If you happen to walk by the Hill Center any time before June 22nd, you might want to check out their latest art exhibit featuring the work of six local artists. The center’s gallery space features paintings, photography and watercolors, and highlights everything from baseball to science and physics to flowers. Artist Peggy Fox brings her series [...]
Tags: Alan Braley·art·East City Art·Gayle Krughoff·Hill Center·Kay Elsasser·Nana Bagdavadze·Peggy Fox·Susanne Kasielke
Friday April 26 Honfleur Gallery (6pm to 8pm) You don’t have to fly to New Orleans for Jazz Fest, simply cross the Anacostia River this Friday! Honfleur will show a series of collages by John Lawson depicting Jazz greats. Lawson, who lost most of his work during Katrina, has also assembled a series of poems [...]
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Saturday April 20 39th Street Gallery (3pm to 5pm) The 39th Street Gallery is presenting an artist talk for the closing reception of Real and Remembrance. The talk will address English Physicist Michael Faraday’s belief that human perception comes from one’s imagination and not from one’s understanding of reality. For more information, click here. 39th [...]
Friday April 5 Mumbo Sauce Pop-up at 906 H Street NE (6-10 p.m.) If you think DC lacks culture then you spend too much time on the Mall or watch too much C-SPAN! Mumbo Sauce, co-curated by Lauren Gentile of Contemporary Wing and Roger Gastman takes the viewer back to the iconic days of 80s [...]
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Friday, March 22nd DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities (6:30-8:30pm) Celebrate the arrival of spring. Seeds, Pods and Saplings, curated by Zoma Wallace, brings together the talents of Japanese-born sculptor Yuriko Yamaguchi, painter Michi Fugita and internationally renowned multimedia artist, Iona Rozeal Brown, whose work collectively created a surreal landscape in bloom. The DCCAH [...]
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Saturday March 16 Monica Jahan Bose will give an artist talk and woodblock print demonstration in anticipation of her September opening of Storytelling with Saris. Bose travelled to the remote Bengali island of Katakhali where she recorded the oral histories of 12 women with whom she created Sari prints. For more information click here. The [...]
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Friday March 9 Tubman-Mahan Gallery (6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.) Making Her Story 8 is the eighth annual group show featuring work by women artists seeking to express their inner voices. This year’s theme centers on patience and awakening as manifested by the end of winter and spring’s arrival. For more information, click here. The [...]
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Friday, March 1 Honfleur Gallery (6 p.m. to 9 p.m.) The Washington Sculptors group will take over the Anacostia gallery and show the work of over 30 artists selected by Philadelphia-based curator Florcy Morisset. Sculpture Now 2013 shows a dizzying array of sculpture including traditional and very nontraditional mediums and structures using materials such as [...]
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FRIDAY Honfleur Gallery (6pm to 9pm) Artists Michael Dax Iacovone and Kathryn Zazenski collaborated on a series of “Memory Maps” based on recent travels undertaken by each artist. In the Points That Bring Us from Here to There, audiences will experience Iacovones’ chronicle describing his crossing of all 123 Mississippi River bridges and [...]
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By East City Art Editors As the old 11th Street river bridges that connect Capitol Hill and historic Anacostia are being replaced, the District government and Building Bridges Across the River at THEARC are aiming to transform one of the spans into the city’s first elevated park. When complete in 2016, the 11th Street Bridge [...]
Tags: 11th Street Bridge·11th Street Bridge Park·Anacostia river·East City Art·THEARC
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