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2010_DC_Katzen26DC -- American University -- Katzen Art Center
2011_DC_Katzen16DC -- American University -- Katzen Art Center
2015_DC_Katzen52DC -- American University -- Katzen Art Center
2016_DC_Katzen7DC -- American University -- Katzen Art Center
Sunset.
2017_DC_Katzen10DC -- American University -- Katzen Art Center
2021_DC_Katzen21DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center
Including COVID-19 signs.
2022_DC_Katzen33DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center
Including COVID-19 signs and blue and yellow lights in support of Ukraine.
2023_DC_Katzen7DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center
2024_02_11A_Katzen4DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010B19DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010B Early Spring Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2010 Early Spring exhibitions:
* Art Department: Student Exhibitions
* CausalityLabs: New Projects --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Pentimenti: After the Flood -- New Works by Don Kimes
* ANIMAR-TE: 20 Years of Computer Animation at U of Balearic Islands --> SHOWN...
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010B_Animarte48DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010B Early Spring Exhibit: ANIMAR-TE: 20 Years of Computer Animation at the University of the Balearic Islands
ANIMAR-TE: 20 Years of Computer Animation at the University of the Balearic Islands
March 23 through May 1
Organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, this exhibition recognizes the work of the Digital Animation Department at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain), an international...
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010B_Causality13DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010B Early Spring Exhibit: CausalityLabs: New Projects
CausalityLabs: New Projects
March 20 through May 2, 2010
Andy Holtin and Galo Moncayo, working together as CausalityLabs, create works that explore the nature of the world through a kind of mechanical theatre with humor and mimicry. Their collective works dig into materials and events to get at our...
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010C25DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010C Late Spring Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2010 Late Spring exhibitions:
* Georgia June Goldberg: Emergence --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* inSPIRATion
* Emilie Brzezinski: Family Trees
* Santiago Sierra: NO, GLOBAL TOUR

inSPIRATion
May 8 through June 6, 2010
Programmed by emerging curators in AU's Arts Management program,...
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010C_Emerge12DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010C Late Spring Exhibit: Georgia June Goldberg, Emergence
Georgia June Goldberg, Emergence
May 4 through August 8, 2010
"Emergence," created specifically for the American University Museum, is the largest single installation in the museum’s sculpture garden. Consisting of white wooden rhomboids sheathed in ice-blue netting, Emergence creates a glittering...
2010_DC_KatzenO_10050815DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010C Late Spring Opening Reception (Public)
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010D123DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010D Summer Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2010 Summer exhibitions:
* Good Things Come in Small Packages: The Collection of Elizabeth French
* Soaring Voices: Recent Ceramics by Women of Japan
* Gery de Smet: See Something, Say Something!
* Norse Soul: The Legacy of Edvar Munch, Social Democracy, Old Myths, Anarchy and...
2010_DC_KatzenO_10061238DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010D Summer Opening Reception (Public)
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010E30DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010E Early Fall Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2010 Early Fall exhibitions:
* Alan Binstock: Way-stations --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* BG Muhn: Love Affair of the Empress --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Luciano Penay: Time, News, Paintings, and Natural Forms
* RE-VISION: American University Alumni

Luciano Penay:
Time, News, Paintings,...
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010E_Binstock41DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010E Early Fall Exhibit: Alan Binstock: Way-stations
Alan Binstock: Way-stations
August 31 through October 24, 2010
Washington sculptor Alan Binstock will present a series of new works for the Sylvia Berlin Katzen Sculpture Garden integrating steel and glass to create monumental forms.
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010E_Muhn12DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010E Early Fall Exhibit: BG Muhn: Love Affair of the Empress
BG Muhn: Love Affair of the Empress
August 31 through October 17, 2010
BG Muhn’s first installation work is an ambitious and stunning series of invented “portraits” of mythical Chinese empresses. Using techniques ranging from deadpan official Chinese portrait style to a face composed of hundreds of...
2010_DC_KatzenO_100911104DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010E Early Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Artists here include BG Muhn and Alan Binstock.
2010_DC_KatzenX_2010F111DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010F Late Fall Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2010 Late Fall exhibitions:
* Catalyst: 35 Years of Washington Project for the Arts
* Ed McGowin: Name Change (One Artist, Twelve Personas, Thirty Five Years). and
* Claudia DeMonte: Everyday Matters

Catalyst: 35 Years of Washington Project for the Arts
November 9 through...
2010_DC_KatzenO_10111313DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2010F Late Fall Opening Reception (Public)
2011_DC_KatzenXT_Meyers_11021246DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011A Winter Artist Talk: Linn Meyers
Museum Gallery Talk with Linn Meyers:
"Linn Meyers: A Very Particular Moment" responds to the architecture of the museum by covering the walls with hand-drawn, repetitive, geometric lines, creating a hypnotic, meditative space. Meyers will discuss creating her largest temporary drawing to-date on a 23...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011A41DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011A Winter Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2011 Winter exhibitions:
* Nicole Cohen: Driving in Circles
* The Dark and Humorous Mind of Heather Wilcoxon
* Dafna Kaffeman: What Could be Sweeter Than Going to Paradise?
* Julie Linowes: Stain
* Marisa Baumgartner: Grande Avenues
* Linn Meyers: A Very Particular Moment...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011A_Meyers10DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011A Winter Exhibit: Linn Meyers: A Very Particular Moment
Linn Meyers: A Very Particular Moment
January 25 through March 13, 2011
This exhibition explores the artist’s process, culminating in Linn Meyers’ largest temporary drawing to date. Meyers will spend two weeks in the museum creating a 35-foot-tall drawing made with sinuous and twisting lines. The...
2011_DC_KatzenO_110129114DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011B_Bravos34DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B Spring Exhibit: BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish Design
BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish Design
April 2 through May 15, 2011
BRAVOS introduces American audiences to new works by some of the most talented and successful young Spanish designers. The exhibition features 21 designers from throughout Spain, including internationally renowned Jaime Hayon and...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011B_MFA_1Yr22DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B Spring Exhibit: First Year MFA Student Exhibition 2011
Art Department Student Exhibitions 2011 -- First Year MFA Students
April 2 to April 15, 2011
Temme Barkin-Leeds
Michele Colburn
Joo Yeon Ha
Adam Hager
Tyler Mullan
Camden Place
Sam Scharf
Ben Tolman
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011B_MFA_Thesis81DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B Spring Exhibit: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Art Department Student Exhibitions 2011 -- MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 23 to May 15, 2011
Emily Biondo
Jillian Bonahoom
Bobby Coleman
Michael Dotson
L. Kimberly Gillespie
Victoria Reeves Greising
Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi
Sarah Miller
Michael Sloan
2011_DC_KatzenO_11040254DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B1 Spring I Opening Reception (Public)
2011_DC_KatzenO_11042322DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011B2 Spring II Opening Reception (Public)
2011_DC_KatzenXT_11060485DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011C Summer Artist Talk: E.CO
E.CO Artist Talk with artists Iata Cannabrava from Brazil and Sergi Camara from Spain:
Join the American University Museum and artists Iata Cannabrava from Brazil and Sergi Camara from Spain in an artists' talk through the E.CO exhibition, photographic projects by twenty Latin American and European...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011C42DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011C Summer Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2011 Summer exhibitions:
* E • CO
* Registro 02, Mirar por segunda vez

E • CO
June 4 through August 14, 2011
E • CO presents photographic projects by twenty Latin American and European photographic collectives, each tasked with crafting a visual essay about one of the most...
2011_DC_KatzenO_11060420DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011C Summer Opening Reception (Public)
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011D63DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011D Fall Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2011 Fall exhibitions:
* Inner Piece: Works from the Collection of Heather and Tony Podesta
* Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Wayne Barrar: An Expanding Subterra
* Gifts of Duncan Phillips
* Seismic Dream: Sculpture &...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011D_Rosskam22DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011D Fall Exhibit: Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam
Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam
September 3 through December 14, 2011
This major retrospective examines the work of Louise Rosskam (1910-2003), an elusive pioneer of the golden age of American documentary photography. It highlights her poignant photographs of Southwest...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011D_Seismic15DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011D Fall Exhibit: Seismic Dream: Sculpture & Sound Installation by Firestone & Buchanan
Seismic Dream: Sculpture & Sound Installation by Firestone & Buchanan
September 3 through December 14, 2011
Seismic Dream combines original sculpture, music scores and poetry into a ‘dreamscape’ experience, conveying a wavelike energy that disrupts the few references of reality within the Sylvia...
2011_DC_KatzenXT_Smith_11102994DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011E Late Fall Artist Talk: Courtney Smith
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011E_Spaces17DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011E Late Fall Exhibit: Courtney Smith: Insatiable Spaces
Courtney Smith: Insatiable Spaces:
October 29 through December 14, 2011
Courtney Smith is known for her furniture-based sculpture and her investigation into the physical and psychological construction of interior spaces through the deconstruction of the domestic objects surrounding human life, which...
2011_DC_KatzenX_2011E_Eisenman21DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011E Late Fall Exhibit: Nicole Eisenman: Works on Paper:
Nicole Eisenman: Works on Paper:
October 29 through December 14, 2011
As John Yau observed in The Brooklyn Rail, Nicole Eisenman’s recent work "is a needed gust of fresh air in today’s I-wannabe-an-intellectual art world." Her works have great wit, visual elegance, and a thinking artist’s searing...
2011_DC_KatzenO_11102931DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011E Late Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Includes photos of artists: Courtney Smith, Laura Katzman, and Beverly W. Brannan
2012_DC_KatzenX_2012A32DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012A Winter Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2012 Winter exhibitions:
* Raoul Middleman: City Limits --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Anil Revri: Faith and Liberation through Abstraction
* Gabarron's Roots
* Regarding Our Faculties: Zoë Charlton, Tim Doud, Deborah Kahn, and Luis Manuel Cravo Silva
* (additional) Kids @...
2012_DC_KatzenX_2012A_Raoul85DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012A Winter Exhibit: Raoul Middleman: City Limits
Raoul Middleman: City Limits
Saturday, January 28 – Sunday, March 18
Baltimore maestro Raoul Middleman’s nudes are not pretty—they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of post-industrial rot, his narrative paintings give contemporary life to his personal obsessions....
2012_DC_KatzenXT_Raoul_12021161DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012A Winter Gallery Talk: Raoul Middleman
Gallery Talk with Raoul Middleman
2012_DC_KatzenO_12012850DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
Several artists were there for this event: Anil Revri, Raoul Middleman, and Tim Doud.
2012_DC_KatzenXT_12012845DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012A Winter Panel: Anil Revri
Anil Revri’s paintings function as aids to meditation, while at the same time the process of their creation is itself an act of meditation. They are beautiful, their craft is breathtaking, but their success depends on whether they further us, and the artist, along in the process of our own...
2012_DC_KatzenX_2012B80DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012B Spring Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2012 Spring exhibitions:
* Like • Comment • Share •
* In the Studio: A Capstone Exhibition
* Nine Degrees
* Lou Stovall: Vertical Views
* Floating World: 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Tomokazu Matsuyama: Thousand Regards --> SHOWN...
2012_DC_KatzenX_2012B_Floating30DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012B Spring Exhibit: Floating World: 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints
Floating World: 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints
April 3 through May 20, 2012
Borrowed from the Sakai Collection of the Japan Ukiyoe Museum, the 70 prints, address themes of Sakura, US and Japan relations, and Japonism. This exhibition is supported by the Embassy of Japan and is part of the...
2012_DC_KatzenX_2012B_Regards20DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012B Spring Exhibit: Tomokazu Matsuyama: Thousand Regards
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Thousand Regards
April 3 through May 20, 2012
Japanese-born and New York-based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama combines traditional Edo and Meiji period imagery with contemporary motifs and patterning to blend Eastern and Western aesthetics. Matsuyama’s art is reflective of his own...
2012_DC_KatzenX_2012C68DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012C Summer Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2012 Summer exhibitions:
* Mexico: Expected/Unexpected
* Patrick Graham: Thirty Years—The Silence Becomes the Painting
* The Constant Artist

Mexico: Expected/Unexpected
June 9 through August 12, 2012
This exhibition of selected works from the Isabel and Agustín Coppel...
2012_DC_KatzenX_2012D_Platforms10DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012D Late Fall Exhibit: Platforms: Washington Sculpture Group
Platforms: Washington Sculpture Group
September 1 through December 16
Platforms is an outdoor sculpture exhibition presented in the Myrtle Berlin Katzen Scupture Garden curated by Jeff Spaulding and featuring the work of Damian Yanessa, Patrick McGowen, Kate Kauffman, Steven Jones, Linda Hesh, Robert...
2012_DC_KatzenX_2012D_Olitski26DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2012D Late Fall Exhibit: Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski
Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski
September 15 through December 16
Widely regarded as one of America’s last classic modern painters, Jules Olitski (1922–2007) created brilliant color harmonies and chromatic shifts that became one of the hallmarks of Color Field painting. Olitski enjoyed...
2013_DC_KatzenXT_Molod_13012613DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013A Winter Artist Talk: Andrei Molodkin
2013_DC_KatzenXT_Bruskin_13012632DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013A Winter Artist Talk: Grisha Bruskin
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013A21DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013A Winter Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2013 Winter exhibitions:
* Susan Yanero
* Grisha Bruskin: H-Hour --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Andrei Molodkin: CRUDE --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Andrea Way: Retrospective 1982–2012
* The Fellows Converge: The Obstructions

