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“A Time for Action: Washington Artists circa 1989”

This companion exhibition to the Corcoran exhibition 6.13.89 will exhibit paintings, drawings, and prints from the GW Collection by artists who registered their protest of the volatile cancellation of the […]

Free

“Best Laid Plans”

The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum 701 21st Street NW, Washington

This exhibition examines unrealized designs for the Washington Monument, Memorial Bridge, and other structures around the city, through historical prints and paintings from the collection.

$8

“Songs of the Civil War”

The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum 701 21st Street NW, Washington

This exhibition showcases historical sheet music that provided the soundtrack to a nation divided by war.

$8
Ongoing

Magnificent Obessesions

national Museum of American History 1300 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC, Washington D.C.

The Smithsonian Libraries will be presenting the opening of the exhibition Magnificent Obsessions: Loving Books, Expanding Knowledge, on November 7th as a part of their 50th anniversary celebration at the […]

Free

NSLMOLOGY: Science of Sporting Art

National Sporting Library & Museum 102 The Plains Road, Middleburg

This Spring, NSLM melds art with science to create NSLMology, an exhibition for explorers of all ages! Visitors are invited to experience scientific principles within three centuries of paintings, sculptures, […]

$8 – $12

Deconstructed: The NSLM Sporting Screen

National Sporting Library & Museum 102 The Plains Road, Middleburg

Deconstructed: The NSLM Sporting Screen centers on a unique decorative object from the NSLM’s permanent collection. Recently conserved, the four-panel screen is comprised of paintings and prints showing 18th century […]

$8 – $12

Jane Franklin Dance: Summer Camps (Ages 5-12)

Jane Franklin Dance SUMMER Camp for ages 5 - 12 builds physical skill and creativity through movement, theatre, and visual art. The five-day camps includes dance technique and creative movement, […]

$250

Escape from Between the Lines: Jeanne McManus and Sara Maddox

The Glen Echo Park Partnership is pleased to present “Escape from Between the Lines,” featuring paintings by Jeanne McManus and Sara Maddox. McManus and Maddox have escaped the narrow, black-and-white […]

Free

More Obsessions: Thoughts and Things That Keep Living in My Head

Glen Echo Park 7300 MacArthur Blvd Glen Echo, MD 20812 7300 MacArthur BLVD, Glen Echo

The Glen Echo Park Partnership presents “More Obsessions: Thoughts and Things That Keep Living in My Head” featuring work by F. Lennox Campello. A compulsive drive to work the same […]

Free

10 Years of Silver Works: Looking Back and Forward Looking

Popcorn Gallery at the Glen Echo 7300 MacArthur Blvd, Glen Echo

The Glen Echo Park Partnership presents “10 Years of SIlverWorks: Looking Back and Forward Looking” by SilverWorks Resident Artist Blair Anderson. This exhibition displays a new collection of the silversmith’s […]

Free

EyeSoar- Capital Fringe Festival

St. Matthews Lutheran Church 222 M St. SW, Washington

Jane Franklin Dance will be presenting EyeSoar at the Capital Fringe Festival that explores the shifts of a neighborhood through changes of development, gentrification, and community strengthening. Space is getting […]

$20

Profs & Pints: The Great American Road Trip

The Bier Baron Tavern 1523 22nd Street Northwest, Washington

Profs and Pints presidents: “The Great American Road Trip,” with Allen Pietrobon, adjunct professor of modern American history at American University and visiting professor at Trinity Washington University. Perhaps no […]

$2 – $12