June 28–September 16, 2018

Contemporary metalwork by modern-day alchemists

The fifth installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series, a dynamic collaboration between the museum and its national and international outreach committees, showcases contemporary artists working in metal. Featured artists investigate the physical properties and expressive possibilities of metalwork through a wide variety of objects, including sculpture, jewelry, and conceptual forms. The exhibition also engages with the fluidity between "fine" art, design, and craft categories, whose traditional definitions are rooted in gender discrimination.

Members See It First Join Us Wednesday, June 27

Member Preview Day

Wednesday | June 27 | 9 a.m.–2 p.m.

Click here for more info.

Free admission for members and one guest Gallery talks featuring artists 9 a.m.–12 p.m.Enjoy double discounts (20%) in the Museum Shop and 15% off at the Mezzanine Café

Closing Reception | Abstract Monoprints

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

5:00 PM 7:00 PM

Closing Reception | Abstract Monoprints - Join Sally at the Artful Framing and Gallery Space- Wednesday, May 30th 5-7 pm- 6960 Maple St NW B, Washington, DC 20012

VisArts Studio Artists

May 4 - June 3, 2018

Concourse Gallery

Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Friday, May 4, 7 - 9 PM

About the VisArts Studio Artists Program: The VisArts Studio Artist Program offers opportunities for selected artists to have a subsidized studio at VisArts. The program serves as a catalyst for conversation, education, professional development, and creative interactions. Three different studio options allow artists time and space to create. For more information: https://www.visartsatrockville.org/more/studio-artists/

Join “Luminous Spirit” by Rosana Azar, Friday May 4th between 6-9pm!

Creating these canvases is a way to understand herself and the world around her. She is an explorer of dreams, using color and texture to unveil the hidden images. Rosana’s work is an expression of her passion for life and her surroundings.

Waverly Street Gallery has planned a Special Anniversary Exhibit from May 6-June 2, 2018, featuring the work of present and past Waverly Street Gallery members from D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The Gallery will also hold a special 25th Anniversary Party on Friday, May 11, from 6:00-9:00pm. All events are free and the public is invited to attend.

“For twenty-five years, Waverly has been the place to experience one-of-a-kind artwork in person, connect with the artists, exchange ideas and build community” said Carol Leadbetter, artist and former Gallery Board Member. “Our special events, demonstrations, artist talks and monthly exhibits of artwork for sale, aim to engage art lovers of all ages and interests.”

Waverly first opened its doors at its current Bethesda, Maryland location in spring 1993. The handout to guests that day stated that the Gallery would “feature prominent artists, demonstrations, workshops and special events, which will demonstrate the unique and varied styles of locally renowned artists.” “Waverly has proudly maintained those high standards for the past 25 years,” Leadbetter added.

Waverly Street Gallery is located at 4600 East West Highway in historic Bethesda, MD. The Gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday, Noon-6:00pm. 301-951-9441. www.facebook.com/waverlygallery/

Please join Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery and Smith Center for Healing and the Arts to celebrate our annual ALCHEMICAL VESSELS benefit and exhibition, now in its 6th year! This year’s show is based on the theme: OUR COMMON THREAD – 128 artists will create a unique piece of art from a simple circular panel, responding to the artist’s personal, transformational, creative journey through the universal truths of pain, joy, healing and living.

Alchemical Vessels Benefit

Friday, April 277:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Artists' Closing Reception

Saturday, May 57:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Please visit the work of Jill Tanenbaum! An NCAGG Juried Glass Art Exhibition at

Glen Echo Park’s Popcorn Gallery

March 31 through April 29

Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, from noon to 6pm

These are turbulent times! Simply put, we are surrounded by change. This inspired our search for art glass evoking the mythical, wildness in nature, the ocean and the cosmos. We hope this show will make your heart sing.

Join us for the opening reception on

April 7, from 4pm to 6pm! Enjoy refreshments, meet our artists, and vote on the People’s Choice Award with a gift of $200 to the winning artist!

Please join us for the Artists Reception

Saturday 14 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm

April 14th - May 12, 2018

Lavinia Wohlfarth Galleries

3418 9th Street, NE, Washington, DC

202.526.8022 (gallery) | 202.297.1125 (cell)

METRO: half block from Red Line Brookland/CUA

Artist Talk: Saturday, February 17 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm

“Over the course of a year, I challenged myself to draw one portrait each week, of an animal on the Endangered Species list. Stephen Loya

The Joan Hisaoka Gallery is located at 1632 U Street NW. For more information visit www.smithcenter.org.