Susan Yanero
January 26 through March 17, 2013
Former AU...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013A_Crude8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013A Winter Exhibit: Andrei Molodkin: CRUDE
Andrei Molodkin: CRUDE
January 26 through March 17, 2013
Andrei Molodkin is an internationally recognized contemporary Russian artist engaged in deconstructing the economic realities of geopolitical praxis. Consisting of his monumental ballpoint-pen drawings and his three-dimensional constructions...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013A_HHour99DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013A Winter Exhibit: Grisha Bruskin: H-Hour
Grisha Bruskin: H-Hour
January 26 through March 17, 2013
Contemporary Russian artist Grisha Bruskin's new sculpture project H-Hour examines the myth of the enemy in very diverse manifestations: the hostile state, class enemy, enemy of the subconscious, 'the other' as enemy, time, chronos and death as...
2013_DC_KatzenO_13012648DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
Join artists and curators for the 2013 winter Artists' Reception from 6-9 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. The night will include a gallery talk by artists Grisha Bruskin at 5 p.m. and Andrei Molodkin at 6 p.m.
Pictures here include several of the artists -- Andrea Way and Susan Yanero.
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013B_Haner9DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013B Spring Exhibit: Lee Haner: Mischief
Lee Haner: Mischief
April 6 through May 26, 2013
Recent mixed-media works by a reclusive master. Balanced between representation and abstraction, painting and sculpture, the exhibition is inspired by the land and first peoples of the American Southwest.
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013B_Borges14DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013B Spring Exhibit: Painting Borges: Art Interpreting Literature
Painting Borges: Art Interpreting Literature
April 6 through May 26, 2013
Argentinean Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most prominent and profoundly philosophical literary figures of the twentieth century. Sixteen visual artists interpret twelve stories by Borges, organized according to three topics:...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013B_App8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013B Spring Exhibit: Timothy App: The Aesthetics of Precision, Forty-Five Years of Painting
Timothy App: The Aesthetics Of Precision, Forty-Five Years Of Painting
April 6 through May 26, 2013
Timothy App’s signature style of geometric abstraction reveals a concise and considered understanding of the nature of painting, visual tension, and persistence. The exhibition brings together various...
2013_DC_KatzenO_13040618DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013B Spring Opening Reception (Public)
Includes photos of the artist Timothy App.
2013_DC_KatzenXT_Mont_13062933DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013C Summer Artist Talk: Nan Montgomery
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013C_Klaidman12DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013C Summer Exhibit: Kitty Klaidman: Beneath the Surface
Kitty Klaidman: Beneath The Surface
June 15 through August 11, 2013
Recent mixed media paintings by Washington, D.C., artist Kitty Klaidman. In these paintings, richly colored acrylic pigment is applied on wood panels covered with molding paste that has been incised with organic patterns. They are...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013C_Montgomery9DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013C Summer Exhibit: Nan Montgomery: Opposite and Alternate
Nan Montgomery: Opposite And Alternate
June 15 through August 11, 2013
Recent oil paintings by Washington, D.C., artist Nan Montgomery. Throughout her career, Montgomery’s basic signature has been the use of color as communication, the interest in the painted surface and a minimalist aesthetic. The...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013C_Raya8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013C Summer Exhibit: Raya Bonardchuk: Form
Raya Bodnarchuk: Form
June 15 through August 11, 2013
Raya Bodnarchuk’s sculpted animals and people are beautifully and carefully observed, the mature work of a master of many different media. Trained at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design and the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013C_Tate10DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013C Summer Exhibit: Tim Tate: Sleepwalker
Tim Tate: Sleepwalker
June 15 through August 11, 2013
Tim Tate is Washington, DC’s best known contemporary glass artist, but his latest work has moved toward video installations. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement, and mystery, videos, like dreams, enable us to participate in another reality and,...
2013_DC_KatzenXT_Visit_13110956DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013D Late Fall Artist Talk: Hilary Harnischfeger and Tracy Miller
Join artists Tracy Miller and Hilary Harnischfeger with curator Tim Doud in a gallery talk about the Visiting Artist Series, on exhibit through December 15.
2013_DC_KatzenXT_Tsibi_13110910DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013D Late Fall Artist Talk: Tsibi Geva
Gallery Talk with Tsibi Geva
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013D_Bisese18DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013D Late Fall Exhibit: Ed Bisese: Alive
Ed Bisese: Alive
November 5 to December 15, 2013
Ed Bisese, a landscape architect based in College Park, Maryland, is known for large-scale painted portraits, oversized heads, and walk-in sculpture made of everyday materials. His work is hilarious and contemplative, poking at the tenuous relationship...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013D_Dorazio5DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013D Late Fall Exhibit: Joel D'orazio: Pull Up A Chair
Joel D'orazio: Pull Up A Chair
November 5 to December 15, 2013
Joel D’Orazio began his career as an architect more than 25 years ago, but recently shifted to art, painting on panels and creating mixed media works, sculpture, and digital art using found and donated objects. This exhibition focuses on...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013D_Brotman3DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013D Late Fall Exhibit: Lisa Montag Brotman: What Can I Say?
Lisa Montag Brotman: What Can I Say?
November 5 to December 15, 2013
Lisa Montag Brotman sees herself as a “reporter and interpreter of human emotions.” Brotman says: “In my paintings and drawings, I express a personal vision of a universe that is somewhat askew. My work focuses on psychological...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013D_Siberia15DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013D Late Fall Exhibit: Siberia In The Eyes Of Russian Photographers
Siberia In The Eyes Of Russian Photographers
November 5 to December 15, 2013
The exhibition presents unknown Siberia as photographed by Russians. These photographs, many shown in the West for the first time, span more than 150 years, between the 1860s and 2011. This is a history of Siberia and a...
2013_DC_KatzenX_2013D_Visiting20DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013D Late Fall Exhibit: Visiting Artists Series w/Hilary Harnischfeger And Tracy Miller
Visiting Artists Series
November 5 to December 15, 2013
The AU Art Department brings two Brooklyn-based artists to campus to teach and exhibit. Curated by Studio Art professor Tim Doud.

Hilary Harnischfeger:
Hilary Harnischfeger makes wall-mounted compositions as well as sculptures. She employs...
2013_DC_KatzenO_13110919DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2013D Late Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Join artists Tracy Miller and Hilary Harnischfeger with curator Tim Doud.
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014A121DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014A Winter Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2014 Winter exhibitions:
* Agustín Fernández: Ultimate Surrealist
* Washington Art Matters II: 1940s-1980s
* Sightlines: Ann Pibal, Jill Downen

Agustín Fernández: Ultimate Surrealist
January 25 to March 16, 2014
The work of Agustín Fernández is most recognizable for its...
2014_DC_KatzenXT_Kuspit_14012542DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014A Winter Gallery Talk: Donald Kuspit on Agustin Fernandez
Gallery Talk: Donald Kuspit on Agustin Fernandez
The work of Agustin Fernandez is most recognizable for its ambiguous and precariously balanced forms, erotic overtones, surreal juxtapositions, and metallic palette. Inspired by the demands of survival in an urban environment and the mundane objects that...
2014_DC_KatzenO_14012556DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014B88DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014B1 Spring I Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2014 Spring exhibitions:
* Double Mirror: Korean-American Artists
* MFA Studio Art Exhibitions
* MYND ALIVE: BK Adams. I AM ART
* In Residence Colloquium: The Neighbors
* Brink and Boundary
* Sightlines

Double Mirror: Korean-American Artists
April 1 – June 1,...
2014_DC_KatzenO_14040530DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014B1 Spring I Opening Reception (Public)
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014B287DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014B2 Spring II Exhibitions
Perambulators: 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 26 – May 12, 2014

American University's Department of Art proudly presents the work of MFA Thesis candidates in the late spring exhibition Perambulators. The multidisciplinary Studio Art program showcases an exciting range of artwork including works in...
2014_DC_KatzenO_14042624DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014B2 Spring II Opening Reception (Public)
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014C128DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014C Summer Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2014 Summer exhibitions:
* The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund: Second Act
* Continental Drift (Being Here and Being There)
* Passionate Collectors: The Washington Print Club at 50
* Syzygy

