Artful Weekend July 31-August 2

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place or practice social distancing.    This weekend: Area IRL exhibits, a Keith Haring documentary, Dark Park sculpture’s shadow play, and more!     Opening Ceremonies The National Museum of Women in the Arts opens Saturday, […]

Artist Opportunities #526

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]

Artful Weekend July 24-26

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place or practice social distancing.    This weekend: An outdoor installation in Georgetown, a printmaker’s retrospective, a participatory portrait project, and more!     Warming Waters Fiber art and new media combine for Warming Waters, a […]

Artists Opportunities #525

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]

Artful Weekend July 17-19

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place or practice social distancing.    This weekend: Kindred artists, fantastical cherry blossoms, The Met’s free art books, and more!     Kindred Spirits Artist Hilda Wilkinson and her niece Lilian Thomas Burwell, also an artist, endured […]

Graphic Whimsy

by Haven Ashley Turning Over a New Leaf, Kay Walsh’s Best-in-Show Award-winning painting for the July 2020 Open Exhibit, is a model of graphic mark making at its best. Equal parts linear and whimsical, with creeping leaves woven into a geometric landscape, it is the fever dream of an eclectic botanist or wild architect.    […]

Artist Opportunities #524

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]

Artful Weekend July 11-12

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place or practice social distancing.    This weekend: Our July Open Exhibit, public art fun, the pioneering photographers of Kamoinge Workshop, and more!     July Open Exhibit 2020 The Art League Open Exhibitions are great […]

Artist Opportunities #523

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]

Artful Weekend July 3-5

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place or practice social distancing.    This weekend: Prize-winning portraits, collage flags to make, the Baltimore Museum’s new streaming station, and more!     Winning Portraits The National Portrait Gallery’s annual Portrait Award is aimed at encouraging […]

Artist Opportunities #522

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]

Artful Weekend June 27-28

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place or practice social distancing.    This weekend: Raphael’s masterful drawings, political art that speaks to the times, charming gardens for enjoying sculpture, and more!     Raphael and His Circle Raphael was one of the […]

Artist Opportunities #521

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]

Artful Weekend at Home June 19-21

Welcome to Artful Weekend At Home, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place.  This weekend: A Juneteeth celebration, art-inspired projects for kids, artists on the music they listen to, and more!   Online Shopping at the League Did you know that you can now purchase artworks […]

Artist Opportunities #520

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]

Artful Weekend at Home June 13-14

Welcome to Artful Weekend At Home, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place.  This weekend: Landscapes at the League, reflections from LGBTQ artists, a celebration of modern crafts, and more!     June Landscape Exhibit After months of quarantine, who couldn’t use a dose of outdoor beauty? […]

Light as Muse in Ray Goodrow’s Gleaming Cityscape

By Haven Ashley Six o’clock a.m., south of Lincoln Center. It’s January in New York and painter Ray Goodrow is on foot, eager to scout the city during the quiet, chilly hours of early morning. Winter Light, his best-in-show award-winning watercolor featured in The Art League’s June Landscape Exhibit, captures the spirit of possibility that […]

Artist Opportunities #519

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]

Artful Weekend At Home June 6-7

Welcome to Artful Weekend At Home, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place.  This weekend: Conversations about art, photos of exodus, artsy Zoom backgrounds, and more!     Art Talk These extraordinary times call for creative thought. With that in mind, Peter Trippi, Editor-in-Chief of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine and […]

Artful Weekend at Home May 29-31

Welcome to Artful Weekend At Home, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place.  This weekend: K-Artists conversations, Katharina Grosse at BMA, books as art, and more!     Cross Cultural Conversations IA&A at Hillyer has teamed up with the Korean Culture Center in Washington to present Virtual […]

Artist Opportunities #518

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]

Artful Weekend at Home May 24-25

Welcome to Artful Weekend At Home, our guide to fun and interesting ways to enjoy and engage in art as you shelter-in-place.  This weekend: A lively artist talk, calming animated videos, figurative artists to know, and more!       Kent Monkman in Conversation   Cree artist Kent Monkman is known for his provocative interventions […]

Juror Q & A With Allison Nance

Allison Nance, our May Open Exhibit juror, was an aspiring artist until an internship at a nonprofit art space drew her towards art administration. “I loved it and it was something that just stayed with me,” she recalls. That experience eventually led to a stint as the director of the Target Gallery at the Torpedo […]

Artist Opportunities #517

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. Even during difficult times, creativity persists. Throughout this period of social distancing, we will begin our listing with opportunities that uniquely […]