Currently on view through Sunday, February 11, 2018.

The new exhibit includes two photographic series, Portraits and Windows. Ham’s new work is a visual narrative emerging from her efforts to understand and interpret rediscovered photographs that her grandfather made in the 1930s. Using imagination and building upon [fading] memories, Ham creates new work as reconstructed compositions where past and present coexist and resonate. Here, photography becomes a window to collaboration over place and time, between Ham and her grandfather, merging his creative vision and her own.

Gallery Hours:

Monday-Wednesday: 11am-5pmThursday: 2pm-8pmFriday-Sunday: 11am-5pm

The exhibition is located at The Torpedo Factory Art Center at 105 N. Union St. Alexandria, VA. For more information, visit www.multipleexposuresgallery.com.

This exhibit takes place from January 24 – February 25, 2018.

This mixed-media show features the work of more than 40 TFAA member artists. Each of the artists, through use of form, color, technique, or materials, aim to guide the audience into unexpected avenues and share their own personal perceptions.

"Recent Works"

Jan. 9th - Feb. 25th

The Delaplaine Arts Center

40 South Carroll Street, Frederick, Maryland 21701

(on the banks of Carroll Creek Linear Park.)

301-698-0656

http://delaplaine.org/exhibits/current/

This exhibition showcases large abstract pieces created by Women's Caucus for Art Members.

The exhibit is taking place at Serendipity Labs in Bethesda, MD

Open from Monday - Friday 8:30am-5pm

4500 East West Hwy | Entrance on Pearl Street

This exhibition is from Jan 4th - March 31 2018

Waverly Street Gallery artists present an exciting collection of original work. Visitors will be able to find a range of unique and distinctive ceramics, jewelry, paintings, photography, prints and sculpture during this festive time. Our theme this year of “Silver and Gold” reflects the exceptional quality of the art at this gallery, especially during this season. Women's Caucus for Art members Jill Tanenbaum and Sarah Hood Salomon will be exhibiting.

www.waverlystreetgallery.com

4600 East West hwy. Bethesda, MD

301-951-9441

Angela White Sunday, Dec 10th 2017, Jan. 28th 2018, and Feb. 25th 2018

1:00pm-4:00pm $65,

Most supplies provided. This workshop is a fun introduction for those new to encaustic, and those who seek to refine their skills. Diversity of learning is covered, including basic materials and techniques and safety issues. We will discuss supports, grounds, layering, scraping, fusing, transparencies, collage, image transfer, and combining encaustic with oil and other media. You may bring additional mark-making tools: printmaking, sculpture, ceramic, dental, culinary, burnishes, scrapers, stamps, scribes. You may also bring photocopies and drawings for image transfers, or other small objects you would like to embed in the wax.

Contact for registration:

Plaza Artist Materials & Picture Framing 1776 E. Jefferson St., #119 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 770-0500

OPENING RECEPTION Friday November 17, 6-8 pm of Ann Stoddard's Solo Exhibition of new and recent works dealing with ethnic and racial profiling at

A.I.R. GALLERY, Brooklyn. This show runs through December 17, 2017

465 women artists took part in a historic photo shoot at The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) titled Now be Here #4, DC/MD/VA. Artist Kim Schoenstadt who began the project in Los Angeles, where she is based, partnered with DC-based artist Linn Myers to organize the event in collaboration with the NMWA. The pictures below captured one of the largest grouping of women artist in the DC-Maryland-Virginia region assembled under one roof.

Opening reception Friday, November 3, 6-8PM

One House is a collaboration of 220 artists, each of whom has contributed a 12" square panel telling the story of an ancestor of theirs who came to this country.. The common thread is that so many fled persecution, poverty and physical threat and found a refuge and hope in the U.S.

A large structure has been built and covered entirely with the panels. It has great emotional power, visually symbolizing the strength that comes to this country from the diversity of its people. A video of many of the artists telling their stories will be screened alongside the house.

“One House” will be exhibited from November 3 - 25 at the Touchstone Gallery at 901 New York Ave. NW Ave. Washington, DC.