The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund: Second Act
June 14 – August 17, 2014
Conceived by...
2014_DC_KatzenO_1406148DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014C Summer Opening Reception (Public)
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014D_Ramos20DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014D Early Fall Exhibit: Bridging the Past, Present, and Future: Recent Works by Sandra Ramos
Bridging the Past, Present, and Future: Recent Works by Sandra Ramos
September 6 through October 19, 2014
Curated by Diane Camber, this exhibition is comprised of prints, video, collage, and installations created by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos. This artist reflects on the conflicting experiences of...
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014D_Memorial13DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014D Early Fall Exhibit: Memorial Modeling: Peter Belyi and Petr Shvetsov
Memorial Modeling: Peter Belyi and Petr Shvetsov
September 6 through October 19, 2014
Funding for this exhibition is provided by the Initiative for Russian Culture
The installations created by Peter Belyi and Petr Shvetsov refer to a specific doctrine of so-called 'monumental propaganda' that the...
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014D_Readymade1DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014D Early Fall Exhibit: Readymade@100
Readymade@100
September 6 through October 19, 2014
Curated by artist, art theorist, and Corcoran College of Art and Design professor Mark Cameron Boyd, Readymade@100 celebrates the 100th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's readymade concept. This juried exhibition includes contemporary artist's...
2014_DC_KatzenXT_Lay_14110837DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014E Late Fall Artist Talk: Alan Sonfist and Karin F. Giusti
Gallery Talk: Lay of the Land (Updated 10/30)
Join artists Alan Sonfist and Karin F. Giusti for a discussion of their joint exhibition, Lay of the Land: Surface Memory by Alan Sonfist and Three Season at Black Forest Farm by Karin Giusti. This event is free and open to the public. The late fall artists...
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014E_Land22DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014E Late Fall Exhibit: Lay of the Land: Alan Sonfist & Karin F. Gusti
Lay of the Land: Alan Sonfist & Karin F. Gusti
November 8 through December 14, 2014
This joint exhibition includes the work of Alan Sonfist (Surface Memory) and Karin F. Giusti (Three Seasons at Black Forest Farm).
Alan Sonfist created Surface Memory in 1967-1971 to elucidate his childhood memories...
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014E_Oyster1DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014E Late Fall Exhibit: My Oyster #7: Michelle Grabner & Brad Killam
My Oyster #7: Michelle Grabner & Brad Killam
November 8 through December 14, 2014
The My Oyster projects are a collaboration between Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, a husband and wife pair working together since 1992. For their My Oyster series, Grabner and Killam employ a large hanging support...
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014E_Prague22DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014E Late Fall Exhibit: Prague, the City of Eugenic Minds
Prague, the City of Eugenic Minds
November 8 through December 14, 2014
The Eugenic Minds project, comprised of a documentary by Pavel Stingl, animations and paintings by Xenia Hoffmeisterová, and literary artwork by Patrik Ou?edník, offers timeless meditation upon the abuse of the human pinnacles of...
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014E_Sculpture8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014E Late Fall Exhibit: Sculpture Now 2014: WSG 30th Anniversary
Sculpture Now 2014: WSG 30th Anniversary
November 8 through December 14, 2014
Funding for this exhibition is provided by the Initiative for Russian Culture
The Washington Sculptors Group celebrates its 30th anniversary by bringing together a diverse collection of current sculptural art. The notion of...
2014_DC_KatzenX_2014E_Diebenkorn7DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014E Late Fall Exhibit: The Intimate Diebenkorn: Works on Paper, 1949-1992
The Intimate Diebenkorn: Works on Paper, 1949-1992
November 8 through December 14, 2014
The Intimate Diebenkorn: Works on Paper: 1949-1992 is the first show produced by the Diebenkorn Foundation. This extraordinary exhibition features 40 pieces, most of which have never been publicly viewed. The...
2014_DC_KatzenO_14110813DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2014E Late Fall Opening Reception (Public)
2015_DC_KatzenXT_Levenson_15012440DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Artist Talk: Silvia Levenson
Introductions were made by Cecilia Nahón, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to the United States of America
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015A_Byington25DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibit: Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows
Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows
January 24 through March 15, 2015.
Composed of a dense profusion of original and appropriated images, Dean Byington's paintings recall surrealist collage and the assemblage and psychedelic aesthetic that began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the San...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015A_Identidad18DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibit: Identidad by Silvia Levenson
Identidad by Silvia Levenson
January 24 through March 15, 2015.
In her exhibition Identidad, Silvia Levenson channels her identity as a survivor of the Argentinian Dirty War and her emotional connection to the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in order to push the bounds of her skills as a glassmaker...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015A_Sourced1DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibit: Locally Sourced
Locally Sourced
January 24 through March 15, 2015
Curated by Victoria Reis, Transformer
The first in the Do You Know Where Your Art Comes From? four-part exhibition series curated by Victoria Reis, Executive & Artistic Director of Transformer, and presented at American University's Katzen Art Center...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015A_Plattner22DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibit: Phyllis Plattner: Gods of War!
Phyllis Plattner: Gods of War!
January 24 through March 15, 2015
Some wage war in the name of God. All fight with the belief that God is on their side. Phyllis Plattner's art is a painted meditation, appropriating images of war and religion from art history and photojournalism to contrast the...
2015_DC_KatzenO_15012430DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
Including some photos of the artist Phyllis Plattner.
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B_Kravitz7DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring I Exhibit: Drawings: Walter Kravitz
Drawings: Walter Kravitz
April 4 through May 24, 2015
Walter Kravitz brought his passion for aesthetics and innovative concepts from Chicago to Washington nearly thirty years ago. His drawings and installations have evolved into explorations of the way events happen in the natural world. His lines...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B_Noto12DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring I Exhibit: Sam Noto, Steel Sculpture: Anxiety and Hope
Sam Noto, Steel Sculpture: Anxiety and Hope
September 6, 2014, through March 15, 2015
In his large steel constructions, largely made of found materials, Sam Noto allows his materials to generate form and occupy space in a dynamic way. This sculpture exhibition is both serious and playful and expresses...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B_Goldstein8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring I Exhibit: Transcription of Blue: Guy Goldstein
Transcription of Blue: Guy Goldstein
April 4 through May 24, 2015
As both a visual artist and musician, I am fascinated by the transitions between media -- attempts to convert and translate actions through one medium to another. This project continues my ongoing occupation with the relationship...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B_Ramesh17DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring I Exhibit: V. Ramesh: Remembrances of Voices Past
V. Ramesh: Remembrances of Voices Past
April 4 through May 24, 2015
For V. Ramesh, an act of devotion seems not only an apt social response to existential tragedies, but also a quest for freedom. As a painter he attempts to find an appropriate language and devise strategies to find an equivalency to...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B_Glue14DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring I Exhibit: YES! Glue: A Half-Century of Collage by Bruce and Jean Conner
YES! Glue: A Half-Century of Collage by Bruce and Jean Conner
April 4 through May 24, 2015
Collage played a prominent and happily subversive role in the history of 20th century art; subversive because it undermined distinctions between "high" and "low" art by appropriating mass-produced images....
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B_MFA_1Yr38DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring I Exhibit: [Insert Non-Pretentious Title Here]: MFA First Year Exhibition
[Insert Non-Pretentious Title Here]: MFA First Year Exhibition
April 4 through April 19, 2015
American University’s Department of Art presents the work of current MFA candidates in their first year of the Studio Arts program. [Insert Non-Pretentious Title Here] is a compilation of works from American...
2015_DC_KatzenXT_Goldst_1504048DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring I Gallery Talk: Guy Goldstein
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B_MFA_Thesis29DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring II Exhibit: Blueprint: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Blueprint: MFA Thesis Exhibition
On view April 25 – May 10
American University’s Department of Art proudly presents their Masters of Fine Art Thesis candidates: Nathan Mullins, Ayad Almissouri, Angelina Samudre, Jenny Wu, Mandy Cooper, Michael Holt, Robert Yi, Tim Hoyt. This exhibition showcases an...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B_Lost6DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring II Exhibit: Lost and Found: Young Art from Lithuania
Lost and Found: Young Art from Lithuania
On view April 25 – May 24
The MFA Curatorial Practice students from American University and Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA) in Lithuania present a unique project as a part of an educational and artistic exchange between the two universities: Lost and Found: Young...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B_Stone13DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring II Exhibit: Stone, Silence and Speech: Sculptures by Sy Gresser
Stone, Silence and Speech: Sculptures by Sy Gresser
Curated by Ori Z. Soltes
On view April 25 – August 16
Over more than six decades, Sy Gresser (1926-2014) wrestled with issues and ideas that define humanity. Beginning as a poet, he metamorphosed into a sculptor of stone and wood. If nothing is more...
2015_DC_KatzenO_15040420DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B1 Spring I Opening Reception (Public)
Including V. Ramesh with one of his favorite pieces.
2015_DC_KatzenO_1504255DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B2 Spring II Opening Reception (Public)
2015_DC_KatzenXT_Atomic70_150805115DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Closing: Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Atomic Bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this evening will include testimony by two Hibakushi (survivors of the atomic bombings) and a piano and choral performance by the children of Little Friends of Peace.
Program (in sequence):
* Melvin Hardy
*...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015C_Atomic244DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Exhibit: Hiroshima-Nagaski: Atomic Bomb Exhibition
Hiroshima-Nagaski: Atomic Bomb Exhibition
June 13 through August 16, 2015
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the attacks, this powerful show will include 20 artifacts collected from the debris of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as 6 large folding screens that depict...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015C_Outliers15DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Exhibit: Outliers: Kurt Godwin and Betsy Packard
Outliers: Kurt Godwin and Betsy Packard
June 13 through July 26, 2015
Curated by J.W. Mahoney, Outliers is a dialogue between two Washington-area artists who have been working outside the boundaries of mainstream contemporary art for over three decades. These artists have effectively transformed...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015C_Winslow33DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Exhibit: Realism Transformed: John Winslow's Wild New World
Realism Transformed: John Winslow's Wild New World
June 13 through July 26, 2015
In the early to mid 1980s masterful Washington realist John Winslow engineered a series of stunning changes in his work: Precisely defined spaces became ambiguous, right angles became swooping curves, and once-static...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015C_Ziedins51DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Exhibit: Visvaldis Ziedins: Travels in the Imagination
Visvaldis Ziedins: Travels in the Imagination
June 13 through July 26, 2015
Working quietly and in near obscurity during the dark days of the Latvian Soviet period, artist Visvaldis Ziedins amassed a remarkable body of over 3,000 works. This survey brings his witty assemblages, sculptures, collages...
2015_DC_KatzenXT_AtomicT_15080553DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Gallery Talk: Hiroshima-Nagaski: Atomic Bomb Exhibition
Hiroshima-Nagaski: Atomic Bomb Exhibition
June 13 through August 16, 2015
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the attacks, this powerful show will include 20 artifacts collected from the debris of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as 6 large folding screens that depict...
2015_DC_KatzenXT_Ziedins_15061262DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Gallery Talk: Visvaldis Ziedins exhibit
Reception & Preview of Visvaldis Ziedins: Travels in the Imagination:
Join the exhibit preview with remarks by the Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia H.E. Andris Razans. Visvaldis Ziedins exhibit Travels in the Imagination is part of Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union public...
2015_DC_KatzenO_15061211DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Opening Reception (Member)
2015_DC_KatzenXT_Decision_15062353DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Panel Discussion: Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition: Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
This film screening and symposium will bring together a panel of prominent historians to reflect on the decision to drop the atomic bombs and its implications. Free and open to the public.
Film screening of "The Bomb" from...
2015_DC_KatzenXT_Remember_150616151DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Panel Discussion: To Remember and Reflect
Panel Discussion: To Remember and Reflect:
In conjunction with the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition, this panel brings together several artists who have addressed war-related suffering in their own work. Panelists include Kristine Yuki Aono, Kitty Klaidman, Miriam Morsel Nathan, and Aida...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_10Years29DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: 10th Year Wall
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Blood8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Blood Mirror
Blood Mirror
September 12 through October 18, 2015
Blood Mirror, organized by artist Jordan Eagles, seeks to create an open dialogue and effect change around the US Food & Drug Administration's current discriminatory policy on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
In 2015, Jordan Eagles...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Knodel51DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Gerhardt Knodel: Let the Games Begin!
Gerhardt Knodel: Let the Games Begin!
September 12 through October 18, 2015
In Gerhardt Knodel’s latest work, gaming-based strategies provide both a visual and conceptual point of entry. Like game playing, involvement often yields unexpected consequences. Approached as pure entertainment, games can...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Shaffer40DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Mary Shaffer: Reflections and Contradictions
Mary Shaffer: Reflections and Contradictions
September 12 through October 18, 2015
Influential sculptor Mary Shaffer creates a site-specific glass and metal “tool-wall” installation for her solo-exhibition to feature her fascination with discarded tools. "I take lovingly crafted, hand-forged tools —...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Pulse43DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Pulse of the Future
Pulse of the Future
September 12 through October 18, 2015
Contemporary Chinese Art captured the world's attention in the 1980s. Now the next generation is coming of age and staking its own claim for artistic precedence.
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_McConnell11DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Walter McConnell: Itinerant Edens
Walter McConnell: Itinerant Edens
September 12 to October 18, 2015
A series of male figures derived from familial models are central to Walter McConnell’s installation Of Fable and Facsimile. Rendered in moist, unfired clay and sealed in terrarium-like plastic enclosures, McConnell’s earthen bodies...
2015_DC_KatzenO_15091196DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Opening Reception (Member)
Artists who spoke tonight included Walter McConnell, Gerhardt Knodel, and Mary Shaffer. The contemporary Chinese art community was represented by artists Shaowei Deng and Jie Wang, and BG Muhn helped the delegation.
2015_DC_KatzenO_15091265DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Artists who spoke tonight included Gerhardt Knodel and Mary Shaffer. The contemporary Chinese art community was represented by artists Shaowei Deng and Jie Wang, and BG Muhn helped the delegation. Other artists present included Chawky Frenn and Pat Goslee.
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E_Design8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibit: Art and Design: Two Designers and Their Art
Art and Design: Two Designers and Their Art
Michael Graham and Marc Pekala
November 7 through December 13, 2015
Michael Graham and Marc Pekala both trained in graphic design programs and went on to careers in teaching and commercial design. Their design educations provided a foundation and language...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E_Ress8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibit: Beverly Ress: The World Is a Narrow Bridge
Beverly Ress: The World Is a Narrow Bridge
November 7 through December 13, 2015
Over the past several years Beverly Ress has focused on drawing objects collected by natural history and medical museums, then manipulating the paper on which they're drawn. Her closely observed renderings of objects...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E_White10DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibit: Joseph White: Post-It
Joseph White: Post-It
November 7 through December 13, 2015
A retrospective of DC artist Joseph White shows the diversity of his work from the 1980s to the present. The exhibition includes large-scale representational paintings, works on paper and his latest paintings based on Post-It drawings.
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E_Klagsbrun11DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibit: Micheline Klagsbrun: Free Fall Flow
Micheline Klagsbrun: Free Fall Flow
November 7 through December 13, 2015
DC-based artist Micheline Klagsbrun's latest work ranges from ink and pencil drawings on vellum to large canvases and three-dimensional wall hangings and sculptural forms. Created by a dynamic interplay of lines, colors and...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E_Kessler8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibit: Susanne Kessler: Jerusalem
Susanne Kessler: Jerusalem
November 7 through December 13, 2015
Tracing the lines of the city map of Jerusalem with pencil or wire, again and again, like a mantra or prayer, allows Susanne Kessler to feel close to Jerusalem—the city of mankind. A city where three monotheistic religions come together,...
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E_Vesper44DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibit: Titus Kaphar: The Vesper Project
Titus Kaphar: The Vesper Project
November 7 through December 13, 2015
This installation is a massive sculptural statement which weaves the artist's own work into the walls of a 19th century American house. Kaphar's most ambitious expression to date, The Vesper Project is a culmination of an intense...
2016_DC_KatzenXT_Stout_16013012DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016A Winter Artist Talk: Renee Stout
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016A_Impact79DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016A Winter Exhibit: Impact! The Legacy of the Women’s Caucus for Art
Impact! The Legacy of the Women’s Caucus for Art
January 23 through March 13, 2016
Impact! The Legacy of the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA) celebrates the impact of the WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards presented annually to artists, art historians, and curators since they were first presented at the...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016A_Michael14DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016A Winter Exhibit: Maggie Michael: A Phrase Hung in Midair As If Frozen
Maggie Michael: A Phrase Hung in Midair As If Frozen
January 23 through March 13, 2016
This mid-career survey features the work of Washington, DC-based artist Maggie Michael from 2002 to the present day. Her paintings—at once intuitive and conceptual—are a direct response to the world around it....
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016A_Stout16DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016A Winter Exhibit: Renée Stout -- Tales of the Conjure Woman
Renée Stout -- Tales of the Conjure Woman
January 23 through March 13, 2016
The exhibition features recent work by DC-based Renée Stout, who is best known for her exploration of vestigial retentions of African cultural traditions as manifested in contemporary America. For many years, the artist has...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016A_Circle11DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016A Winter Exhibit: (Alper) Circle of Friends
Circle of Friends
January 23 through March 13, 2016
In conjunction with Renée Stout: Tales of the Conjure Woman, the inaugural exhibition of the Alper Initiative for Washington Art features 16 woman artists from the Baltimore/Washington region who formed Stout's artistic cohort. These artists...
2016_DC_KatzenXT_Schoett_16030827DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016A Winter Gallery Talk: Pushing Boundaries with Ellouise Schoettler
Pushing Boundaries with Elouise Schoettler
A special one-woman show by nationally known Maryland storyteller Ellouise Schoettler in conjunction with Impact! The Legacy of the Women's Caucus for Art and Women’s History Month.
Local cable host, producer, and nationally known storyteller, Ellouise...
2016_DC_KatzenO_16013060DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016B_MFA_1Yr14DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B Spring Exhibit: 196K: MFA First Year Exhibition
196K: MFA First Year Exhibition
April 2 - April 20, 2016
American University's Department of Art and Studio Art Program present the work of their first year masters of fine art thesis candidates: Mills Brown, Aaron Eckstein, Yar Koporulin, Sarah Norman, Sarah O'Donoghue, Jen Smith, and Zarina...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016B_MacDonald36DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B Spring Exhibit: Kevin MacDonald: The Tension of a Suspended Moment
Kevin MacDonald: The Tension of a Suspended Moment
April 2 through May 29, 2016
An empty booth at a diner. The façade of a suburban cottage. Factory chimneys outlined against a gray sky. These are just a few of the images rendered in color pencil, pastel, or oil paint by the artist Kevin MacDonald....
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016B_Southern29DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B Spring Exhibit: Southern Constellations
Southern Constellations
April 2 through May 29, 2016
Southern Constellations is the 3rd exhibition in Transformer’s four-part Do You Know Where Your Art Comes From? series presented over two years in the AU Museum. Curated by Victoria Reis, Executive & Artistic Director of Transformer, in...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016B_MFA_Thesis64DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B Spring Exhibit: Ten: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Ten: MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 30-May 29, 2016
American University's Studio Art Program presents the work of master's of fine art thesis candidates: Sara Caporaletti, Sarah Dale, Carey Francis, Jihee Kang, Jean Kim, Zack McGhin, Calli Moore, Joumana Moukarim, Samantha Sethi, and Katelyn Wood. Ten:...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016B_Dunlap43DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B Spring Exhibit: William Dunlap: Look at It -- Think About It
William Dunlap: Look at It -- Think About It
April 2 through May 29, 2016
"Narrative is tricky business. Yet the telling of universal stories through art can bind us together and bring new, enhanced areas of self-understanding. William Dunlap’s assemblages of elements taken from his life, our lives,...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016B_Twisted7DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B Spring Exhibit: (Alper) Twisted Teenage Plot
Twisted Teenage Plot
April 2 through May 29, 2016
Coinciding with a retrospective of Kevin MacDonald, the Alper Initiative for Washington Art presents the second exhibition in its space: Twisted Teenage Plot.
Besides being an excellent artist, MacDonald also played in bands, most notably Twisted...
2016_DC_KatzenXT_Dunlap_16040173DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B Spring Gallery Talk: William Dunlap
Members Only Preview:
Director Jack Rasmussen invites members to preview the Spring exhibitions early. At 6 pm, artist William Dunlap will discuss the artist’s work in Look At It — Think About It.
2016_DC_KatzenO_16040142DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B1 Spring I Opening Reception (Member)
Folks include James Symington, Jack Rasmussen, and Glenn Marcus.
2016_DC_KatzenXT_ArtJam_16052161DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016B2 Spring II DC Art Jam
A jam session featuring special guest artists from the art rock bands Twisted Teenage Plot, Urban Verbs, The Slickee Boys and Danger Painters.
2016_DC_KatzenXT_Korea_16081386DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016C Summer Closing Gallery Talk: Hannah Joo and BG Muhn
Please join us for the Closing Reception for "Contemporary North Korean Art: The Evolution of Socialist Realism" on Saturday August 13 at 5 pm in the AU Museum.
The evening includes Korean snacks, a discussion of contemporary North Korean art in the exhibition with Curator B.G. Muhn followed by a tour...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016C_Bandits60DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016C Summer Exhibit: Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints: Popular Art of the Northeast of Brazil
Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints: Popular Art of the Northeast of Brazil
June 18 through August 14, 2016
Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints explores how the ancient cultures of Africa blended with indigenous and colonial Portuguese traditions to form the vibrant and complex cultural mosaic of modern...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016C_SKorea34DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016C Summer Exhibit: South Korean Art: Examining Life through Social Realities
South Korean Art: Examining Life through Social Realities
June 18 through August 14, 2016
Examining Life Through Social Realities documents and examines life and the social realities of people living on the Korean peninsula through the Realist paintings of ten South Korean contemporary artists. As...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016C_Looking39DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016C Summer Exhibit: (Alper) The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington
The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington
June 18 through August 14, 2016
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art celebrates ten artists who left Latin America for many different reasons over the last sixty years—primarily for safety, freedom, and opportunity—and made their homes, and their...
2016_DC_KatzenXT_BGMuhn_16061889DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016C Summer Gallery Talk: BG Muhn
Gallery Talk with BG Muhn
Join Georgetown professor, artist, and curator BG Muhn for a tour of two exhibitions of North and South Korean contemporary art and a discussion on the impact of culture on the artistic style of each republic.
During his talk, BG pointed out several people in the audience...
2016_DC_KatzenO_16061862DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016C Summer Opening Reception (Public)
Artists photographed here include: Frida Larios ("Underwater Serpent", "Underworld Fireflies", and "Underworld"), Chawky Frenn, Joan Belmar ("Trans-Lucid #IV, Al Fin del Mundo, At the End of the World"), Irene Clouthier (paper airplanes), and Carolina Mayorga (performance artist).
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016D_Hung_Liu61DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Exhibit: Hung Liu: Daughter of China, Resident Alien
Hung Liu: Daughter of China, Resident Alien
September 6 through October 23, 2016
Timed to coincide with the quadrennial frenzy of the national presidential election, Liu’s exhibition reflects upon two themes—refugees and heroines—that, while politically topical, are also deeply woven into her...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016D_Portal2DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Exhibit: Portal Screens: DC to Milwaukee's Amani Neighborhood
Portal Screens: DC to Milwaukee's Amani Neighborhood
September 6 through October 23, 2016
A Channel at the museum’s entrance, a live bi-directional video wall, will act like an open window connecting two locations across the world: Northwest Washington, DC and >Milwaukee's Amani Neighborhood. Through...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016D_Silos32DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Exhibit: Silos
Silos
September 6 through October 23, 2016
Curated by Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D
As a microcosm of our society, the art world maintains a system of marginalization based on racial and cultural difference. Artists identified as “other” function in silos, just as they do in society. This exhibition...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016D_Todas32DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Exhibit: Todas las Manos
Todas las Manos
September 6 through October 23, 2016
This exhibition is an interdisciplinary public art project that celebrates human rights and global justice, commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the deaths of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and co-worker Ronni Karpen Moffitt in...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016D_Updraft8DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Exhibit: Updraft America
