First Friday: Art Walk

The Church of Scientology National Affairs Office is hosting a special exhibition presented by United for Human Rights, Youth for Human Rights International DC Chapter,and Art Impact International to celebrate Women's History Month and human rights! The show features six artists with a variety of styles who will be present to discuss their art with you: Christopher Damola, Carolyn Goodridge, Hubert Jackson, Wm (Bill) Jones, Patrick Smith, and J. Thomas Wells. Come and enjoy the artwork and meet the artists who stand united for human rights! The Church of Scientology is located at 1701 20^th Street, NW.

Join the Heurich House Museum for First Friday! Stop in and view the first floor of the Heurich House Museum to see its vast collection of decorative arts. The museum’s biergarten, 1921, will be open until 8:00 pm, enjoy a rotating list of fresh local craft beer from DC breweries and beer brands, craft cocktails and wine from the area’s best beverage producers, and Senate Beer, the museum’s historic revival with Right Proper Brewing Company. Also in the biergarten find our monthly Mini Markt until 8:00 pm featuring four local makers selling their artisan goods! The Heurich House Museum is located at 1307 New Hampshire Avenue, NW.

IA&A at Hillyer in February will present three new exhibitions: Esha Sadr “Absence of Us,” Natasha Sachdeva “Will this entanglement ever resolve,” and Abol Bahadori “Hybrid Baroque.” IA&A is Dupont Circle’s largest art gallery located in a carriage house behind the Phillips Collection. Admission is free but a $10 donation is suggested. IA&A at Hillyer is located at 9 Hillyer Court NW.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. (KCCDC) is excited to host a special late-night celebration of "Transcending Boundaries!" Experience 50 dynamic works spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and holograms by six emerging Korean artists. The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. will remain open late for this special viewing, and visitors are invited to enjoy a self-guided tour.The Korean Cultural Center is located at 2370 Massachusetts Ave. NW.

The MEI Art Gallery, in collaboration with AlSadu Society in Kuwait, is proud to present our latest exhibition, Beyond the Weave: Contemporary Dialogues with AlSadu; an exhibition of contemporary art from Kuwait, inspired by the ancient craft of textile Sadu weaving. Sadu is a traditional weaving practice shaped by nomadic desert life and sustained by generations of women makers. Woven from sheep and camel wool, its vivid geometric bands translate inherited knowledge into a visual language of movement, memory, and identity, transforming practical necessity into a lasting cultural symbol. This exhibition brings together 12 Kuwaiti artists whose works reinterpret Sadu’s patterns, materials, and meanings, tracing a dynamic dialogue between past and present and affirming tradition as a living, evolving practice. The MEI Art Gallery is located at 1763 N St. NW.

The Museum of the Palestinian People welcomes you to see our new cycling exhibit titled, Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in Palestine. In light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the cultural erasure of the Palestinian people, it is important to highlight and platform the Palestinian narrative. The exhibit's overall aim is to educate and portray the struggle, fragmentation, and resilience of the Palestinian people. The Museum of the Palestinian People is located at 1900 18th St. NW.

Q Street Fine Art and Barbara Bennett look forward to spring and warmer weather to welcome friends and new visitors to the Dupont Circle First Friday Art Walk. The gallery will feature paintings by gallery favorite Rafael Gallardo and also introduce a new Georgian born artist, George Oshkhereli and show watercolor work by Aleme Tadasse and 3 D creations by William Perry. The gallery is located at 1 Saint Matthew's Court and is behind an iron gate nestled in a courtyard off the alleyway behind Saint Matthew's Cathedral. There is a gallery sign at the entrance and if needed, please call for further directions: 202 255-2893.

Studio Gallery presents Perspectives on Hofmann by the Premier Associates Exhibition. This exhibition presents a look into the ability to simplify. Simplifying can be expressed in many ways, from spare designs with only a few elements and shapes to abstractions that reference representational ideas with gestural lines and color. Hofmann was well known for his vibrant colors, and he used the relationships between colors, including warm and cool and bright and dull, to achieve visual depth in a two-dimensional plane, known as the “push/pull” theory. Studio Gallery is located at 2108 R Street, NW.

The Ven Hotel is showing Kirsty Little and Pam Gregory to explore the theme of feminine perspectives "In Feminine Perspectives."  Little digs into feminist themes with comments from the housewifely ‘50s to present day, manipulating steel wire into softness, symbolizing how resilient women need to be today. Gregory’s works, which include paintings, collages, and limited-edition prints, play with perspective, in both landscapes and inscapes. The Ven is located at 2015 Massachusetts Avenue, NW – in the lower level art gallery.

Vika Gallery invites you to join them this Friday, February 6 from 6pm to 8pm, for the closing reception of Elevation, Vian Borchert’s compelling solo exhibition. Throughout the run of the show, Elevation has invited viewers into a space of reflection, emotional resonance, and visual poetry. Vian’s paintings explore atmosphere and abstraction in a way that encourages both contemplation and quiet transformation — an experience that deepens the longer one stands with the work. Vika Gallery is located at 1700 Connecticut Avenue, and the entrance is on R Street.

The Washington Center of ADA University, ADA Art Gallery presents “Forward Seasons” by Chong Kang & Elizabeth Keithline. Kang and Keithline paint contemporary abstract environments using color and composition to mirror the joy, energy and movement of contemporary life. From the caves of Lascaux, to the cathedrals of Rome to the post-war Abstract Expressionist movement, art is often created as a reaction to the time in which it is made. Contemporary art continues to express current circumstances—in this case, the noise and chaos of the 21st century. Kang captures this expression through bright, sometimes neon color and graphic line. Keithline uses pale colors and softer lines to express a need for serenity as a panacea for modern times. ADA Art Gallery is located at 1627 21st Street, NW on the corner of 21st & R Street NW.

Washington Project for the Arts will be open for Art Walk at its new Dupont Circle space, presenting a collaborative project by Monica Jahan Bose and Autumn Spears, two DC artists drawing on their South Asian and African diasporic heritages and ancestral techniques—from sewing and embroidery to braiding and crochet. Their intergenerational dialogue (Gen X-Gen Z) shapes an evolving installation built from shared stories, multilingual text, and fiber-based practices learned from their mothers and women elders. Visitors are invited to drop in, witness the work unfold, and contribute their own stories on the evolving installation. Washington Project for the Arts is located at 1350 Connecticut Ave, NW (Storefront, left of lobby).

Join us at Washington Studio School Gallery during First Friday Art Walk Dupont on Friday, March 6, from 6 PM to 8 PM for the exhibition opening of Gleaners, a collaboratively curated exhibition brings together fifteen artists from the Otis Street Arts Project in Mount Rainier, Maryland, whose interwoven yet distinctly personal approaches explore materiality, reclamation, and the afterlives of objects. Through 2D and 3D works that merge found materials, inventive technologies, and refined traditional practices, the exhibition asks: What can gleaning reveal in a post–1.5-degree world? Here, the process of separating what is discarded from what is essential becomes both artistic method and cultural inquiry. Washington Studio School is located at 2129 S Street NW.

The Woman’s National Democratic Club presents “My Work Is Loving the World,” a solo exhibition by Aurie Hall, who celebrates the natural world and the startling and often unexpected beauty and mystery of what we can experience through nature. Overlapping images encourage reflection on not only what is seen but also what is unseen and what lies beneath the surface. Hall’s art invites us to explore the intersection between being and becoming: how life forms are constantly transforming, how we all are interconnected, how fragile our existence is, but how resilient we can be.

A cash bar will be available from 6 to 8 p.m. The Woman’s National Democratic Club is located at 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC.