# [Carlotta Corpron: Light Is a Plastic Medium](https://robo.app/r/z7ju7h/carlotta-corpron-light-is-a-plastic-medium)

- When: 2026-10-16 10:00-17:30 (America/New_York), and 106 more dates
- Scarcity: daily
- Cadence: daily
- Where: Independence Ave SW and 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20560 (38.8882, -77.023)
- Ages: all ages
- Price: free
- Category: exhibit
- Topics: art, photography, abstract, modernism, national-mall
- About: A 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.
- Source: https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/carlotta-corpron-light-plastic-medium:event-exhib-6798
- Feed: [Art events in the DMV](https://robo.app/f/nfn8xc/art-events-in-the-dmv)

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