Gallery
The Athenaeum Gallery is dedicated to showcasing the wide variety of excellent work being created by artists in the DC/MD/VA region.
We endeavor to increase exposure for the region's many excellent artists in our light-filled gallery space. Our goal is to represent the widest range of media, style, and perspective.
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An average of eight shows are mounted per year. Each one with an opening reception and many with ancillary programs such as gallery talks, demonstrations, children's workshops, or even modern dance performances choreographed specially for the space and the art.
Apply to have an exhibit in the Athenaeum Gallery
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Rolling Review
Click the link below to be considered for a solo or group show. You can apply as a single artist, with several other artists if you have an idea for a small group show, or as a curator for a larger group show.
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Click the link below for more information and details.
In the gallery now:​​​​​
​Story Cloths and the Book:
Work by New Image Artists
June 11, 2026 – July 26, 2026
Artists’ Talk: Sunday, July 26, 2 pm
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Summer Reading (detail); Andrea Uravitch
​​​​​​Tea and Conversation
Thursday, July 9, 12:30 pm
Free​
Photo by Greg Staley
Join Saaraliisa Ylitalo and New Image Artists who will join independent curator Mary Welch Higgins next Thursday at 1 PM for an informal Tea and Conversation to discuss their work in the Athenaeum's current exhibition, Story Cloths and the Book.
Saaraliisa has been working in fiber for over 45 years. While living in Japan for 5 years, she fell in love with Washi (handmade paper) and studied under a master papermaker. Since that time, she has created with Japanese handmade paper as well as her own. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.
The Athenaeum Visual Arts Program is supported, in part, by an Arts Program grant from the City of Alexandria.
No. 88 (detail); Marc Sirinsky; Fujifilm Instax Mini print, print size: 2.1” x 3.4”