Artomatic

Artomatic is a multi-week, multimedia arts event held in the Washington metropolitan area of the United States.

[1] The non-juried, open event has provided a forum for artists of all types (visual, performance, and literary) and abilities (from novice to professional).

Most participants, however, give much more of their time; volunteers execute every task, from hauling trash and building exhibit structures to maintaining the website.

[4] Artomatic Inc is overseen by a volunteer board of directors, led by Co-Presidents Jamila Canty and Olivia Garcia.

At this Art-O-Matic, for the first time, the Figure Models Guild of the Washington, D.C., area sponsored open life drawing events.

[18] In February 2009, Artomatic collaborated with the Pink Line Project for "Luck of the Draw: An Art and Music Experience.

[26] Diane Tuckman, a pioneering silk artist[27] and author on the same genre exhibited and taught classes at this Artomatic.

[30] The organization remained in existence to promote local art, but had not been able to hold any in-person events[31] until 2024, when a twelfth Artomatic was announced, to take place in Washington, DC from March 9 to April 28, 2024.

[34][35] The Artomatic concept has been licensed out to other places, including Frederick, Maryland, in October and November 2011,[36] and Toledo, Ohio, in April 2015.

"[40] The exhibition was curated by Fisher and by F. Lennox Campello, and included work by Frank Warren, the creator of the PostSecret project.

[40] In 2007, three art galleries[41] in Bethesda, Maryland, put on a coordinated selected show of artists who had taken part in Artomatic.

[43] Smaller events and partnerships have also happened in following years, including a small display in the oldest wing of National Airport in 2011 and select Artomatic artists were featured with poetry by BRASH at Studio Gallery on R Street NW in Washington, D.C., in 2010.

In 2013, thirty-five artists who participated at Artomatic 2012 were curated by juror F. Lennox Campello to show work at the PEPCO Edison gallery in Downtown Washington, D.C.[44] Artomatic has also partnered with art groups from other cities and countries, specifically glass studios from England for the 2009 iteration, in order to bring work from elsewhere into the DC art scene.