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Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival

Smithsonian American Art Museum F Street and 8th Street NW, Washington DC

A virtual film festival highlighting groundbreaking women filmmakers and issues of climate change, political activism, global pandemics, and more. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is presenting its third annual Women Filmmakers Festival exclusively online. The festival runs from March 1-21, in honor of Women’s History Month, and is supported by the Smithsonian American Women’s History […]

The soon-to-open African American History Museum on the National Mall.

National Museum of African American History & Culture Virtual Symposium: Making African America

Virtual

More Than 40 Panelists Include Haitian American Novelist Edwidge Danticat, Multimedia Journalist Felice León, Dominican American Poet and Bestselling Author Elizabeth Acevedo and Award-winning Filmmaker Julie Dash From "Dreamers" and the Muslim ban to the Harlem Renaissance and the transatlantic Slave trade, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture's first virtual symposium […]

Reset at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Virtual Event

(Washington, D.C.) This March, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company launches RESET, a new, free digital collection featuring historical resources, excerpts, and video performances curated by Nicole M. Brewer, Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Jordan Ealey, Kristen Jackson, Leticia Ridley, and Nikkole Salter. The collection is available now at www.woollyreset.net from March 4 - 31, 2021. In August 2020, the curators—six Black cisgender women theatre artists, activists, and scholars—were invited to […]

Art Chats @ 5 with the National Museum of Women in the Arts

National Museum of Women in the Arts 1250 New York Avenue NW

Art Chats @ 5 Fridays, March 5–26, 5–5:45 p.m. Jump-start your weekend with art! Join NMWA educators online every Friday for informal 45-minute art chats about selected artworks in the collection. Discuss a new sampling of art each week. You can even enjoy your favorite happy hour drink or snack during the sessions. Free. Registration […]

2021 NHD at NMAAHC E-Review Clinic  

Virtual Event

2021 NHD at NMAAHC E-Review Clinic  Wednesday, March 3–Wednesday, March 17 The museum offers a support session for students working on a National History Day project. The project review sessions will help students determine topic ideas, improve their thesis, research advice, and answer any other questions related to their project. Students can submit a project on any historical subject. Submissions will be accepted from […]

The Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky at Hillwood

Hillwood Museum 4155 Linnean Ave. NW, Washington

The Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky Through September 5, 2021 “There is everything in flowers—history, drama, structure, beauty, and fragrance,” contemporary artist Vladimir Kanevsky has said. Kanevsky’s remarkable porcelain sculptures […]

Wikipedia Art+Feminism Virtual Edit-a-thon with the National Museum of Women in the Arts

National Museum of Women in the Arts 1250 New York Avenue NW

Wikipedia Art+Feminism Virtual Edit-a-thon Saturday, March 6, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. To mark Wikipedia's 20th anniversary, NMWA partners with Wikimedia DC for the museum's eighth Art+Feminism edit-a-thon, focused on improving Wikipedia entries related to notable women artists and art world figures. Participants will work to enrich the representation of women artists of color, with an emphasis on women of […]

Kennedy Center Arts Across America Series Premiere

Virtual Event

SERIES PREMIERE: Sat., Mar. 6, 2021 at 6 p.m. Special guest @INFINITYSONG Topics will include racial sensitivity, economic equality, and the ways art can facilitate reconciliation and healing within communities.