Honfleur Gallery

07/10/2024

OPENING THURSDAY AT 7PM! Honfleur Gallery proudly presents the first part of the “Building Me a Home” exhibition series, curated by Melani N. Douglass. This compelling exhibition, “HOME/MADE : FLESH/BONE,” will run from July 11 to August 17, 2024, and focuses on the deeply personal and internal aspects of what it means to call a place home.

The “Building Me a Home” series is a profound exploration of the multifaceted concept of home. This ambitious project unfolds in three parts, delving into the internal home we carry within us, the communal and physical home we share, and the global home that connects us all. Each part of the series not only showcases art but also engages the community in meaningful dialogues about our relationship with home, the impacts of displacement, and the fundamental question of whether home is a right.

06/17/2024

🎨THIS SATURDAY AT HONFLEUR! Join John Johnson and the Playback players as they explore how art changes and enriches us. Also, participate in an art activity that can be done at your kitchen table! Adele Robey and Melani N. Douglas will lead a jewelry-making class and discuss the importance of making art at home. Brought to you by the Valley Place Arts Collaborative!

Tickets are $10.
Scan the code to purchase or visit bit.ly/ArtAroundTheTable (link in bio)

06/17/2024

💬YOU’RE INVITED to an artist talk hosted by auxilium continuum: reframing curator Marta Lola Staudinger and Honfleur Gallery. This talk will feature exhibition artists Ceci Cole McInturff, Rania Hassan, Jean Jinho Kim, Leah Lewis, and Nicole Salimbene. Bring your love for the arts and questions about the creative process for what will be an engaging and entertaining dialogue.

This event is free and will be held via Zoom!

RSVP to receive the Zoom link.
Link in bio.

Learn more about this exhibit and artists at www.honfleurgallerydc.com

06/14/2024

💲💲💲 MONEY, MONEY, MONEY! Are you an artist or organization looking to fund art projects in Washington, DC? Are you interested in learning about grants but need help figuring out where to start?

On Thursday, June 20th, 6:30pm - 9:00pm at Honfleur Gallery, join the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Community Engagement Specialist Dwayne Lawson-Brown and staff to learn about CAH's grants and receive first-hand accounts of the grant process from successful grantees!

Free event!
RSVP at bit.ly/CAHgrantsmixer

06/14/2024

⚡️GALLERY ARTWORK FOR SALE - Take home an original piece from our current exhibit, auxilium continuum: reframing curated by Marta Lola Staudinger and featuring artists Ceci Cole Mcinturff, Rania Hassan, Jean Jinho Kim, Leah Lewis, and Nicole Salimbene. On display now through June 29, 2024. Online Artist Talk June 26 at 1pm. Visit honfleurgallerydc.com to RSVP. Show Catalog: https://bit.ly/auxiliumPRICELIST

Inquiries should be sent to [email protected] or call (202) 631-6291.

06/14/2024

⭐️NEON ART SALE! Craig Kraft Studio in Anacostia has four art pieces available for sale. Craig Kraft is a neon art light sculptor, considered one of the world’s leading artists in the field. Don't miss your opportunity to own your own piece of original art!

Arrows coming and going.

"Here is the combination of an ancient cave arrow combined with a contemporary directional arrow."

Size: 17 W x 6 1/2 H x 3 D
Price: $ 900 usd

06/14/2024

⭐️NEON ART SALE! Craig Kraft Studio in Anacostia has four art pieces available for sale. Craig Kraft is a neon art light sculptor, considered one of the world’s leading artists in the field. Don't miss your opportunity to own your own piece of original art!

Hold On

'“Hold on” was originally a copper body cast of hands and wrists in a grip. This piece, in neon, represented a classic pose of one hand grasping the other by the wrists.'