Updraft America
September 6 through October 23, 2016
Washington, DC, sculptor (and former Senate aide) Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg manifests Americans’ frustration with our gridlocked partisan politics by taking an entire year of the official proceedings of the United States Congress, as documented in...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016D_Nation50DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Exhibit: (Alper) It Takes a Nation: Art for Social Justice
It Takes a Nation: Art for Social Justice
WITH EMORY DOUGLAS, AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, AFRICOBRA, AND CONTEMPORARY WASHINGTON ARTISTS
Curated by Sandy Bellamy
September 6 through October 23, 2016
In the Alper Initiative space, Washington artists respond to the graphics of Black Panther artist...
2016_DC_KatzenXT_Alien_160910165DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Gallery Talk: Daughter of China, Resident Alien w/Hung Liu
Gallery Talk: Daughter of China, Resident Alien
Chinese-born American artist Hung Liu will speak about two timely themes that are reflected in her current body of work: refugees and heroines.
2016_DC_KatzenXT_Silos_16090980DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Gallery Talk: Jeffreen Hayes (Silos) w/Ellington Robinson, Wesley Clark, and Yaw Agyeman
Member's Preview
Director and Curator Jack Rasmussen invites members to a first look at the Early Fall Exhibitions, including a tour of Silos with curator Jeffreen Hayes, Ph.D.
2016_DC_KatzenXT_Letelier_160922278DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Letelier-Moffitt commemoration
Mural event with Chilean president Michelle Bachelet.
Speakers in sequence:
* ???
* Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
* Francisco Letelier, artist, "Todas las Manos"
* Mural unveiling and tour
* Michelle Bachelet, President of...
2016_DC_KatzenO_16091036DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Opening Reception (Public)
During the event, Aviva Kempner introduced me to Francisco Letelier who was there with his Todas Las Manos exhibition.
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016E_Katz7DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Exhibit: Alex Katz: Black and White
Alex Katz: Black and White
November 12 through December 18, 2016
Alex Katz: Black and White explores the artist's lifelong interest in stripping color out of his prints, and his attempt to replace sensual pleasure with intellectual design. Design versus color has been an artistic debate that goes back...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016E_Goldberg7DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Exhibit: Carol Brown Goldberg: The Studio: A Place of Transformation
Carol Brown Goldberg: The Studio: A Place of Transformation
Photo by Lee Stalsworth
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016E_Carnwath24DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Exhibit: Squeak Carnwath: Crazy Paper and Sister Objects
Squeak Carnwath: Crazy Paper and Sister Objects
November 12 through December 18, 2016
While Squeak Carnwath is primarily known as a painter, she has worked across many media. This exhibition highlights the unique surfaces and textures that each medium affords, while sharing the artist’s distinct...
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016E_Snowden9DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Exhibit: Sylvia Snowden: The Feel of Paint
Sylvia Snowden: The Feel of Paint
November 12 through December 18, 2016
The Feel of Paint is an exhibition of large-scale, highly impastoed mixed media paintings by one of Washington’s most prolific artists—while relying on self and not the input of assistants nor mechanics to execute her creativity....
2016_DC_KatzenX_2016E_Ichiuji42DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Exhibit: (Alper) Melissa Ichiuji: Make You Love Me
Melissa Ichiuji: Make You Love Me
November 12 through December 18, 2016
By its role and emotional density, the doll reminds us of the first objects that comforted us in childhood. For Melissa Ichiuji, it helped to renew the creative energies within the family space. The doll, with its suggestive and...
2016_DC_KatzenXT_Vandal_161129124DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Gallery Talk: Just(ified) Vandalism w/Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Gallery Talk: Just(ified) Vandalism
Several years ago, the government of the Republic of Macedonia embarked on an expensive “urban renewal” of the capital city, Skopje. Most of this renewal consisted of large monuments of “historic” figures and new quasi-classical facades over old buildings. In spring...
2016_DC_KatzenXT_16111187DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Gallery Talk: Melissa Ichiuji, Martha Wilson, Sylvia Snowden, and Carol Brown Goldberg
The member night preview included talks by several artists:
* Martha Wilson: Martha Wilson & Franklin Furnace
* Sylvia Snowden: The Feel of Paint
* Melissa Ichiuji: Make You Love Me
* Carol Brown Goldberg (w/Ramon Osuna): The Studio: A Place of Transformation
Coordinating them was museum...
2016_DC_KatzenXT_Carmwath_16111233DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Gallery Talk: Squeak Carnwath
Gallery Talk with Squeak Carnwath
Squeak Carnwath has explored monoprinting, etching, aquatint, and numerous other techniques that allow her to build layers of color and imagery. Learn about her journey through media as she tours selected works from 30 years of artmaking.
2016_DC_KatzenO_1611114DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Opening Reception (Member)
2016_DC_KatzenO_16111268DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016E Late Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Late Fall Opening Reception
Meet and mingle with the artists, curators, and fellow museum patrons at the opening reception. Free and open to the public.
Artists photographed during the opening reception were:
* Melissa Ichiuji: Make You Love Me
* Martha Wilson: Martha Wilson & Franklin Furnace
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2017_DC_KatzenX_2017A_Chanel17DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Exhibit: Coco Chanel: A New Portrait by Marion Pike, Paris 1967-71
Coco Chanel: A New Portrait by Marion Pike, Paris 1967-71
January 13 through February 12, 2017
Coco Chanel: A New Portrait by Marion Pike, Paris 1967-71 explores the profound friendship between California artist Marion Pike and legendary designer Coco Chanel. This exhibition features five portraits of...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017A_Cameron18DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Exhibit: Joe Cameron: Touching Air
Joe Cameron: Touching Air
January 28 through March 12, 2017
To talk about Joe Cameron's art is to talk about several arts. Few photographers have ever been more interested in drawing and design, or more steeped in imagery whose analogues are poetic, musical and phenomenological. Despite the continuity...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017A_Wolfe51DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Exhibit: Julie Wolfe: Quest for a Third Paradise
Julie Wolfe: Quest for a Third Paradise
January 18 through March 12, 2017
What if we could better understand our own human social systems—the means by which we communicate with each other, the patterns that govern our interdependence, and the minutiae that form those larger structures? And what if we...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017A_Mehring11DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Exhibit: Mehring / Wellspring: The Early Color Field Paintings of Howard Mehring
Mehring / Wellspring: The Early Color Field Paintings of Howard Mehring
January 18 through March 12, 2017
Mehring / Wellspring: The Early Color Field Paintings of Howard Mehring presents a survey sample of the early Color Field paintings of Howard Mehring (1931-1978). Building on the late 1950s...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017A_Shaffer64DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Exhibit: Mike Shaffer: Towers & Monuments
Mike Shaffer: Towers & Monuments
January 28 through March 12, 2017
Towers & Monuments presents sculptures and paintings that incorporate the artist's career-long fascination with grid-patterning and perpendicular stacking techniques, selected from a body of work created by the artist beginning in the...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017A_Ruins20DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Exhibit: New Ruins
New Ruins
Curated by Danielle Mysliwiec and Natalie Campbell
January 18 through March 12, 2017
New Ruins explores the tactile, perceptual, and temporal dimensions of surface and form among a resonant grouping of abstract works. Physical processes such as rubbing, layering, building, wearing away...
2017_DC_KatzenXT_Wolfe_17012833DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Gallery Talk: Julie Wolfe
Curator Claire D'Alba and artist Julie Wolfe discuss her paintings and drawings in her solo-exhibition Quest for a Third Paradise on view through March 13.
2017_DC_KatzenXT_17012778DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Gallery Talk: Various
The member preview included a number of speakers:
* Artist Julie Wolfe discussing her "Quest for a Third Paradise" exhibit
* Curator Danielle Mysliwiec discussing "New Ruins"
* Photographer Joe Cameron discussing his "Touching Air" exhibit
* Sculptor Mike Shaffer discussing his "Towers &...
2017_DC_KatzenXT_Artif_17030455DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Member's Party w/The Artifacts
Member's party featuring classical "Rock" music performed by The Artifacts: CAS Dean Peter Starr, Museum Director Jack Rasmussen, Courtney Surls and Jarrett Murray.
Note: Two versions of the performance images are usually posted. The red light on the stage made the pictures, um, interesting but hard to...
2017_DC_KatzenO_17012711DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Opening Reception (Member)
2017_DC_KatzenO_17012836DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
In addition to lots of folks, two artists were also here in their galleries:
* Photographer Joe Cameron -- "Touching Air"
* Sculptor Mike Shaffer -- "Towers & Monuments"
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017B_Luna70DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Exhibit: Carlos Luna: Green Machine
Carlos Luna: Green Machine
April 1 - May 28, 2017
Green Machine features the latest work of one of Cuba's leading contemporary artists, Carlos Luna. In this exhibition, painting, sculpture and installation become one to portray Cuban stories and fables. While using culturally-specific imagery, Luna...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017B_Sikorska32DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Exhibit: Elzbieta Sikorska: Time Stands Still
Elzbieta Sikorska: Time Stands Still
April 1 - May 28, 2017
No matter how we reflect on time, it is a contemplative and complicated subject. Time affects everything: people, animals, woodlands, earth, stone, and artifacts. These are the elements that Elzbieta Sikorska uses in her large scale,...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017B_Sham49DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Exhibit: Foon Sham, Escape
Foon Sham, Escape
April 1 - August 13, 2017
Foon Sham is a master of wood sculpture. To be within one of his vessel sculptures is to experience the palpable space of a woodland creature's habitat, or the concealed space of someone wanting to hide. For the Escape exhibition at the American University...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017B_Maya43DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Exhibit: Maya Alphabet of Modern Times
Maya Alphabet of Modern Times
April 1 - May 28, 2017
Maya Alphabet of Modern Times intends to re-codify a small part of the Maya mythic narrative, giving the artistic tradition new graphic form. In the Maya Alphabet of Modern Times typo-graphic works, Frida Larios, a native of El Salvador, has...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017B_Geometry40DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Exhibit: Sharon Wolpoff and Tammra Sigler: Geometry and Other Myths
Sharon Wolpoff and Tammra Sigler: Geometry and Other Myths
April 1 - May 28, 2017
At first glance the art of Sharon Wolpoff has little in common with the art of Tammra Sigler. Wolpoff is a painter of carefully composed scenes from life, suffused with light and heightened color. Sigler is an...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017B_Stations3DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Exhibit: Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross
AU Museum participates in Stations of the Cross
Presented by Coexist House, March 1 - April 16, 2017
On View at the AU Museum: Station 12
American University presents Station 12, representing Jesus's death on the cross through Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib 73. Botero is famous...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017B_Summerford30DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Exhibit: Summerford Legacy
Summerford Legacy
April 1 - May 28, 2017
Ben L. Summerford (1924-2015) taught at American University's Department of Art from 1951-1987. All of the artists in Summerford Legacy studied under Professor Summerford and took different aspects of his teaching to heart. Some stayed close to their artistic...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017B_MFA_1Yr9DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Exhibit: Year One: MFA First Year Exhibition
Year One: MFA First Year Exhibition
April 1 - April 19, 2017
AU's Department of Art presents the work of current first-year MFA candidates. The multidisciplinary Studio Art program showcases an exciting range of emerging artists' work in painting, sculpture, collage and material studies, photography,...
2017_DC_KatzenXT_170331123DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Gallery Talk: Foon Sham, Laura Roulet, Sharon Wolpoff, Tammra Sigler, Elzbieta Sikorska, and Carlos Luna
Director and Curator Jack Rasmussen invites members to preview the Spring exhibitions. Talks were made by:
The event also included talks by:
* Foon Sham and Laura Roulet (curator) -- "Escape: Foon Sham"
* Sharon Wolpoff and Tammra Sigler -- "Sharon Wolpoff and Tammra Sigler: Geometry and Other...
2017_DC_KatzenXT_Larios_17040682DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Gallery Talk: Frida Larios
Gallery Talk and Reception with Frida Larios
Hosted by the Embassy of El Salvador, the evening includes remarks by Ambassador Claudia Ivette Canjura de Centeno, a discussion with the artist Frida Larios, and a reception with tastes of Central America.
2017_DC_KatzenXT_17040118DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Gallery Talk: Tammra Sigler and Sharon Wolpoff
Gallery Talk with Tammra Sigler and Sharon Wolpoff:
Learn more about the artists and their friendship behind the exhibition Geometry and Other Myths with Tammra Sigler and Sharon Wolpoff.
2017_DC_KatzenO_1703313DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Opening Reception (Member)
Most of the people pictures from this member reception are shown under the Artist Talk page.
2017_DC_KatzenO_17040189DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017B Spring Opening Reception (Public)
Various artists were here for the opening:
* Foon Sham and Laura Roulet (curator) -- "Escape: Foon Sham" (with a visit by Yumi Hogan, wife of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan)
* Elzbieta Sikorska and Aneta Georgievska-Shine (curator) -- "Time Stands Still: Elzbieta Sikorska"
* Carlos Luna -- "Green...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017C_Kellogg29DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017C Summer Exhibit: Frederic Kellogg: Works in Oil and Watercolor
Frederic Kellogg: Works in Oil and Watercolor
The work of Frederic Kellogg belongs within—and extends—what could be called a river of traditional American landscape, figural and still-life painting; a broad, quarter-millennium course flowing from John Singleton Copley and Thomas Cole to Milton Avery...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017C_Lewton23DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017C Summer Exhibit: Val Lewton: From Hollywood to Breezewood
Val Lewton: From Hollywood to Breezewood
This retrospective of Val Lewton brings it all to bear: Lewton’s lifetime in front of the canvas, his knowledge of color, his unerring command of the paint-loaded brush and his certitude about how best to structure a painting. Lewton was born in California, the...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017C_Border13DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017C Summer Exhibit: (Alper) Performing the Border
Performing the Border
This summer, the Alper Initiative for Washington Art presents a group exhibition curated by Megan Rook-Koespel Performing the Border. The borders that separate people and things are constantly changing, and quite often completely arbitrary, yet the importance placed on them would...
2017_DC_KatzenXT_Keyzer_17061734DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017C Summer Gallery Talk: Carl De Keyzer
Join the artist, Carl De Keyzer, and American University faculty Louis Goodman, Sarah Gordon and Leena Jayaswal and Georgetown professor, artist, and curator BG Muhn for a discussion on the state of North Korea and Cuba, as represented in De Keyzer’s series of 60 photographs from the Communist-led...
2017_DC_KatzenO_17061766DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017C Summer Opening Reception (Public)
Summer Opening Reception
Mix and mingle with artists, curators and fellow museum patrons at the opening of four new Summer Exhibitions: States of Being: Cuba and North Korea by Carl De Keyzer, Frederic Kellogg: Works in Oil and Watercolor, Val Lewton: From Hollywood to Breezewood, and Performing the...
2017_DC_KatzenXT_I_Am_17090875DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D Early Fall Auditorium Talk: I Am
Program:
* Welcome: Mr. Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum
* Remarks: His Excellency Shaikh Abdulla Rashed Al Khalifa, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain
* Introduction to CARAVAN and I AM Exhibition: Rev. Paul-Gordon Chandler, Founding President, CARAVAN
*...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017D_Caravan66DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D Early Fall Exhibit: I AM: An East-West Arts Initiative Organized by CARAVAN
I AM: An East-West Arts Initiative Organized by CARAVAN
September 5 - October 22, 2017
I AM is a strategic peace-building exhibition organized by CARAVAN that showcases the insights and experiences of Middle Eastern women as they confront issues of culture, religion and social reality in a rapidly...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017D_Jefferson17DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D Early Fall Exhibit: Making a Scene: Jefferson Place
Making a Scene: Jefferson Place
September 5 - October 22, 2017
September 2017 marks the 60th Anniversary of the opening of the Jefferson Place Gallery: a small, cooperative gallery dedicated principally to showing the work of DC-area contemporary artists of the late 1950s.
Founded by four American...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017D_Twist17DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D Early Fall Exhibit: Twist -- Layer -- Pour: Sondra N. Arkin, Joan Belmar, and Mary Early
Twist - Layer - Pour: Sondra N. Arkin, Joan Belmar, and Mary Early
September 5 - October 22, 2017
In Twist -- Layer -- Pour, the unexpected grouping of Sondra N. Arkin, Joan Belmar and Mary Early yields a dynamic, site-responsive meditation on systemized components and accumulated wholes. Step by...
2017_DC_KatzenXT_Barjeel_17090948DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D Early Fall Gallery Talk: Barjeel Art Foundation
Gallery Talk: The Barjeel Art Foundation (Updated 8/2)
Curators from the Barjeel Art Foundation, Karim Sultan and Mandy Merzaban, discuss the ideas and inspiration behind the current exhibition Between two rounds of fire, the exile of the sea and the methods Arab artists employ to expose and comment on...
2017_DC_KatzenO_170908115DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D Early Fall Opening Reception (Member)
Folks here include Sylvia Burwell (the new president of American University), H.E. Shaikh Abdulla Rashed Al Khalifa (Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain), H.E. Fayçal Gouia (Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia), and Salah A. Sarhan (Ambassador, the League of Arab States).
Artists include Marwa Al...
2017_DC_KatzenO_17090993DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D Early Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Photos include artists William Woodward (in his "The Seven Deadly Sins" exhibit) and Foon Sham.
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017D_2Rounds32DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Between Two Rounds of Fire, The Exile of the Sea
Between Two Rounds of Fire, The Exile of the Sea
September 5 - December 17, 2017
This exhibition draws on a diverse selection of Arab modern and contemporary works from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates, that illustrate an array of technologies of conflict. In this...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017D_Kinetic36DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Tethered to the Cradle: Kinetic Work by Christopher Carter
Tethered to the Cradle: Kinetic Work by Christopher Carter
September 5 - December 17, 2017
Christopher Carter's substantial and important sculptures are intended to invite viewer interaction, reflection and contemplation. The ready-made forms draw on Carter's experiences and memories of his...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017D_7DSins76DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: William Woodward: Seven Deadly Sins
William Woodward: The Seven Deadly Sins
Sept 5 - Dec 17, 2017
For the past two decades, William Woodward has delved into the rich history and aesthetic possibilities of the seven deadly sins. The master drawings and narrative paintings in this exhibition owe a great deal to the films of Federico...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017E_Radix50DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017E Late Fall Exhibit: RADIX: The Eternal Feminine
RADIX: The Eternal Feminine
November 11 – December 17, 2017
RADIX is a collaboration of three Washington artists: Anne Marchand, Pat Goslee and Cianne Fragione. All three work with ideas contained in the concept of the Eternal Feminine, as an original dynamic and cosmic force, in paintings and...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017E_Rothfeld16DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017E Late Fall Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions to the Rothfeld Collection of Contemporary Israeli Art
Recent Acquisitions to the Rothfeld Collection of Contemporary Israeli Art
November 11 – December 17, 2017
The Rothfeld Collection of Contemporary Israeli Art, part of the American University Museum's permanent collection, inspires dialog about political and cultural issues involving Israel through...
2017_DC_KatzenX_2017E_Trawick31DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017E Late Fall Exhibit: (Alper) The Trawick Prize
The Trawick Prize
November 11 – December 17, 2017
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art celebrates an award that has become synonymous with Washington area artistic talent: The Trawick Prize for Contemporary Arts. One of the first regional competitions with the largest award that annually recognizes...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Words10DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Brian Dailey, WORDS
Brian Dailey, WORDS
January 27 – March 11, 2018
Brian Dailey’s multi-screen video installation WORDS is the artist’s investigation into the relationship between language, culture, and national identity and the challenges we face in our efforts to communicate key concepts across linguistic boundaries...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Sandberg83DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Erik Thor Sandberg
Erik Thor Sandberg
January 27 – March 11, 2018
This exhibition features a series of new paintings by American artist Erik Thor Sandberg within the context of selected earlier works. Sandberg is known internationally for pushing the skillful illusionism of master oil painting to the current edge of...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_DiPerna3DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Frank DiPerna Retrospective
Frank DiPerna Retrospective
January 27 — March 11, 2018
Sponsored by: Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Frank DiPerna Retrospective is a comprehensive survey of the artist's photographic work over more than forty years. Comprised of multiple bodies of work beginning in 1974 continuing through...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Arteria16DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Kateřina Vincourová: Arteria
Kateřina Vincourová: Arteria
January 27 – March 11, 2018
Czech artist Kateřina Vincourová focuses on the fragile nuances of interpersonal relations and at the same time abstracts such notions into an examination of networks and shifts in time and space. The exhibition Arteria thus becomes a holistic...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Downing4DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Thomas Downing and the Sublime Decorative
Thomas Downing and the Sublime Decorative
January 27 – March 11, 2018
Downing’s distinctive geometrically organized canvases, executed during the height of the “Washington Color School,” that glorious moment in American painting born in Washington, DC in the late 1950s and 1960s, constitute a singular...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Vital25DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Vital Signs
Vital Signs
January 27 – March 11, 2018
Curated by Meskerem Assegued
Abel Tilahun, a multidisciplinary artist from Ethiopia, explores universal human experience through the manifold meanings we associate with the human body, its parts, its sustenance, and its loftiest ambitions in Vital Signs. The...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Tilahun_18012744DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Gallery Talk: Abel Tilahun
Artist Abel Tilahun and curator Meskerem Assegued lead a tour of this immersive exhibition Vital Signs. Free and open to the public.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Sandberg_18020136DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Gallery Talk: Erik Thor Sandberg
Erik Thor Sandberg
This exhibition features a series of new paintings by American artist Erik Thor Sandberg within the context of selected earlier works. Sandberg is known internationally for pushing the skillful illusionism of master oil painting to the current edge of Magic Realism on...
2018_DC_KatzenO_18012782DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
Including photographs of artists Brian Dailey, Erik Thor Sandberg, Kateřina Vincourová, and Frank DiPerna.
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Goldberg23DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Carol Brown Goldberg: Entanglement
Carol Brown Goldberg: Entanglement
April 3 - May 27, 2018
Carol Brown Goldberg's exhibition Entanglement offers vivid evidence of her artmaking as the convergence of intellect, emotion, and technique. Her paintings in the current exhibition-marked by images of dense, imagined foliage-are rooted in a...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Toledo39DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Francisco Toledo: Toledo Múltiple
Francisco Toledo: Toledo Múltiple
April 3 - May 27, 2018
As Mexico's most prolific and influential graphic artist, Francisco Toledo has been exploring the fantastical and expanding the expressive range of his printmaking over more than 50 years. This exhibition encompasses a wide range of Toledo's...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Moon23DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here
Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here
April 3 - May 27, 2018
Jiha Moon's works address the intersection of imagery native to Korea, Japan, and China and elements of the West in order to explore cross-cultural perceptions. Originally from Korea and presently based out of Atlanta, Georgia,...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Ando1DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Kumo: Miya Ando
Kumo: Miya Ando
April 3 - May 27, 2018
Curated by Aria Gannon
Miya Ando's artwork ranges from monochrome to subtle color palates, offering a glimpse of the immense calming energy of the infinite. Ando creates an immersive work that engages the viewers, bringing nature to mind, reminding the viewers...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_MFA_1Yr19DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Master of Fine Art First Year and Thesis Exhibitions
Master of Fine Art First Year and Thesis Exhibitions
April 3 - April 25 and May 5 - May 27, 2018
AU's Department of Art presents a two-part exhibition featuring the work of first and second year MFA candidates working in diverse media. The first-year experience is riddled with experimentation,...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Clark11DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: (Alper) Michael Clark: Washington Artist
Michael Clark: Washington Artist
April 3 – May 27, 2018
Sponsored by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Michael Clark (a.k.a. Clark Fox) has been an influential figure in the Washington art world for more than 50 years, despite dividing his time equally between the capital and New York City....
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Goldberg_18042685DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Gallery Talk: Carol Brown Goldberg
Gallery Talk: Carol Brown Goldberg
Washington artist Carol Brown Goldberg will discuss the intersection of philosophy and poetry in her ethereal images of densely-packed foliage. Free and open to the public.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Toledo_18041347DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Gallery Talk: Toledo Múltiple w/Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga
Museum Members are invited to attend a special evening viewing of our new exhibitions, featuring a talk by the curator of Toledo Múltiple, Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga.
Introductory comments were made by Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández, the Mexican ambassador to the United States.
2018_DC_KatzenO_18041366DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Opening Reception (Member)
Artists here this evening included Michael Clark, Jiha Moon, and Carol Brown Goldberg. Other folks present included Diane Rehm and Aviva Kempner.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Stead_180616103DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Artist Talk: Ralph Steadman
Gallery Talk with Ralph Steadman
Join us for a lively session about the diverse and wide-ranging span of works in Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective. Ralph Steadman will be joined by Anita O'Brien from the Cartoon Museum in London, who curated the exhibition.
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018C_Figures21DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Exhibit: FIGURES: Kiley Ames, Janice Nowinski, Kyle Staver, Jo Weiss
FIGURES: Kiley Ames, Janice Nowinski, Kyle Staver, Jo Weiss
June 16 - August 12, 2018
Four women artists convincingly place human figures in space, each reaching that high-water mark of Western Art in their own way. Kiley Ames has a seemingly rational, systematic technique akin to pointillism that on...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018C_Steadman654DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Exhibit: Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective
Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective
June 16 – August 12, 2018
Originally curated by Anita O'Brien at the Cartoon Museum, London, the Ralph Steadman Retrospective offers phenomenal insights into the genius of one of the world's most acclaimed artists. This exhibition takes the viewer on a journey through...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018C_Unseen6DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Exhibit: Things Unseen: The Fluency of Abstraction
Things Unseen: The Fluency of Abstraction
June 16 - August 12, 2018
Artists featured in this exhibition use abstraction as a conduit to express their keen observations. The broad implications of the exhibition signify the fluency of abstraction and its many interpretations. What is absent is present....
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018C_Latitude42DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Exhibit:(Alper) Latitude: The Washington Women's Arts Center 1975-1987
Latitude: The Washington Women's Arts Center 1975-1987
June 16 to August 12, 2018
The Washington Women's Arts Center (WWAC), located at 1821 Q Street NW, then at the Lansburgh Cultural Center, was created in 1975 as a non-profit organization to provide professional support and opportunities for women...
2018_DC_KatzenO_18061671DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Opening Reception (Public)
Opening Reception
Mix and mingle with fellow museum patrons and meet the artists and curators behind the four new Summer exhibitions at the Opening Reception. Free and open to the public.
Folks shown here include several artists in the exhibit Kiley Ames and ???.
Also shown are folks who came for the...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_4NoGood_1806214DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Screening of "For No Good Reason" documentary
Katzen -- Screening of "For No Good Reason"
Made over the course of fifteen years, For No Good Reason explores the connection between life and art through the eyes of the last original Gonzo visionary, Ralph Steadman. Take a trip through the wild and dark days of Steadman’s time with Hunter S. Thompson...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_SteadS_18063051DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Skype Session with Ralph Steadman and reception
Bring your sketchbook for some lunchtime inspiration! Guests will tour Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective before enjoying refreshments while Skyping with Ralph.
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_Legacy10DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Exhibit: D'Arista Legacy
D'Arista Legacy
Carlton Fletcher, Lowell Gilbertson, Edith Kuhnle, Dale Loy, Katy Murray, Marci Nadler, Lee Newman, Iris Osterman, Maggie Siner, Jo Weiss, Diane Wilson, and Susan Yanero
September 4-October 21, 2018
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Robert D’Arista taught in the...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Artif_18090756DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Member's Party w/The Artifacts
Members' Preview
Join us for a private reception and gallery talk on the life and work of Robert D’Arista before closing out the night with a jam session by our Director’s band, The Artifacts.
The members of the band: CAS Dean Peter Starr, Museum Director Jack Rasmussen, Courtney Surls, ...
Folks in...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_18090767DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Members Gallery Talk: Emilie Brzezinski, Dalya Luttwak, Aneta Georgievska-Shine, and Mika Brzezinski
Folks in the audience included Aviva Kempner, Joe Scarborough, Jack Rasmussen, Sharon Wolpoff, Carol Brown Goldberg, etc.
2018_DC_KatzenO_18090743DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Opening Reception (Member)
The artist talk and Artifacts performance are on other pages. Check the links above.
Folks here include Jack Rasmussen, Sylvia Mathews Burwell (American University President), Carol Brown Goldberg, Joann Moser, Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Dalya Luttwak, and Lowell Gilbertson.
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_Path24DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Finding a Path: Emilie Brzezinski and Dalya Luttwak: A Conversation
Finding a Path: Emilie Brzezinski and Dalya Luttwak: A Conversation
September 4-December 16, 2018
Curated by Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Emilie Brzezinski and Dalya Luttwak have much in common as artists, yet they have never shown their works together. Brzezinski’s massive, rough-hewn wood sculptures...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_Sanborn29DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Jim Sanborn: Without Provenance: The Making of Contemporary Antiquity
Jim Sanborn: Without Provenance: The Making of Contemporary Antiquity
September 4-December 16, 2018
In Without Provenance Jim Sanborn has given us all a rare gift of artistic provocation. Certainly there is an abundance of beauty in this exhibition, but it is beauty that provokes thought and...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_DArista3DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Robert D'Arista: A Portrait
Robert D'Arista: A Portrait
September 4-December 16, 2018
"When we look at one of his untitled figure paintings, we can feel the exactness of the model’s weight distribution and her turn in space, but the details of the environment and the identity of the individual model eludes us. Instead, we must...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_Artery102DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Selections from the Artery Collection
Selections from the Artery Collection
September 4-December 16, 2018
The Artery Organization Collection was conceived as a corporate collection in the early 1980s to support Washington-area artists and enhance the real estate offices of the company in Artery Plaza, the first large building in Bethesda....
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018E_Tribe51DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Exhibit: Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World
Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World
November 10-December 16, 2018
Curated by Janet Bellotto and Dr. Woodman Taylor
Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World is an exhibition highlighting a selection of artists published within the eight editions of Tribe—a magazine founded...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018E_Jehle18DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Exhibit: (Alper) Ian Jehle: Dynamical Systems
Ian Jehle: Dynamical Systems
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
November 10 - December 16, 2018
Curated by Laura Roulet
Ian Jehle, a DC-based artist and American University faculty member, has long been known for his sensitive, large scale portraits of members of the Washington art...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Kaufman_18110919DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Gallery Talk: Joshua J. Kaufman ("The Art of Deception: Art Fakes and Forgeries")
Museum members are invited to join Joshua J. Kaufman, Esq. in taking a closer look at our ongoing exhibition Without Provenance: The Making of Contemporary Antiquity. Kaufman will examine the dark side of the art world in his lecture:
“The Art of Deception: Art Fakes and Forgeries.”
In this lecture,...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Tribe_18111063DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Gallery Talk: Tribe
Tribe Gallery Talk
Join Curator Janet Bellotto and co-curator Dr. Woodman Taylor in conversation with several artists featured in our late fall exhibition Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World. This talk will explore broad, culturally specific themes as well as innovation by the...
2018_DC_KatzenO_18110923DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Opening Reception (Member)
Ian Jehle and Laura Roulet were here as well as members.
2018_DC_KatzenO_18111046DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Ian Jehle and Laura Roulet were here as well as some of their subjects. Also Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Melvin Hardy and others.
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019A_Kolar37DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019A Winter Exhibit: Jiří Kolář (1914–2002): Forms of Visual Poetry
Jiří Kolář (1914–2002): Forms of Visual Poetry
This exhibition is dedicated to one of the most remarkable Czech poets and visual artists associated with Modernism, Jiří Kolář (1914-2002). During the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Kolář encountered considerable challenges, including a prison...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019A_Nancy9044DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019A Winter Exhibit: Nancy at Ninety: A Retrospective of Form and Color
Nancy at Ninety: A Retrospective of Form and Color
January 26-March 17, 2019
Curated by Claudia Rousseau
This retrospective of seven decades of the work of Washington, DC sculptor Nancy Frankel will celebrate her ninetieth birthday in 2019. Working in various media since the 1950s—including wood,...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019A_Podesta19DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019A Winter Exhibit: The Gifts of Tony Podesta
The Gifts of Tony Podesta
Curated by Klaus Ottmann and Jennifer Sakai
January 26-March 17, 2019
This first major exhibition drawn from our Corcoran Legacy Collection features strong and provocative photography and sculpture donated by Tony Podesta over the past decade to the Corcoran Gallery of Art,...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019A_Platt15DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019A Winter Exhibit: (Alper) Michael B. Platt + Carol A. Beane: Influences and Connections
Michael B. Platt + Carol A. Beane: Influences and Connections
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
January 26-March 17, 2019
Standing at the foot of Australia’s sacred sandstone monolith known as Uluru, Michael B. Platt and Carol A. Beane envisioned a world invisible to many others....
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Kolar_19012553DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019A Winter Gallery Talk: Career of Jirí Kolár
Join us for an exclusive preview of four new exhibitions. At 6PM, Curator Aneta Georgievska-Shine and Milena Kalinovska, former Director of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery in Prague, will discuss the tumultuous career of Czech artist Jirí Kolár and his path from subversive poetry to...
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Podesta_19012677DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019A Winter Gallery Talk: Gifts of Tony Podesta
"The Gifts of Tony Podesta" Gallery Talk
Curators Jennifer Sakai and Klaus Ottmann will explore Tony Podesta’s contributions to the American University Museum’s collection including innovative photography and provocative sculpture.
Panel (left to right):
* Jack Rasmussen
* Otonella Mocellin...
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Nancy90_19030284DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019A Winter Gallery Talk: Nancy at Ninety
Nancy at Ninety Gallery Talk
Curator Claudia Rousseau will interview Nancy Frankel about her extensive career as a sculptor and how music and organic geometry have influenced her practice. With Sam Noto and Jacqui Crocetta.
2019_DC_KatzenO_19012545DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019A Winter Opening Reception (Member)
Folks here include Tony Podesta, Ambassador David O'Sullivan (Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States), and Melvin Hardy.
2019_DC_KatzenO_19012654DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
Folks here included John Podesta, Tony Podesta, Nancy Frankel, Sylvia Snowden, and Melvin Hardy.
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Drag_190413348DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Event: Dragception Workshop
Dragception Workshop
Bring your iPads or sketchbooks to draw from a live Drag Show. Featuring performances by Drag Kings and Queens from the greater Washington, DC area and New York City. Artist Richard Peterson, whose work is included in the exhibition Forward Press, will lead participants in an iPad...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019B_Carrillo140DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Exhibit: Eduardo Carrillo, Las Tropicanas
Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo
April 6-May 26, 2019
Eduardo Carrillo’s artwork has been described as mystical, realistic, surreal, and visionary. His imagery, whether grounded in the everyday world or infused with magical realism, reflects his relationship to his native...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019B_Press69DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Exhibit: Forward Press: 21st century printmaking
Forward Press: 21st Century Printmaking
April 6-August 11, 2019
Curated by Susan J. Goldman
Presented by the Printmaking Legacy Project®
Printmaking Legacy Project’s® first national print exhibition, Forward Press: 21st Century Printmaking features ten innovative print artists from across the...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019B_MFA_1Yr39DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Exhibit: Peripheral Visions: Studio Art MFA First Year exhibition
Peripheral Visions
Studio Art MFA First Year exhibition
On view April 6-April 24, 2019.
Peripheral Visions focuses on the community as well as individuality formed in the first year of the Studio Art MFA Program, showing a group of very different artists working and learning how to grow together. The...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019B_Broel31DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Exhibit: Squire Broel
Squire Broel
April 6-August 11, 2019
A selection of Broel’s life-sized to monumentally-sized totemic bronze sculptures creates space for reflection and contemplation about what it means to be human, be engaged as an individual within community and interact intentionally with the natural world. In his...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019B_MFA_Thesis78DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Exhibit: Turbulence: Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
Turbulence
Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
On view May 4-May 26, 2019.
Eight emerging artists present their work as part of their 2019 MFA Thesis exhibition. This exhibition demonstrates a diversity of views on subjects that range from identity to geometric abstraction to activism. What unites the...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019B_Continuum19DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Exhibit: (Alper) Kenneth Victor Young: Continuum
Kenneth Victor Young: Continuum
April 6-May 26, 2019
Curated by Dexter Wimberly
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Kenneth Victor Young (1933-2017) moved to Washington, DC in 1964 where he began to paint abstract forms with washed acrylics on unprimed...
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Peterson_19041340DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Gallery Talk: Richard Peterson (intro to Dragception)
Artist Richard Peterson, whose work is included in the exhibition Forward Press, will lead participants in an iPad drawing workshop. Since 1975, Peterson has explored the subject of gender, identity and transformation in Drag culture. Participants will learn new techniques for drawing with their iPads,...
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Carrillo_19040515DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Gallery Talk: The Work of Eduardo Carrillo
An exclusive preview of five new exhibitions awaits museum members, followed by a gallery talk surrounding the work of Mexican-American artist Eduardo Carrillo (1937-1997). Phillip Brookman, Consulting Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art and Kristina P. Gilmore, Associate Curator,...
2019_DC_KatzenO_19040526DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B Spring Opening Reception (Member)
2019_DC_KatzenO_19050487DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019B2 Spring II Opening Reception & Gallery Talk
MFA Thesis Opening Reception & Gallery Talk
Celebrate the accomplishments of AU’s Department of Art MFA thesis candidates by welcoming Turbulence to the museum. A gallery talk with the artists will be held from 5-6PM, followed by the opening reception from 6-7PM. Free and open to all, no RSVP required....
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019C_Taiwan19DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Exhibit: Being Here as ME
Being Here as ME -- New Media Art Exhibition of Women Artists from Taiwan
June 15-August 11, 2019
Curated by Yu-Chuan Tseng
Being Here as ME presents six women artists striving towards constructions of female subjectivity. Pey-Chwen Lin, Tzu-Ning Wu, Yung-Chieh Wu, I-Chun Chen, Pei-Shih Tu, and...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019C_Refuse18DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Exhibit: Kirsty Little: Refuse?REFUSE 35B+
Kirsty Little: Refuse?REFUSE 35B+
On view in the Katzen Arts Center, June 15-August 11, 2019
While investigating plastic pollution in our oceans, Kirsty Little came up against huge numbers that she could not envisage. Americans use 35,000,000,000 (35 billion) plastic bottles each year. Plastic never...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019C_Palileo68DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Exhibit: Maia Cruz Palileo
Maia Cruz Palileo
June 15-August 11, 2019
September 3-October 20, 2019
Curated by Isabel ManaloThere is a mystery in the act of burying and even more so in uncovering. Maia Cruz Palileo’s paintings and drawings are the metaphorical teeth in this body of work spanning from 2013 to 2019. These works,...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019C_Passages27DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Exhibit: Passages: Keith Morrison, 1999-2019
Passages: Keith Morrison, 1999-2019
June 15-August 11, 2019
Curated by Judith Stein
Passages: Keith Morrison, 1999-2019 surveys thirty paintings and watercolors by the Jamaican-born Keith Morrison. A magician of color and space and a teller of tales, fanciful and real, Morrison focuses on the...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019C_Prosper21DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Exhibit: Plans to Prosper You
Plans to Prosper You: Reflections of Black Resistance and Resilience in Montgomery County’s Potomac River Valley
June 15-August 11, 2019
Presented by the AU Museum Project Space
On view in the AU Museum Project Space
The exhibition title takes its name from bible verse Jeremiah 29:11 to echo the...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019C_Crossing51DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Exhibit: (Alper) Crossing Boundaries & Breaking Borders: DMV Printmaking
Crossing Boundaries & Breaking Borders: DMV Printmaking
June 15-August 11, 2019
Curated by Matthew McLaughlin
Presented by the Alper Initaitive for Washington Art
The District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region is full of boundaries and borders, both physical—like the state lines that...
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Palileo_19061540DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Gallery Talk: Maia Cruz Palileo
Curator Isabel Manalo and artist Maia Cruz Palileo will examine works that hinge on fantasy and memory, but hold salient political commentary surrounding American colonization of the Philippines.
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Broel_19061443DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Gallery Talk: Squire Broel
Members' Preview: Squire Broel
Museum members are invited to preview five new exhibitions and join artist Squire Broel to discuss the totemic sculptures featured in his ongoing exhibition.
2019_DC_KatzenO_19061429DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Opening Reception (Member)
Folks including Glenn Marcus, Jack Rasmussen, and Kirsty Little.
2019_DC_KatzenO_19061564DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019C Summer Opening Reception (Public)
Folks here include Nilou Kazemzadeh, Kirsty Little, Janet Fries, Chawky Frenn, Pey-Chwen Lin, Squire Broel
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019D_Hartigan17DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019D Early Fall Exhibit: Grace Hartigan and Helene Herzbrun: Reframing Abstract Expressionism
Grace Hartigan and Helene Herzbrun: Reframing Abstract Expressionism
September 3-October 20, 2019
Curated by Norma Broude, American University Art History
Professor Emerita Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) and Helene Herzbrun (1922-1984) were both remarkable painters of the second Abstract-Expressionist...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019D_Walter59DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019D Early Fall Exhibit: Moves Like Walter: New Curators Open the Corcoran Legacy Collection
Moves Like Walter: New Curators Open the Corcoran Legacy Collection
September 3-December 15, 2019
Moves like Walter: New Curators Open the Corcoran Legacy Collection is a product of Director and Curator Jack Rasmussen’s spring course on curatorial practice. Upon receipt of the Corcoran Collection,...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019D_World9DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019D Early Fall Exhibit: Our World Above: Monoprints and Glass by Annette Lerner
Our World Above: Monoprints and Glass by Annette Lerner
September 3-October 20, 2019
This exhibition was inspired by images taken through the Hubble Telescope. Their indescribable beauty astounded Lerner and drove her to try to capture space in the monoprint medium. She was also inspired by the desert...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019D_Topo31DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019D Early Fall Exhibit: Topographies of Life: Pam Rogers, Lynn Sures, Mel Watkin
Topographies of Life: Pam Rogers, Lynn Sures, Mel Watkin
September 3-December 15, 2019
Presented by the AU Museum Project Space
Using the medium of drawing to varied and distinctive effect, Rogers, Sures, and Watkin trace human connections to the natural world—across time and varied landscapes. The...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019D_Prints19DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019D Early Fall Exhibit: (Alper) Prints & Artists: WD Printmaking Workshop 1970-Present
Prints & Artists: WD Printmaking Workshop 1970-Present
September 3-October 20, 2019
Curated by members of the WD Workshop
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
This exhibition traces the evolution of the DC-based WD Printmaking workshop, which began with Percy and Alice Martin’s...
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Topo_19090746DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019D Early Fall Gallery Talk: Topographies of Life: Pam Rogers, Lynn Sures, Mel Watkin
Gallery Talk: Topographies of Life: Pam Rogers, Lynn Sures, Mel Watkin
Curated by Jennifer Riddell
Using the medium of drawing to varied and distinctive effect, Rogers, Sures, and Watkin trace human connections to the natural world—across time and varied landscapes. The three artists work from both a...
2019_DC_KatzenO_19090743DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019D Early Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Early Fall Opening Reception
Mix and mingle with artists, curators, and fellow patrons and see five new exhibitions on view at our Early Fall opening reception.
* Grace Hartigan and Helene Herzbrun: Reframing Abstract Expressionism
* Topographies of Life: Pam Rogers, Lynn Sures, Mel Watkin --...
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Arcadia_19121483DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fale Gallery Talk: Arcadia Closing Party
ARCADIA Closing Party
Say farewell to William Woodward’s fantastical Arcadia murals with a reception and remarks from the artist.
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019E_Arcadia43DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Exhibit: ARCADIA: The Clyde’s Murals by William Woodward
ARCADIA: The Clyde’s Murals by William Woodward
November 9-December 15, 2019
William Woodward’s vibrant, 72-foot mural, Arcadia (1980), evokes a landscape of pure painterly invention, a lost world that has inspired poets, artists, and musicians since antiquity.
These 11 impressive panels—with scenes...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019E_Neill17DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Exhibit: Christine Neill: Observations from the Valley Floor
Christine Neill: Observations from the Valley Floor
Curated by Mollie Berger Salah
November 9-December 15, 2019
Christine Neill is a nationally celebrated American artist whose work blends motifs of biological examination with visual processes and techniques. She has exhibited widely while...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019E_Dark15DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Exhibit: Dark World: Photographs by Frank Hallam Day
Dark World: Photographs by Frank Hallam Day
November 9-December 15, 2019
This exhibition, as its name implies, examines the distinctive quality of settings in various corners of the world as seen at night, and combines multiple bodies of the artist’s work spanning more than 12 years. The DC-based fine...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019E_Fair28DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Exhibit: Fair Is Foul & Foul Is Fair
Fair Is Foul & Foul Is Fair
November 9-December 15, 2019
Curated by Dr. Tina Kinsella
“Fair is foul and foul is fair” as claimed by the witches in Macbeth describes a world where nothing -- no message, no deed -- is ethically clear. In Shakespeare’s fair/foul world, evil walks abroad in the guise of...
2019_DC_KatzenX_2019E_Link13DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Exhibit: Radical Link: A New Community of Women, 1855-2020
Radical Link: A New Community of Women, 1855-2020
Michal Heiman
Curated by Sarah Gordon
November 9-December 15, 2019
Radical Link is the latest project by Tel Aviv-based multi-media artist Michal Heiman. Traversing time, space, gender, race, and institutional practices of asylum, Heiman offers a new...
2019_DC_KatzenXT_FairFoul_19110948DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Gallery Talk: fair is foul & foul is fair
Gallery Talk: fair is foul & foul is fair
Explore themes of foulness and fairness in this gallery talk focused on works by collaborating Irish artists Aideen Barry and Alice Maher. Featuring a vocal performance by Ceara Conway of a poem specially created for this exhibition.
2019_DC_KatzenXT_Day_19111618DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Gallery Talk: Frank Hallam Day "Dark World"
Gallery Talk: Dark World
Frank Hallam Day illuminates dark corners of the world in a discussion of his photographs on view in Dark World. Free and open to all, please RSVP to the link below.
2019_DC_KatzenO_19110987DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2019E Late Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Late Fall Opening Reception
Mix and mingle with artists, curators, and fellow patrons and preview five new exhibitions at our Late Fall opening reception. Free and open to all, no RSVP required.
Folks pictured here include: Laura Roulet, Aideen Barry, Alice Maher, Tina Kinsella (curator), Diane...
2020_DC_KatzenXT_Vessels_20030552DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Gallery Talk: Communicating Vessels
Communicating Vessels
Curator Claudia Rousseau will join the three DC-based, Surrealist-inspired artists of Communicating Vessels -- Ed Bisese, Elyse Harrison, Wayne Paige -- in conversation.
2020_DC_KatzenX_2020A_Vessels41DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Exhibit: Communicating Vessels: Ed Bisese, Elyse Harrison, Wayne Paige
Communicating Vessels: Ed Bisese, Elyse Harrison, Wayne Paige
Curated by Claudia Rousseau, PhD
January 25-March 15, 2020
The title of this exhibition is borrowed from that of a book written in 1932 by Surrealist poet André Breton (1896-1966), who in turn had borrowed it from a scientific experiment...
2020_DC_KatzenX_2020A_Good_Form158DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Exhibit: Good Form, Decorum, and in the Manner
Good Form, Decorum, and in the Manner
Portraits from the Collections of Washington Print Club Members
Curated by Tim Doud
January 25-March 15, 2020
Portraits are usually understood in one of two ways: as the depiction of the face of a person, or a representation of someone's impression of a person....
2020_DC_KatzenX_2020A_Heroes35DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Exhibit: Heroes & Losers: The Edification of Luis Lorenzana
Heroes & Losers: The Edification of Luis Lorenzana
Lisa Guerrero Nakpil, Coordinating Curator
January 25-March 15, 2020
Luis Lorenzana (b. 1979) is a self-taught Filipino artist whose background in politics has infused his work with a cynicism that belies his longing for a kinder, more equitable...
2020_DC_KatzenX_2020A_Landscape26DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Exhibit: Landscape in an Eroded Field
Landscape in an Eroded Field
Carol Barsha, Heather Theresa Clark, Artemis Herber
Curated by Laura Roulet
January 25-March 15, 2020
Landscape in an Eroded Field brings together three women artists whose work reflects the evolution of the pictorial landscape tradition in the Anthropocene era. Carol...
2020_DC_KatzenX_2020A_Gates33DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Exhibit: Robert Franklin Gates: Paint What You See
Robert Franklin Gates: Paint What You See
Curated by Jack Rasmussen
January 25-May 24, 2020
Robert Franklin Gates: Paint What You See showcases an adventurous artist who greatly influenced the course of Washington art from his arrival from Detroit in 1930, at the age of 24, until his death in 1982 as...
2020_DC_KatzenXT_BGMuhn_20021588DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Gallery Talk: B.G. Muhn ("North Korean Art - The Enigmatic World of Chosonhwa" book talk)
North Korean Art - The Enigmatic World of Chosonhwa
A Book Talk and Signing by B.G. Muhn
A book signing and talk by Georgetown Art Professor B.G. Muhn. Muhn will present the first publication of its kind on chosonhwa, which is the North Korean moniker for traditional ink wash painting, and the...
2020_DC_KatzenXT_Loren_20012428DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Gallery Talk: Luis Lorenzana
Members' Preview: Luis Lorenzana
Museum members are invited to preview six new exhibitions and join a gallery talk with Filipino artist Luis Lorenzana, centered on his searing political paintings.
2020_DC_KatzenO_20012435DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Opening Reception (Member)
Folks here include:
Sharon Wolpoff, Jack Rasmussen, Carol Barsha, Helen Zughaib, Elyse Harrison, and Wayne Paige.
2020_DC_KatzenO_20012535DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
Folks here include: Luis Lorenzana, Laura Roulet, Artemis Herber, Carol Barsha, and Ed Bisese.
2021_DC_KatzenO_21060127DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021A Spring Exhibition Timed Entry Event
AU Museum Timed Entry
by American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
Reserve your free timed entry visit to the AU Museum. Each visitor must register individually, and tickets are non-transferable.
You will receive a health and safety form via email 24 hours prior to your visit. To enter the...
2021_DC_KatzenX_2021A_MFA_Thesis6DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021A Spring Exhibit: Free Punch & Pie: AU Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
NOTE that, because of COVID, the public could not see this exhibit. The graduates and first year students had private gallery viewings because of the pandemic.

