Weekend East City Event Round Up: Last Call for 2013 Edition

Friday December 13 Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (6:30pm to 8:30pm) Make the most of your Friday Happy Hour- why not Sip ‘n Paint?  Taught by working artists Ellen Cornett and Shepard Bear, this activity offers a great opportunity to socialize, enjoy libations while creating your own masterpiece.  For more information and to register, click here….

Holiday Arts Markets Have Arrived!

Do not waste your time or money at the malls this weekend or this holiday season. Save the following dates and Buy Local, Buy Art! Art Enables http://www.art-enables.com Holiday Show Sat., Dec. 14 | 1-4pm Brentwood Arts Exchange arts.pgparks.com/Page19056.aspx Black Friday Sale – 20% off all inventory Sat., Nov. 29 (today) | 10am – 7pm…

Weekend East City Event Round Up: The Art Harvest

Saturday November 12 Union Arts Building (12-6pm) The Union Arts Building opens its doors to the general public.   Watch artists create in this former industrial building.  For more information, click here. The Union Arts Building is located at 411 New York Avenue NE   Off Rhode Gallery (1pm to 4pm) OMG Shoes! features work by…

Weekend East City Event Round Up: 100,000 People Can’t be Wrong Edition

Friday September 20 DC Murals (3pm to 5pm) DC Mural and Art4All present a lecture by artists on the significance of their public pieces at various locations around DC.  In addition, Caitlin Carroll will present  her recently completed documentary film on DC’s murals.  For more information click here. The Anacostia Library is located at 1800…

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Rhode Island Avenue Edition

Saturday September 14 Hyattsville Arts Festival (11 am to 5pm) The Sixth Annual Downtown Hyattsville Arts Festival has expanded the line-up of the festival to over 75 arts and humanities booths including a “literary” section.  Look for two performance stages and of course, the ability to drink locally brewed Franklin’s beer throughout the festival grounds….

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Midsummer’s Art Dream Edition

Friday August 23 ArtSee ArtFair (5pm to 9pm) DC-based curatorial organization ArtSee has assembled a group of local emerging artists to Tabula Rasa, an event space located on Barracks Row.  Billed as an art fair, audiences will find the works of thirteen artists exhibiting in a concession-like format, ready to bring home.  For more information,…

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Happy 2013 Edition

  Friday January 11   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…

Weekend East City Event Round Up: “Miami? Whatever!” Edition

Friday December 7   Brentwood Arts Exchange (6pm to 9pm) In partnership with the Washington Printmakers Gallery, the Brentwood Arts Exchange presents the “Maryland Edition” of Mentor & Mentee with instructors and protégés showing work side by side.  You have to love an exhibition with a piece called ““Out of the Jungle It Came: A…