WPA supports artist-driven projects, advocacy, and dialogue so that artists can live, work, and flourish. Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is an artist-centered catalyst for the creation and presentation of contemporary art.
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We are the only DC-area organization to support visual artists at all stages of their careers. WPA is in the process of converting from an artist-centered to a more artist-driven model. Future projects will be conceived and realized increasingly "by artists, for artists," meaning that artists will conceive, curate, produce, contextualize, and critique the majority of our activities. WPA was founde
We are the only DC-area organization to support visual artists at all stages of their careers. WPA is in the process of converting from an artist-centered to a more artist-driven model. Future projects will be conceived and realized increasingly "by artists, for artists," meaning that artists will conceive, curate, produce, contextualize, and critique the majority of our activities. WPA was founde
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Going once, going twice... There are just a few hours left to bid on the incredible artworks featured in our Collectors' Night Benefit Auction on Artsy. If you plan to bid, NOW is the time to register. Bidding approval is not instantaneous, and the auction closes TODAY at 6:30 pm EDT! Visit artsy.net/wpabenefit.
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There are just 36 hours left to bid on the incredible artworks featured in our Collectors' Night Benefit Auction on Artsy! Choose from nearly 200 artworks, each hand-selected by WPA, made by artists we love 💖
Bidding closes TOMORROW, Thursday, May 20 at 6:30 pm EDT. Don't miss this chance to take home something special — check out the artworks and place your bids today at artsy.net/wpabenefit
Proceeds from the sale are split between the artists and WPA, so your purchase supports artists while also enabling us to continue producing artist-organized programs—now, and into the future!
Thanks Artsy for highlighting Mahari Chabwera and Michèle Christine Colburn's artworks in this week's list of standout lots! Both are included in the Collectors' Night Benefit Auction which closes Thursday, May 20 at 6:30 pm EDT. #amialteringyouraura #collectorsnight #WPAauction
Artsy’s Curatorial and Editorial teams offer a look at the auctions lots we’re currently watching, from hidden gems to works with the most bids.
💫 NOW OPEN FOR BIDDING 💫 WPA's 40th Annual Collectors' Night Benefit Auction
The two-week auction includes 194 artworks by 96 artists from the DC area and beyond. The auction closes on Thursday, May 20 at 6:30 pm EDT. Auction purchases will directly support participating artists and all of WPA’s artist-organized programming year-round.
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Washington Project for the Arts x Artsy present Washington Project for the Arts' 40th Annual Collectors' Night Benefit Auction. Founded in 1975 and based in Washington, DC, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is a platform for collaborative and experimental artist-driven projects, dialogue...
We are so honored and grateful to have Manuel Vásquez-Ortega's writing on "Notions of Exile" published by Prodavinci.com 💕 Fabiola R. Delgado Faride Mereb #notionsofexile
Tras años de bonanza petrolera y un pujante avance socioeconómico resultado de la misma, la segunda mitad del siglo XX venezolano dio forma a la imagen tradicional de Venezuela como ‘país de acogida’.
Tomorrow, Thursday, March 11 from 7-8:30 pm EST: Join us for “Moving Verse,” an intimate poetry reading with Venezuelan authors Franklin Hurtado, Graciela Yáñez Vicentini, and Luis Moreno Villamediana.
Register to attend here: https://wpadc.org/civicrm/event/info?id=114&reset=1
“Moving Verse” is an intimate poetry reading with Venezuelan authors Franklin Hurtado, Graciela Yáñez Vicentini, and Luis Moreno Villamediana to reflect on the forces that traverse and influence our relationships and our experience of language. Through the topics of the void, the echo, the bro...
Thank you Washington City Paper for featuring this weekend's interactive storytelling event for "Notions of Exile"! This family-friendly reading and workshop will be led by co-curator Fabiola R. Delgado and is free and open to all. Happening on Saturday from 2-3 pm EST! 💖✨
Notions of Exile is a virtual exhibition that investigates the artistic, cultural, and sociological impacts of the Venezuelan refugee crisis.
