Thursday, February 5 WPA – 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Join WPA for the opening of Diamond Landscape the latest installment in the Lobby Project series. Artist Erin Elizabeth Curtis’s inspiration of antique Soumak rugs is reflected in the shape, pattern, and color of her work. For more information, click here. The exhibition is…
Category: Arts
Call for Artists: Emulsion 2015 Draws Near!
EMULSION: The Second Annual East City Art Regional Juried Show PRIZES $1,250 First Place Prize $750 Second Place Prize $500 Third Place Prize Two People’s Choice Awards ENTRY FEE An entry fee of $38.50 paid to East City Art Media LLC QUALIFICATIONS This call for entry is open to all residents 18 years of age or…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: January Super Saturday Edition
Saturday, January 24 artdc Gallery – 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Join artdc for #WeTweetArt V3.0 the third version of their social media connected show. Viewers are welcome to visit the gallery or go online to connect with artists. The DC area artists involved in this show are working to connect with the whole world…
Cherokee Opens at Woolly Mammoth February 9
CHEROKEE: Pay What You Can performances: Feb 9 & 10, 8PM Lisa D’Amour’s latest work a companion piece to last season’s hit, Detroit takes a disparate group of Americans to the brink… and even beyond. What does it mean to lead an authentic life? What are we willing to give up to have our lives transformed?…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: 2015 Keeps Getting Better Edition
Friday, January 16 Washington Project for the Arts – on view 24 hours Hothouse Video: Marina Zurkow featured six video animations, which form a narrative commenting on man’s interactions in the environment. The 144-hour video cycles continuously so viewers never see the same hand-drawn images twice. For details, click here. The show will be at Capitol Skyline…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Welcome to 2015 Edition
Thursday, January 8 Studio 21 – 6 p.m. Dance Place and maDCap exhibit the works of Reza Ghajar in Painting Pain. Ghajar explores aspects that remain common throughout different cultures and societies in his works. For more details, click here. Studio 21 is located at 716 Monroe St., NE. Friday, January 9 Studio…
Freer and Sackler Galleries Launch “Open F|S” Initiative, Smithsonian’s First Complete Digitized Collection
Even if one of your New Year’s resolutions is not to create not-for-profit work using archived Asian and American art, this is still pretty cool. Read on for more about the new free and open direction for the Freer Sackler Galleries. Become a beta tester to receive extra access, involvement, or untold Smithsonian treats. …
Hanukkah Lights Reading with NPR’s Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz
Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz bring their immensely popular NPR holiday broadcast to life with readings of specially commissioned stories. Nationally renowned and beloved, Susan Stamberg is an NPR “founding mother,” having been on the staff since the network was founded in 1971. She currently serves as a Special Correspondent. For many years, Murray Horwitz…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Artists Have the Best Holiday Parties Edition
Thursday, December 11 Washington Project for the Arts – 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The latest installment of the Lobby Project brings artist JD Deardourff’s B and E to DC. Deardourff’s collages and screen prints mimic the comic book influences of his work. For more information about the exhibition, click here. The exhibition is located…
DC Style Is Real 