Size: 17 W x 6 1/2 H x 3 D
Price: $ 800 usd

06/14/2024

⭐️NEON ART SALE! Craig Kraft Studio in Anacostia has four art pieces available for sale. Craig Kraft is a neon art light sculptor, considered one of the world’s leading artists in the field. Don't miss your opportunity to own your own piece of original art!

Ancient and Contemporary Symbols Combined.

"The combined images of the ubiquitous ancient cave symbol and the contemporary "at" sign."

Materials: Neon , canvas, wood
Size :17" H x 41" W x 4" D
Price: $1500 usd

06/14/2024

⭐️NEON ART SALE! Craig Kraft Studio in Anacostia has four art pieces available for sale. Craig Kraft is a neon art light sculptor, considered one of the world’s leading artists in the field. Don't miss your opportunity to own your own piece of original art!

Damaged Spirit of the African Elephant

"This artwork is my attempt to capture the damaged spirit of the African elephant reflecting the tens of thousands of elephants who are killed every year for their ivory tusks, a selfish act of horrific cruelty."

Materials: Blue Neon tube, wood
Size : 30" W x 32" H 21" D
Price: $ 3500 usd + installation cost.

06/12/2024

MAY 31, 2024 IN PICTURES - auxilium continuum: reframing Opening Reception at Honfleur Gallery. Photos courtesy of Albert Ting.

Curated by Marta Lola Staudinger, auxilium continuum: reframing is both a seed and a field study. It initiates dialogue around under-investigated aspects of feminine energy (creation, intuition, fluidity) in the arts marketplace by gifting the participating artists time, space, and financial compensation to create freely. As a result, with deep reverence for practice and process, artists Ceci Cole Mcinturff, Rania Hassan, Jean Jinho Kim, Leah Lewis and Nicole Salimbene respond using a variety of media to present individual expressions of current needs and/or themes in their practices.

Join us on June 26 at 1 pm for the free Artist Talk via Zoom!
Signup for the link at https://bit.ly/June26ArtistTalk

06/05/2024

🙌 Great things happen here!
auxilium continuum: reframing now showing on the mainfloor through June 29th. Curated by !

Head up to the 2nd floor for retail therapy courtesy of Nīche by ! “A cypher house + curated showroom of Black & Brown goods, intimate, & perfectly suited for a unique taste.”

Thurs - Sat, 12 - 5pm
or by appointment.
1241 Marion Barry Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20020

05/27/2024

CAH Employment Opportunity:
Grants Management Specialist

Application Deadline:
Friday, May 31, 2024

The purpose of this position is to perform a wide variety of duties related to the development and implementation of grants procedures.

dcarts.dc.gov/node/1726866

05/26/2024

👋🏾NOW SHOWING UNTIL JUNE 29
Curated by Marta Lola Staudinger, auxilium continuum: reframing is both a seed and a field study. It initiates dialogue around under-investigated aspects of feminine energy (creation, intuition, fluidity) in the arts marketplace by gifting the participating artists time, space, and financial compensation to create freely. As a result, with deep reverence for practice and process, artists Ceci Cole McInturff, Rania Hassan, Jean Jinho Kim, Leah Lewis and Nicole Salimbene respond using a variety of media to present individual expressions of current needs and/or themes in their practices.

Reception: May 31st 7-9pm

05/26/2024

ATTENTION CREATIVES! Wordplay is a monthly event for creatives who wish to test excerpts of their work in front of a live audience. It is open to artists of all kinds: theater makers, poets, comics, writers, musicians, filmmakers, etc. The only criterion is that it is your original work. There will be an online signup sheet open to all. Each artist will be given up to 15 minutes to share whatever they are working on.

It is free to the public!
The next Wordplay will be on Monday, June 17, at 7pm
Sign up at bit.ly/WorldplayJune17

05/23/2024

FRIDAY, MAY 31ST AT 7PM! Honfleur Gallery invites you to join us for the opening reception for auxilium continuum: reframing, a group exhibition (re)constructing support as a fluid and matriarchal practice that relies on collaboration and generativity. Enjoy an evening of art, community, and complimentary refreshments. This event is free and open to the public!

