9/14-9/20
This week: Experience DC's city-wide "all-night" arts festival, celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with poetry and performance, and more.
Additions to Last Week's Lineup
DC Art All Night [Festival] September 12, 7 PM-3 AM | Multiple Locations | FREE
DC transforms into one big art party with this free nighttime festival spanning all eight wards. From visual and performing arts to sculpture and fashion, the city will transform into a gallery. The festival activates indoor and outdoor public and private spaces, including local businesses and restaurants, showing that art can live anywhere. Download the app to navigate the city-wide celebration and “heart” the events you want to stop by. Download App
Opening Reception: Women Artists of the DMV [Gallery Opening] September 13, 6-8 PM | Pyramid Atlantic Art Center | FREE
Pyramid Atlantic joins forces with 15 galleries across the region to showcase 400 women artists in this massive multi-venue exhibition. The Pyramid location features nearly 50 local women artists presenting installations, paintings, prints, and sculpture that represent the depth and diversity of female creativity in the DMV. As curator F. Lennox Campello notes, this region supports "some of the most unique and creative visual art scenes in the nation," and this exhibition proves exactly why. It's a powerful reminder that women have always been central to the area's artistic identity. RSVP
This Week
Janathel Shaw: Hear Our Voices, and Sufie Berger: Genesis of Meaning [Exhibition] September 14-October 5 | Touchstone Gallery | FREE
Two artists, two powerful examinations of voices that demand to be heard. Janathel Shaw confronts racism and societal division through drawings and ceramic sculptures that coax the viewer into direct engagement through expression, gaze, and texture. Her portraits ask viewers to listen to messages embedded within the varied mediums. Meanwhile, Sufie Berger highlights the major gaps left by art history's exclusion of female artists, reimagining goddesses like Medusa and exploring female figures through multimedia works that give women the respect that they have been denied in a male-dominated society. Some pieces are visual representations of Berger's own poetry, adding creative layers to this exploration of artistic legacy. Visit
Combatting the Myth of Unsellable Art [Online Panel] September 17, 6 PM | Virtual | FREE
How do we use the power of the collective to shift unjust labor practices in the arts? Artist-entrepreneur-organizer-activist Janet E. Dandridge joins artist-organizer-activist Lise Soskolne, co-founder of W.A.G.E., for this important Business of the Arts panel discussion. They'll share tactics, tools, and thinking that challenge exploitative ideologies within the arts industry. If you've ever wondered why artists are expected to work for "exposure" or questioned the sustainability of creative careers, this conversation provides concrete strategies for change. RSVP
Opening Reception: Body Language [Gallery Opening] September 17, 5-8 PM | Chela Mitchell Gallery | FREE
Holly Bass, Zoe Charlton, and Sheldon Scott explore the power of physical expression in this group exhibition that examines how bodies communicate beyond words. Each artist brings a distinct perspective to the conversation about physical identity and the messages we send simply by existing in space. Visit
Tintas DC presents: Raíces Y Ritmos [Performance] September 19, 6:30 PM | Dupont Underground | $10
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with this showcase of Latine voices from across the DC metro area. "Raíces" (roots) honors the diversity of histories and heritage, while "Ritmos" (rhythms) captures the movement, music, and language of contemporary Latine stories. Through poetry, storytelling, and performance, local artists highlight the rich layers of the Latine experience in ways that resist simple categorization. Tickets