Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is a platform for collaborative and experimental artist-driven projects, dialogue, and advocacy. Artists curate and organize all programming—as an extension of their own intellectual research. Their projects can take many forms, from conversational dinners, exhibitions, field trips, film screenings, grass-roots organizing meetings, and installations, to lectures, performances, podcasts, publications, symposia, workshops, and more. WPA encourages proposals from artists living in the greater DC-Baltimore region as well as those who have a strong connection to the area or who are investigating issues that resonate there. WPA provides a home base where artists can freely present work, pursue ideas, and organize discussions, it has empowered and earned the respect of the local creative community.
Washington Projects for the Arts
Opening Reception for “sowing worlds within the incompossible” organized by photographer Giancarlo Montes Santangelo featuring artwork by Amarise Carreras, Nelson Morales, and Shan Wallace. On view from January 21–March 11, 2023.
Opening Reception for “sowing worlds within the incompossible” organized by photographer Giancarlo Montes Santangelo featuring artwork by Amarise Carreras, Nelson Morales, and Shan Wallace. On view from January 21–March 11, 2023.
Spring 2022 Artist-Organizer-in-Residence Adele Kenworthy, a DC-based socially engaged artist who creates botanical interventions in public spaces. During her residency, she invited artists and community organizers to learn about Korean Ikebana and share their “practices of care” with her.
Front cover for “Black Women as/and the Living Archive,” 2021. The book was part of a larger project of the same name that artist Tsedaye Makonnen organized in the spring of 2020 with Alisha B. Wormsley, Lisa E. Harris, Jasmine Hearn, Autumn Knight, Ingrid LaFleur, and Jamila Raegan. Additionally, it includes newly commissioned writing by Yona Harvey, Ladi’Sasha Jones, Jessica Lanay, and Jo Stewart, and an annotated bibliography by Ola Ronke, creator of The Free Black Women's Library. The publication was designed by Rheagen King.
A conversation with Lorraine O’Grady, Tsedaye Makonnen, and Ayana Evans moderated by Yacine Tilala Fall and WPA’s Jordan Martin as part of our Fall 2022 project, “Being/Becoming: The Act of Portraiture.”
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We acknowledge our culture’s systemic marginalization of artists because of race, gender, religion, age, ability, sexual orientation, and/or immigration status among other factors. We actively seek to highlight the work of under-represented practitioners and support efforts to address entrenched inequities.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts