Location

Honfleur Gallery. Four art exhibits open concurrently in Historic Anacostia on Friday July 30th at 6:30pm,
highlighting the multifaceted Anacostia community. Local artists explore and react to the
spiritual, social, environmental and historical issues of this neighborhood. The exhibits
encompass the voices of a range of emerging to established artists and creative minds.
 

For the fourth year running, artists rooted in Wards 7 and 8 will be featured in Honfleur
Gallery’s juried East of the River exhibition. Eleven artists are
included in the exhibition; BK Adams, Nigil Brice, Ralston Cyrus, Melani Douglass, Matthew
Mann, Samuel Mercer, Marlon Normon, Luis Peralta, Amanda Stephenson, Deborah Terry and
Renee Woodward. Photography, drawings, paintings and sculptures by artists who are
Anacostia natives and recent newcomers.
 

Upstairs at Honfleur Gallery, Capturing the Spirit, a exhibition of photographs by local talent
Bruce McNeil examines the Anacostia River, using the mythic spirit Mami Wata as inspiration.
McNeil uses portraits of women, including his own mother, to personify the spirit of the river,
overlaying them with nature imagery shot on the river.

These exhibits are showing until September 10, 2010.