Broadly Speaking: Working Across Disciplines brings together four artists whose interests and creative work transcend the tradition of working in a single medium. These dynamic individuals pursue their creative ideas by exploring...
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Spring Arts Colloquia presents Broadly Speaking: Working Across Disciplines featuring artist Tim Davis
February 21, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Free
Arts Management Spring Colloquium presents The Future of the Arts featuring Jamie Bennett
In an era of dramatic and rapidly accelerating change, where everything from the way tickets are sold to the definition of “art” is under reconsideration and transformation, it's time for a public discussion of the Future of the Arts...
February 17, 2012 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Free
Gallery Talk with Raoul Middleman at the Katzen Arts Center
Join artist Raoul Middleman and the American University Museum in a talk about Middleman's newest exhibition. Baltimore maestro Raoul Middleman's nudes are not pretty; they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of...
February 11, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Free
Spring Arts Colloquia presents Broadly Speaking: Working Across Disciplines featuring artist Mira Schor
Broadly Speaking: Working Across Disciplines brings together four artists whose interests and creative work transcend the tradition of working in a single medium. These dynamic individuals pursue their creative ideas by exploring multiple...
February 7, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Free
Winter 2012 American University Museum Artists' Reception
Join the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in celebrating the new exhibitions:
Kids@Katzen: The Photographic Life
Raoul Middleman: City Limits
Regaining Our Faculties: Zoë Charlton, Tim Doud, Deborah Kahn...
January 28, 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Free
Gallery Talk with Anil Revri at the Katzen Arts Center
Anil Revri’s paintings function as aids to meditation, while at the same time the process of their creation is itself an act of meditation. They are beautiful, their craft is breathtaking, but their success depends on whether they further...
January 28, 2012 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Free
American University Museum Winter Exhibitions: Anil Revri, Kids@Katzen, Cristobal Gabarron, Raoul Middleman, and Regaining Our Faculties
Kids@Katzen: The Photographic Life
Saturday, January 28¬–Tuesday, February 28
Photographs by Kids@Katzen participants inspired by the exhibitions Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam and Wayne Barrar: An...
January 28, 2012 - 11:00am - March 18, 2012 - 4:00pm
Free
40 Free Events in 40 Days
In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) hosts 40 free events in 40 days running January 4 through February 12, 2012 at 545 7th Street, SE. The 40 events explore how art continually engages, inspires, informs...
January 4, 2012 - February 12, 2012
Free
Kadomatsu Workshop
How do you ward off evil spirits and welcome good luck in the New Year? In the Japanese tradition, a kadomatsu (literally “gate pine”) is placed at the entrance to your home to symbolize strength and attract good fortune. Make your...
January 7, 2012 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
$39
Illustrated Lecture:“Performing the Body: Movement and Adornment in the Ancient Andes”
The Dumbarton Oaks Museum has organized a Special Exhibition on Lasting Impressions: Body Art in the Ancient Americas
and with that they have organised anIllustrated Lecture:“Performing the Body: Movement and Adornment in the Ancient...
January 28, 2012 - 1:00pm
Free
Illustrated Lecture: “Spiritual Skin: Guardian and Assistant Tattooing of the Americas”
The Dumbarton Oaks Museum has organized a Special Exhibition on Lasting Impressions: Body Art in the Ancient Americas
and with that they have organised an Illustrated Lecture on “Spiritual Skin: Guardian and Assistant...
January 21, 2012 - 1:00pm
Free
Sourcing the Museum
The word “museum” derives from the ancient Greek mouseion—"temple of the Muses"—home of goddesses believed to inspire creativity. The Textile Museum’s permanent collections provided the source of creative...
March 23, 2012 - 11:00am - August 19, 2012 - 5:00pm
Free
Woven Treasures of Japan’s Tawaraya Workshop
Japan has a remarkably refined textile tradition, and for centuries the Japanese have admired the silks produced in the Nishijin neighborhood of Kyoto as the epitome of beauty and opulence. Woven Treasures feature some of the sumptuous pieces...
March 23, 2012 - 11:00am - August 12, 2012 - 5:00pm
Free
Hemphill opens Franz Jantzen: Ostinato
Hemphill opens Franz Jantzen: Ostinato on Saturday, January 14, 2012, with a public reception from 6:30–8:30pm. The exhibition will remain on view through March 10, 2012.
In music, “ostinato” is the repetition of a note,...
January 14, 2012 - 10:00pm - March 10, 2012 - 5:00pm
Free
Hemphill opens Willem de Looper: Paintings 1968–72
HEMPHILL opens Willem de Looper: Paintings 1968–72 on Saturday, January 14, 2012, with a public reception from 6:30–8:30pm. The exhibition will remain on view through March 10, 2012.
It is with great excitement that HEMPHILL...
January 14, 2012 - 10:00am - March 10, 2012 - 5:00pm
Free
The Silence of a Tiger by Im Taek Jun
Join us for the opening reception of The Silence of a Tiger by Im Taek Jun, an exhibition that reimagines one of the most recognizable images in popular Korean folk paintings: the tiger. Korean folk paintings, known collectively...
December 15, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:30pm
December 15, 2011 - January 6, 2012
Flashpoint Gallery and Solas Nua Present 'Aoife Collins: Tickling the Ivories'
Flashpoint Gallery is partnering with Solas Nua to present Tickling the Ivories by Irish contemporary artist Aoife Collins. Collins’ works blur the line between high and low culture, reflecting a fascination with how history, social mores...
January 6, 2012 - 12:00pm - February 4, 2012 - 6:00pm
Free
Holiday Arts and Crafts
Join us for a morning of arts and crafts where participants design and make holiday objects. All materials will be provided.
December 20, 2011 - 10:30am - 12:30pm
Free
The Exceptional Everyday: Design Post at Corcoran
The Exceptional Everyday showcases the dynamic and witty work of nine contemporary Norwegian industrial designers. Each object in the show tweaks a seemingly mundane object or process and, in doing so, creates an exceptional experience. Kristine...
December 21, 2011 - 11:00am - January 22, 2012 - 5:00pm
Free
Save the Date-Open House to Benefit Zenith Community Arts Foundation
Open House to Benefit ZCAF,will have Live Fire Demonstration by Peter Kephart,Catering by Todd Gray of Equinox & Watershed Restaurants,Raffel Items and Great Art for Sale. Percentage of all art sales go to Zenith Community...
December 18, 2011 - 3:00pm - 7:00pm
$35
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