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Women Artists of the DMV at The Writer's Center
2025-09-13 - 2025-12-05 | The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD, 20815, United States
The largest ever-curated fine arts multi-venue show in the U.S. comes this Fall to 16 art venues around the Greater Washington, DC capital region as curator Florencio Lennox Campello surveys over 400 female artists actively working around the DMV.
Locations:
Name Opening Reception Exhibition Dates
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC 29 Aug 25 29 Aug – 28 Sep, 2025
Artists & Makers, Rockville, MD 5 Sep & 3 Oct 25 4 Sep – 29 Oct, 2025
American University Museum at Katzen Center 6 Sep 25 6 Sep – 7 Dec, 2025
Adah Rose Gallery, Rockville, MD 7 Sep 25 7 Sep – 28 Sep, 2025
Universities at Shady Grove Priddy Library, Rockville, MD 11 Sep 25 11 Sep – 31 Oct, 2025
The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD 13 Sep 25 13 Sep – 5 Dec, 2025
Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Hyattsville, MD 13 Sep 25 13 Sep – 2 Nov, 2025
McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA 18 Sep 25 11 Sep – 1 Nov 2025
University of Maryland Library, College Park, MD 19 Sep 25 15 Sep – 23 Oct, 2025
Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD 19 Sep 25 11 Sep – 2 Nov, 2025
The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA 28 Sep 25 Sep 25 – Nov 2, 2025
Children’s National Hospital Gallery, Washington, DC TBA Sep 1 Sep – 9 Jan 2026
Strathmore Mansion, North Bethesda, MD 4 Oct 25 4 Oct – 8 Nov 2025
Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD 8 Oct 25 4 Oct – 18 Dec, 2025
Melissa Ichiuji Gallery, Front Royal, VA 18 Oct 25 18 Oct – 7 Dec, 2025
Nepenthe Gallery, Alexandria, VA TBA TBA
About the exhibitions: Featuring the work of over 400 women artists from the Greater Washington, DC capital region, this massive survey exhibition is curated by Florencio Lennox Campello, whose curatorial background includes over 200 exhibitions over the past four decades. “This region is not only home to some of the best art museums in the world, dozens of commercial art galleries, non-profit art spaces, alternative art venues, embassy art spaces, etc., but it also supports and fertilizes some of the most unique and creative visual art scenes in the nation,” notes Campello.

Shifting Frames by Mariah Gugel
2025-09-28 - 2025-10-26 | Waverly Street Gallery, 4600 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD, 20814, United States
Shifting Frames explores the fluidity of perception, where moments slip between clarity and obscurity, presence and disappearance. Figures, botanicals, and landscapes appear as if glimpsed in passing—fragmented, refracted, and reassembled through changing vantage points.
Light and shadow act as shifting thresholds, creating transparencies and overlays that blur the distinction between inside and outside, figure and ground, memory and immediacy. Repetition of form suggests rhythm and return, while the instability of perspective unsettles the eye, asking the viewer to pause in the ambiguity of what is seen.
These paintings dwell in the spaces between frames—the gaps where meaning flickers and dissolves, where the ordinary is transformed into something unfamiliar. In this unsettled terrain, stillness coexists with movement, and what emerges is less a fixed narrative than an unfolding encounter with perception itself.

Hauntings: The Art of the Macabre
2025-10-04 - 2025-11-08 | The Mansion at Strathmore
The galleries grow eerie with an artistic exploration of the macabre, paranormal, and things that go bump in the night.

Survivorship: Serenity by Felicia Reed & Selected Guest Artists
2025-10-09 - 2025-11-02 | Gallery B, 7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD, 20814, United States
Ms. Reed is an international award-winning fiber artist. Her primary medium is Wet Felting which is an ancient technique of hand agitation to create fabric primarily using silk and wool. She is a Speaker, Coach, Artist, Volunteer, Advocate, and a survivor of extreme domestic violence. Her mission work is to inspire healing with art, world changes and to support other survivors. Survivorship: Serenity is a show curated by Ms. Reed featuring her own works and those of other DC-area artists. For a full list of participating artists and events, please click the link below.

Songlines: Contemporary Aboriginal Masters
2025-10-09 - 2025-11-30 | Amy Kaslow Gallery, 7920 Norfolk Avenue, Bethesda, MD, 20814, United States
Across the vast and rugged expanses of Australia’s Central Desert, Aboriginal Peoples have long recorded their journeys with ritual songs. Over sandhills, along rock formations and salty lakes, in caves and on weathered sandstone mesas, women stop to take stock of their surroundings, to remember the land of their forebears, to honor their heritage. They are the dancers, singers and orators doing the critical work for their survival. Examining the earth’s floor all the way up to the galaxies, they assess their geographics, their water sources, what is edible, medicinal and forbidden of local plants and animals. Reveling in daylight travel and night constellations, their rhythm, their melodies are informed by a belief system that has coursed through time.
Painters have been essential in Aboriginal clans as they capture these ceremonies of song and movement by plotting symbols, landmarks and colors in meticulous mappings of past, present and future. The renderings are called “Dreamings,” and the lines, dots, circles, U-shapes, concentrics and rectangles depict age-old treks and current topography.
Our focus has been on Australia’s Central Desert, and this year we showcase the founders of Papunya’s modernist movements and some of their direct disciples. Giants among them are Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, two of the first Aboriginal artists to put acrylic on canvas and two Chairmans of the Papunya Tula Artists. Possum’s strikingly detailed Dreamings enlivened generations to come. Tolson’s mesmerizing mix of color and form transcends the Central Desert with an unmistakably mid-century feel.
They mentored (and in some instances, parented) leading painters featured on our walls, We are proud to feature ​ Bambatu Campbell Napangardi’s woven ​paint, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi’s vivid perspective, Julie Nangala’s sinuous waterflow, Betty Mbitjana’s bold body design, William Sandy’s​ desert wildlife tracks; Nellie Marks Nakamarra’s​ balance of ​earth’s richest tones, and Timmy Payungka Tjapangati’s maze-like reductionist work.
