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Weekend East City Event Round Up: Last Events of 2011 Edition

December 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Saturday December 17  Art Works (2pm to 4pm) Art Works Studio School will be hosting their annual holiday student show.  In addition to exhibiting student work, Art Works has organized a series of events such as card making and other creative activities that will allow attendees to spruce up their holiday décor.  For additional details, [...]

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Now Open: Hill Center Gallery Featuring Local Art

December 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill South

Last night the Hill Center kicked off its first art exhibit, Five Artists * Five Points of View, showcasing artwork including photography, painting and collage by world-renowned artists, many with ties not only to the Washington area but to Capitol Hill. If you miss Alan Braley’s large color-saturated canvases at The Village at Eastern Market, [...]

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Weekend East City Event Round Up: October Super Saturday Edition

October 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Friday October 14 Studio H (6pm to 8pm) Studio H is celebrating its second anniversary with an afternoon happy hour.  The H Street Gallery will display two concurrent solo exhibitions Slurry and Autumnal Equinox by Katherine Mann and Pam Rogers respectively.  Both painters, Mann and Rogers create dreamlike works influenced by botany and the natural [...]

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Weekend East City Event Round Up: 2011 H Street Festival Edition

September 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill

All Events Take Place Saturday September 17, 2011 The 2011 H Street Festival Visual Arts Line Up (12pm to 7pm) Art Cars, art cars and art cars!  Gallery O on H will curate the annual Art Cars exhibition at the festival in addition to hosting over a dozen artists and local gallery Art Enables.  Studio [...]

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Weekend East City Event Round Up: In Like a Lamb Edition

March 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

East of the River is the place to be Friday night with three opening shows. Two of the shows are in Anacostia at Honfleur Gallery and at Vivid Solutions. The third show is at the Tubman-Mahan Gallery at the Center for Green Urbanism in Ward 7.  Later that night, on H Street NE, performance art [...]

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Instant Gratification

January 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments · H Street

If you haven’t been to SOVA lately, its time to make the trip.  Now until February 20th, the space is alive with a special kind of nostalgia.  Twenty-one photographers armed with retro instant-film cameras have taken thousands of photos for Exposed: The Polaroid Retrospective. Taken with different types of cameras, these are definitely not your [...]

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Up For Some Friendly Competition?

October 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Today is the final day of the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s silent auction featuring framed works of art by members of the Capitol Hill Art League.  Its Friday … take a break from the grind and click on over to check out the seven pieces of art in the auction.  They range from monotype to [...]

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Get Inked on Barracks Row

November 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Barracks Row

Have you recently enlisted in the armed services? Did you break up with your boyfriend whom you promised to love for all of eternity, but you can’t get rid of the tattoo of his name on your arm? Then DC Ink (409 8th Street, SE) is just the place for you. DC Ink’s staff of [...]

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Five Questions: Laura Tsaggaris

July 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill, H Street

I’ve known Laura Tsaggaris since we were on the Moon Area High School tennis team together many, many years ago back home in Pittsburgh.  A few years ago I was walking up 18th St. in Adams Morgan and who did I run into, but Laura, all grown up and living not only in DC, but [...]

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Artist Profile: Jonathan Blum

May 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Eastern Market

Each of the artists at Eastern Market has a distinct style and many of them feature monuments and cityscapes in their work. Jonathan Bloom catches you off guard with his monoprints of rabbis, ostriches and purple horses. He specializes in portraiture, both realistic and fictitious – and surprises you with familiar images layered into the [...]

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