sculpture at 1991 Gomez Gallery, of Art + Design Print Portfolio, 1989 Invitational Show, Rockville 1975 Third Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, A Red Fin by Sauci Churchill, Bannockburn Elementary School, Baltimore, MD. Gallery K, Washington, DC. Arts Place, Rockville, MD. Textile Museum, Washington, DC. Finishing Line Press, 2007 Montgomery County, MD. 1989 Knight Gomez Gallery, 2002–13 Faculty Exhibition, Corcoran 1987 Sculpture 87 at Washington 1974 19th Area Exhibition, Corcoran Abigail, Before the Revolution by 1990 Commission for group of sculpture/collage, College of Art + Design, Square, Washington, DC. Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Diane Leatherman, Crossing Kansas, 2004 four bronze sculptures for the Baltimore, MD. Washington, DC. Rebecca, A Maryland Farm Girl by 1986 Furniture and Interiors, 1970 Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Washington Suburban Sanitary Diane Leatherman, Crossing Kansas, 2002 Montgomery College, 2002 Sculptors at Gallery 10, Maryland Art Place, Johns Hopkins University, Commission Headquarters, Takoma Park, MD. Washington Square, Baltimore, MD. Baltimore, MD. Laurel, MD. Palisades, DC Street Banners, 1998 Washington, DC. 1985 Glen Echo Gallery, 1985 Sculpture 85 at Washington 1968 Rhode Island Arts Festival, Artist in Residence, Park School, Even as we Sleep by Linda Pastan, Glen Echo Park, MD. 2001 Child, Artscape, Maryland Square, National Gallery of Art, Providence, RI. Baltimore, MD. Croissant Press, 1980 Art Place, Baltimore, MD. Washington, DC. 1984 Georgetown Court Artists’ Space, 1967 Annual Regional Exhibition, 1988 Design of Street Banners for Swan Research, by Grace Cavalieri, Washington, DC. 2000 R&R Rare and Raw, Maryland Sculpture at Federal Reserve Corcoran Gallery of Art, Palisades, Washington, DC. Word Works, 1979 Art Place, Baltimore, MD. Garden, Washington, DC. Washington, DC. 1986 Commission for sculpture On the Way to the Zoo by Linda Pastan, for lobby of the Potomac Dryad Press, 1975 Public Library, MD.

22 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 23 RAYA BODNARCHUK This is a True Picture of How it Was

24 | RAYA BODNARCHUK Very Good, December 26, 2013. It’s Nine Degrees, January 8, 2014. Wisteria Shadows in the Moon Light in my Backyard, February 15, 2014. Some Furled Sails. French Frigate Hermione. Alexandria Virginia, June 11, 2015.

Rose of Sharon and Aucuba in the Winter, January 13, 2014. The Corcoran. Very Special. The Day They Gave It Away, February 19, 2014. Tons of Pink, April 11, 2015. The Spirea at Night with the Sycamores, May 6, 2015.

26 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 27 Some Big Clouds, October 14, 2018. A Colorful Shrub Late Afternoon, November 21, 2017.

Afternoon by the Potomac. Sparkly Water, April 20, 2017. The Moon in the Morning, January 25, 2019.

28 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 29 Pink Cloud in the Morning, January 10, 2019. A Euphorbia, August 8, 2018.

It Was Pink Fog, February 26, 2018. The Top of My Refrigerator and the Top of a Little Mirror Compact, September 2, 2016.

30 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 31 Rose Leaves, May 25, 2017. Red Roses, May 29, 2017.

Two Petals Today, May 27, 2017. One of Kurt’s Pink Roses, May 22, 2017.

32 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 33 More Blossoms Nearby, April 9, 2018. When the Season Changes. Over the Susquehanna, October 16, 2018.

A Side Pool, April 14, 2018. Wild Water, February 18, 2018.

34 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 35 The Other Mango, September 3, 2017. The Pottery and a Mirror, December 19, 2016.

Mangos, September 7, 2017. A Cabbage White Butterfly, August 26, 2017.

36 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 37 38 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 39 40 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 41 42 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 43 “Amaryllis” series January–February 2014.

44 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 45 Hoping, February 28, 2016. Thinking About Spring, March 3, 2016.

Saw Some Blossoms Today, March 2, 2016. Made It, March 1, 2016.

A Little Tired, February 29, 2016. An Early Bud, March 4, 2016.

Opposite: Overseer, February 3, 2015.

46 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 47 The Frost Moon Over My House, November 25, 2015. An Eagle Here This Afternoon, December 27, 2016. A Bird in Memory and Spirit, December 23, 2016. Day to Night, November 28, 2015.

Waiting, December 24, 2016. Some Needles Have Fallen, December 26, 2016. The Moon Over the Sunset, November 24, 2015. Above the Neighborhood, November 23, 2015.

Cradled By the Boughs, December 25, 2016. Farewell S.B. My Father, December 22, 2016. The Start of Night, November 21, 2015. A Calm Night, November 20, 2015.

48 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 49 I would like to thank Alberto Gaitán, Caroline Lacey, Robin Moore, Jack Rasmussen, Bill Roseberry, the AU Museum and all my friends who clicked and cheered me on every day no matter how late at night it was.

— Raya Bodnarchuk

More Roses in DC, May 30, 2017.

50 | RAYA BODNARCHUK RAYA BODNARCHUK | 51 ALPER INITIATIVE FOR WASHINGTON ART

MISSION STATEMENT

The Alper Initiative for Washington Art

promotes an understanding and appreciation

of the art and artists of the Washington First published in conjunction with the exhibition Raya Bodnarchuk: This is a True Picture of How it Was February 16–August 8, 2021 Metropolitan Area. We provide and staff a American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Washington, DC dedicated space located within the American American University Museum Sharon Christiansen, Manager, Museum Operations & Visitor Services University Museum, to present exhibitions, Elizabeth Cowgill, Marketing & Publications Specialist Sarah Leary, Museum Operations Assistant Jessica Pochesci, Assistant Registrar programs, and resources for the study and Jack Rasmussen, Director & Curator Kevin Runyon, Preparator encouragement of our creative community. Kristi-Anne Shaer, Associate Director

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All images courtesy of the artist. Installation photography courtesy of Greg Staley.

Cover: The Moon Over the Park, April 12, 2017. Inside cover: Installation photo.

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