Betty Mae Kramer Gallery & Music Room

Betty Mae Kramer Gallery & Music Room
One Veterans Plaza, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 301-565-3805

Loose Ends

The Betty Mae Kramer Gallery presents Loose Ends, a solo exhibition featuring multimedia works by emerging artist P. Arwyn Hager, the 2024 Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award winner! Keep scrolling for more details! 

Join us for Jazz at the Kramer
Wednesday, October 9th at 6:00 p.m.
A free evening of jazz music on the second Wednesday of each month at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room. This month’s artists feature guitarist Chuck Underwood and pianist Jon Ozment.

Exhibition Description

Loose Ends
A Solo Exhibition by: P. Arwyn Hager

On View: Friday, August 9 – Friday, October 11, 2024
Gallery Hours: Fridays from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Curated By: Heloisa Escudero on behalf of AHCMC

P. Arwyn’s Statement

Growing older has faced me with many decisions. I am constantly being asked what I want to be when I’m older, which sect of myself I have want to isolate and make my whole person. The stress of this has bled into much of my work, and thus into this exhibit; loose ends I haven’t yet been able to string together.

I love exploring different avenues of my art. I paint portraits containing the shifting colors I see in the world; I create expressive still life drawings that push me out of my comfort zone; I create interactive works that pull my audience into new worlds; I experiment with destroying parts of my work to change the meaning; I add words that speak to me. 

I’m not sure which creative path I will take, but for now I am savoring my ability to explore my art in all its forms.

P. Arwyn’s Work

 

 

An Assault on Your Eyeballs
Medium, Year
 

 

Put It All In
Medium, Year
 

 

The Fracturing
Medium, Year

About the Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award

The purpose of the Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award is to uplift the unique and authentic voices of high school juniors enrolled in a public or non-public high school in Montgomery County MD who demonstrate a commitment to the visual arts. Three award winners are selected by a jury based upon the artistic merit of their original work and the applicant’s potential for a visual arts career. The awardee who receives the highest, cumulative score is given an award of $1,500, a mentorship with a visual arts professional, and a solo exhibition presented in conjunction with an award ceremony.

Click to learn more about the program.

To meet this year’s runners-up click here.

*Please Note: Outside food and beverages are not permitted in the gallery with the exception of water. *

On Display

August 9 – October 11, 2024

Gallery Hours: Fridays from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Featured Artist

P. Arwyn Hager

Bio

P. Arwyn Hager is a jack of all trades, as long as those trades involve arts and creativity. She finds herself exploring many different mediums of art, such as paint, charcoal and pencil drawings, colored pencils and markers, digital paintings and character design, comics and experimental interactive art, animation and film, and more. Besides this award, she has been acknowledged for her work by Friends of Yellow Barne 3 times, she has won 2 Scholastic Gold Keys and 2 Honorable Mentions over the years. Her work has also been displayed in the BWI airport, the Montgomery Mall, Kensington Library, and wherever her teachers take her stuff. Her works have also been published by the student-led Amplifier magazine and her school’s Literary Magazine, which she has been a part of her whole high school career, editing art and writing, designing pages, and advertising the book and organizing fundraisers for it.

When she’s not exploring the visual arts, Arwyn is performing in her school’s plays and musicals, for which her skills have been acknowledged by the Cappies every year, and she’s currently working on writing and directing her own one act play, The (Very Important) Murder of a (Very Important) Mystery. This won’t be the first time she has tried directing and playwriting; she and a friend started an Improv Club where they wrote and directed mini plays for an improv show they put on the middle of the year.

Speaking of writing, Arwyn has also dabbled in that field with some success; she won 2nd place for personal essay and 3rd place for short story in her school’s annual writing competition.

Arwyn also finds a creative outlet in music; she has been playing drums since she was nine and she has been a part of her school’s marching band and pep band for her whole high school career, stepping up to be a drum captain in her junior year, the same year she joined her school’s Jazz Ensemble.

Want to follow Arwyn’s art efforts? Follow her @arwynwitha_y on instagram.

Interested in commissioning Arwyn or buying some of her work? Email her at arwynhager@gmail.com or DM her on instagram.