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Rachel Rotenberg
2023-09-09 - 2023-12-10 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
This exhibition focuses on sculptures by Rachel Rotenberg created using cedar planks and other materials. The artist, notes the Katzen, “has managed to build works on a heroic scale without sacrificing intimacy.”

Franklin White: An American in Venezuela
2023-09-09 - 2023-12-10 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
DC artist Franklin White has spent the past two decades in Merida, Venezuela, enamored by its scenery and traditions. The Katzen presents a selection of White’s expansive oil pastels on handmade paper, depicting the mountain village’s natural beauty.

Cushner
2023-09-09 - 2023-12-10 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
Mounted in partnership with Hemphill Artworks, this exhibition shines a light on Washington-based artist Steven Cushner, showcasing 34 small-scale works on paper, woodcut prints and large paintings.

Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts
2023-09-09 - 2023-12-23 | THE GW UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
By expressing the personal stories and experiences of makers and their communities, quilts often illuminate historical events and cultural trends. Drawn from the collection of New York’s American Folk Art Museum, creations on display range from traditional early-American quilts to contemporary sculptural assemblages. museum.

Home Design Inspiration
2023-08-25 | WASHINGTON DESIGN CENTER
The Washington Metro Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) hosts this annual consumer event. Attendees can join seminars, tour Design Center showrooms and register for one-on-one consultations with professional designers.

The Art of Advertisement: Art Nouveau Posters of the Late 19th Century
2023-07-22 - 2024-01-21 | VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
The rise of stylized, mass-produced posters in late-19th-century Europe and America blurred the lines between fine and applied art. Works by top French, Belgian, Viennese and American artists emphasized natural beauty in the flowing lines and flourishing patterns of the Art Nouveau movement. These posters represent early depictions of women as fashionable, independent individuals and also heralded a new age in graphic design.

Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen
2023-07-15 - 2024-01-28 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART
The museum spotlights a 12-panel screen depicting women in an imperial palace during the Han dynasty. Visitors will learn about the 1672 screen’s meaning and manufacture as well as about recent conservation efforts to bring its intricate beauty back to life.

Jessica Diamond: Wheel of Life
2023-07-14 - 2024-04-28 | Hirshhorn Museum
A text-and-image-based installation by New York conceptual artist Jessica Diamond offers a commentary on American culture and commercialism. Thirteen new wall drawings play off two of Diamond’s preexisting works.

Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies
2023-06-23 - 2024-01-29 | SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
This show explores the powerful connection between video art and music, showcasing 29 time-based installations by 10 award-winning creators. Harnessing genres from hip-hop and jazz to spirituals and lullabies, the works explore personal and universal themes that form a commentary on contemporary life. This is the museum’s first fully accessible exhibition, designed in conjunction with Gallaudet University to offer layered experiences for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors.

Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village
2023-06-17 - 2023-09-10 | VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
This retrospective commemorates the life and work of artist and educator Benjamin Wigfall (1930–2017) in his native Richmond. After launching his career, Wigfall studied at Hampton University and Yale and later became a professor at State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz. It was there that he founded his studio, Communications Village, as a place for making art and mentoring youth. Showcasing nearly 50 works by Wigfall along with video recordings and a printmaking display, the VMFA paints a picture of the man’s creative and social legacy.

Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023
2023-06-16 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Renwick Gallery, Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW Washington, DC 20006
The Renwick Invitational showcases  mid-career and emerging artists deserving wider national recognition. Jurors selected six Native American artists for the 2023 exhibit, which examines the honors and burdens facing Native artists as they express their cultural traditions. Creations on display by Joe Feddersen, Lily Hope, Ursala Hudson, Erica Lord, Geo Neptune and Maggie Thompson address themes of environmentalism, displacement and cultural connectedness.

Canova: Sketching in Clay
2023-06-11 - 2023-10-09 | National Gallery of Art
Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757–1822) started each of his masterpieces in marble by producing a model in clay. More than 30 of some 60 surviving clay sketches shed light on the artist’s creative process.

Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful
2023-05-25 - 2024-06-02 | National Museum of the American Indian
This retrospective celebrates the 50-year career of Robert Houle (Saulteaux Anishinaabe, Sandy Bay First Nation). Embracing Western and Indigenous artistic traditions, Houle pays homage to the earth, the sacred and the creative moment in his paintings via color, light and gesture.

Martha Jackson Jarvis: What the Trees Have Seen
2023-05-07 - 2023-10-01
Martha Jackson Jarvis’ great-great-great-great grandfather, Luke Valentine, was a free Black militiaman who served during the Revolutionary War. In a series of 13 large abstract works on paper, the multi-media artist traces a journey Valentine made from Virginia to South Carolina. The assemblage not only captures shifts in terrain but also the dangers and emotions her ancestor must have experienced along the way.

Classical Washington
2023-05-06 - 2023-11-18 | George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, 701 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052
When they envisioned Washington’s architectural profile, America’s Founding Fathers and subsequent leaders frequently invoked Greek and Roman styles as a link to America’s political roots. This exhibit explores depictions of monuments, sculptures and public buildings throughout the nation’s capital that were designed to reflect the classical architecture of these ancient civilizations.

