First Studio: Art, Story, and Workshop
• January 15, 2025

This month we are partnering with the Children’s Department at the Palisades Neighborhood Library to bring a Kreeger First Studio Program. Young artists ages 3-5 and an adult companion are […]

Free Landmark Lecture: The Peabody Room Collection: Three Centuries of Georgetown Art
• September 17, 2021

Since 1935, the Georgetown Neighborhood Library’s Peabody Room has served as a repository of books, photographs, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, artifacts, and artworks that document the 270-year history of Georgetown, the […]

One Year: 1968, A Book Discussion Group
• June 29, 2018

Join staff from the National Portrait Gallery and the DC Public Library for a monthly discussion of portraits and prose commemorating the 50th anniversary of the museum and 1968. Each […]

Holiday Card Crafting
• November 21, 2017

Drop by the Georgetown branch of DC Public Library for an afternoon of seasonal crafting, where we will be making holiday-themed greeting cards and gift tags. All materials will be […]

Community Spotlight: Georgetown library
• August 9, 2017

It was 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 3. A severe thunderstorm had just ended. As the proverbial mystery novel opening goes — “On a dark and stormy night …” — […]