Events and Exhibits May 2024 (2024)

7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Glen Echo, MD
www.glenechophotoworks.org
Gallery Hours: Saturday 1-4 PM

So It Goes – April 6 – May 26
An exhibition featuring the work of students from four high schools in the DMV.

Painting With My Camera –
An online exhibit by Matt MakaraA McLean, VA-based photographer, Matt utilizes digital, film and historic photographic processes to capture the natural world.

Library of Congress

10 First St. SE
Washington, DC. 20540
https://www.loc.gov
Tues-Sat. 10 am – 5 pm

Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library, through Fall 2024
“Four hundred images from 1839 to the present day, selected from the library’s collection of 14 million photographs, trace the medium’s evolution from daguerreotypes to digital images with an emphasis on the range of subjects in the collection and moments in history described as glorious, gut-wrenching and more.”

Free-timed tickets are required to visit the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building. Visit the website to obtain tickets.

National Portrait Gallery

Eighth & G Streets
Washington, DC 20001
www.npg.si.edu
Mon-Sun. 11:30 am – 7:00 pm

Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age, by George Hurrell –
March 1 – January 5, 2025
The preeminent photographer created timeless images of Hollywood’s most glamorous icons of the 1930s and 1940s.

Duty, Honor, Country: Antebellum Portraits of West Pointers, through June 9, 2024
Showcases pre-Civil War photographs depicting notable people who trained at West Pont, including Ulysses S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, and “Stonewall” Jackson.

Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939 – April 26-Feb. 23, 2025
“Through portraiture and biography, “Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939” illuminates the accomplishments of sixty convention-defying women who crossed the Atlantic to pursue personal and professional aspirations in the vibrant cultural milieu of Paris. As foreigners in a cosmopolitan city, these “exiles” escaped the constraints that limited them at home.”

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

1050 Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC
Mon-Sun. 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
https://www.si.edu/museums/sackler-gallery

Park Chan-Kyong: Gathering – Oct. 7, 2023 – Oct. 13, 2024
Seoul-based artist, Park Chan-Kyong explores the complex history of modern Korea, tracing tradition, history, and disaster in contemporary society through his photographs.

200 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard
Richmond, Virginia USA 23220
365 days/year, Daily 10-5
W,Th,F – til 9:00
Free Admission
www.vmfamuseum.com

Willie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist – Oct. 2023 – June 9

“Presenting 63 photographs and 9 paintings by the Richmond native, born in 1924, this is the first major exhibition to explore the trajectory of her impressive 60-year career. From playful and irreverent scenes of everyday life to ethereal evocations of the past, Willie Anne Wright’s experimental paintings and photographs examine pop-culture, feminine identity, the pull of history and the shifting cultural landscape of the South. With a focus on photography’s role in shaping collective understandings of history, place, and gender, the exhibition draws from VMFA’s recent acquisition of Wright’s work, including more than 230 photographs and 10 paintings, as well as a comprehensive artist archive.”

Picture Windows: Photographs from the Collection – Feb. 2024 – July 28

“The exhibition explores the window as subject and device in 20th-cenutry photographs. Featured photographers include Imogen Cunningham, Lee Friedlander, O. Winston Link, Gordon Parks, John Pfahl, Ming Smith, Danny Lyon,Minor White, Garry Winogrand, Justin Kimball, Gordon Lee Bennett, Wynn Bullock, John Divola, Aaron Siskind, Alen MacWeeny, Mary Eleanor Browning, Morris Engel, and Joseph Breitenbach.”