Artful Weekend April 23-24

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: Screen Dream and Life is Fragile: Handle With Care at the League; Canvas Meets Curve at The Athenaeum; Tikkun Olam—Repair the World at IA&A at Hillyer; and The Power of the Flower at Yellow Barn Gallery.     Screen Dream […]

Artist Opportunities #596

Every week, we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.   Opportunities   Call for Entry, FY22 Marion Barry Jr. Legacy Mural Project — D.C. Deadline: April 22  The […]

Artful Weekend April 16-17

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: Screen Dream and Life is Fragile: Handle With Care at the League; Lizette Chirrime’s fiber art at Morton Fine Art; Julia Kwon’s interpretive bojagi at VisArts; and contemporary art from the UAE at MEI.     Screen […]

Artful Weekend April 9-10

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: Screen Dream and Life is Fragile: Handle With Care at the League; Rose Jaffe’s open studio benefit for Ukraine; Bienvenue Fotso’s colorful botanicals at African Art Beats; and Aboriginal art at Watergate Gallery.     […]

Artist Opportunities #595

Every week, we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.   Opportunities   Call for Submissions, 2022-2023 Emerging Artist Studio Opportunity, Howard County Arts Council — Ellicott City, MD […]

Summer Art Camp Internships Available at The Art League

Are you a high school graduate or college student looking to gain valuable work experience and references? Do you enjoy working with children in a creative environment? An internship at our Summer Art Camp may be just the experience for you! Our camp provides week-long activities and projects in various mediums to children ages 5 […]

Artful Weekend April 2-3

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: Two photography exhibits and a member show at the League; Yayoi Kusama returns to the Hirshhorn; student photography at The Phillips; Nana Bagdavadze at Artists & Makers Studios; and a carnivalesque send-off at the […]

Artist Opportunities #594

Every week, we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.   Opportunities   Call for Entry, The Trawick Prize Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards — Bethesda, MD Deadline: April 25  […]

Artful Weekend March 26-27

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: Two photography exhibits and a member show at the League; Linda Stein’s and Mil Lubroth’s abstracts at Culture House DC; Renee Balfour’s nature-inspired wooden sculptures at Amy Kaslow Gallery;  and Michael Crossett’s layered silkscreens […]

Artist Opportunities #593

Every week, we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.   Opportunities   Summer Art Camp Interns Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA Deadline: Until Filled  The […]

Artful Weekend March 19-20

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: Two photography exhibits and a member show at the League; Members’ Mashup at Pyramid Atlantic; Art in Bloom at Martha Spak; and American Sunset at Hemphill Artworks.     March Open Exhibit Cornflower Blue […]

Artist Opportunities #592

Every week, we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.   Opportunities   Call for Submissions, Frame & Frequency VIII, VisArts — Rockville, MD Deadline: April 15   Frame & […]

Artful Weekend March 12-13

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: Two photography exhibits and a member show at the League; mixed media works by Nikki Brugnoli and Anne C. Smith at the Athenaeum; Sharon Wolpoff opening and artist talk at UMD Global Campus Gallery; […]

Artist Opportunities #591

Every week, we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.   Opportunities   Call for Interns and Teachers, The Art League Summer Camp – Alexandria, VA Deadline: Until filled   […]

Artful Weekend February 26-27

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: Makers Mile in Old Town; Iké Udé’s visions of Nollywood at the National Museum of African Art; new insights on Picasso’s Blue Period at The Phillips; Resilience and Uncertainty at CAH; and Pantone Black at […]

Artist Opportunities #590

Every week, we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.   Opportunities   Call for Entry, The Women’s Club of Chevy Chase 46th Art Show and Sale — Chevy […]

Advantage Play: How the Pandemic Revealed the Patrons’ Show is a Sure Bet

by Steve Roberson Lisa Roberson slowly moved through The Art League’s gallery, filled floor to ceiling with art inside Old Town Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory. She considered each of the 500-plus artworks. With the aid of an app on her phone, she rated the pieces, knowing soon she and her husband would be going home with […]

Artist Opportunities #589

    Every week, we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.     Opportunities   Call for Proposals, F.E.A.S.T. at VisArts 2022 Mutual Aid – Rockville, MD Deadline: […]

Artful Weekend February 5-6

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: ThePatrons’ Show Exhibit at the League; The Colors of Forms and History at Zenith Gallery; test as imagery and Gallery Neptune & Brown; and Changing Perspectives at Gallery Underground.     Patrons’ Show 2022   The […]

Artist Opportunities # 588

Opportunities Call for Entries, The Photographic Process, The Art League — Alexandria, VA Deadline: February 15   The Photographic Process is a special exhibit that highlights the wide scope of photographic techniques and the unique approaches that photographers use to create their work, from hand developed negatives to digital photography, tintypes, cyanotypes, and more. This exhibit […]

Member Spotlight: David Mosher

  Fine art photographer David Mosher is having a moment. He has three photographs in the Art League of Germantown’s 9th Annual Juried Exhibit at Kentlands Mansion Gallery in Gaithersburg, MD, one of which won best-in-show; a solo exhibit at Busboys and Poets restaurant in Takoma Park, Maryland; and received honorable mention for his dreamscape image Memories in […]

Artful Weekend January 29-30

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: The January Nocturne Exhibit at the League; up-and-coming artists at Hamiltonian Gallery; the Banana Craze virtual exhibit; art against gender violence at Mason Exhibitions; and Breath at Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery.   Nocturne The […]

Artist Opportunities #587

Opportunities   Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA Deadline: Until filled   The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the […]

Artful Weekend January 22-23

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy art in person or virtually.   This weekend: The January Nocturne Exhibit at the League; solitude as a theme at Adah Rose Gallery; Schroeder Cherry’s assemblages at Artists & Makers; and New Ideas at Gallery Underground.     Nocturne The period between dusk and dawn […]