The WaPo does something that it seldom does: discuss a vibrant new (about to open soon) art space in the District!
And after you read it, pleeeeeazzze comment on the story, so that the WaPo editors see that there are readers (they multiply each comment by 1500 readers - don't ask me where they got that formula).
The idea is to provide studio space to about 40 serious working artists, and in doing so create a community of artists and a destination for curators, collectors and visiting artists. They have even found an honest-to-goodness industrial space to house it: a two-story brick building in Eckington between the Rhode Island and NoMa Metro stops, not far from Catholic University and Union Market and abutting the Branch trail. The Phillips Collection, Halcyon, Studio Visit, Hamiltonian and the Washington Project for the Arts have also signed on as partners.Read the cool piece by Tara Bahrampour right here!
And after you read it, pleeeeeazzze comment on the story, so that the WaPo editors see that there are readers (they multiply each comment by 1500 readers - don't ask me where they got that formula).