Next month’s art happenings include a preview of next year’s blockbuster show, a doll-making workshop, and more.
Goddess of Letting Go (detail). Melissa Ichiuji (American University)
DOLLMAKING WORKSHOP @ Alper Initiative
In conjunction with her exhibit Make You Love Me, which closes at the American University Museum on December 18, artist Melissa Ichiuji will conduct a two-day doll making workshop called Guise and Dolls. “Participants will draw inspiration from personal history, memories, and desires, choose a theme for their portrait, and then learn basic techniques for building armatures and found objects to create a unique art doll.”
December 3 and 4 from 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. $185 fee includes materials and lunch for the two-day session. Register here.
OK Go (Courtesy of the Hirshhorn)
OK GO IN CONVERSATION @The Hirshhorn, December 9
December brings music to the museum with a band whose inventive music videos helped it earn an American Ingenuity Award in the Visual Arts from Smithsonian Magazine last year. On Friday, December 9 , the band will perform unplugged and chat about the art of music videos.
December 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hirshhorn’s Ring Auditorium. Free tickets will be released online Monday, Dec. 5 at 10 a.m. at hirshhorn.si.edu/bio/ok-go-conversation.
“Cock fight.” 2014. By Michaela Pilar Brown
THINGS GET LOST @Honfleur
Artist Michaela Pilar Brown uses collage to explore black female identity and family history. The exhibit “examines the collecting of heirloom objects as a means of identity construction and the building of personal, familial, and community history as counter-narrative to American history, re-centering black female subjectivity.”
December 9, 2016-January 28, 2017 at Honfleur Gallery, 1241 Good Hope Rd SE Free.
Yayoi Kusama’s “Pumpkin,” 1994. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore; Victoria Miro, London; David Zwirner, New York. © Yayoi Kusama
YAYOI KUSAMA’S PUMPKIN @ The Hirshhorn, December 10.
Get a sneak peek at what is sure to be next year’s blockbuster exhibit with the U.S. debut of Yayoi Kusama’s eight-foot high sculpture, which the Hirshhorn reckons would make 500 pies if it were real. The sculpture will be unveiled on December 10; stay tuned for the major Kusama retrospective Infinity Mirrors, which opens Feburary 23, 2017.
Pumpkin goes on view at the Hirshhorn’s outdoor plaza on December 10. Free
Suzanne Caporael, “Apalachicola, FLA,” 2003
SUZANNE CAPORAEL @Addison/Ripley
Addison/Ripley presents a small survey of prints and paintings by a New York-born, California-based artist who was awarded the National Endowment Grant in Painting in 1986. (As the gallery reports, she used the award money to buy a washer and dryer). Caporael’s work takes cues from nature, with flora and fauna transformed to create a fragile space that’s at once abstract and comfortingly familiar.
December 10-January 21 at Addison/Ripley, in Upper Georgetown at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Reservoir Road. Free. Opening reception December 10 from 5-7 p.m.
