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Tag: dc art
Surfacing History in A Southwest Mural
A sweeping mural curves around a concrete wall in Lansburgh Park, Southwest — a map in paint of buried streams and former floodplains that...
Poetic Hill: Under the Scope
Malachi Byrd is the 2025 winner of the DC Poet Project, a competition that identifies and supports exceptional poets. A full-time artist known as...
Poetic Hill: “Praise Song for Ants”
Susan Scheid has lived in or near the Brookland neighborhood since she was a student at Catholic University. She settled in Brookland permanently to...
Poetic Hill: The Wood Pile
Chantal Dalton has lived in the Capitol Hill community since 2001. Her primary career was as a Foreign Service Information Officer and later with...
Poetic Hill: Row House Musings
Jean Nordhaus has lived in three different row houses on Capitol Hill since 1964.
Holding a PhD in German literature, she taught at the...
Young Minds, Bold Designs at Shirley Chisholm ES
A collection of “blueprints” and 3D models, currently on view in the Young Artists Gallery at Hill Center, is unlike any previous show in...
The Poetic Hill: Everyday Hazards
Everyday Hazards
Sometimes when you find beauty,
it feels like you’ve come
in from the cold,
warm and grateful that wonder
startled you back into life.
And now, almost dancing,...
Theater Night: The Transformational Power of Community
Our theater column for May is all about the transformational power and strength of community as told through stories from playwrights at the top...
Behind the Uniform Art Exhibition
This May, there is a remarkable art show at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities gallery at 200 I (EYE) Street SE...
Fold, Cut, Tear: Paper Art from Saint Peter School
The possibilities of paper as an art medium is the focus of the current show in the Young Artists Gallery at Hill Center. Esther...
















