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Thank you for beautiful evening with these local artists! This cohort all have a material exploration with textiles. Great techniques, creative exercises and professional tips were shared.

The goal of is to provide an intimate space for generous feedback, resource sharing, and networking. We look to connect peers with members of the boarder arts ecosystem. Stay tuned for the next call for artists!

Next Saturday: INTERLUDE Open Galleries

Meet us at the for a special Open Gallery event next weekend featuring exhibition viewing and talks with STABLE artists Gail Shaw Clemons, Leigh Davis, K. Lorriane Graham, Leah Lewis, Katherine Mann, Matthew Mann, Molly Springfield, and Andy Yoder.

NOTE: Parking is limited; ride sharing is highly recommended.

Meet Our Open Forum Facilitator: Derek Fordjour ()

If you are a D.C. based visual artist seeking feedback, support and sharing of ideas within an intimate community, join us as part of the next Open Forum cohort.

Click the link in our bio to apply by Sunday, February 26.

Open Forum is back with Derek Fordjour ()!

We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for our next Open Forum cohort facilitated by mixed-media artist Derek Fordjour.

If you are a D.C. based visual artist seeking feedback, support and sharing of ideas within an intimate community, Open Forum is perfect for you.

Click the link in our bio to apply by Sunday, February 26.

and present INTERLUDE, an exhibition featuring fifteen artists of the STABLE studios whose works are in conversation with the museum's permanent collection. The exhibition spans media, engaging theories of color composition and spirituality, and broadening definitions of cultural iconography, portraiture, landscape, and performance. 

INTERLUDE expresses the poetics of relation as these artists work with common aesthetic and conceptual interests, reflecting and responding to precious environments of modernity. These artists meet through their approaches and applications to mirror, respond to, and complement each other. This interlude is the moment in-between collective past and future and the present moment of the artist's practice. 

Artists: , , , .doud, , , , , , ,  , ,

Curated by STABLE, Executive Director, Maleke Glee ().

We are elated to announce the sale of “Very Special" by artist Larry Cook (). This edition of 12 archival prints with rhinestone embellishment continue the material and conceptual exploration presented in our recent exhibition “Tradewinds.” The works are available via our website Tuesday, November 15. All proceeds support the continuation of the Nexus Residency.

Learn more about The Nexus Residency at the link in bio!
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Very Special
Archival Print with rhinestones
9 x 6.8 inches
2022
Edition of 12

Applications Closing Soon!

We invite artists of all mediums to apply to partcipate in Open Forum: Chasing Lucidity facilitated by Erika Ranee (). This program aims to engage artists in discussion around keeping the creative floodgates open throughout one’s practice, from sourcing inspiration to crafting a piece.

Apply by Nov. 7 using the link in our bio!

Open Forum is back with Erika Ranee!

Facilitated by Erika Ranee (), Chasing Lucidity, invites artists of all mediums to engage in discussion around keeping the creative floodgates open throughout one’s practice, from sourcing inspiration to crafting a piece.

Open Forum is a facilitated dialogue for artists to share ideas + works in progress. An artist cohort will be selected by our guest facilitator for this intimate gathering of ideas, feedback, and support.

RSVP at the link in our bio!

Join us Saturday 10/22 for special gallery hours and an interactive workshop!

Open Process: Tradewinds 1-3p
Extended Gallery Hours: 3-6p

In the Open Process interactive workshop, exhibiting collaborators Larry Cook () and Allie Martin () invite participants to learn more about their process. Larry will take photos of the participants and they will bedazzle their photos using crystals, similar to the process of the multimedia works in the exhibition. Allie invites participants to tell stories of their experience with Go-Go and city sounds, these voices will be projected onto the wall like Go-Go music that permeates and projections onto the city’s streets.

RSVP at the link in our bio!

“Tradewinds” is a portrait of the city, albeit one that viewers might not recognize at first glance as portraiture.

Thank you / for the stellar review! We are in great company alongside our friends , and presenting Black Portraiture this Fall.

Stay tuned for details of our forthcoming public program for Tradewinds.

On view each Friday 12-6p through November 4!

📸: Gregory R. Staley

The Club Is The City Is The Club 🌆

We are excited to announce our next exhibition: Tradewinds. This exhibition is the culmination of the Nexus Residency wherein photographer Larry Cook () and ethnomusicologist Allie Martin () worked in tandem to meld their practices, presenting a unified body of new works.

Tradewinds approaches DC’s Go-Go music club culture from dual angles of photography and soundscape, mirroring and expanding the essential light and sound of club aesthetics as a mode of community archival practice.

Join us on September 30 @ 6p for the opening reception! Link in bio.

Are you sketching with us? ✏️

Join us this Saturday for a drawing session for artists of all abilities facilitated by STABLE resident artist Leah Lewis featuring drawing games, experimentation, and pose challenges. Meet new artists, stretch your imagination, and try your hand at various techniques.

BYOS (bring your own supplies) is encouraged.

RSVP at the link in our bio!

4 Days Left To Apply for Open Forum!

Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of our inaugural cohort for Open Forum: Black Q***r Experience, Aesthetics and Personhood facilaited by . Open Forum is an intimate gathering of thought partnership and feedback on works in progress. A three artist cohort will be selected for participation by our guest facilitator.

DC-based artists engaging Black Q***r experience, aesthetics, and personhood are encouraged to apply. Please see the link in bio.

