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: Our May Open Exhibit, The Walters’ ivory treasures, art-inspired photo filters Latin, and more! May Open Exhibit, etc. We had a virtual full house at our recent May Exhibit […]
By Haven Ashley Painter Sweta Shah’s The Embrace, the May Open Exhibition Best-in-Show winner, is a timeless expression of the comfort found in a mother’s arms. Yet, in these troubled times, the sight of such tenderness brings with it a wave of melancholy. When viewing Shah’s painting we experience hope’s grief, realizing that our […]
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: Ikebana at The Art League, Latin American art online. a book on creativity, and more! Ikebana 2020 Art and nature come together for our 18th Biennial Ikebana Show. […]
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 […]
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: Virtual League offerings, cooking with Monet, cool art projects, First Saturday at Brooklyn Museum, and more! Hanging With the League We can’t meet in person, but The Art League is […]
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 […]
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: An illustrator talks maps, artists chronicle the pandemic, transporting art books for kids, and more! Remapping the Familiar Back in March, Art League illustration instructor Chris Bonnell was […]
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 […]
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: The League’s online bounty, Degas on your screen, artist ah-ha! moments, and more! Art League Online Offerings Spend some downtime this weekend checking out the cool things that we […]
By Gallery Director Ali Wunder This creative exercise is all about mapping. Not maps in the conventional sense, but a map of your day to day experience in a time when there is no clear path to normal. What would a map of your daily movements look like now that you are confined to […]
Dana Self’s love of the arts has led her to careers where she promotes them in some form or fashion. Currently, she directs marketing at the esteemed University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. Before that she spent over a decade as a contemporary art museum curator at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, where she […]
By Haven Ashley Teresa Oaxaca’s The Journey of Life is charming as it is brutal, a visual confection with layers of silk and ribbon in tones of taffy, petal, and pearl. A realist painter with a surrealist sensibility, her work is often sherbet-sweet but never saccharine. Ever the innovator, she discards the mantle of […]
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 […]
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: Our April Open Show online, Easter eggs to dye for, a virtual Hockney exhibit, and more! April Open Exhibit Online As we do our part to follow social distancing […]
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 […]
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: Tour our Flora/Fauna exhibit, rise to some creative challenges, brush up on your art history, and more! Spring Fling Didn’t get to see our March exhibition Flora/Fauna in The Art […]
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. New: Amplifier’s Global Open Call For Art In response to COVID-19, Amplifier is launching an emergency campaign with top art […]
by Haven Ashley Lismore Flowers, the March Flora/Fauna Best-in-Show Award-winning painting by Angela Lacy, is like a postcard scene beckoning you to step inside inside. In effortless watercolor, Lacy delights us with a charming parcel of Irish countryside. Lovingly pruned and abundant with blooms, the garden feels exuberant with life. White chrysanthemums, cheerful as pinwheels, […]
Welcome to Artful Weekend! With area museums and galleries temporarily closed as a COVID-19 precaution, we will now guide you to fun and interesting exhibits and more that you can enjoy from home. Increasingly, art institutions are devising new ways of engaging with art lovers from afar, and we will do our best to keep […]
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. New: “A Hug Or Something Like It” Call For Miniature Art Deadline: March 28 Artist Amy Wike is collecting […]
By Ali Wunder Hi, Mini Makers families! It has been quite a while since we had an in-person meeting. I hope you are all safe and healthy. I have really missed making art with you! Since we will be closed to the public for the next several weeks, here is a kid’s art project for […]
Illustrator and School of Visual Arts drawing instructor Carol Fabricatore likes to be out and about where she can observe things, be they fleeting moments in a cityscape or the abundant spectacles found in nature. “A lot of my work is done on location, so it is very in-the-moment and energetic,” she says from her […]
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. New: Arlington Arts Center Seeks Instructors – Arlington, VA Arlington Arts Center is looking for instructors for their upcoming […]
Welcome to Artful Weekend, our weekly listing of area art happenings! Check it out every Friday for fun and interesting exhibits and events occurring throughout the DMV. Share your experience at these and other weekend art destinations by tagging us (@theartleague) and including the hashtag #artfulweekend on social media. This weekend: An artistic ode […]