RSVP:

Enjoy an evening of art, community, and complimentary refreshments. This event is free and open to the public!

05/17/2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 17, 2024

auxilium continuum: reframing
May 16 - June 29, 2024
Reception: May 31st 7-9pm

Honfleur Gallery presents auxilium continuum: reframing, a group exhibition (re)constructing support as a fluid and matriarchal practice that relies on collaboration and generativity.

For this exhibition, five contemporary women-identifying artists practicing in the greater Washington DC area were each provided stipends to create an artwork of their choosing – without any creative, conceptual, or practical limitations – in exchange for their participation in unfiltered conversations about their experiences with support (and lack thereof), inequality, and discrimination in their art careers, and how they imagine/desire art spaces and publics to evolve in the future.

Curated by Marta Lola Staudinger, auxilium continuum: reframing is both a seed and a field study. It initiates dialogue around under-investigated aspects of feminine energy (creation, intuition, fluidity) in the arts marketplace by gifting the participating artists time, space, and financial compensation to create freely. As a result, with deep reverence for practice and process, artists Ceci Cole McInturff, Rania Hassan, Jean Jinho Kim, Leah Lewis and Nicole Salimbene respond using a variety of media to present individual expressions of current needs and/or themes in their practices.

Concepts that intersect across the artists’ artworks and the exhibition’s composite offering include radical unity, hospitality, nourishment and collective care, rest and regeneration, matriarchs and mother lines, traditions of craft (predominantly created by women), resilience, women gathering, exchange, and the need for boundaries and protection.

This exhibition is sponsored by the 2023 Honfleur Women in Arts Program Curator Grant and Arch Development.

auxilium continuum: reframing curated by Marta Lola Staudinger is on display at Honfleur Gallery May 16 - June 29, 2024. Located at 1241 Marion Barry Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020. Open Thursday- Saturday from noon to 5 pm or by appointment. A public reception will be held for the artists on Friday, May 31st from 7-9 pm. An artist and curator talk will be scheduled; date/time TBD. Press inquiries should be directed to [email protected]. Inquiries for art purchases should be directed to [email protected].

05/13/2024

🏆First Place
Prize $2000
An Ordinary Guy
David J. Stern

As an independent filmmaker, he wrote, directed, produced, and edited over a dozen short films and documentaries. David has taught film production to high school students at Imagination Stage, to college students at George Washington University. At Imagination Stage, David is currently the Director of Digital Media where he not only developed the film curriculum, but also produces, directs, and edits video content from promos to specialty projects. David attended New York University’s film program.

Synopsis: When Guy dies of a heart attack, death’s es**rt shows up to take him to the after-life. But the tables turn as they both realize that their lives have been meaningless and inconsequential. Both find an unexpected path to redemption.

05/13/2024

🏆 Second Place
Prize $1,000
Interception: Jayne Kennedy • American Sportscaster
Safiyah Songhai

A Howard University graduate, Safiya Songhai is an African-American film director, screenwriter, editor and producer. She trained with highly acclaimed Sankofa director Haile Gerima, playwright Ntozake Shange author of’For Colored Girls, and Legendary director and Oscar-winner, Spike Lee. Her film Ladylike is one of the first film credits of the late Chadwick Boseman Black Panther.

Songhai is also a college professor, television broadcast journalist, voice-over artist and former CNN commentator.

Synopsis: When a bronze-skin bombshell rocks the world of Sunday Morning Football, millions tune in... but few know the tumultuous story of Jayne Kennedy, the first Black woman to boldly tackle the racial lines of American sportscasting.