Free Punch & Pie
AU Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition, 2021 Graduates
This exhibition was featured in our Museum@Home series during COVID...
2021_DC_KatzenX_2021A_PC34DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021A Spring Exhibit: Peace Corps at 60
Peace Corps at 60
Inside the Volunteer Experience
Presented by the AU Museum Project Space
On view through August 8, 2021
Limited timed reservation tickets are available for Tuesdays and Thursdays in June. Learn more and register.
From its inception the Peace Corps has offered an alternative path...
2021_DC_KatzenX_2021A_60s101DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021A Spring Exhibit: The Long Sixties
The Long Sixties
Washington Paintings in the Watkins and Corcoran Legacy Collections, 1957-1982
Curated by Jack Rasmussen
On view through August 8, 2021
Limited timed reservation tickets are available for Tuesdays and Thursdays in June. Learn more and register.
"The American University Museum...
2021_DC_KatzenX_2021A_RB62DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021A Spring Exhibit: (Alper) Raya Bodnarchuk
Raya Bodnarchuk
This Is a True Picture of How It Was
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
On view through August 8, 2021
Limited timed reservation tickets are available for Tuesdays and Thursdays in June. Learn more and register.
Raya Bodnarchuk has been an essential part of the...
2021_DC_KatzenX_2021B_Burko87DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021B Fall Exhibit: Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change
Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change
Curated by Mary D. Garrard and Norma Broude
August 28-December 12, 2021
Presented in conjunction with AU Climate Action, a year-long interdisciplinary program focused on climate change across American University.
Painter, photographer, and climate activist Diane...
2021_DC_KatzenX_2021B_Inside32DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021B Fall Exhibit: Inside Out: Artists in the Studio
Inside Out: Artists in the Studio
August 28–December 12, 2021
Curated by Sarah Leary
Studios -- and other interior spaces for artistic production -- play a significant role in artistic practice, particularly in shaping how viewers experience the finished product. In an investigation of...
2021_DC_KatzenX_2021B_Brook47DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021B Fall Exhibit: Philip Brookman: In the Light of Memory, 1969–2021
Philip Brookman: In the Light of Memory, 1969–2021
August 28-December 12, 2021
Curated by Milena Kalinovska
“[Photographers] bring together fact and fiction, experience, imagination, and feelings in a visual dialogue that has enormous impact on how we observe and relate to the external world and our...
2021_DC_KatzenX_2021B_Succ43DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021B Fall Exhibit: Successions: Traversing US Colonialism: Amber Robles-Gordon
Successions: Traversing US Colonialism: Amber Robles-Gordon
Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah
August 28–December 12, 2021
Amber Robles-Gordon presents Successions: Traversing US Colonialism, a solo exhibition on view at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in fall 2021. Successions is...
2021_DC_KatzenX_2021B_Reveal52DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2021B Fall Exhibit: (Alper) Reveal: The Art of Reimagining Scientific Discovery
Reveal: The Art of Reimagining Scientific Discovery
Rebecca Kamen
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
August 28–December 12, 2021
Curated by Sarah Tanguy
In Reveal, Rebecca Kamen unlocks curiosity as a creative link between the arts, humanities, and sciences, exploring the...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022A_Fields87DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022A Spring Exhibit: Fields and Formations
Fields and Formations
A Survey of Mid-Atlantic Abstraction
January 29–May 22, 2022
Organized by The Delaware Contemporary’s inaugural Curator-in-Residence Kristen Hileman

