DC Art Gallery Openings and Exhibitions: August 31-September 13, 2026

Chris Combs, Flux (Deprecated), 2023, slide viewer and custom circuit board, 20 x 12 x 16 inches. Courtesy of Chris Combs.  On view at University of Maryland’s Stamp Gallery.

Repentant St. Peter by Matt Malone.  On view at Foundry Gallery.

Please note our Labor Day schedule:

• All listings for the week of Labor Day (Monday, September 7) are listed below the fold.
• Submissions received after August 30 will be published on or around Tuesday, September 15.
• The publishing desk is closed Monday, September 7-Friday, September 11 in observance of Labor Day.

Ahn Chang-Hong, Sorrow 2025, mixed media on photo panel, 51.2 x 51.2 inches. On view at American University Museum Gallery.

A R T I S T  T A L K S

• American University Museum Gallery | noon-mool Artist Talk | Sunday, September 6 at 2 pm

• Athenaeum | Rebecca J. White Artist Talk | Sunday, September 13 at 2 pm

• Jackson Art Center and Washington Studio School | Gallerist Talk with Amy Kaslow | Sunday, September 13 at 3 pm

• Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington | CRASIS (De)monstro: A Participatory Ritual | Saturday, September 12 at 6 pm

• Yards Eastern Market | PURSUIT Artist Talk | Thursday, September 10 at 6 pm

Copper Etching printmaking classes are offered this fall at Montpelier Arts Center. Image courtesy Montpelier Arts Center.

Del Ray’s HalloWEIRD Art Market. Photo by Dawn Wyse Hurto.

E V E N T S

• 28th Bethesda Row Arts Festival | Saturday, September 12 from 11 am–6 pm & Sunday, September 13 from 10 am–5 pm

• 2026 Capitol Hill Art Walk | Saturday & Sunday, September 12 & 13 from 12 pm–4 pm

• Del Ray Artisans | HalloWEIRD Art Market | Saturday, September 12 from 10 am–4 pm

• Hillyer | 2026 Art All Night | Saturday, September 12 from 6 pm–12 am

• Lincoln Memorial Plaza–National Mall | Joseph Schneider Dancing With Liberty | Saturday & Sunday, September 12–13

• Montgomery Art Association | Kensington Historic Armory | Paint the Town Art Exhibit and Sale | Saturday, September 5 from 11 am–8 pm, Sunday, September 6 from 11 am–5 pm & Monday, September 7 from 10 am–5 pm

• National Gallery of Art | The Dream & The Lie with filmmaker Elena Dorfman | Saturday, September 12 at 2 pm

• NoMa in Color Mural Festival | from September 11 to September 18

Work by Cindy Cheng at The 2026 Trawick Prize–Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards.

E X H I B I T I O N S

*New this week

• Academy Art Museum | Art for the People: WPA-Era Prints from the Ponemone-Frommeyer Collection | from September 8 to January 10

• American University Katzen Arts Center Rotunda | Gilt by Association | from August 25 to October 20 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 5 from 3 pm–6 pm

• American University Museum | Fall 2026 Exhibition Cycle | from September 5 to December 6 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 5 from 6 pm–9 pm

• Arlington Visual Art Studio Tour at Barry Gallery (Marymount University) | Off the Grid | from September 3 to October 28

• The ARTS Place Pop-Up on Langston | Arlington Artists Alliance | from September 10 to October 25 | Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10 from 5 pm–7 pm

• Artists & Makers Studios | Jeffrey Berg Change is Coming | from September 2 to September 24 | Opening Reception: Friday, September 11 from 5 pm–8 pm

• Ashe & Norton | Prints + our 1 Year Anniversary | from August 31 to September 13 | Opening Reception: Sunday, September 6 from 4 pm–6 pm

• Colloquia Art | Lorna Moore Becoming Shadow | from September 12 to September 30 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12 from 3 pm–6 pm

• Del Ray Artisans | Celebrating Hispanic Heritage: Voices Through Visual Art | from September 4 to September 26 | Opening Reception: Friday, September 4 from 7 pm–9 pm