05/13/2024

🏆 Third Place, Prize $500
My Brother is Deaf
Peter Hoffman Kimball

Peter Hoffman Kimball is an award-winning screenwriter and director and, as the father of a deaf child, an advocate for d/Deaf representation. His 2023 film Millstone won Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival and has gone on to play at many major film festivals and has qualified for Academy Award consideration. His many films have screened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and such prominent film festivals as Slamdance, Festival REGARD, Cleveland, and Show Me Shorts (NZ). A graduate of Brown University, he is currently based in Washington, DC.

Synopsis: A short documentary about a boy whose family learns that his younger brother is deaf. They try their best to learn what it means to be deaf and how best to get to know him.

05/13/2024

Audience Favorite
Unsilencing Their Voices
Jayla E. Felder

Jayla E. Felder is a native of Maryland, and a recent graduate of The New School, where she received her BFA. During her schooling and community service she was introduced to Voices for a Second Chance (VSC), one of the oldest non-profit agencies in Washington, DC that provides vital services to returning citizens and justice-involved individuals and where she now works full-time. She serves as the Program Manager and has been granted the opportunity to help develop new programming, marketing and development materials, as well as initiatives for client services. She also works to help raise community- based awareness about the mission of VSC. She has a dual passion for theater and social services and her dedication to both fields inspired her to merge the two and, develop this documentary film short.

05/13/2024

🏆 AND THE WINNERS ARE... Valley Place Arts Collaborative, a producing and presenting non-profit project in support of Ward 7 and Ward 8 artists and creative projects, is pleased to announce the winners of the first Anacostia Shorts Film Festival.

In partnership with Open Road Arts Film Festival and Lisa Hodsoll, and with the major support of ARCH Development, Valley Place Arts Collaborative hosted “Anacostia Shorts,” a special category and contest for Anacostia filmmakers and/or stories rooted in this historic DC community.

There was a three-day event to honor the filmmakers where the top 10 entrants were screened live on May 4 and 5, 2024, and via YouTube on May 6, 2024, when the honorable mentions were also screened. The live events took place at Historic Anacostia’s Honfleur Gallery.

The top three winners of the Anacostia Shorts Festival, which carried cash prizes were:

First Place, Prize $2,000
An Ordinary Guy
David J. Stern

Second Place, Prize $1,000
Interception: Jayne Kennedy • American Sportscaster
Safiyah Songhai

Third Place, Prize $500
My Brother is Deaf
Peter Hoffman Kimball

Audience Favorite
Unsilencing Their Voices
Jayla E. Felder

05/10/2024

MONDAY AT HONFLEUR! Wordplay is a monthly event for creatives who wish to test excerpts of their work in front of a live audience. It is open to artists of all kinds: theater makers, poets, comics, writers, musicians, filmmakers, etc. The only criterion is that it is your original work. There will be an online signup sheet open to all. Each artist will be given up to 15 minutes to share whatever they are working on. It is free to the public, and we welcome enthusiastic supporters!

The next Wordplay will be on Monday, May 13, at 7pm
Honfleur Gallery, 1241 Marion Barry Ave., SE 20020

Wordplay is a collaborative initiative by Open Road, Valley Place Arts Collaborative, and ARCH Development, all 501(c)3 non-profit arts organizations. We welcome donations to support this project.

To sign up for a time slot in advance, visit bit.ly/May13Wordplay or show up and join the waitlist!

05/04/2024

NEW SHOW ALERT! Woven Identities Art Exhibit by Luis Del Valle at Honfleur Gallery (main level)
Saturday, May 4th ; 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Presenting an open gallery of Luis Del Valle’s curated collection featuring his favorite pieces. Free admission! On display through May 13, 2024.

Honfleur Gallery
1241 Marion Barry Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20020
honfleurgallerydc.com

05/03/2024

THIS WEEKEND! Open Road Film Festival and the 2nd Annual Anacostia Shorts Film Contest will host screenings of this year's selections at Honfleur Gallery on May 4-5. Virtual Screenings will be held on May 6th! Screenings start at 6 p.m., and prizes will be given out at the end of the evening on May 5. In-person screening tickets are $15/night, and the virtual screening is $10.

