Hadiya Williams Has Made Her Space in D.C.’s Art Scene

The local fine artist and maker infuses her jewelry, dishes, and textiles with the resilience of African diaspora ancestors from her Northeast studio.

I first encountered the ceramic and fabric work of Hadiya Williams in 2018. For a show at Woodlawn, the Virginia plantation previously owned by George Washington and his family, seven Black artists were invited to make on-site installations. Furniture, tapestry, and sculpture by local artists directed the focus to the enslaved people who built the…

by Tanya Paperny

National Museum of Women in the Arts Goes Beyond the Glass Ceiling

Reopening to the public in October, the newly renovated space continues to celebrate women and nonbinary artists through a remixed process and more space to do so.

The 1908 masonic lodge on New York Avenue NW has always been a complicated home for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which opened in 1987. The grand limestone building lends gravity and seriousness, and the location, three blocks from the White House, demands attention. Responding to the fact that women were not…

by Tanya Paperny

SAAM’s Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea Tells the Untold Stories that Built the U.S.

Featuring 48 contemporary artists, the newest exhibition at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum highlights the places, faces, and cultures that are often erased in mainstream media.

Depending on how you enter the exhibition, the first—or last—thing you see is a portrait of a woman. Sandra Cisneros, a Chicana author famous for The House on Mango Street, stands with her arms folded in defiance, garbed in a traditional Mexican skirt etched with gold-leaf palm trees. Around her waist, emerald vegetation creeps up…

by Julian Ford

Charles Philippe Jean-Pierre: An Artist on the Move

The D.C.-based Haitian American artist is constantly traveling to teach and learn. His art is currently on display at Reston’s Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art.

Charles Philippe Jean-Pierre is constantly traveling to teach and learn. Locally, his art is on display at Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art in Reston.

by Shantay Robinson

Night at the Museum Part Deux

The National Gallery of Art brings back National Gallery Nights this fall with hip-hop, Halloween, and Indigenous art.

The National Gallery of Art brings back National Gallery Nights this fall with hip-hop, Halloween, and Indigenous art.

by Sarah Marloff

The Dap Project Captures Joy in Black Culture

Dap Is a Love Language, an exhibition from The Dap Project, details the importance behind a greeting often used among the Black community.

Dap Is a Love Language, a new exhibition from the group, details the importance of a greeting often used among the Black community.

by Dorvall Bedford

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