Weekend East City Event Round Up: June 2-4 Edition

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Image Courtesy Touchstone Gallery

Thursday, June 2

 

Critical Exposure – 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Break the Frame, Critical Exposure’s 2016 Annual Student Exhibition, features photography by DC youth. For more details, click here.

The exhibition is on view at District Center at 555 12th St. NW.

 

Art on 8th – 6:30 p.m.

Join the Arts Walk at Monroe Street Market and Dance Place for the first day of Art on 8th. Events take place throughout June. For more information and a full schedule, click here.

 

Friday, June 3

 

Washington Studio School – 6 p.m.

George Pearlman discusses his work at Washington Studio School. For more information, click here.

Washington Studio School is located at 2129 S. St. NW.

 

Touchstone Gallery – 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Touchstone Gallery opens three new exhibitions as follows: Landscape: Any Way You Look at it in Gallery A, Home…Where the Art Is in Gallery B, and I Belong Here: Art of the Shaw Community in Gallery C. For more details, click here.

Touchstone Gallery is located at 901 New York Ave. NW.

 

Solas Nua – 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Solas Nua presents group exhibition Repression  Resurgence Reemergence One hundred years of re-possessing and re-appropriating Irish identity curated by Jackie Hoysted. For more details, click here.

Hillyer Art Space is located at 9 Hillyer Ct. NW.

 

The Gallery at Convergence – 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Violent Grace: A Retrospective features five decades of paintings by Edward Knipper. For more information, click here.

The Gallery at Convergence is located at 1801 N. Quaker Lane, Alexandria, VA.

 

EMP Collective – 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Explore the relationship between light and sound in the exhibition RELICS: Light and Sound, which features the works of Woven Autonomo. For more details, click here.

EMP Collective is located at 307 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD.

 

DC Arts Center – 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Sarah West invites viewers to explore and navigate the compositions of her work in Vanishing Points. For more details, click here.

DC Arts Center is located at 2438 18th St. NW.

 

Saturday, June 4

 

Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum – 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Families are invited for a docent led tour of Twelve Years that Shook and Shaped Washington: 1963-1975 For more information, click here.

Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum is located at 1901 Fort Place SE.

 

Arts/Harmony Hall Regional Center – 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Dale O’ve Jackson presents a series of paintings and sculptures which express his African heritage. For more information, click here.

Arts/Harmony Hall regional Center is located at 10701 Livingston Rd., Fort Washington, MD.

 

Honfleur Gallery – 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Hear/Here curated by Jarvis DuBois features the works of four artists who focus on activism through art. For more information, click here.

Honfleur Gallery is located at 1241 Good Hope Rd. SE.

 

Vivid Solutions Gallery – 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Scott G. Brooks and Todd Franson showcase their works in Uncovered, which examines cover art without text and logos. For more details, click here.

Vivid Solutions Gallery is located at 1231 Good Hope Rd. SE.

 

Jess Oros is the Editor of East City Art. You can get more information about East City Art on Facebook, by following them on Twitter, or click here to sign up for their newsletter.

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