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Check out this Latin American Art show in Anacostia for Hispanic Heritage Month
The Anacostia Arts Center is hosting an inspiring show honoring Latin American arts and culture called Love, Hope, & Art: Woven Thread. Watch Video Here
Read MoreMayor Bowser Awards Nearly $4 Million Grant to Anacostia BID for New Arts and Culture District
Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) provided a nearly $4 million grant to the Anacostia Business Improvement District (BID) to support the…
Read MoreFourteenth Annual East Of The River Show, Opens June 12
Celebrate the greatness of Ward 7 and 8 based artists with us all summer! ARCH Development (Anacostia Arts Center, The HIVE 2.0, Honfleur Gallery) and the Black Artists of DC…
Read MoreSharon Hughes Gautier
It is with a heavy heart that the ARCH Family announces the death of one of its founders. Sharon Hughes Gautier who died on January 7th after a short, but…
Read More“This Anacostia coworking venue is full. Here’s how it is weathering the pandemic.” Via Washington Business Journal
The Hive 2.0, a hybrid coworking space, theater and retail hub in D.C.’s Ward 8 is full — despite the vast economic damage wrought by Covid-19. “We found that amazing…
Read MoreWe’re In The News!
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! We are so excited and humbly honored to be listed on The New York Times Five Places to Visit in Washington, D.C. With a Black Digital…
Read MoreReview: ‘Guerrilla Theater Works 3: A New Nation’ by Convergence Theatre
The overarching point of the Convergence theater piece is that there isn’t any “they.” There are individual people, all with names, dreams, hopes, fears, and children of their own. Using…
Read MoreNubian Hueman wins City Paper Award Best Manifestation of Black Excellence
With Nubian Hueman, owner Anika Hobbs has created something of a safe haven, a space in which black people can celebrate Pan-Africanism and the global reach of their blackness, and…
Read MoreAAC Resident Theatre Factory 449 wins TWO Helen Hayes Awards
Anacostia Arts Center is so proud of our resident theatre company Factory 449 on winning TWO awards for Lela & Co! See all the award recipients here.
Read MoreMahoganyBooks featured in Vanity Fair
“Culture and community have always been who we are,” says Ramunda Young, one half of the couple behind the beloved 11-year-old online retailer Mahogany Books, which opened its first brick-and-mortar…
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