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By Editorial Team on June 16, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic Resources for the DC Area Visual Arts Community
The following is a list of relevant grants, loans and impact surveys East City Art has compiled to assist the visual arts community. This list will be continuously updated during the pandemic. ++Last updated: June 15++ Continue reading COVID-19 Pandemic Resources for the DC Area Visual Arts Community
Read MoreBy Juliana Biondo on July 9, 2019
East City Art Profiles: von ammon co Gallery
Georgetown’s newest gallery, von ammon co, which opened in April, has an ambitious program to present internationally rising artists to the DC arts community.
Read MoreBy Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. on June 11, 2019
East City Art Reviews: Bethesda Painting Awards 2019
Gallery B in downtown Bethesda is hosting the finalists of the annual Bethesda Painting Awards competition. This year’s selection exhibits a pronounced showing of painting, in the traditional sense, both figurative and abstract. It’s been some time since we’ve seen such a strong feeling of hand is in the works represented, that is, of paint on surface, made into recognizable or abstract imagery.
Read MoreBy Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. on June 4, 2019
Recovering Tintoretto, Painter of the Venetian Late Renaissance
The retrospective exhibition of the work of Venetian artist Jacopo Robusti, known as Il Tintoretto, is still on view at the National Gallery. Although Tintoretto was enormously successful in his own time and place, he remains relatively unknown to the general public. The reasons for this are many. Not least among them are the many myths that stubbornly follow the artist’s reputation portraying him as an outsider, a rebel, a difficult and bizarre personality, and perhaps most problematically: a Mannerist.
Read MoreBy Phil Hutinet on April 30, 2019
Maker Space Comes to DC’s Ward 8
Nonstop Art Opens community maker space at the Overlook at Oxon Run. The Community-at-large is encouraged to tour the space and apply for membership
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 5, 2021
Washington National Cathedral Announces Replacement of Confederate Windows
The Washington National Cathedral announced that it will replace its former stained-glass windows featuring Confederate iconography, removed in 2017, with racial-justice themed windows created by world-renowned artist Kerry James Marshall, described by The New Yorker as “a virtuoso of landscape, portraiture, still-life, history painting, and other genres of the Western...
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 5, 2021
Lisa Marie Thalhammer’s TOGETHER Women’s Mural Features US Capitol with Rainbow Sky and Crowd
Lisa Marie Thalhammer, the creator of The LOVE Mural in Shaw’s Blagden Alley, along with artists she met creating protest art for the Women’s March on Washington, have come TOGETHER to create a new massive mural in Shaw located at 1317 9th Street NW, Washington DC. A signature of Lisa...
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 5, 2021
Craig Kraft Installs New Public Artwork at Tucker Road Ice Rink
Anacostia-based light artist Craig Kraft and his team have just finished installing new public art at Tucker Road Ice Rink in Fort Washington, MD. Titled Traces, the new work resides in an open plaza outside the ice rink. The neon lighting of the sculpture will be visible dusk through dawn....
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 5, 2021
PGAHC Partners with PGCC To Create Funding Program for Community Artists
Prince George’s County Opens National Arts and Humanities Month by Providing Creatives Access to New Affordable Voucher Program Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) in partnership with Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) and Prince George’s Community College Foundation announce a new funding program. The program will enhance equity and...
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 5, 2021
Nicholson Project Announces Hoesy Corona as Fall 2021 Artist-in-Residence
Hoesy Corona: Artist-in-Residence - September 1 - November 23, 2021. Hoesy Corona is an uncategorized queer Latinx artist of Mexican descent living and working in the United States. Using a variety of media spanning installation, performance, and video, Hoesy develops otherworldly narratives centering marginalized individuals in society by exploring a...
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 5, 2021
Blairs Mural Festival Unveils Eight New Murals in Silver Spring, MD
On Saturday, September 18, eight colorful, large-scale murals were unveiled and celebrated at The Blairs Mural Festival in Silver Spring, MD. Spearheaded by The Tower Companies, this unique art experience will connect the local community and residents of The Blairs District–a 27 acre development steps from the Silver Spring metro with...
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