Fields and Formations brings together approximately 70 works by 12 distinguished women and non-binary artists from the...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022A_Missing45DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022A Spring Exhibit: In place of a missing place
In place of a missing place
Curated by Noam Segal
January 29 – April 8, 2022

This exhibition of Israeli art from the AU Museum’s permanent collection will unpack landscape depictions in various media. It offers a historicized consideration of myth-making, forced migration, displacement, erasure,...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022A_In_Pos84DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022A Spring Exhibit: in·position: MFA Studio Art Thesis Exhibition
in·position: MFA Studio Art Thesis Exhibition
April 23–May 22, 2022

in·position presents the thesis work of graduating MFA candidates in AU's Studio Art program. The artists critically interrogate and contend with the inescapable implications of our respective positionalities and vulnerabilities. As...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022A_Fragment55DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022A Spring Exhibit: Positive Fragmentation
Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Jan 29 to May 22, 2022

Drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Positive Fragmentation includes more than 100 works by 21 contemporary artists who use fragmentation both...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022A_2Places14DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022A Spring Exhibit: Two Places on Earth: Works by Chan Chao
Two Places on Earth
Works by Chan Chao
January 29–May 22, 2022
Presented by the AU Museum Project Space

This portrait series is based on the idea of open societies, interconnection, and the world’s contraction. It features global citizens and is meant to acknowledge how beautiful the concept of an...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022A_PaperL31DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022A Spring Exhibit: (Alper) Paper Light: Photographs by Claudia Smigrod
Paper Light: Photographs by Claudia Smigrod
Curated by Wendy A. Grossman
January 29–May 22, 2022
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art

With her inventive darkroom experiments, Claudia Smigrod takes the cameraless photogram into new realms that defy easy categorization. Organic forms...
2022_DC_KatzenO_22012932DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022A Spring Opening Day
Because of COVID-19, there were no public or member receptions for this exhibit but these were folks on the opening day of the exhibit.
Folks spotted here included Jack Rasmussen, Tony Podesta, and Claudia Smigrod.
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022A_GGlass25DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022A/B Spring Exhibit: Glorious Glass: Works by Annette Lerner
Glorious Glass: Works by Annette Lerner
April 23–May 22 and June 11-August 7, 2022

Annette Lerner’s most recent works combine her love of color, gesture, and three-dimensional form. Lerner submits her glass materials to her artistic will by bending, shaping, and gluing, bringing her multilayered...
2022_DC_KatzenXT_Trans_22061134DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022B Gallery Talk: Caribbean Transitions w/Keith Morrison
Opening and Gallery Talk: Caribbean Transitions
Curator Keith Morrison will discuss the exhibition Caribbean Transitions, followed by an opening reception for the AU Museum's six summer shows.
Caribbean Transitions explores the character, complexity, and originality of art by Caribbean American...
2022_DC_KatzenO_22061198DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022B Opening Reception (Public)
Folks seen here include Jack Rasmussen, Helen Zughaib, Mokha Laget, Josef Achrer, Dalya Luttwak, and Betsy Broun.
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022B_Caribbean57DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022B Summer Exhibit: Caribbean Transitions
Caribbean Transitions
Curated by Keith Morrison
June 11–August 7, 2022

This exhibition explores the character, complexity, and originality of art by Caribbean American artists as they expand the art of the North American continent. The 20 artists in the exhibition are respected internationally, and...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022B_Homeland42DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022B Summer Exhibit: Home-Land: Exploring the American Myth
Home-Land: Exploring the American Myth
Curated by Michael Quituisaca and Alexandra Schuman
June 11–August 7, 2022

Taking advantage of the museum’s proximity to the Department of Homeland Security’s Nebraska Avenue Complex, this exhibition explores the impact that American culture has on its...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022B_Perceptual20DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022B Summer Exhibit: Mokha Laget: Perceptualism
Mokha Laget: Perceptualism
Curated by Kristen Hileman
June 11–August 7, 2022

Featuring over 40 paintings, sculpture, drawings, and lithographs, Mokha Laget: Perceptualism surveys the last ten years of an artistic practice devoted to exploring perception and space. Through a playful and...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022B_Bridge17DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022B Summer Exhibit: The Bridge that Carried Us Over
The Bridge that Carried Us Over
Presented by the AU Museum Project Space
June 11–August 7, 2022

The Bridge that Carried Us Over explores the mechanisms by which the transfer of intergenerational wealth, land, and historical memory have been denied to the African diaspora in the United States. It...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022B_Quest65DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022B Summer Exhibit: The Quest for Tranquil Space: Paintings and Photograms
The Quest for Tranquil Space: Paintings and Photograms
Works by Josef Achrer
Josef Achrer’s paintings are a documentary about human society which seeks its lost concentration in the new, infomanic world. Massive amounts of information are hard to decipher and we thus often change our positions....
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022B_Vertig14DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022B Summer Exhibit: Vertiginous Matter: Jason Horowitz
Vertiginous Matter: Jason Horowitz
Curated by Jennifer Sakai
June 11–August 7, 2022

Vertiginous Matter: Jason Horowitz is an investigation of materialism, scale, and perception as shown through his lens and artistic process. Utilizing modern technology Horowitz’s images are both arresting in their...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022C_Kallos54DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: Kallos: Maria Karametou
Kallos: Maria Karametou
September 10–December 11, 2022

Kallos, Greek for “beauty,” continues Karametou’s exploration of identity. This was first sparked by her own personal history of migration and displacement, inspiring her to create highly original pieces that also resonate on a universal level....
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022C_Believe24DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: Make-Believe: Georgia Saxelby and Devan Shimoyama
Make-Believe: Georgia Saxelby and Devan Shimoyama
September 10–December 11, 2022

Make-Believe explores artistic world-building and the crafting of alternate realities. The exhibition presents sculptures by Georgia Saxelby and paintings by Devan Shimoyama in the context of a post-pandemic world where...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022C_More_Clay94DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: More Clay: The Power of Repetition
More Clay: The Power of Repetition
Curated by Rebecca Cross
September 10 – December 11, 2022

Transcending the structural limitations of clay and abandoning the material’s traditional association with function, these eight artists build powerful ceramic sculptures through accumulation, repetition,...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022C_Montgomery37DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: Nan Montgomery: Counterpoint
Nan Montgomery: Counterpoint
September 10 – December 11, 2022
Curated by Virginia Mecklenburg

Nan Montgomery: Counterpoint is the first major retrospective showcasing the artist’s 50+ year career. Montgomery’s signature geometric abstract style uses color and surface to communicate invisible truths...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022C_SinInf88DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: Singularities and Infinities
Singularities and Infinities: Shanthi Chandrasekar and Michael Albrow
September 10 – December 11, 2022

Singularities and Infinities, a juxtaposition of art and science, is the result of a collaboration between Shanthi Chandrasekar, an artist trying to capture the intricacies and wonders of the...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022C_Pretty63DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: Sitting Pretty: 200 Years of American Portrait Painting
Sitting Pretty: 200 Years of American Portrait Painting from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
September 10 – December 11, 2022

Sitting Pretty: Two Hundred Years of American Portrait Painting from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art features a selection from the nearly one...
2022_DC_KatzenX_2022C_Koreas13DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: (Alper) Haunted Koreas: Mina Cheon with Kim Il Soon
Haunted Koreas: Mina Cheon with Kim Il Soon
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art

Artist Mina Cheon releases only black and white photos of her North Korean art collection so that visitors can see it in color in person.
Overview:
South Korean new media artist Mina Cheon works for...
2022_DC_KatzenO_22091065DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Folks here include Yumi Hogan, Glenn Marcus, Mina Cheon, Melvin Hardy, Rebecca Cross, Janet Fries, Jack Rasmussen, Dalya Luttwak, Michael Albrow, and Chawky Frenn.
2022_DC_KatzenXT_MoreClay_22091063DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Gallery Talk: More Clay w/Rebecca Cross
Gallery Talk
Curator Rebecca Cross will discuss the exhibition More Clay
Transcending the structural limitations of clay and abandoning the material’s traditional association with function, these eight artists build powerful ceramic sculptures through accumulation, repetition, and innovative feats of...
2022_DC_KatzenXT_Albrow_22091178DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Gallery Talk: The Dark Side of the Universe (Michael Albrow)
Gallery Talk: The Dark Side of the Universe, a talk on the exhibition "Singularities and Infinities"
Curator Michael Albrow and artist Shanthi Chandrasekar will discuss the exhibition "Singularities and Infinities" in a gallery talk titled,"The Dark Side of the Universe: Black Holes, Dark Matter, and...
2023_DC_KatzenXT_Rebhan_23020550DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023A Gallery Talk: About Time --- The Deeply Social Art of Gail Rebhan
Gallery Talk: About Time --- The Deeply Social Art of Gail Rebhan
Reconsidering the many ways Rebhan jumps the narrow lane of art-for-art’s sake in terms of resisting the simple power of the mute single image by exploring with a variety of formal techniques the imbricated categories of...
2023_DC_KatzenXT_Roulet_23021117DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023A Gallery Talk: Laura Roulet
I ran into Laura Roulet, the curator for the "Eastern Front – Western Front: World War II Photojournalism by Georgi Zelma and Constance Stuart Larrabee" exhibit while she was showing some people around the exhibit.
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023A_EWFront91DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023A Spring Exhibit: Eastern Front -- Western Front
Eastern Front – Western Front
World War II Photojournalism by Georgi Zelma and Constance Stuart Larrabee
Corcoran Legacy Collection/Project Space
Laura Roulet, Curator
February 4 – March 19, 2023

A history of combat photography and photojournalism during World War II with little-known views into...
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023A_Madayin97DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023A Spring Exhibit: Madayin
Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala
February 4 – May 14, 2023

“The land has everything it needs. But it couldn’t speak. It couldn’t express itself. Tell its identity. And so it grew a tongue. That is the Yolŋu. That is me. We are the tongue of the land. Grown...
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023A_BGColl121DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023A Spring Exhibit: The Barlow Gilotty Collection
The Barlow Gilotty Collection
Philip Barlow, Lisa Gilotty, collectors
Vivienne Lassman, curator
February 4–May 21, 2023

“In addition to art telling a story, the pattern of collecting tells our story.”
-- Khanh Le, First New Home, 2008
The Barlow Gilotty Collection is the culmination of over 30...
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023A_Trawick60DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023A Spring Exhibit: The Trawick Prize
The Trawick Prize
20th Anniversary Emerald Award
February 4 – March 19, 2023

The Trawick Prize is a regional contemporary art award that began in 2002 to recognize and support local DC, Maryland, and Virginia artists. The competition’s founder and funder, Carol Trawick, is a longtime community...
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023A_Rebhan61DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023A Spring Exhibit: (Alper) Gail Rebhan: About Time
Gail Rebhan: About Time
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Gail Rebhan, artist
Sally Stein, curator
February 4 – May 21, 2023

For better and worse, nothing stays still. DC artist Gail Rebhan (b. 1953) knows that well and this, her first museum retrospective, explores her many...
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023B_Elements102DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Exhibit: At One with the Elements
At One with the Elements
Leigh Wen, Artist
Sarah Tanguy, Curator
June 17 – August 13, 2023
Internationally recognized artist Leigh Wen explores the power of nature while nurturing a sense of connectivity and stewardship for our endangered planet.

