The Washington Post reviews Better Homes and Gardens

By Erik Cochran | November 12, 2016

Paper is gradually taking two divergent forms in “Better Homes and Gardens,” Becky Borlan’s in-process show at Vivid Solutions Gallery. The artist is planting the ceiling and walls with hanging foliage, an expanding forest to surround a community of small houses. The latter are folded from squares of brightly colored paper on which visitors have…

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GHOST TECH Special Event

By Erik Cochran | October 25, 2016

Artist Philip McGaughy has put together an evening of performances that celebrates the communities surrounding the Anacostia River as an extension of his exhibition GHOST TECH. In the Anacostia Arts Center’s Black Box Theater, folk and blues singer Oma Pearl will create a mash-up performance with Go-Go percussionists Heartbeat and Brandon Finley. Plus DJ Harry…

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Anacostia Arts Center Welcomes Internationally Recognized Performer Jen Shyu November 4-5

By Erik Cochran | October 12, 2016

Photo by Steven Schreiber (Washington, DC) Anacostia Arts Center is thrilled to bring experimental vocalist-composer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and producer Jen Shyu to Washington, DC for a performance of Solo Rites: Seven Breaths and her intermedia improvisation workshop You Are Everything. These events are offered FREE and open to the public and made possible in through…

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Cheap Thrills: 50+ DMV Artists, 90+ Pieces, Everything $500 Or LESS

By Erik Cochran | September 1, 2016

Inside by Lyric Prince Anacostia Arts Center and Molly Ruppert present the return of Cheap Thrills, a group show of over 50 artists from the DC Metropolitan Area that will exhibit varied works all priced at $500 or less. The exhibition will include established artists and first-time exhibitors as well as a diverse range of…

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