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The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art
2025-10-18 - 2026-03-01 | National Gallery of Art
October 18 to March 1, 2026 –This exhibit offers visitors a rare opportunity to discover modern and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, dating from the late 19th century to the present. More than 200 works by 130 artists illustrate the diverse and distinct visual iconographies of Indigenous Australia, which is made up of more than 250 distinct nations.

Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout
2025-10-16 - 2026-01-31
This exhibition displays recent work by four DMV-based recipients of Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) grants. The 25-year-old program supporting mid-career female artists throughout the U.S. takes its name from a Virginia Woolf essay underscoring challenges faced by creative women. The Kreeger show highlights 26 works by Jae Ko, linn meyers, Joyce J. Scott and Renée Stout.

Tawny Chatmon: Sanctuaries of Truth, Dissolution of Lies
2025-10-15 - 2026-01-20 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Tokyo-born Tawny Chatmon elevates cultural truths and confronts racist myths through her photography-based art. Her large-scale photographs are embellished with digital techniques and handmade elements that include embroidered and mosaic-like patterns.

Fantastic Realities
2025-10-04 - 2026-09-06 | AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM
This mega-exhibition marking the  Baltimore venue’s 30th anniversary focuses on alternate worlds by a coterie of self-taught artists. Among 130 creations shown are paintings and lithographs, ceramic subway scenes, handcrafted action figures, chainsaw-carved minotaurs and hand-painted sci-fi galaxies.

Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750
2025-09-26 - 2026-01-11 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
This landmark show chronicles the pivotal role women artists played in what is presently the Netherlands and Flanders, Belgium, during the 17th and 18th centuries. The nearly 150 works on view—from paintings and prints to sculpture, embroidery and lace—are a testament to women’s participation in nearly all aspects of artistic culture of the era. However, as the museum reveals, their contributions were often misattributed or overlooked in the annals of art  history.

Deconstructing Nature: Environmental Transformation in the Lucas Collection
2025-08-27 - 2026-01-04 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
This show chronicles how 19th-century European and American artists not only documented but also influenced the transformation of pristine environments into resources of industry. More than 50 works on paper—organized by themes of desert, forest, field, city and studio—were pulled from the collection of Baltimore native George A. Lucas (1824-1909).

Enduring Traditions
2025-08-16 - 2025-12-20 | THE GW UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
Marking The Textile Museum’s centennial, this exhibition examines the roles textiles have played over the centuries in celebrations, performances and religious ceremonies around the world. Pieces on view run the spectrum from festival robes to palace carpets.

State Fairs: Growing American Craft
2025-08-06 | Renwick Gallery, Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW Washington, DC 20006
From a life-size butter cow created on-site by Iowa’s Sarah Pratt to a pyramid of 700 glass jars of preserved fruits and vegetables by canning expert and fellow Iowan Rod Zeitler, the Renwick celebrates the artistry and crafts that play an integral role in state fairs nationwide. More than 240 objects on view date from the mid-19th century to the present.

Paws on Parchment
2025-08-06 - 2026-02-15 | THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM, Baltimore
This Baltimore gallery celebrates feline subjects with a show dedicated to the portrayal of cats in medieval manuscripts. Not only endearing pets, 15th-century cats also played deeply symbolic roles in literature and served as protectors that warded off pests.

Plein Air Easton
2025-07-12 - 2025-07-21 | Easton, Maryland
A coterie of artists sets up their easels around historic Easton for the country’s largest juried outdoor painting competition, now in its 20th year. The event will feature demonstrations, art sales, interactive workshops and competitions for participants of all levels along with entertainment and children’s programming.

Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post
2025-07-03 - 2026-07-12 | Smithsonian American Art Museum
Trained in classical Indo-Persian miniature painting, Shahzia Sikander adds a contemporary spin to the genre. This 10-minute film is a commentary on the legacy of British colonialism in Asia. Combining visuals from Chinese paper cut-outs to watercolor maps of the region, the film blends inked and digitally animated scenes, all set to an electronic beat soundtrack by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun.

2025-06-28 - 2026-02-28 | George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, 701 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052
Photographs, ephemera and prints illuminate the historical hotels, motels, inns and taverns that have hosted visitors to Washington over the centuries. From famous landmarks to humble boarding houses, these accommodations speak to the capital city’s evolving identity.

Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest
2025-06-28 - 2025-09-28 | The Phillips Collection
This show honors the legacy of artist and activist Vivian Browne through paintings, prints and works on paper. Whether fighting for Black representation in New York museums or challenging the accepted parameters of abstraction and figuration through her work, she remains an admirable figure in 20th-century American art. phillipscollection.org

Soaring (Narsha)
2025-06-26 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | AU MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
Named “Narsha,” an archaic Korean word that means “to soar high,” this exhibit showcases the work of 31 Korean-American artists in a wide array of styles. Celebrating cultural traditions and the lived experience of Korean immigrants in the US, the show is presented by the Han-Mee Artists Association of Greater Washington to mark its 50th anniversary.

American Landscapes in Watercolor from the Corcoran Collection
2025-06-26 - 2026-02-01 | National Gallery of Art
Thirty watercolors created over the course of two centuries trace the medium’s evolution from a mode of documentation to an art form. Largely drawn from the Corcoran collection, the paintings depict iconic American scenes, from New England seascapes to the Grand Canyon.

Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs
2025-06-21 - 2025-11-20 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART
Upending assumptions about the one-dimensionality of photography and prints, the museum shines a light on 20th- and 21st-century Japanese art that blurs the lines between mediums and conventions. Pieces on display by 17 experimental artists may be layered with plastic, foam, glue, tape or other materials.

From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years
2025-06-20 - 2026-06-07 | National Portrait Gallery
Drawing on the National Portrait Gallery’s extensive early photography collection, this show traces the evolution of large-scale portraiture using the three popular mediums of the day: the upmarket daguerreotype, the mid-range ambrotype, and the far more common and affordable tintype.

Alex Da Corte
2025-06-19 - 2025-12-31 | Glenstone Museum
Recent works by the American-born artist include Rubber Pencil Devil (Hell House), a neon sculpture commissioned by Glenstone to showcase Da Corte‘s videos exploring humor, satire, violence and tenderness. Also on view, The Decorated Shed, which reimagines the miniature neighborhood featured on the TV show ”Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” set in a room swathed in colorful velvet.

David A. Douglas: Intersections
2025-06-14 - 2025-08-10 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE KATZEN ARTS CENTER
David A. Douglas’ large-scale works blend drawing, painting and photography to explore memory and place. Through contemplative landscapes and interior scenes glimpsed through windows and thresholds, the Northern Virginia-based artist encourages patrons to reflect on the passage of time and the natural world.

The Collaborative | Water in the Gas
2025-06-07 - 2025-08-23 | The Kreeger Museum
Its title alluding to periods of rising tension, this exhibit presents the work of four modern-day artists alongside pieces by 20th-century artists whose lives and art were impacted by tumultuous events of their time. Art by Josef Albers, Max Beckmann and others lend context to thought-provoking, 21st-century sculptures, photos, textiles and installations by alumni of Washington’s Hamiltonian Artists.

From Exile to Avant-garde: The Life of Princess Natalie Paley
2025-06-07 - 2026-03-04 | HILLWOOD ESTATE, MUSEUM & GARDENS
A Romanov by birth, Natalie Paley escaped the tragic fate of her family to live a culturally rich life in France, and later, America as the darling of fashion designers, writers, editors and photographers. Through 335 newly acquired items—assembled alongside pieces from Hillwood’s permanent collection—a fascinating portrait of the woman as both muse and tastemaker emerges.

InSight: Photos and Stories from the Archives
2025-05-23 - 2026-05-23 | National Museum of the American Indian
A selection of photographs offers an intimate look at the everyday lives of Indigenous peoples across the Western Hemisphere. Drawn from the museum’s vast archive of more than a half-million images, this show reveals moments of quiet reflection as well as family gatherings and ceremonies, captured from 1852 to the present.

Little Beasts: Art, Wonder and the Natural World
2025-05-18 - 2025-11-02 | National Gallery of Art
This exhibition puts the relationship between art and European natural history under the microscope—specifically the study of insects and small animals. Featuring more than 75 detailed works that inspired generations of printmakers, decorative artists and naturalists alongside specimens and taxidermy from Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, these “little beasts” will likely leave a big impression.

Black Earth Rising
2025-05-18 - 2025-09-21 | BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Named for the fertile soil of ancient indigenous civilizations in the Amazon, this show celebrates the splendor of the natural world through works by artists of color and Native identity. Environmental injustice and the legacy of European settlement is examined through paintings, sculptures and films.

Latin American Art /Arte Latinoamericano
2025-05-17 - 2025-12-31 | THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM
Latin American works ranging from ancient urns and textiles to contemporary ceramics will be displayed in the Baltimore museum’s newly renovated North Court galleries. Representing 40 different cultures and 4,000 years of history, the show is organized by theme and geographic provenance, and will include bilingual materials for a more immersive experience.

Tephra ICA Arts Festival
2025-05-17 - 2025-05-18 | RESTON TOWN CENTER
Now in its 34th year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival (formerly known as the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival) will feature the original handmade work of more than 200 contemporary artists and artisans from across the country.

Bethesda Fine Arts Festival
2025-05-10 - 2025-05-11 | Bethesda, Norfolk Ave, Bethesda, MD
With works from 120 artists on tap, the 2025 Bethesda Fine Arts Festival will feature a wide range of media, including ceramics, jewelry, printmaking, furniture and photography, to name a few. Festivities will take place in the Woodmont Triangle area along Norfolk, Auburn and Del Ray Avenues.

Niki de Saint Phalle in Print
2025-05-09 - 2025-11-30 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Twenty large-scale works on view at the NMWA explore Niki de Saint Phalle’s output as a printmaker. For the lively, color-saturated prints, which were made between 1968 and 1970, the artist found inspiration in the female form, the California landscape and mystical Tarot card illustrations.

Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage
2025-05-03 - 2025-06-14
On select Saturdays in May and June, tour-goers can experience historic structures, homes and gardens in five different parts of Maryland, including Queen Anne’s, Southern Anne Arundel, St. Mary’s, Washington and Prince George’s counties.

Flower Mart
2025-05-02 - 2025-05-03 | NATIONAL CATHEDRAL
Hosted by All Hallows Guild, this annual flower sale and spring event has been the primary fundraiser for the Cathedral’s gardens and grounds since 1939. This year’s theme is “In Living Color.” Vendors and food stalls offer a wide array of goods and treats in addition to fresh blooms, so there’s something for everyone.