Listen here to The Brooklyn Rail's archived Common Ground conversation with "Notions of Exile" co-curators Fabiola R. Delgado and Faride Mereb, artists Génesis Alayón and Miguel Braceli, and writer Luis Moreno Villamediana discussing our latest artist-organized project! #NotionsofExile
Please join us for a conversation with curators Fabiola R. Delgado and Faride Mereb, and artists Génesis Alayón and Miguel Braceli. We’ll conclude with a reading by Luis Moreno Villamediana.
🔮DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MON FEB 22🔮
We are currently accepting artwork submissions for our benefit auction, which will be hosted via Artsy in May 2021. The auction’s theme this year—Am I Altering Your Aura?—comes from the work of poet and activist Audre Lorde. In determining which artworks to submit, artists should consider the following quote:
𝘈𝘮 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴,
𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯?
—Audre Lorde, “Poetry is Not a Luxury”
Artworks can be submitted online ➡️ http://wpadc.org/news/call-artists-submit-work-collectors%E2%80%99-night-2021
Deadline: Monday, February 22, 2021 at 11:59pm ET
🔮DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MON FEB 22🔮
We are currently accepting artwork submissions for our benefit auction, which will be hosted via Artsy in May 2021. The auction’s theme this year—Am I Altering Your Aura?—comes from the work of poet and activist Audre Lorde. In determining which artworks to submit, artists should consider the following quote:
𝘈𝘮 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴,
𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯?
—Audre Lorde, “Poetry is Not a Luxury”
Artworks can be submitted online ➡️ http://wpadc.org/news/call-artists-submit-work-collectors%E2%80%99-night-2021
Deadline: Monday, February 22, 2021 at 11:59pm ET
Listen to this interview with "Notions of Exile" co-curators Fabiola R. Delgado and Faride Mereb in traficovisual (in Castilian) -- and make sure to sign up to participate in upcoming programs over the next five weeks! #NotionsofExile
Conversamos con Faride Mereb y Fabiola Delgado, dos venezolanas que residen en Estados Unidos y se han unido para presentar “Nociones del exilio”, un proyecto expositivo que convoca a más de 16 artistas venezolanos. Esta muestra que se presentará en formato virtual a partir del 23 de enero del...
"Notions of Exile" is now OPEN! Make sure to check out the virtual exhibition which includes artwork by Miguel Braceli, Diana López, Génesis Alayón, Samoel González, and Faride Mereb.
Over the next seven weeks, this project explores the cultural influence of the largest recorded refugee crisis in the Americas—the forced migration of six million Venezuelans from their homeland. Co-curated by Fabiola R. Delgado and Faride Mereb through March 15, 2021.
Faride Mereb Untitled Digital printing (Plotter) 24" x 36" Detail from analog photograph form the author’s family archive b&w 2019
Tomorrow's "Virtual Arepera" featured in Washingtonian! Don't miss this delicious opening event for "Notions of Exile," a virtual exhibition and series of programs co-curated by Fabiola R. Delgado and Faride Mereb.
Saturday, January 23 from 6:30–7:30 pm ET
Register to attend at wpadc.org
Plus: What does Joe Biden mean for DC?
Beginning in January: “Notions of Exile”, a virtual exhibition and series of programs, co-curated by Fabiola R. Delgado and Faride Mereb. The project explores the cultural influence of the largest recorded refugee crisis in the Americas—the forced migration of six million Venezuelans from their homeland—using Venezuelan writer and journalist Aquiles Nazoa’s stories of exile and migration as a metaphorical "table" around which the co-curators have gathered artists from Venezuela and its diaspora. "Notions of Exile" raises questions about how this story of exile is told and how words like mestizaje, a concept deeply ingrained in the Venezuelan collective psyche to describe assimilation, gain distinct meaning when home is somewhere new.
