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
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
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
The Michael Jackson Experience
The attraction hosts the first-of-its-kind exhibition, featuring three Michael Jackson figures from various stages of his career; The Jackson 5 Years, The Bad Era, and the "This Is It" Michael.
Madame Tussauds Washington DC...
January 5, 2012 - March 13, 2012
Dancers on a Plane by Jasper Johns
Sally Shelburne (12 minutes); East Building Ground Level, Information Desk
January 12, 2012 - 12:00pm
January 19, 2012 - 12:00pm
Flashpoint Gallery presents Polly Townsend, Slower Than This
Polly Townsend, formally educated as a figurative painter, will depart from her more traditional oil paintings of vast and rugged mountainscapes to present new work at Flashpoint. The exhibition will take the artist’s painting practice as a...
August 24, 2012 - September 15, 2012
Flashpoint Gallery presents Hana Kim and Shana Kim, Atmospheric Front
Interdisciplinary artists Hana Kim and Shana Kim join forces to work between the disciplines of architecture and interactive media to create an immersive, environmental installation. Atmospheric Front combines pulleys, motors, hand-knit textiles...
July 20, 2012 - August 18, 2012
Flashpoint Gallery presents Megan Mueller, An Ache for Distance
Megan Mueller will merge her interests in both sculpture and drawing in a site-specific installation. The exhibition's centerpiece will be a large sculpture comprised of abstract drawings and watercolors resting on a trellis-like wooden support....
June 8, 2012 - July 14, 2012
Flashpoint Gallery presents Lisa Dillin, The Alternate Present
The Alternate Present will showcase Lisa Dillin’s recent sculptures. The works investigate the contrast between primitive and contemporary culture and the tension between the built environment and the natural world. One of Dillin’s...
May 4, 2012 - June 2, 2012
Flashpoint Gallery presents Calder Brannock, Adventure Residency Program Headquarters
Flashpoint Gallery will play home base for artist Calder Brannock’s Adventure Residency Program Headquarters. The project builds upon Brannock’s earlier project, Camper Contemporary, a mobile art gallery fashioned from a vintage...
March 23, 2012 - April 27, 2012
Flashpoint Gallery presents Jacqueline Levine, The Temptation
Jacqueline Levine will draw on influences as divergent as Dutch painting and 80s movies to create a site-specific installation, The Temptation. Levine merges her interest in Hieronymous Bosch’s 15th century masterpiece, The Garden of...
February 10, 2012 - March 16, 2012
Textile Museum - Mid-Winter Family Fest: Celebrate Africa!
In the cold of January, things will be warm at The Textile Museum as we celebrate the many arts and cultures of Africa at the third annual TM Mid-Winter Family Festival...
January 21, 2012 - 10:00am
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
New Work by World-Renowned Photographer Annie Leibovitz
"Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage" charts a new direction for one of America's best-known living photographers. Unlike her staged and carefully lit portraits made on assignment for magazines and advertising clients, the photographs in this...
January 20, 2012 - 10:00pm - May 20, 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
Southern Cities/Ciudades Del Sur
The photographs in this exhibit give us an intimate look into life in Latin American and Spanish cities (Ibero-America) by Ibero-American photographers. With these images the artists give us a personal view of their cities, their people and their...
December 14, 2011 - 6:30pm
Free Admission
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