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Hoping DC Commission on the arts will some day support individual artists like this:
Join Empower DC on Monday, March 7th at 6:30pm for their program Community Activism: Learning from the Past, Organizing for the Future!
Daniel del Pielago, Organizing Director, Empower DC will provide an overview of the impact of housing policy on DC low and moderate-income residents and engage in conversation with Awad Bilal, Linda Leaks, and Gabrielle Newell community organizers and activists around their commitment to preserve and improve affordable housing for DC residents. Project Director is Claude L. Elliott and Project Humanities Scholar is Kimberly Monroe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History & Africana Studies, Trinity Washington University. Register to join the conversation!
This program is funded with a HumanitiesDC 2021 Humanities Vision Grant, which is part of the Humanities Grant Program supported with funding from the District of Columbia Government through the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Earlier this week, at a ceremony attended by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, and DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, a statue of Pierre L'Enfant was unveiled in the US Capitol Building. L'Enfant -- who planned the city's distinctive grid of streets, diagonal avenues, squares, and circles -- joins Frederick Douglass as the District's second statue in the Capitol.
Each of the 50 states has two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Until now, the L'Enfant statue had been at One Judiciary Square, a DC Government office building. The statue, designed by Gordon Kray and sculpted in 2008, was commissioned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. The L'Enfant Plan of the City of Washington, District of Columbia is listed in the National Register of Historic Places:
https://bit.ly/3HGCDED
[Photos: L'Enfant Statue, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities:
https://bit.ly/3Cdx4w1 / Illustration of L'Enfant Plan, Library of Congress:
https://www.loc.gov/item/88694195/]
#PreserveDC #WashingtinDC #DistrictofColumbia #PierreLEnfant #USCapitolBuilding #DCHistory #History #cityplanning #LEnfantPlan #DC
A new exhibit is now live at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities! The "Resilience and Uncertainty" exhibit presents how six artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds are coping with the turbulent times that the world has been experiencing since early 2020. Click the link ➡️
https://bit.ly/3hAsI8O to learn more or view the virtual tour today.
We spotlight Nancee Lyons of DC Department of Public Works for her service to the community as the leader of Murals DC —beautifying the city one mural at a time. There are nearly 150 murals in every ward of the city. Murals are a visual documentation of DC’s rich history. Thank you DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. #BlackHistoryDC
Calling all District artists 📢 for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the District Department of Transportation FY2022 Color the Curb project! Applications are now being accepted. Hurry, the deadline is #TODAY February 28th at 9pm ET
For more details, visit:
https://dcarts.dc.gov/node/1580451
Call for #DC Artists🎨 for the FY2022 Color the Curb! In partnership 🤝 with DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, we are accepting applications and urge all dc-based artists to apply. The deadline is #TODAY, February 28th. For more details visit:
https://bit.ly/3ov84L5
Call for #DC Artists🎨 for the FY2022 Color the Curb! In partnership 🤝 with DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, we are accepting applications and urge all dc-based artists to apply. The deadline is #TODAY, February 28th. For more details visit:
https://bit.ly/3ov84L5
Join us TOMORROW January 25th at 6:30pm EST for a virtual program in partnership with the Art Deco Society of Washington to examine how evolution in early 20th century modes of transportation helped shape some of our favorite places!
The 1920s and 30s saw several advances in design for car, bus, train and plane travel and architects responded creatively to develop buildings to embrace them. This illustrated talk by Art Deco Society President Steve Knight will give an overview of architectural and industrial design trends during the interwar years as well as examine some of the noteworthy examples of transportation-related architecture that celebrate Art Deco design, including the former Greyhound Bus Terminal at 1100 New York Avenue, the 1941 Terminal of National Airport in Arlington, and a handful of other resources related to transportation in and around Washington.
Register here (Free & Open to the Public):
https://bit.ly/3JcbxXP
Art Deco Society of Washington Website:
https://adsw.org/
[Photo: Greyhound Bus Terminal Lobby. Photo courtesy of the Art Deco Society of Washington]
#PreserveDC #WashingtonDC #HistoricPreservation #ArtDeco #DC #DistrictofColumbia #DCHistory #Architecture #DCArchitecture #Transportation #DCTransportation #Webinar #VirtualProgram DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