Introducing Open Forum: Black Q***r Experience, Aesthetics and Personhood!

STABLE is pleased to announce a new program, Open Forum, a series of facilitated dialogues for artists to share ideas and works in progress. The inaugural iteration of Open Forum will feature facilitator who will select a three artist cohort for this intimate gathering of ideas, feedback, and support. Head to the link in our bio to learn more and apply by Monday, September 12 by 11:59p.

DC-based artists engaging Black Q***r experience, aesthetics, and personhood are encouraged to apply.

Head to the link in our bio!

Don’t miss Larry and Allie in the Studio! 🗓️

Join us on Saturday, July 30 at 1 p.m. for a special open studio previewing works in progress by inaugural Nexus Residents, photographer Larry Cook and ethnomusicologist Allie Martin. Pop in to learn about their practice, and the forthcoming project that will be unveiled this fall.

STABLE’s Nexus Residency is a collaborative venture between two artist-scholars with a shared vested interest. This duo shares our gallery space as a studio space for three months to produce a new body of work.

RSVP at the link in our bio!

📸: Work In Progress by Larry Cook ().

Rainy day at the studio 🌧

caught up with , .gates and for a rainy day studio tour. The last slide, featuring works from the kids of the third floor studios is the cherry on top of a sweet and dreary day.

What did you create today?

COMING SOON: PeerSpace 💻

Are you a screen-based creator? The new co-working space at STABLE, PeerSpace, is for you! PeerSpace is an environment for community, conversation, and creativity. This Fall, we look to welcome a cohort of 10 members comprised of graphic designers, art advisors, freelance arts administrators, writers, and all other members of the arts ecosystem who do not require private studio space nor have a visual art practice. We aim to connect artists to the arts administration, business, and academic community.

Applications open August 1, and selected members shall be notified in late August.

Join us for a special preview of works in progress by inaugural Nexus Residents, photographer Larry Cook and ethnomusicologist Allie Martin. Learn about their practice, and the forthcoming project that will open this fall.

STABLE’s Nexus Residency is a collaborative venture between two artist-scholars with a shared vested interest. This duo shares our gallery space as a studio space for three months to produce a new body of work. The Nexus Residency seeks to avail new modes of making and thinking about one’s practice, and its involvement with the public. The residency seeks to produce works at new scale for the duo, expanding their practice.

RSVP at the link in our bio!

Meet the Nexus Resident: Larry Cook 📸

“My residency will consist of making new work and a site-specific installation that engages with club photography and go-go aesthetics.”

Larry Cook (b.1986, Silver Spring, MD) is a conceptual artist working across photography, video, and installation. Based in Washington, DC, Cook received his MFA from George Washington University and his BA in Photography from SUNY Plattsburgh. Cook has exhibited his work nationally at the Kemper Art Museum, MoMA PS1, the National Portrait Gallery, and internationally at Schiefe Zähne in Germany and the 2022 Venice Biennial Art in Venice, Italy.

His work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museums, Baltimore Museum of Art, and other institutions. Cook has held artists-in-residences at Light Work and The Nicholson Project, among others. He was recently commissioned by the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art for the exhibition, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration. Cook is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Howard University.

Now Available: Works on Paper 📄🎨

The STABLE artists have shared an 11” x 14” sketchbook, producing new, original works on paper. This invitation encouraged an exploration of new mediums and scale for the majority of the group. These works express an aptitude for effort; for exploration of both emblematic and emerging facets of individual practice.

These works support the development of WKSP [workshop.] WKSP is our space for artist-led classes, intimate discussions, and ultimately a resource-sharing mechanism in the D.C. arts community.

Head to the link in our bio to purchase today!

Next Up: NEXUS 🖇

We’re elated to announce the Nexus Residency, a collaborative venture between two artist-scholars with a shared vested interest. During the summer months, the collaborators share our gallery space as a studio space to produce a new body of work, prioritizing new, larger scales and materials. The Nexus Residency seeks to avail new modes of making and thinking about one’s practice, and its involvement with the public.

Join us in welcoming the inaugural residents, photographer Larry Cook () and ethnomusicologist Allie Martin who will collaborate on an installation with their interest in club aesthetics and local community based archival practices as a connective thread.

STABLE welcomes to our studios! Coming to us from Dublin, Ireland by way of Norman Houston Project of which STABLE sat as a juror for the travel residency. More below and to come! 💥
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The Norman Houston Project is a new project initiated by Solas Nua in Washington D.C., dedicated to the memory of Norman Houston, the former Director of the Northern Ireland Bureau (NIB), in the United States.  The project includes the Norman Houston Short Film Award, presented to the best short film form Northern Ireland at Solas Nua’s annual Capital Irish Film Festival and the Norman Houston Multi-disciplinary Commissioning Award.

Niamh McCann is a Dublin based visual artist. Her work is a considered, individual voice in contemporary Irish art; effortlessly correlating strands of three-dimensional work, painting/drawing and installation.

What is Lithograph??
Come to the free workshop hosted by STABLE artist Gail Shaw-Clemons who will introduce you to the process of Lithography, albeit a modern version of an antique technique.

Come draw on a pronto plate, which is a frosted film made for this technique. The process will foster the understanding of water repelling oil and oil repelling water.

This workshop starts at 2:00 pm on Saturday, June 4th & is FREE but requires an RSVP : )

Link in Bio!