Please Join Us for Visits to the
Studios of Artists Amber Robles Gordon and
Gail Shaw-Clemons
Saturday, March 8, 12:00 pm
Due to predictions of a winter storm, this program which was originally scheduled in February now has a new date. Please join us on Saturday, March 8 at noon for a visit to the studios of artists Amber Robles Gordon and Gail Shaw-Clemons.
Gail Shaw-Clemons, born in Washington, DC, received her Masters’ Degree in printmaking from the University of Maryland. She is a printmaker and mixed media artist and activist. She has exhibited extensively, with many works included in public and private collections in the USA, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, China, Florence, Italy, and the Republic of Ireland. Her work is also in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, and the Banneker-Douglass Museum. Shaw-Clemons prints at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York as well as the Pyramid Printmaking Studio in Hyattsville MD. Shaw-Clemons taught at the United Nations International School in New York for 24 years and is currently an adjunct professor at Bowie State University.
Amber Robles-Gordon is an interdisciplinary artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. Her creations reflect her hybridism: a fusion of her gender, ethnicity, cultural, political and social experiences, and concerns.
Currently Robles-Gordon is creating a multidisciplinary project titled Reclamando mi tiempo, reclamando lo mío which explores her maternal Puerto Rican heritage. Through the exploration of the Afro – Puerto Rican traditional dance, bomba, Robles-Gordon is navigating the connections between place, heritage and culture. Robles-Gordon is working in collaboration with Cultural DC, Washington, DC, El Cuadrado Gris Galería, Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico and Semilla Cultural, Washington, DC, to present a traveling exhibition upon completion of the project. You can find more information about Amber Robles-Gordon and her work here.
Both studios are located at STABLE Arts in DC’s NoMa neighborhood. There is limited on-street parking. The closest Metro station is NoMa.
Registration for this event is limited to 20 WPC members and their guests.
Member News
Carol Barsha will be exhibiting her screenprint Garden in a Wheat Field in New Jersey’s Hunterdon Art Museum’s 2025 Juried Print Exhibition. Through May 4.
Organized and curated by artist Lenny Campello, a multi-venue exhibition of work by women artists in the DMV will be held Fall, 2025. WPC members participating in the exhibition so far include Julia Bloom, Rosemary Feit Covey, Jacqui Crocetta, Delna Dastur, Mary Early, Cheryl Edwards, Cianne Fragione, Helen Frederick, Jenny Freestone, Susan Goldman, Mira Hecht, Leslie Holt, June Linowitz, Isabel Manalo, Leslie Nolan, Carol Reed, Gail Shaw-Clemons, and Joyce Wellman. More information here.
Kristin Dennino’s exhibition Women’s Work will be on view at the Washington Printmakers Gallery until February 23. More information here.
Cheryl Edwards has work in the Zenith Gallery exhibition Hold On, Change is Coming. Until March 1. Cheryl also has a solo show, Magical, Mystical, Love at the Monte Azul Gallery in Costa Rica.
Cianne Fragione’s exhibition What Remains will be on view at Nunu Fine Art in New York. Opening reception March 21, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Helen Frederick. See “Events of Interest” below.
An exhibition of Susan Due Pearcy’s work, Ashes to Ashes: A Caregiver’s Journey, will be on view at the National Institutes of Health until April 6.
Randi Reiss McCormack’s work Lift Off was selected for the State Department’s program “Art In Embassies” from October 2024-2027. The work is traveling now to the US Embassy in Ashgabat Turkmenistan.
Ana Rendich will have work at Lex Yeux du Monde (Charlottesville, VA). The exhibition Tracing Hope will be on view February 15 – March 23. Opening reception February 15, 4:00 – 6:00 pm.
Soledad Salame will have an exhibition at Goya Gallery (Baltimore), opening March 20. In addition, Soledad’s work Gulf Distortions will be on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art beginning February 26.
Caroline Thorington’s work is being shown at The Midwest Art Exhibition until April 20, 2025 at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg, Kansas.
Claire Winslow’s work is included in the Gallery B (Bethesda) exhibition Moving Forward. Until March 2. More information here.
Julie Wolfe’s installation A Summary of Evidence will be on view at the Freight Gallery on February 23, 4:00 – 6:00 pm. More information here.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose GalleryAny Season will be the Finest Hour, work by Maremi Andreozzi and Sheila Giolitti, until March 9.
Addison/Ripley, Power Aesthetics, works by E. Brady Robinson. Until March 8. Conversation and Coffee, March 8, 11:00 am.
Gallery Neptune & BrownArt Deco Glamor in Shanghai: 1915 – 1938. Until March 1.
Hemphill, works by Sophia Belkin, until February 22.
Morton Fine Art Casting and Protection Work, artwork by Maya Freelon and Amber Robles-Gordon. Until March 1.
Pazo Fine Art, DC location. The Language of Patterns, work by
Jackie Ferrara, Alison Hall, Gloria Klein, Marilyn Lerner, and Andrea Way. Until March 15.
Pyramid Atlantic, Finding A Voice Through Printmaking, a retrospective of print work by Curlee Raven Holton. Until March 2. Pyramid Atlantic is also hosting Black Ink, a Black artist-centered open house. February 22. RSVP required.
Washington Printmakers Gallery,works by Kristin Dennino. Until February 23. More information here.
Events of Interest
LIVING ROOM | BOOK TALK, Radical Paper. Hosted by The Phillips Collection, WPC member Helen Frederick will engage in conversation with authors Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour about their new book Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp, which delves into art created with colored paper pulp. A Q&A will follow the panel conversation. February 14, 12:00 – 1:15. Registration required. Register here.
Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression. This new documentary will be screened at the National Gallery of Art, Saturday, February 22, 12:00. Registration required. Register here.
IFPDA Print Fair, March 28 – 30, Park Avenue Armory, NYNY. WPC members Gallery Neptune & Brown and The Old Print Shop will be among the exhibitors.Tickets available here. The schedule of IFPDA programming is here.
The Brooklyn Fine Arts Print Fair will take place March 27 – 30. Exhibitors will include WPC members Susan Goldman’s Lily Press and Pyramid Atlantic. More information and tickets here.
Save the Dates
March 21, 11:00 am, A curator tour of the exhibition Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant Garde at the Frary Gallery, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center (DC), and a tour of the Center’s art collection with the gallery director.
April 5, 11:00 am, Visit to the studio of artist Dennis Lee Mitchell
April 24, 11:00 am, A tour of the exhibition The Print Generation at the National Museum of Asian Art.