RSVP for the public programs here:
https://www.notionsofexile.com/
"Notions of Exile"
Curated by Fabiola R. Delgado & Faride Mereb
January 23–March 15, 2021
https://www.notionsofexile.com/
The participants include: Génesis Alayón, Leonardo Almao, Miguel Braceli, Deborah Castillo, Alexander Chaparro, Gabriela García, Mercedes Golip, Samoel González, Franklin Hurtado, Diana López, Henry Rueda, Henry Solórzano, Ugo Ulive, Graciela Yáñez Vicentini, and Luis Moreno Villamediana
We are SO excited to announce the 12 recipients of Wherewithal Research Grants as part of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program. The twelve DC-based artists and collectives, each of whom will receive $5,000, are: Sobia Ahmad, CONTROL-ALT-DELETE, Ayana Zaire Cotton, janet e. dandridge, Jeremiah Edwards & Jeremiah Long, Curry Hackett, Michelle Lisa Herman, MJ Neuberger & Susan Main, Mojdeh Rezaeipour, Asha Adia Santee, Jessica Valoris, and Monsieur Zohore. Their research covers such wide-ranging subjects as ancestral memory, abolitionist technology, socio-ecological relationships, and the resurrection of now-forgotten performances.
Learn more at https://www.wherewithalgrants.org/
The deadline to apply for our one-time Artist-Organizer Residency is next Monday, October 19th! In addition to use of our project space, the residency will include a $1,000 stipend.
Details and application can be found here:
https://form.jotform.com/202447360822956
Please click the link to complete this form.
Thanks Rhizome DC! Deadline for the Artist-Organizer Residency is Monday, October 19 at 11:59 pm ET
Sharing this opportunity via Washington Project for the Arts
In response to how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our ability to host in-person events and exhibitions, WPA is offering our project space to an artist-organizer/artist-curator from the end of October through early January. In addition to the space, the residency will include a $1,000 stipend. We will prioritize applications from artist-organizers whose practices reflect our values of collaboration, experimentation, and inclusion, as well as artists able to use the space for an average of at least 20 hours per week.
https://www.wpadc.org/news/artist-organizer-residency-wpa
Artist-Organizer Residency at WPA
Deadline to apply: Monday, October 19 at 11:59 pm ET
In response to how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our ability to host in-person events and exhibitions, WPA is offering our project space to an artist-organizer/artist-curator from mid-October through early January. In addition to the space, the residency will include a $1,000 stipend. We will prioritize applications from artist-organizers whose practices reflect our values of collaboration, experimentation, and inclusion.
Details and application can be found here: https://form.jotform.com/202447360822956
Image: Adrian Piper, The Mythic Being: Sol’s Drawing #2 of 5 (1974). Collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
New opportunity: Artist-Organizer Residency
In response to how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our ability to host in-person events and exhibitions, we are offering our project space to an artist-organizer/artist-curator from the end of October through early January. In addition to the space, the residency will include a $1,000 stipend.
⚡️Deadline to apply: Monday, October 19 at 11:59 pm ET⚡️
In response to how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our ability to host in-person events and exhibitions, WPA is offering our project space to an artist-organizer/artist-curator from mid-October through early January. In addition to the space, the residency will include a $1,000 stipend. We will ...
If you missed any of the amazing "KUVV" programs that took place over the past few weeks, all of the recordings are now available to watch here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/7609547
"KUVV" was curated by performance artist and choreographer Hayley Cutler in collaboration with seven incredible artists -- Emily Ames, Antonius and Theresa-Xuan Bui, Jamie Garcia, Akela Jaffi, Juliana Ponguta, and Vyette Tiya. We are grateful to all of them for sharing their practices so generously with us!
Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is pleased to announce “KUVV,” a project exploring the relationship between home, familial lineage, and the body. Curated by DC-based, choreographer and performance artist Hayley Cutler, “KUVV” is a multidisciplinary performance and event series featurin...
BEGINNING NEXT WEEK:✨𝙆𝙐𝙑𝙑✨ is a multidisciplinary, collaborative performance and series of events exploring the relationship between home, familial lineage, and the body organized by choreographer and performance artist Hayley Cutler (darlingdance company). The participating artists are Emily Ames, Antonius and Theresa-Xuan Bui, Jamie Garcia, Akela Jaffi, Juliana Ponguta, and Vyette Tiya.