• Foundry Gallery | Ceppetelli & Malone aka Duly Noted Painters Epilogue | from September 4 to September 27 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 5 from 4 pm–7 pm

• Freight Gallery | Othello Banaci Bread & Circus | September 13 | Sunday, September 13 from 4 pm–6 pm

• The Fred Schnider Gallery | Jeffrey Smith Paintings from the Powhatan Project | from September 5 to October 25 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 5 from 5 pm–7 pm

William S. Dutterer Mind Meld, Oil on Canvas, 1986, 79 x 60.5 inches by William S. Dutterer Trust on view at Goucher College Silber Gallery

• Gallaudet University | Washburn Arts Center Linda K. Jordan Gallery | Justin Dougan-LeBlanc Worn Silence | from September 14 to April 16 | Opening Reception: Monday, September 14 from 4 pm–6 pm

• Gallery B | The 2026 Trawick Prize–Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards | from September 3 to September 27 | Opening Reception: Friday, September 4 from 6 pm–8 pm

• Goucher College Silber Gallery | William S. Dutterer & Grace Hartigan Concentric Circles | from September 3 to October 23 | Opening Reception: Thursday, September 3 from 4 pm–8 pm

• Hillyer | Auction on the Alley–Art for Everyone | from September 4 to September 24 | Opening Reception: Friday, September 4 from 5 pm–8 pm

• The Loft Gallery | Lynn Martin Talk to Me | from September 8 to October 4 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12 from 1 pm–4 pm

• McLean Project for the Arts | (Not) Strictly Painting 15 | from September 10 to November 7 | Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10 from 7 pm–9 pm

Liz Tran, Peony, 2026, mixed media on canvas, 36″x36″ by Courtesy of the artist and Morton Fine Art.

• Mexican Cultural Institute | Martirene Alcántara My Conversations with Barragán | from September 4 to December 5 | Opening Reception: Thursday, September 3 from 6:30 pm–8 pm

• Morton Fine Art | Liz Tran Bloom / Become | from September 12 to October 17 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12 from 2 pm–4 pm

• Multiple Exposures Gallery | Soomin Ham In Gray | from September 1 to October 11 | Opening Reception: Sunday, September 13 from 2 pm–4 pm

• PFA Gallery | Re/Assemble | from September 12 to October 31 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12 from 5 pm–8 pm

• Pyramid Atlantic Art Center | Ruminations: Our Stories in Paper | from August 29 to October 4 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12 from 6 pm–8 pm

• Reston Art Gallery and Studios | Rosemarie Forsythe Natural Wonders | from September 5 to September 27 | Opening Reception: Sunday, September 13 from 2 pm–4 pm

• Stamp Gallery | Afterhours | from August 31 to October 3 | Opening Reception: Friday, September 11 from 5 pm–7 pm

• Studio Gallery | September 2026 Exhibitions | from September 2 to September 26 | Opening Reception times and dates vary

Rappahannock 19, 2026, Oil on paper, 23 1/2 x 21 1/2 by photo credit to Jeffrey Smith.  On view at Fred Schnider Gallery.

• TAG/The Artists Gallery | Colleen Clapp & Joe Williams | from September 4 to September 27 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 5 from 5 pm–8 am

• the beachKraft Studio | Gallery of Olney | Mijin Chun Poetic Circus | from September 5 to September 30 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 5 from 5 pm–7 pm

• The Waverly Street Gallery | Sarah Spector Transcendent Terrains | from August 30 to September 26 | Opening Reception: Friday, September 4 from 6 pm–8 pm

• Washington Printmakers Gallery | Kristine DeNinno At The Seams + Caryn Martin Rift/Repair | from September 3 to September 27 | Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12 from 5:30 pm–10:30 pm

• Washington Studio School | Art is Not Decoration | from September 4 to September 25 | Opening Reception: Friday, September 4 from 6 pm–8 pm

• Washington Union Station | America: The Game | from September 10 to October 10 | Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10 from 6 pm–9 pm

• Woman’s National Democratic Club | Barbara Bitondo Luminous Horizons | from September 10 to December 8 | Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10 from 6:30 pm–8 pm