Daria Grayer’s excellent image “Stalemate” (a 2010 DCist Exposed winner) will be featured in ‘Portraits of D.C.’ opening next Tuesday.

>> Next Tuesday visit Social in Columbia Heights for the opening of Portraits of D.C., the result of a contest sponsored by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, FotoWeek DC and the D.C. Counts Campaign. There are 51 “faces of the District,” a number representative of D.C.’s attempt for statehood. See the work, including portraits by some of DCist’s regular Flickr contributors like Joshua Yospyn, Jim Darling, and Daria Grayer, at the reception, 7 p.m.

>> DCist is proud to be a media sponsor for Critical Exposure’s 5 Years, 5000 Images: A Celebration and Retrospective, opening Thursday at Edison Place Gallery. The exhibit features the organization’s first half-decade of work, which is focused on teaching D.C. area students photography and how to use it to document situations and create change — in particular on the state of the school system. Reception is 6 to 8:30 p.m., suggested donation of $35 to support Critical Exposure’s efforts.

>> See Mike Weber’s very different kind of portraits at Long View Gallery. In Identify, he creates digital copies of vintage photographs, “symbolically reinventing the life stories of his unknown or forgotten subjects,” adding paint and collage to emphasize details. Reception Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., featuring a live jazz quartet. Free but rsvp to info@longviewgallery.com or 202.232.4788.

>> Project 4 opens an exhibit with the work of two artists. Tricia Keightley’s paintings are a kind of fantasy-world engineering schematics, while the vivid color schemes in Jenn Figg’s sculptures complement the exhibit. Saturday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.