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| Location | 1641 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 |
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| Coordinates | 38°54′44.4″N77°3′56.6″W / 38.912333°N 77.065722°W |
| Type | Artist cooperative |
| Nearest parking | Street parking |
| Website | www |
The Washington Printmakers Gallery is an artist cooperative focused on printmaking located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
The Washington Printmakers Gallery originated with a group of artists meeting at Washington Women's Art Center. [1] [2] Dorothy Stratton King was a founder of the gallery. [3] Originally located at 1832 Jefferson Place NW, the gallery's first show was in May 1985. [1] [2]
The gallery features prints created using traditional printmaking techniques such as lithography, woodcut, monotyping, linocut, and screen printing. In recent years the gallery has also included digital and photographic works.
The Washington Printmakers Gallery has moved physical locations multiple times. After two years on Jefferson Place, the gallery moved to 2106 1/2 R Street NW. In 1999 the gallery moved to a larger, above-ground space located at 1732 Connecticut Avenue, NW. [4] In 2010, the gallery moved to the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, and co-located with the art center until moving to the current location in 2014.
The National Small Works Exhibition, held annually since 1997, is a juried competition featuring works no larger than 100 square inches. Submissions are not limited to artists in the Washington area and the show attracts national talent. [5] Past jurors include curators from the National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection, and the Library of Congress. [6]
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since opening in 1987, the museum has acquired a collection of more than 6,000 works by more than 1,000 artists, ranging from the 16th century to today. The collection includes works by Mary Cassatt, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, and Amy Sherald. NMWA also holds the only painting by Frida Kahlo in Washington, D.C., Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky.
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Dorothy Stratton King was an American painter and printmaker. She was a founding member of the Washington Printmakers Gallery in Washington, DC. Her work is held by several public collections in the USA.
Helen C. Frederick is an American artist, curator, and the founder of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, an arts organization in Maryland. She is known mainly for printed media and large-scale works created by hand papermaking as a medium of expression that often incorporate the use of language. She has curated exhibitions such as Ten Years After 9/11, which respond to issues about the human condition.
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