Exhibition Overview
Discover how artist Leigh...
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023B_Blue14DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Exhibit: Blue and Gray: This Era of Exile
Blue and Gray: This Era of Exile
A Project Space* Exhibition
June 17 – August 13, 2023
Artwork by Kebedech Tekleab
Poetry by E. Ethelbert Miller
Curated by David Keplinger

Exhibition Overview
The recent fratricidal war in Ethiopia; the constant turmoil in Somalia; the current wars between...
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023B_Pilar35DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Exhibit: Pilar Albarracín: Take a Knife and Open My Heart
Pilar Albarracín: Take a Knife and Open My Heart
Pilar Albarracín, Artist
Pia Ogea, Curator
June 17 – August 13, 2023
“My work delves into the most internationalized stereotypes of Spanish culture and its evolution over the last 30 years and focuses on (among other concepts) the violence of...
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023B_Chicano27DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Exhibit: Rupert Garcia and the Chicano Art Movement
Rupert Garcia and the Chicano Art Movement:
Prints and Posters from the Corcoran Legacy Collection
June 17 – August 13, 2023
“Rupert Garcia has a profoundly sophisticated understanding of color, form, negative space, and the power of restraint. Garcia’s work is a masterclass in efficiency because it...
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023B_View25DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Exhibit: View from Within
View from Within
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art*
Rhoda Baer, Artist
June 17 – August 13, 2023
“In truth, I still think it’s all magic.”
-- Rhoda Baer

Exhibition Overview:
Laminating clear optical glass with colored minerals to make glass sculptures is a complicated and...
2023_DC_KatzenXT_Wen_23071596DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Gallery Talk: At One with the Elements w/Leigh Wen
Gallery Talk: At One with the Elements
Curator, Sarah Tanguy & the artist, Leigh Wen, will discuss the exhibition "At One with the Elements" in a gallery talk.
Discover how artist Leigh Wen weaves personal and cultural histories into her practice. At One with the Elements explores her intimate bond...
2023_DC_KatzenXT_LostE_230620169DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Gallery Talk: Lost Europe: On the Edge of Memories
Gallery Talk - Lost Europe: On the Edge of Memories
By Embassy of the Czech Republic
Join us for a gallery talk followed by a special reception with photographers Jan Dobrovský and Martin Wágner in connection to the exhibition Lost Europe: On the Edge of Memories curated by Milena Kalinovska.
The...
2023_DC_KatzenXT_Albar_23061725DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Gallery Talk: Pilar Albarracín
Gallery Talk: Pilar Albarracín, Take a Knife and Open My Heart
Curator and Artist, Pia Ogea and Pilar Albarracín present on the exhibition "Pilar Albarracín: Take a Knife and Open My Heart"
This discussion will be held in-person by the artist and curator to highlight the exhibition "Pilar Albarracín:...
2023_DC_KatzenO_230617134DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Opening Reception (Public)
Exhibition artists shown here during the reception included: Rhoda Baer, Kebedech Tekleab, E. Ethelbert Miller, Leigh Wen, and Pilar Albarracín.
Others include: Glenn Marcus, Jack Rasmussen, Eden Raskin (Jamie Raskin's sister), Thora Colot, Margaret Otto (Politics and Prose), and Chawky Frenn.
2023_DC_KatzenX_2023B_Lost82DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B/C Exhibit: Lost Europe: On the Edge of Memories
Lost Europe: On the Edge of Memories
June 17–August 13, 2023
September 9–December 10, 2023
Folks:
* Karel Cudlin, Photographer
* Jan Dobrovský, Photographer
* Martin Wágner, Photographer
* Milena Kalinovska, Curator
“Through these photographs, you’ll step into a country with a dramatic...
2023_DC_KatzenX_Cushner39DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023C Exhibit: Cushner
CUSHNER
Steven Cushner, Artist
September 9–December 10, 2023
CUSHNER consists of 34 artworks by artist Steven Cushner, whose work is included in AU Museum’s holdings at the university where Cushner served as an adjunct faculty member from 1995 through 2000.
The exhibition refers to and builds upon a...
2023_DC_KatzenX_Abensohn29DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023C Exhibit: Lillian Klein Abensohn: Song of Songs: Fruitful Relationships
Lillian Klein Abensohn
Song of Songs: Fruitful Relationships
Lillian Klein Abensohn, Artist
September 9–October 15, 2023
Lillian Klein Abensohn asks “What’s really important?” These playful still lifes offer a tongue-in-cheek take on fundamental and complex human relationships.
Initially, the...
2023_DC_KatzenX_NTapestry21DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023C Exhibit: Nature’s Tapestry
Nature’s Tapestry
A Project Space* Exhibition
Bernis von zur Muehlen, Artist
Ori Z. Soltes, Curator
September 9–December 10, 2023

“Bernis von zur Muehlen is a magician and an artist …who engages the realm of the spiritual and the everyday, creating by re-visioning reality again and again.”
--...
2023_DC_KatzenX_Rotenberg48DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023C Exhibit: Rachel Rotenberg
Rachel Rotenberg
Rachel Rotenberg, Artist
Jane Livingston, Curator
September 9–December 10, 2023
Using cedar planks and other materials, Rotenberg has managed to build works on a heroic scale without sacrificing intimacy, and to craft small sculptures that attain a kind of conceptual...
2023_DC_KatzenX_FWhite30DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023C Exhibit: (Alper) Franklin White: An American in Venezuela
Franklin White: An American in Venezuela
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Dr. Chantelle E. Bernard, Curator
September 9 – December 10, 2023
White invites you to examine the way mother-nature generously gifted Merida, Venezuela with a bounty of beautiful things… and taught him new...
2023_DC_DFaust_23091661DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023C Gallery Talk: Lost Europe: On the Edge of Memories A Day in Kyiv (w/Daniel Faust)
Gallery Talk: Lost Europe: On the Edge of Memorie: A Day in Kyiv
Photographer Daniel Faust, with guests present on the exhibition "Lost Europe: On the Edge of Memories" in a talk titled "Day in Kyiv"
This talk will be moderated by Jack Rasmussen, Director of AU Museum, Daniel Faust, Photographer,...
2023_DC_KatzenXT_Cushner_231007125DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023C Gallery Talk: Steven Cushner w/Architect David Jameson and George Hemphill
Artist, Steven Cushner and special guest Architect David Jameson, will discuss the exhibition "Cushner" in a gallery talk.
Cushner refers to and builds upon a solidly stylistic through-line from Steven Cushner’s past work to present work. More importantly, through the conscious manipulation of an array...
2024_02_10B6_KatzenX_Marilyn77DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: A Drawing Like No Other
A Drawing Like No Other: Marilyn Brought Back to Life in 9,000,000 Marks
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art*
February 7 – May 19, 2024
Billy Pappas, Artist
Gary Vikan, Curator
Subject of an award-winning documentary, this is your chance to see this incredibly detailed pencil... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_11B5_KatzenX_Marilyn64DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: A Drawing Like No Other
A Drawing Like No Other: Marilyn Brought Back to Life in 9,000,000 Marks
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art*
February 7 – May 19, 2024
Billy Pappas, Artist
Gary Vikan, Curator
Subject of an award-winning documentary, this is your chance to see this incredibly detailed pencil... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_10B1_KatzenX_Memory81DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: Art and the Demands of Memory
Art and the Demands of Memory
Works by Second Generation Holocaust Survivors
February 7 – May 19, 2024
Explore the ways in which art is shaped by memories of traumatic experiences … memories that serve as throughlines to affirm the relevance of the past in understanding both the present and the... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_11B1_KatzenX_Memory176DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: Art and the Demands of Memory
Art and the Demands of Memory
Works by Second Generation Holocaust Survivors
February 7 – May 19, 2024
Explore the ways in which art is shaped by memories of traumatic experiences … memories that serve as throughlines to affirm the relevance of the past in understanding both the present and the... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_10B8_KatzenX_Hart_Stone26DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: Dana Hart-Stone: Kaleidoscope
Dana Hart-Stone: Kaleidoscope
February 7 – May 19, 2024
Dana Hart-Stone, Artist
Brian Gross, Curator
Hart-Stone invites you to look closely and explore everyday life on the plains and main streets of small-town America with his methodical manipulation of vintage photo imagery.
Discover the work of... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_11B6_KatzenX_Hart_Stone46DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: Dana Hart-Stone: Kaleidoscope
Dana Hart-Stone: Kaleidoscope
February 7 – May 19, 2024
Dana Hart-Stone, Artist
Brian Gross, Curator
Hart-Stone invites you to look closely and explore everyday life on the plains and main streets of small-town America with his methodical manipulation of vintage photo imagery.
Discover the work of... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_10B7_KatzenX_Geometries62DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: Infinite Geometries
Infinite Geometries: Exploring the Arts of the Medieval Islamic World
Dr. Joanne Allen
January 22-March 1, 2024
Katzen Rotunda
This exhibition comprises drawings, oil and watercolor paintings, intaglio and relief prints, and fabrics based on the art history of the medieval Islamic world, in... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_10B4_KatzenX_New_Thing41DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: New Perspective on the New Thing
New Perspective on the New Thing:
A Photography Exhibition Documenting DC’s Revolutionary Community Arts Center, 1966-1972
February 7 – March 17, 2024
Joel Jacobson, Photographer
Tom Zetterstrom, Photographer
A rarely told history showing how community was authentically built in segregated... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_11B3_KatzenX_New_Thing43DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: New Perspective on the New Thing
New Perspective on the New Thing:
A Photography Exhibition Documenting DC’s Revolutionary Community Arts Center, 1966-1972
February 7 – March 17, 2024
Joel Jacobson, Photographer
Tom Zetterstrom, Photographer
A rarely told history showing how community was authentically built in segregated... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_10B5_KatzenX_Human_Flood60DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: The Human Flood
The Human Flood
February 7 – August 11, 2024
Ellyn Weiss, Artist
Sondra N. Arkin, Artist
Laura Roulet, Curator
Explore how mass migration caused by climate change is currently underway (and will only increase) through this mixed-media installation.
What does it truly mean to leave a life behind... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_11B4_KatzenX_Human_Flood75DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: The Human Flood
The Human Flood
February 7 – August 11, 2024
Ellyn Weiss, Artist
Sondra N. Arkin, Artist
Laura Roulet, Curator
Explore how mass migration caused by climate change is currently underway (and will only increase) through this mixed-media installation.
What does it truly mean to leave a life behind... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_10B2_KatzenX_Tree77DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: The Tree around the Corner
The Tree around the Corner
February 7 – May 19, 2024
Barbara Kerne, Artist
Vivienne M. Lassman, Curator
“My life as an artist has been an expression of exploration of my interior self in my environment.” —Barbara Kerne
Barbara Kerne has been compelled to make art inspired by nature since she was a... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_10B3_KatzenX_Kavanagh69DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: The Very Idea! Art of Brian Kavanagh
The Very Idea! Art of Brian Kavanagh
February 7 – March 17, 2024
Howard N. Fox, Curator
Rosemary M. DeRosa, Organizer
“Kavanagh’s achievement was almost entirely in painting and printmaking, yet his art is pervasively informed by his interest in ideation — the thought process itself….”

Learn more... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_11B2_KatzenX_Kavanagh40DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Exhibit: The Very Idea! Art of Brian Kavanagh
The Very Idea! Art of Brian Kavanagh
February 7 – March 17, 2024
Howard N. Fox, Curator
Rosemary M. DeRosa, Organizer
“Kavanagh’s achievement was almost entirely in painting and printmaking, yet his art is pervasively informed by his interest in ideation — the thought process itself….”

Learn more... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_10A3_KatzenXT_Topper216DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Gallery Talk: The New Thing Panel Discussion with Topper Carew
Gallery Talk: The New Thing Panel Discussion with Topper Carew
Exhibit: New Perspective on The New Thing: A Photography Exhibition Documenting DC’s Revolutionary Community Arts Center, 1966-1972

Hear how an arts community was authentically built in 1960’s Adams Morgan! Topper Carew’s New Thing Art... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_10C_KatzenO163DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Opening Reception
Come celebrate our seven new spring ’24 exhibitions! Mix and mingle with many of this season’s artists and curators … arrive early for light refreshments!
Folks seen here include (pretty much in order):
Jack Rasmussen, Dana Hart-Stone, Lisa Montag Brotman, Sondra N. Arkin, Ellyn Weiss, Laura Roulet,... (Partially reviewed)
2019_DC_Katzen_Brunch_191207111DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- Holiday Brunch in the Museum
Including a talk by Carla Galfano, Museum Registrar.
2018_DC_JRA_Annual_181105102James Renwick Alliance Annual Meeting @ Katzen Arts Center
James Renwick Alliance Annual Meeting
You're invited! Come learn about the James Renwick Alliance as we announce the donations and awards we have made in support of our mission. Hear about exciting programs, upcoming trips, and the ways that you can get more involved. Socialize with other members, meet...


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2024_02_10C_KatzenO163DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Opening Reception
Come celebrate our seven new spring ’24 exhibitions! Mix and mingle with many of this season’s artists and curators … arrive early for light refreshments! Folks seen here include (pretty much in order): Jack Rasmussen, Dana Hart-Stone, Lisa Montag Brotman, Sondra N. Arkin, Ellyn Weiss, Laura Roulet,... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_04C1_Miss_AmericaM248Miss America High Tea Event (1 of 2) Mingling @ GFWC
An invitation to tea from the General Federation of Women’s Clubs to the Former and Present Miss America. They were here in DC for the opening of an exhibit on the history of Miss America at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Hosted by GFWC DC club: * Mohra Gavankar, GFWC Presid... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_04C2_Miss_AmericaP89Miss America High Tea Event (2 of 2) Program @ GFWC
An invitation to tea from the General Federation of Women’s Clubs to the Former and Present Miss America. They were here in DC for the opening of an exhibit on the history of Miss America at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Hosted by GFWC DC club: * Mohra Gavankar, GFWC Presid... (Partially reviewed)
2024_01_14B1_Gonna_Take286Labor Heritage Foundation @ McGinty's Public House -- MLK "Gonna Take Us All Ball" (1 of 2)
MLK "Gonna Take Us All Ball" Recommit to Dr. King’s dream of equality and justice for all and celebrate Elise Bryant’s well-deserved retirement from LHF! By Labor Heritage Foundation Tickets are now FREE! Thanks to the Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO, AFSCME 112, the International Association of Heat ... (Partially reviewed)
2024_02_13B1_USCHS_Freedom218USCHS -- Freedom Award (2024) to Cheryl L. Johnson (2 of 2) Everything else
We look forward to your attendance at the Freedom Award Reception honoring Cheryl L. Johnson, the 36th Clerk of the House of Representatives The U.S. Capitol Historical Society is honored to present its 2023 Freedom Award to Cheryl L. Johnson to recognize her exceptional leadership and pivotal role ... (Partially reviewed)


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