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This week: Discuss AI's impact on creativity and cultural work, explore how 1960s consumer culture manufactured feminine ideals, and more.
What Remains: Noël Kassewitz [Exhibition] May 10-June 20 | Transformer | FREE
Noël Kassewitz’s paintings are tethered to live NOAA tidal data, rising and falling in real time with nearby water levels. The exhibition arrives in America’s 250th year, examining the simultaneous endurance and fragility of cultural memory under swelling environmental and political pressures. Kassewitz’s new works explore the deconstruction and preservation of national symbols and the stories a culture tells about its own permanence. More Info
AI & Art: Creativity, Ethics, and the Future of Cultural Work [Panel Discussion] May 12, 6-9 PM | DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities | FREE
Join for a panel discussing a topic that is on many of our minds: how artificial intelligence is changing how art is made, who gets credit, and what the future of creative work looks like. Panelists include Fatima Farzana, Justice Dwight, Mark Cooley, Jozie Perry, Tim Friedlander, and Bomani Armah. RSVP
Opening Reception: Susan R. Johnson - Blueprint for Happiness [Gallery Opening] May 15, 5-7 PM | gallery neptune & brown | FREE
Susan R. Johnson debuts My Teenage Years, a new body of work exploring the control and pressure placed on women to manufacture happiness and perfection during the 1960s and 70s. Johnson creates exaggerated feminine archetypes using imagery from period print media and popular culture, combining painting, printmaking, and photography. The title comes from a post-WWII advertising slogan for Silex coffee makers, which promised that happiness could be engineered through consumption. More Info
