Weekend [East City] Event Round Up: Relaxed Edition

Friday November 16 The Fridge (7pm to 11pm) The Fridge presents Relax, an exchange print portfolio show featuring student work from the Corcoran’s graduate Art and The Book program  An opening reception is scheduled for Friday November 16 from 7pm to 11pm. The portfolio includes woodcut, linocut, silkscreen, lithography, etching, letterpress, and digital prints.  For…

Weekend [East City] Event Round Up: Steppin’ Out Edition

Friday November 2   Honfleur Gallery (7pm to 9pm) Both Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions will be hosting exhibitions in historic Anacostia that are part of DC Fotoweek 2012.  Steppin’ Out, at Honfleur Gallery by DC-based artist Michael Platt, defies conventional notions of photography.  Referring to himself as an “imagemaker”, Platt uses…

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Halloween Edition

All Weekend Hill Center Pottery Exhibition The Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital presents a group exhibition of 15 potters from around the United States. This ambitious project is open to the public on Saturday October 27 from 10am to 5pm and Sunday October 28 from noon to 4pm. A cocktail reception on Friday…

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Outsider Art Edition

Saturday October 12   Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) (10am) CHAW will be hosting a film festival in honor of their year-long 40th anniversary celebration.  Featured films include “Attack of the Giant Pants” and “Alien Invasion,” short films made by CHAW students, and “CHAW@40,” a 15 minute film stitching together vintage footage, video interviews, historical…

Weekend [East City] Event Roundup: September Super Saturday Edition

Friday September 7  Honfleur Gallery (7pm to 9pm) ARCH Development Corporation will officially present the First Annual East of the River Distinguished Artist Award to B.K. Adams at a reception at Honfleur Gallery.  The award is presented to a seasoned artist of any discipline who lives and work East of the River and has impacted…

Weekend [East City] Arts Roundup: Dog Days of Summer Edition

Friday August 10   12th Street Gallery at the Artland Temporium Brookland (Starting at 6pm) The 12th Street Gallery, part of the the Brookland Artland Temporium, presents Church Porch curated by Lisa Farrell.  The Brookland Artist multi-media group show centers around the theme of the church porch, the part of the church between the street…

Weekend [East City] Arts Roundup

Friday July 27   Tubman Mahan Gallery (6:30pm to 8:30pm) Russ McIntosh’s Double Take solo first solo exhibition at the gallery features digital images that challenge the viewer to look beyond the initial composition and see beyond the original composition.  For more information about the exhibition click here.  The Tubman-Mahan Gallery  is located at 3839…

Arts [East City] Roundup: East of the River Super Weekend Edition

Friday July 13    Honfleur Gallery (7pm to 9pm) The Annual East of the River Exhibition never disappoints.  In its sixth year, the group show features the work of artists who either work or live East of the River.  The multimedia exhibition features sculpture, digital media, photography and painting.  A steel drum band will also…