Anacostia Arts Center and Homme Gallery Unite for Convergence – A Reckoning with the Decade So Far
Featuring Maeva Komenan, Nate G, Mariah Bonner, and Luis Del Valle
Presented by Anacostia Arts Center
July 10, 2026 to July 26 , 2025 | 2000 L St NW
Washington, DC, 6/26/2026 – Anacostia Arts Center and Homme Gallery present Convergence, a mid-summer exhibition that takes stock of the first half of a decade none of us anticipated. For Maeva Komenan, Nate G, Mariah Bonner, and Luis Del Valle, the past five years have brought the full weight of post-pandemic life: one artist navigated an ICE arrest, another crossed the stage for a master’s degree. These experiences live inside the work, and Convergence is where they surface. Convergence asks what it means to keep making art when life keeps interrupting it, and what that art looks like on the other side. Each of these four artists answers differently, but with the same clarity and resilience that defines this moment.
Convergence opens with a reception at Homme Gallery on July 10 and runs through July 26. The exhibition is part of the Anacostia Arts Center’s ongoing commitment to connected cultural experiences even as it undergoes renovation, activating spaces across the community, rooted in creativity, wellness, and collective care. Join us to meet the artists and experience work that has been hard-won. Homme Gallery is located at 2000 L St NW; gallery hours outside of scheduled events are by appointment only.
About Our Partner:
Homme DC began as an incubation at the Anacostia Arts Center, a origin that makes this partnership a natural homecoming. Now an expanding presence in the city, Homme DC is committed to showcasing local artists working across different mediums at various stages in their careers. From a single gallery on O St, the space has grown into Golden Triangle with a location at 2000 L St NW, and recently opened a new space on the third floor of Union Station. Gallery hours are by appointment only outside of scheduled events.
About the Artists:
Luis Del Valle is an award-winning visual artist, educator, and community leader known for his vibrant style and unwavering commitment to cultural empowerment through the arts. Luis’s work has been recognized with numerous honors, including the 2025 and 2024 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Award.
Mariah (YAA) Bonner is an interdisciplinary community abstract artist known for her explorations of media, film color, books, and the emotions connected to time, youth, and culture. By abstracting film-color and plots from literature she navigates the impact of media on her personal identity and exposes the threads of current events and storytelling as they reveal the connections they share.
Nate G. is a multi-disciplinary artist from Uptown, Washington DC. He was formerly educated at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, attended the CORCORAN, & various other art-study programs. Nate has been operating as a professional artist for the past 18 years. The influence of pop culture, hip hop, politics, & religion is heavily represented in his work. Nate uses a wide range of colors that he balances to create heavy contrast evoking certain temperaments in his art.
Maeva Komenan is a Maryland based multi disciplinary artist with a focus on Portraiture, photography, creative direction and storytelling. She was born in 1991 in cote d’Ivoire. She moved to the USA with her creative direction and storytelling. She was born in 1991 in cote d’Ivoire. She moved to the USA with her family when she was 12 years old as a political refugee, following the Ivorian civil war of 2004. Maeva quickly gravitated towards the Arts, specifically photography which has allowed her to tell her own stories and document others in an authentic way.
About the Anacostia Arts Center
The Anacostia Arts Center powered by WACIF is a home for the arts, culture, and small businesses, where the physical space is used to employ and nourish the local arts and creative economy. Within the Anacostia Arts Center, community members will find our Black Box Theater, gallery, retail, HIVE coworking space, meeting and event space.
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