Including the timeline for implementation and details on the new loans program.
“Everyone was just debating … ‘I need the money, but I can’t sign that.'”
The unveiling is slated for Barry’s birthday, which is March 6.
A month of events kicks off on August 31, including two music festivals and other ways to showcase local artists, creators, and entrepreneurs.
The effort is modeled on Metro’s public information campaign.
Citing a profitable run, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities announced it is extending The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo at the Lincoln Theatre.
It was a rough year for government support of the arts in 2011. Federal and local governments scaled back their funding, in some cases forcing cultural institutions to make significant programming cuts.
Image of window displays by Zoma Wallace, courtesy DCCAH With a small bit of fanfare, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities unveiled a public art project at the Convention Center this week. This “pop-up” gallery transforms empty retail, window and display space at the Convention Center into works of art. Windows into DC highlights 14 area artists, three of whom are based in the Shaw…
Greater Greater Washington has been following the selection process for a planned public art installation that’s going in at the northeast corner of 18th and Columbia Road for at least a few months now, so we tip our hats to them for first drawing our attention to it. Despite the call for artists having been initiated over a year ago, a list of semi-finalists having been selected back in March, a community survey posted online…
Chinatown’s famed Friendship Arch got a bit of a sprucing up this summer, and today city officials gathered to formally reintroduce the landmark. The arch had been covered by scaffolding until recently while construction finished up, so we’re relieved to see the work that’s been done more or less kept the structure exactly as it was. The restoration of the 23-year-old arch was performed by the original designer and architects, Alfred Liu and AEPA Architects…