📒 The first event is a participatory talk by artist and enthnomusicologist Tomie Hahn, “Any body Home?”
Thursday, September 3 from 7:30-8:30 pm ET
💫 Register to attend all of 𝙆𝙐𝙑𝙑’s virtual programs here: https://www.wpadc.org/exhibitions/kuvv
"KUVV" is a multidisciplinary, collaborative project organized by choreographer and performance artist Hayley Cutler, exploring the relationship between home, familial lineage, and the body. Cutler writes about the project, “To live in a body is to carry with you not only your immediate past but ...
"KUVV"
September 3-26, 2020
A collaborative performance experiment
Organized by choreographer and performance artist Hayley Cutler
Participating artists: Emily Ames, Antonius and Theresa-Xuan Bui, Jamie Garcia, Akela Jaffi, Juliana Ponguta, and Vyette Tiya
More info: https://www.wpadc.org/exhibitions/kuvv
Going once! Going Twice!
WPA’s ⚡️HIGH FREQUENCY⚡️ Benefit Auction is closing soon!
Register today to bid on unique works of art by over 100 amazing artists from the DC region and beyond. Your purchase directly benefits artists at a time when they need it most, and enables WPA to continue producing artist-driven programs now and into the future!
The auction closes at 6:30 pm on Thursday, August 13, so don’t miss out! Thank you for helping to keep DC's creative community vibrant and thriving.
Browse artworks and register to bid at Artsy.net/wpabenefit
We are at the halfway point of WPA's benefit sale ⚡️HIGH FREQUENCY: A Benefit Auction for Artists and WPA⚡️ and momentum is building!
You have until August 13 to bid on these amazing artworks and show your support for artists and WPA.
Your bids today bring you one step closer to owning one of these unique artworks, and translate to direct support for artists and WPA.
Here are three works that are sparking interest right now by artists Joseph Orzal, Gabriel Martinez, linn meyers.
BID NOW at artsy.net/wpabenefit
⚡️NOW OPEN FOR BIDDING ⚡️
HIGH FREQUENCY:
Benefit Auction in Support of Artists and WPA
July 30 - Aug 13, 2020
Powered by @artsy
We are so excited to share this auction with you featuring a carefully curated selection of work by over 100 amazing artists. The sale will run for two weeks, closing at 6:30 pm on Thursday, August 13.
Thank you for supporting WPA and the artists we work with. We look forward to seeing your bids in the coming days!
Washington Project for the Arts x Artsy present Washington Project for the Arts: HIGH FREQUENCY Benefit Auction 2020. Founded in 1975 and based in Washington, DC, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is a platform for collaborative and experimental artist-driven projects, dialogue, and advocacy. WP...
Our upcoming HIGH FREQUENCY benefit auction featured in District Fray Magazine: "This year, the auction will have 200 pieces for sale from about 100 artists. In a nod to their anniversary, 45 artists taking part in the auction are representing a year in the organization’s history. These 45 have all worked with WPA during its lifetime, and five of them are MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant winners. In addition to featuring their own work, many of these artists recommended other budding artists whose work they felt deserved recognition."
Bidding opens on THIS Thursday, July 30 at 6:30pm!
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The Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) has supported artists for 45 years through advocacy, dialogue and collaborating on artist-driven work. The nonprofit organization has been able to fund their projects and programs with donations from community members, and is committed to continue championin...