For a list of all the films and to purchase tickets visit https://filmfreeway.com/AnOpenRoadFilmFestival/tickets

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS will be shown each day of the festival. HONORABLE MENTION films will only be shown online.

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:
"Interception: Jayne Kennedy American Sportscaster" directed by Safiya Songhai
"Incontri" directed by Chiara Becattini
"My Brother is Deaf" directed by Peter Hoffman Kimball
"Flight of the Crows" directed by Lisa Hodsoll
"Unsilencing Their Voices" directed by Jayla E Felder
"Cancion Palentina" directed by Dante Schmitz
"Holding Ground" directed by Gal Karmona
"Gears & Dunes" directed by Mário Bock
"An Ordinary Guy" directed by David J. Stern

05/03/2024

SEE YOU SATURDAY! Attending the ANACOSTIA RIVER FESTIVAL and SpringTime in Anacostia? Be sure to stop by Honfleur Gallery for a full day and night of events! Doors open at 12pm for the Woven Identities Art Exhibit by Luis Del Valle and the Nīche by Nubian Hueman Soft Opening. Free admission!

Followed by the Open Road Film Festival opening screenings, 6-8:30pm. The film festival runs through May 6th. Winners will be announced on May 5th. Tickets are $15/night for in-person screenings and $10 for the virtual screenings on May 6th.

05/01/2024

THIS SATURDAY AT HONFLEUR!
Nīche by Nubian Hueman Soft Opening
Saturday, May 4th
12:00pm - 5:00pm
Honfleur Gallery- Upper Level
A pop-up showroom, intimate, perfectly-sized, and suited for a unique taste of Black-owned and Brown-owned brands. Free gifts for guests and SpringTime refreshments served.

04/29/2024

TONIGHT AT 7PM IN ANACOSTIA! A special one-night-only event at Honfleur Gallery featuring Clayton LeBouef!

You may know him as an actor, but did you know Clayton LeBouef was also a deejay, a broadcaster, and a substance abuse counselor during his wildly innovative and entertaining career path? From Law and Order (including SVU and Criminal Intent), The Wire, Homicide Life on the Street, to the acting company of Arena Stage, and appearances on other stages too numerous to list, Clayton has done it all.

He is a playwright, a director, a filmmaker, and, most importantly, a storyteller with deep roots in DC (wait until you hear those stories!).

Don't miss the unique opportunity to hear him share his captivating stories for one night only.

Tickets still available: bit.ly/HonfleurLeBouefTalk

04/13/2024

Amelie Haden’s latest exhibition, Laying Bare, running from April 4 to May 3, 2024, serves as a thought-provoking journey into the complexities of gender identity and societal expectations. According to the artist, “Laying Bare” is not a condemnation of stereotypes, but rather an invitation to acknowledge and coexist with them openly.

Artist Talk: May 3 at 7pm

Gallery Hours: Thursday to Saturday 12pm-5pm

04/13/2024

TICKETS NOW ON SALE! Clayton LeBouef: An Evening of Stories of Life at Honfleur Gallery in Washington, DC. For tickets, visit https://bit.ly/HonfleurLeBouefTalk

You may know him as an actor, but did you know Clayton LeBouef was also a deejay, a broadcaster, and a substance abuse counselor during his wildly innovative and entertaining career path? From Law and Order (including SVU and Criminal Intent), The Wire, Homicide Life on the Street, to the acting company of Arena Stage, and appearances on other stages too numerous to list, Clayton has done it all.

He is a playwright, a director, a filmmaker, and, most importantly, a storyteller with deep roots in DC (wait until you hear those stories!).

Don't miss the unique opportunity to hear him share his captivating stories for one night only. This is an event that you, as a fan of Clayton or a storytelling enthusiast, simply cannot afford to miss.

From Homicide to Law Order to the Wire and everywhere in between. Clayton shares stories from a lifetime of performances and more.