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COLLECTORS’ NIGHT 2024 PROJECTS PROJECTS PROJECTS PROJECTS See all Misha Ilin: meta-meta October 14, 2023 – December 9, 2023 MORE INFO Ama BE: NGO {Palm Oil} May 18, 2023 - September 30, 2023 MORE INFO How can we gather now? March 31, 2023 – April 2, 2023 MORE INFO Giancarlo Montes Santangelo: sowing worlds within the incompossible January 21, 2023 - March 11, 2023 MORE INFO Being/Becoming: The Act of Portraiture September 10 – November 12, 2022 MORE INFO Kamal Rahim Tanner Tourgee: Residency June 2022 - August 2022 MORE INFO To Imagine a Form of Life January 29, 2022 – March 19, 2022 MORE INFO Adele Kenworthy: Residency February - May 2022 MORE INFO Notions of Exile January 23 - March 15, 2021 Co-curated by Fabiola R. Delgado and Faride Mereb MORE INFO EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS See all Currency: An Exchange of Artist Solidarity Thursday, March 21, 2024 5-7pm A Conversation and Workshop with Danielle De Jesus & Gabrielle Tillenburg Join us to celebrate spring and kick off the first of two events in our 2024 Open Call series, Where should we start? More Info 2024 Collectors’ Night Gala SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024 6 - 11pm Collectors’ Night 2024 will take place on Saturday, May 4th in downtown Washington, DC, and we can’t wait! Collectors’ Night is not only an opportunity to celebrate with our community, but also provides essential support for the powerful, artist-driven contemporary art programs that WPA produces right here in DC. More Info meta-meta: Conversation with Colby Chamberlain Friday, November 17, 2023 7-8pm On the meta-meta publication and its design as a game manual More Info 2023 Wherewithal Research Presentations Thursday, September 21, 2023 7-9pm More Info Languaging the Apocalypse, Unlanguaging the World: Queer and Indigenous Poetics of Destruction and Survival Saturday, February 11, 2023 2pm More Info Ama BE: Open House Saturday, September 30, 2023 1-4pm More Info 2023-2024 WPA Season Kick-off & BBQ Saturday, September 9, 2023 1-4pm More Info FOR ARTISTS FOR ARTISTS FOR ARTISTS FOR ARTISTS see all Submit to Collectors’ Night Benefit Auction Collectors’ Night raises money for WPA’s artist-organized projects, residencies, and publications. Taking place each spring, this annual benefit sale includes more than one hundred artworks by artists living throughout the United States. Proceeds from the sale are split between the artists and WPA. Submission portal opens in the winter MORE INFO Open Call Our annual call for one-off events in and around DC Submission portal opens in the fall MORE INFO Wherewithal Grants Wherewithal Grants are a funding source for artists in the DC-area. Generously funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its Regional Regranting Program and managed by WPA, these grants are intended to support a wide range of experimental and multidisciplinary practices, particularly those that emphasize collaboration and discourse. The application portal opens annually in the fall MORE INFO PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS See all WPA Publications WPA maintains a robust publishing platform, producing unique publications in collaboration with resident artists. Each publication highlights discoveries that emerge from select project residencies, symposia, et al. and provides context for further research and experimentation. Through our publications, WPA projects reach a wider audience and manifest potential for future iterations of projects beyond DC. Recent titles include: meta- meta : book of instructions (2023) by Misha Ilin Black Women as/and the Living Archive (2021) by Tsedaye Makonnen BOOKSTORE BOOKSTORE BOOKSTORE BOOKSTORE Visit meta-meta: book of instructions This book is part of meta -meta , a project organized by artist Misha Ilin as part of his residency at WPA MORE INFO Black Women as/and the Living Archive This book is part of a larger project of the same name, curated and organized by interdisciplinary artist Tsedaye Makonnen , first presented at WPA in 2020. MORE INFO My Barbarian My Barbarian member Alexandro Segade was a contributor to meta -meta : book of instructions MORE INFO Cyberfeminism Index Mindy Seu was an artist-organizer and designer for WPA’s inaugural symposium How can we gather now? (2023) MORE INFO To Imagine a Form of Life To Imagine a Form of Life was organized by Fabiola Ching and presented by WPA in 2022 MORE INFO Join Our Newsletter WPA Washington, DC info@wpadc.org Events News & Notes Projects For Artists Support BookstoreContact books + editions will re-open in September © All rights reserved |...