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Going once! Going Twice! WPA’s ⚡️HIGH FREQUENCY⚡️ Benefit Auction is closing soon! Register today to bid on unique works of art by over 100 amazing artists from the DC region and beyond. Your purchase directly benefits artists at a time when they need it most, and enables WPA to continue producing artist-driven programs now and into the future! The auction closes at 6:30 pm on Thursday, August 13, so don’t miss out! Thank you for helping to keep DC's creative community vibrant and thriving. Browse artworks and register to bid at Artsy.net/wpabenefit
‘Children of NAN: Mothership’ by Alisha B. Wormsley and ‘Cry of the Third Eye: The Last Resort’ by Lisa (Li) E. Harris are both available to watch on our website as part of 'Black Women as/and the Living Archive' curated by Tsedaye Makonnen through June 13th. In addition, you can watch the recording of Alisha & Li's double screeing and Q&A on our website (fast forward to 1 hr and 22 min if you just want to listen to their brilliant conversation). . . Watch both films and find details about upcoming programs here: https://www.wpadc.org/exhibitions/black-women-asand-living-archive
Join us this Thursday, from 7-9 pm, for drinks, casual conversation, and the first weekly presentation of RANDOM PLAYLIST, a micro-cinema organized by artist James Huckenpahler. Curator, filmmaker, and artist Dawne Langford presents the inaugural playlist with footage from the era of Operation Desert Storm, a raw assemblage of materials from the commercial TV wasteland, as well as videos from RISD grads propaganda-based band, EBN, "manipulating media instead of the media manipulating us".
Its Auction time! #WPAAuctionGala #drivenbyartists #supportlivingartists #DCart #1010times #timelesslyelegant https://www.wpadc.org/events/auction-gala-2018
#BookishSpotlight Keith Haring: P***s Drawings Though the new administration brought its own gaggle of dysfunctional pen*ses to our nation's capital in January, this book -- containing drawings realized by Haring in 1978 -- offers a witty commentary on power and desire in New York before the AIDS crisis. It is published by Nieves (Zürich), one of the presses included in our 2016 summer show "Broken Scissors, A Ghost, and Some More Old News". Check out Bookish @ WPA or buy yours online: https://squareup.com/store/washington-project-for-the-arts/item/keith-haring-pen*s-drawings
Highlights from the first two episodes of #TheArtShow.TV. Episode 3 recording tonight, LIVE at WPA, 6:30pm.
In 5 months, WPA will move to a new exhibition and administrative space just in time to celebrate our 40th anniversary. Be a part of the exciting future of WPA by donating today! #wpanewhome [email protected]" rel="nofollow,noopener" target="_blank">https://www.wpadc.org/[email protected]
Gateway Studios Tour--DC Glassworks making art!
Here's a little sneak peek of Jonathan Monaghan's work, the second artist in WPA's Hothouse Video series at the Capitol Skyline Hotel. Come to Jonathan's opening *THIS SATURDAY* to see more of his eye-catching videos that challenge the boundaries between the real, the imagined, and virtual. http://wpadc.org/hothouse-video-series-jonathan-monaghan/
WPA supports artist-driven projects, advocacy, and dialogue so that artists can live, work, and flourish.
WPA was founded in 1975 by the art impresario Alice Denney, organizer of the legendary NOW Festival in 1966. Over the past four decades, and under the leadership of nearly a dozen directors, WPA has presented more than 500 exhibitions; 1,000 performances; 700 lectures, workshops, and symposia; 250 screenings; and 58 public art projects. Nearly ever major visual artist in the District between 1975 and today has had some connection with WPA. Many have sat on WPA’s Board of Directors, including William Christenberry, Gene Davis, Sherman Fleming, Sam Gilliam, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, and Maida Withers. Walter Hopps, the legendary curator, was also a board member. WPA has also brought hundreds of extraordinary artists and curators from outside the area to DC over the years. They include Robert Ashley, Alice Aycock, Eric Bogosian, Chris Burden, John Cage, Ullises Carrion, CoLab, Lucinda Childs, Simone Forti, Hollis Framp- ton, Group Material, Doug Hall, Deborah Hay, Jenny Holzer, David Ireland, Danny Lyon, Meredith Monk, Antonio Muntadas, Steve Paxton, Howardena Pin- dell, Adrian Piper, Nancy Rubins, Allison Saar, Jacoby Satterwhite, Carolee Schneemann, Joyce Scott, Alan Sekula, Nancy Spero, Haim Stainbach, Alan Su***de, Saya Woolfalk, Robert Wilson, among many others.
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