Smithsonian Craft Show
2023-05-03 - 2023-05-07 | NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM
Now in its 41st year, the Smithsonian Craft Show will display creations by 120 artists representing all facets of craft and design, from ceramics and basketry to glass, jewelry, furniture, fiber and wearable art. “Celebrating the American Spirit” is the theme of this year’s juried event, which will feature work by 13 Native American and Indigenous artists. Pictured: A ceramic piece by Harlan Reano. Proceeds support educational, research and outreach efforts of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.

From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson
2023-05-01 - 2024-04-29 | National Museum of African Art
In the 1990s, Drexciya, a Detroit-based techno duo, imagined an underwater kingdom populated by the offspring of pregnant women who were either pushed or jumped overboard during voyages of the transatlantic slave trade. Since then, many artists—including Ayana V. Jackson—have conjured their own interpretations of this mythical world. In her first solo museum exhibition, Jackson empowers Drexciya’s denizens of the deep through photography and underwater video in which she depicts herself wearing garments designed by collaborators across the African continent.

1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions
2023-04-26 - 2024-02-25 | National Portrait Gallery
Marking the 125th anniversary of the Spanish-American War, this exhibit examines the rise of the U.S. as an empire through the lens of portraiture and visual culture. More than 90 works from collections in Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, Spain and the U.S. present an array of viewpoints in a fascinating look back at history.

Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
2023-04-23 - 2024-04-23 | THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM
April 23, ongoing
Featuring some 500 objects from The Walters’ permanent collection, this landmark exhibition illuminates both Asian and Islamic art traditions dating back thousands of years. The historical examples of architecture, calligraphy, lacquerware, painting and sculpture on display represent diverse cultures and regions, from West to South Asia.

Georgetown House Tour
2023-04-22
Now in its 90th year, this spring event offers participants a glimpse into some of Georgetown’s most spectacular homes and gardens. A parish tea at St. John’s Episcopal Church follows the self-guided tour. Proceeds benefit the church’s ministry and outreach.

90th Historic Garden Week
2023-04-15 - 2023-04-22 | VIRGINIA, STATEWIDE
Twenty-nine tours will take place throughout Virginia during this annual event, sponsored by the Garden Club of Virginia. Among them: a walking tour in Old Town Alexandria and visits to private properties overlooking the Blue Ridge mountains in Warrenton.

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
2023-04-05 - 2023-07-16 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Commemorating hip hop’s 50th anniversary, this exhibit surveys the cultural, conceptual and aesthetic attributes that have made the art form a global phenomenon. Ninety works by famed contemporary artists such as Devin Allen, Monica Ikegwu and Amani Lewis are presented alongside apparel and other objects that embody hip hop culture.

Drawing in Britain, 1700–1900: A Decade of Acquisitions
2023-04-02 - 2023-08-06 | National Gallery of Art
Approximately 80 recently acquired watercolors and drawings in the museum’s permanent collection provide a vast overview of British art created over two centuries. The display features portraits, landscapes, historic scenes and nude studies.

THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ▲ Pour, Tear, Carve: Material Possibilities in the Collection March 18 to May 14 This novel exhibit explores how the materials and methods artists employ in their work evoke history, memory and meaning among viewers. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints and textiles are among the 65 works on view from the museum’s permanent collection. phillipscollection.org
2023-03-18 - 2023-05-14
This novel exhibit explores how the materials and methods artists employ in their work evoke history, memory and meaning among viewers. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints and textiles are among the 65 works on view from the museum’s permanent collection.

The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions
2023-03-17 - 2023-09-10 | National Gallery of Art
In this collection of newly acquired work, 25 modern and contemporary artists reveal their emotional and spiritual selves. Taken as a whole, the pieces on view illustrate the power of art to shed light on our existence and to affect change.

American Craft Made / Baltimore
2023-03-03 - 2023-03-05 | Baltimore Convention Center
Now in its 46th year, this craft show will host more than 350 artists displaying handmade treasures. Attendees can browse basketry, ceramics, furniture, fiber art and works in wood and metal, along with jewelry and wearables.

Philip Guston Now
2023-02-26 - 2023-08-27 | National Gallery of Art
A major retrospective surveys the 50-year career of modern artist Philip Guston (1930 to 1980). Some 110 paintings and 115 drawings on view run the spectrum from figurative and abstract work to political satire in the Nixon era.

Prayer and Transcendence
2023-02-18 - 2023-07-01 | THE GWU MUSEUM AND THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
The museum presents a stunning array of antique Islamic prayer rugs collected around the globe from Ottoman Turkey to Mughal India. Exploring the spiritual meaning behind the rugs’ iconic motifs, the show also offers comparisons to Jewish traditions.

Determined Women: Collectors, Artists and Designers at Hillwood
2023-02-18 - 2023-06-18 | HILLWOOD MUSEUM
An accomplished businesswoman and legendary arts patron, Hillwood founder Marjorie Merriweather Post applauded female artists and designers. Hillwood displays art and objects from its collection that depict women whom Post admired, along with work created by women—from an 18th-century Fabergé pencil holder to a 1790 French painting of Princess Elizabeth (pictured).

In Quiet Beauty: The Watercolors of Léon Bonvin
2023-02-15 - 2023-08-13 | THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM
Léon Bonvin (1834-1866) is known for his exquisite watercolors, inspired by Japanese prints, photography and trends of the day. Following the French artist’s tragic suicide, Baltimore patron William Walters began to acquire Bonvin’s paintings, amassing what became the largest collection of his work in existence; Walters’ son later bequeathed the collection to the city of Baltimore. Sixteen paintings are on view.
