Milestone 2003
Launches “31 Days in July” — annual project creating one large painting per day in response to morning news
Launches "31 Days in July" — annual project creating one large painting per day in response to morning news. Continues through 2013, producing 310+ paintings
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Launches ‘31 Days in July’ — annual project creating one large painting per day in response to morning news.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2003. history.sesow.com/e/2003-launches-days-july-annual-project.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2003
- Exhibition Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
- Exhibition Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY
- Exhibition UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV
- Press Washington City Paper on “31 Days in July” (2003)
- Press “…31 days in july…” — Get Underground feature (2003)
- Media The Larz from Mars Show — Matt Sesow, July 2003
- Exhibition “Art Against War,” Grand Atrium, Majlis Cultural Center, Mumbai, India
- Exhibition “Political Bodies,” Seattle, WA
- Exhibition Residency as visiting artist, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
- Exhibition Painted set for Hollywood play “F**king Wasps”
- Exhibition B-Side group show — Adams Morgan, Washington, DC
- Exhibition Sesow showing in Lincoln — University Place Art Gallery
- Exhibition Nisk-Art Gallery, Schenectady, NY
- Exhibition Guest Artist — Kentuck Festival
- Award “Best Artist” — annual Adams Morgan Festival, Washington, DC
- Award Juror’s Choice Award — Viewpoint Gallery, Schenectady, NY
- Press Las Vegas Mercury review compares work to George Grosz, Francis Bacon, and Edvard Munch
- Press David Brickman, “This Is Not the Academy”
- Press Interview with “The Palette”
- Press Article in “Artesian” Magazine
- Press Compass Magazine — cover and feature article; published by Leonard Cheshire, UK
- Press Coagula Magazine — Los Angeles
- Media Kudzu Wish CD cover — Reverse Hurricane, NC band
- Exhibition The Ottobar, Baltimore, MD — March, over 20 works
- Exhibition Aroma, Cleveland Park, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “A Really Big Show,” Results Gallery with WPA/Corcoran, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “The Art of Conflict,” national juried exhibition, 57 N Fine Art, 1701 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “POV,” ARTOCONECTO national juried exhibition, 1701 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC
- Exhibition OCCOA at CDW Gallery, 30th and M Street, Georgetown, Washington, DC
- Exhibition Kalorama Emerging Artists Fair, 1711 Kalorama Road NW, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “Love and Eroticism,” juried exhibition, Khoja Gallery, Arlington, VA
- Exhibition Capital Region Art Center, Albany, NY
- Exhibition Guest Artist — 10th annual Folk Fest 2003, North Atlanta Trade Center, Atlanta, GA
- Exhibition “March Madness” shown in “Art Against War: An Exhibition of Posters and Multimedia”
- Media Lecture — Calvert Elementary School assembly, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Media Lecture — Niskayuna High School assembly, Niskayuna, NY