Today is the final day of the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s silent auction featuring framed works of art by members of the Capitol Hill Art League. Its Friday … take a break from the grind and click on over to check out the seven pieces of art in the auction. They range from monotype to […]
While it’s certainly not the Big Apple, DC’s growing art community has been adding it’s aesthetic touch to the city’s social fabric and landscape for years. The city’s public art program, MuralsDC, and DPW are adding to the canvas that is our streetscape with two new murals on Capitol Hill. A bit reminiscent of the […]
I think if there was a contest today for coolest girl in town Philippa Hughes would win it by a landslide. The Pink Line Project, which began as a way for her, an art lover, to engage meaningfully with DC’s art community has grown into citywide phenomena. Where there is art in this town Pink […]
Halfway into the first Clinton administration (lifetimes ago, no?) I moved to Washington, shirked my journalism degree, and took my first job in the press office at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. That was before many tourists ventured off the mall; and instead of bourbon bars and chain retail, Penn Quarter was home to wig […]
Yesterday volunteers from City Year collaborated with Metro Teen AIDS to make art with a message. As their first assignment of the 10-month stint, the volunteers, young people from around the country, ranging in age from 17 to 24, picked up paintbrushes and promoted AIDS information though the website RealTalkDC. The mural is located in […]