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BADC’s MONTHLY MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELED

BADC’S monthly meeting scheduled for March 15th, 2020 has been CANCELED In order to comply with Mayor’s concern for the spread of the corona virus we have decided to cancel this month’s meeting. We will inform you of our next scheduled meeting.







District of Columbia Arts Center and Black Artist of DC Presents

Alec Simpson: Some Things Old/Most Things New; Explorations at Gravity Press

A close up of a brick building

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“GoodVibes for Darlene” (2019), 22”x30″ by Alec Simpson, monoprint, oil on paper

Major Breaking BADC News!

A Massive Sculpture of an African American Last Supper, Hidden for Years, Has Been Discovered in Columbia Heights; created by non-other than BADC’s own Akili Anderson VIEW MORE INFO

Additional information: Daniel Brooking has supplied the Channel 4 story click on Video to view.


Past Events

The Black Artists of DC in cooperation with the Pepco Edison Gallery presents the Exhibition

RECONSTRUCTING HOPE

Survivors, James Brown, Jr

Opening Reception

September 5th, 2019 from 4 pm until 8 pm

Closing Reception and Artist’s Talk

September 27th, 2019 from 4pm until 8 pm

The Black Artists of DC in cooperation with the Pepco Edison Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition “Reconstructing Hope”. Opening Reception will be September 5th and the exhibition will run from August 27th thru September 27th, at the Pepco Edison Gallery, 702 8th Street NW, Washington, DC


He is at it again our own Super Senior, T. H. Gomillion, setting records

8th Grade Records



NEW! (Posted 11/19/2018) Black Heritage Through Visual Rhythms/Ohio History Center, with our own JAMES BROWN JR, SILK PAINTING 1;  VIEW MORE INFO


NEW!(Posted 8/17/2018) KUBA Fabric of an Empire, Baltimore Museum of the Arts, August 19th, 2018 through January 20th, 2019; VIEW MORE INFO


 

NEW! (Posted 6/14/2018) Sister of Miles Bumbray (former BADC member), Rashia Bumbry accepted for new residency with Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; VIEW MORE INFO


Portraits of Who We are: Elements That Define Us

This exhibit includes many present and past members of BADC
now thru May 26th, 2018 Click here to see details of the exhibition


(Posted 11/15/2017) One of our past members has just won the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award BADC Grad Ark;VIEW MORE INFO


NEW! (Posted 11/20/2017) PRIZM Art Basel 2015 Featuring our own Amber Robles-Gordon; VIEW MORE INFO (Video)


   

Congratulations to Brinille Ellis for her assignment to Tanzania

(Posted 11/12/2017) Our Brinille Eliis has entered East African Art Biennial and has several works in this exhibition.  Read her email to BADC here
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Brinille Ellis received a competitive Foreign Service promotion and the rank of a colonel in the military.  Ms Ellis has been assigned to a thee-year diplomatic assignment to serve as chief of the press and cultural affairs section at the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania starting in July.

BLACK ARTIST OF TODAY: REINVENTING TOMORROW

(Posted 9/13/2017) BLACK ARTISTS OF TODAY: REIVENTING TOMORROW, Meet the Artists Reception September 20th, 2017, 5 unitl 8 pm, Sculpture Space, 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, exhibition September 12th, 2017 thru January 6th, 2018; VIEW MORE INFO 


Congratulations to our own TH Gomillion on second place at the Penn Relays


Congratulations to Carol Dyson

She Graduates in May from Maryland Institute College of Art with her MFA.  Lets all wish her well