Handwork: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery10am to 5:30pm, day 26 of 37, Dec 26 to Jan 31FreePennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20006The Renwick's new contemporary craft exhibition, celebrating the handmade across media. The Smithsonian American Art Museum's craft-focused branch presents work that foregrounds process, material, and the maker's hand, opening with a free open house on November 13 from 11am to 2pm.

americanart.si.edu

Yoshitomo Nara: Sentinels of Stillness10am to 5:30pm, day 26 of 37, Dec 26 to Jan 31FreeIndependence Ave SW and 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20560Three monumental new sculptures by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara take over the Hirshhorn's West Lawn in an outdoor installation timed to the sculpture garden's reopening. Sentinels of Stillness places Nara's unmistakable large-headed figures in dialogue with the museum's modern sculpture collection.

si.edu

Carlotta Corpron: Light Is a Plastic Medium10am to 5:30pm, day 26 of 37, Dec 26 to Jan 31FreeIndependence Ave SW and 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20560A long-overdue survey of American abstract photographer Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988), whose experiments with light, form, and photographic technology helped establish photography as fine art. The show traces six bodies of work made in Texas from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, from nature studies to light drawings, anchored by 48 recent gifts from collector Herbert Lust.

si.edu

Photographic Memory: Fifty Years of Collecting11:30am to 7pm, day 26 of 37, Dec 26 to Jan 31Free8th and G Streets NW, Washington, DC 20004More than 120 photographic portraits marking fifty years of photography collecting at the National Portrait Gallery. The show spans the medium's history through the gallery's holdings, from early processes to contemporary work, in the Penn Quarter museum the NPG shares with the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

npg.si.edu

Cultivate at BlackRock Center for the ArtsAll day, day 5 of 16, Jan 16 to 3112901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown, MD 20874Interdisciplinary group exhibition of artists, writers and researchers investigating land, place and the commons, with a focus on Montgomery County's past and present landscapes. At BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, opening January 16.

blackrockcenter.org

Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early PhotographyAll day, day 19 of 30, Jan 2 to 31Free6th and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20565Some 70 early photographs of and by Black Americans, drawn from the 19th and early 20th centuries, chart how portrait photography became a tool of identity, resilience, and self-representation. The exhibition traces the evolving understanding of the medium among African Americans across a century of change.

nga.gov

Andrey Skripchenko: World of Colors at BlackRockAll day, day 40 of 51, Dec 12 to Jan 3112901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown, MD 20874Photographs by Andrey Skripchenko from his World of Colors series: vivid flowers, underwater scenes, fish, corals and anemones. Reception December 12 (time not published) at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown.

blackrockcenter.org

Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the SeaAll day, day 89 of 93, Oct 24 to Jan 241600 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20009The first exhibition to examine how friendship and shared summers on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, shaped Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko. About 90 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketches from the 1920s to the mid-1960s trace four decades of artistic exchange; many works have never been on public view. Organized with the Cape Ann Museum.

phillipscollection.org

Assembly 2026: Dusk in the Dawnland at MoCA ArlingtonAll day, day 110 of 114, Oct 3 to Jan 243550 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201Five artists with deep ties to Maine's Penobscot Bay coast work across sculpture, textiles, video, and photography. The show traces environmental change and creative resourcefulness along the rugged shoreline. Part of MoCA Arlington's Assembly 2026 biennial.

mocaarlington.org

Assembly 2026: New South, Ground Truth at MoCA ArlingtonAll day, day 110 of 114, Oct 3 to Jan 243550 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201Four Atlanta-based artists (Sheila Pree Bright, Michi Meko, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Shanequa Gay) examine the Southern landscape as a site of memory, power, and unresolved history. Part of MoCA Arlington's Assembly 2026 biennial marking the nation's 250th anniversary.

mocaarlington.org

Janet Echelman: Radical Softness at Tephra ICAAll day, day 112 of 123, Oct 1 to Jan 31Free12001 Market St #103, Reston, VA 20190Mid-career retrospective of sculptor Janet Echelman spanning four decades, from early drawings and maquettes to full-scale net sculptures. The show presents softness as both material and philosophy, with works shaped by wind, light, and engineered fiber. Free admission.

tephraica.org

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