National Museum of Women in the Arts

OCT 13 2017–JAN 21 2018

NMWA’s 30th-anniversary celebration continues with Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, the first U.S. exhibition to explore the formal and historical dialogue on abstraction among African American women artists. Featuring work by more than 20 women, including progenitors like Mavis Pusey and contemporary artists such as Shinique Smith, Magnetic Fields is intergenerational in scope and highlights the longstanding presence of black women artists within the field of abstraction in America. From the brilliant colors and energetic brushwork of Alma Woodsey Thomas’s paintings to shredded tire sculptures by Chakaia Booker, works featured in this exhibition testify to the enduring ability of abstraction to convey both personal iconography and universal themes. This landmark project underscores the diversity of abstract art, which lies in its material construction as well as in its practitioners.

Saturday, September 9, 2017 9 am - 9 pm 4th Street and M Street, SW, Washington DC (Metro Waterfront)

On September 9th, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) will proudly present the 202 Arts and Music Festival, a vibrant, family-friendly festival that celebrates DC through visual arts, performance art, and interactive cultural experiences. With over eleven hours of continuous activities on multiple stages,

Featuring work from artists across the United States, CREATE/CHANGE is an all-media, juried exhibition featuring work that examines the idea of the artist as citizen. Artists who, through their work, reimagine the traditional notions of art-making, and who contribute to society either through the transformative power of their artistic abilities, or through proactive social engagement with the arts, advancing equity, empathy, sustainability, and social justice through art and culture. Exhibition Dates August 4-27.

July 31 - September 3

Opening Reception & Artist’s Talk | Saturday, August 5, 3:00 to 5:00 pm.

The alluring qualities of the water’s edge have long been a source of inspiration for the human soul. Where water meets land is an area of heightened awareness, as the sound of waves encourage one to pause and reflect. Tranquil and capricious, shorelines invite introspection, and people tend to separate themselves in order to rejuvenate and relax. “Shorelines” is an intimate group of photographs by Sarah Hood Salomon. She explores many types of waterfronts and their soothing effect on humans. Salomon employs camera movement and a desaturated color palette to emphasize the self-imposed isolation of people alone with their thoughts.

Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria, VA 22314

Touchstone Gallery 901 New York Ave, NW Washington, DC

August 4th - 24th

Opening Reception Friday August. 4th, 6-pm-8pm

This exhibit is about creating a conversation using the universal language of art about today's important issues and concerns.

July 15th - September 16th

Watergate Gallery - 2552 Virginia Ave NW Washington, DC

A multi media exhibition combining a variety of indoor and outdoor wall, pedestal and floor sculpture along with paintings in contemporary and abstract forms ranging in small to large sizes. Also on view, are 12 outdoor sculptures placed in the Watergate Plaza and Mezzanine Level.

Meet the Artists evenings:

Wed. July 25th 6pm, Wed. Aug. 16th 6pm, Tues. Aug. 29th 6pm

Closing party: Saturday, Sept. 16th 5-8pm

In celebration of NMWA's 30th anniversary in 2017, Revival presents contemporary sculpture and photo-based artists whose arresting aesthetics and intense subject matter spur viewers into a transcendent encounter with the art object. This exhibition illuminates how women regenerate sculpture and photo-based art to profound expressive effect.

June 16, 2017 - April 15, 2018

National Portrait Gallery, 2nd floor, North Wing

Marlene Dietrich brought androgyny to the Silver Screen through her roles in many movies. Dietrich challenged the strictly limited notions of femininity at the time through her lifestyle and fashion. The German born star remains a symbol of anti-Nazism, a fashion icon and an influential figure of the LGBTQ community.

June 17 - September 17 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Yoko On's Wish Tree for Washington, DC.

A gift from the artist in 2007, Wish Tree, is a perennial favorite at the Hirshhorn. Over the past decade, nearly 80,000 wishes have been collected and sent to Ono's Image piece Tower, an outdoor artwork in Iceland that memorializes John Lennon.

Located in the Museum Lobby, Sculpture Garden and Third level.

Don't miss "The Color of BOOM"

by Terry Sitz

Opening Reception 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Friday, June 2nd, 2017

Artists & Makers Studios 11810 Parklawn Dr., Suite 210 Rockville, MD 20852

Check out the current show that ends June 3rd.

Leslie Parke and Beth Kaminstein

Only 4 days left to see this great exhibit at Gallery B in Bethesda MD.

Gallery hours:

Wednesday - Saturday, 12-6pm