Please Join us for a Visit to the Studio of
Dennis Lee Mitchell
Sunday, April 6, 1:00 pm
Please join on us on Sunday, April 6 at 1:00 pm for a visit to the studio of Dennis Lee Mitchell.
Dennis Lee Mitchell’s unconventional drawings capture elusive and ephemeral smoke on paper. He applies acetylene torches directly to the surface of archival paper, creating rich brown-blacks and the faint gradations left by moving smoke. The finished works require multiple preparatory drawings as Mitchell attempts to chart the course of airborne solid and liquid particles. The resulting imagery evokes natural forms such as landscapes and plants, yet remains captivatingly abstract.
Mitchell’s works are featured in many private and public collections including the permanent collection of the Illinois State Art Museum, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Deloitte and Touche Collection, the Racine Art Museum, and the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. He has had many solo and group exhibitions through the United States. More information is available here.
Mitchell’s studio is located in Alexandria, VA. There is a small adjacent parking lot as well as on-street parking. The nearest Metro station is King Street from which you would need to take a taxi or ride share to the studio. Refreshments will be served.
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.
WPC members whose work will be included in the Washington Project for the Arts May 1 “Art Night” include Julia Bloom, Delna Dastur, Mira Hecht, and Michele Montalbano.
Jacqui Crocetta and Susan Hostetler are collaborating on an installation: Between the Sky and Sea at MassoniArt in Chestertown, MD, March 29 – April 27. Artist Talk at noon on March 29 (and Open House until 3:00 pm). Reception: April 4, 5:00–7:00 pm.
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, Michele Montalbano, Leslie Nolan, Carol Reed, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Elzbieta Sikorska, and Joyce Wellman. More information here.
Susan Wooddell Campbell ‘s exhibition at the Washington Printmakers Gallery, Mixed Takes, runs until March 30.
Anna Child’s solo exhibition, Hiccups, is currently at Glen Echo’s Park View gallery.
Cheryl Edwards’ cancelled Art Museum of the Americas exhibition, Before the Americas, was the subject of wide media coverage. The exhibition, which features works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African-American Artists, will go forward at the George Mason University art gallery. You can learn more about the exhibition’s cancellation here and here.
Cianne Fragione’s exhibition What Remains will be on view at Nunu Fine Art in New York. March 21 – May 10.
Black Printmakers of Washington, DC was selected for the Bethesda Film Fest, April 4 – 5. The film was produced by the Printmaking Legacy Project, founded by Susan Goldman. Susan will also have work at the upcoming IFPDA Print Fair where she will be represented by Galerie Myrtis and will participate in a panel presentation at the National Gallery of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist, 12:00 pm April 5, East Building Auditorium.
Deborah Grayson’s work is featured in the exhibition Healing Artifacts at the Kramer Gallery (Silver Spring). Until May 16. More information here.
linn meyers’ work is featured in the exhibition Scale Maps of the Ocean Floor, Timothy Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles. March 22 – April 26.
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.
Ana Rendich has work at Lex Yeux du Monde (Charlottesville, VA). The exhibition Tracing Hope will be on view until March 23.
Soledad Salame’s work is included in the Goya Gallery (Baltimore) current group show, on view until April 5. In addition, Soledad’s work Gulf Distortions is currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art and she will have a solo show at Goya Gallery April 12 – May 22.
Elzbieta Sikorska’s work will be featured in an upcoming exhibition Strata at the Off 70 Studio in Hancock, MD. Part of the “Cultivate” project, other artists in the show include Maggie Gourlay, Katie Kehoe, Susan Main, Claire McConaughy, Murat Cem Mengüç, MJ Neuberger, and Sue Wrbican.
Eve Stockton and Susan Goldman will be exhibiting their work at the Long View Gallery exhibition, FLOURISH. April 10 – July 6. Opening reception April 10, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
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.
Joyce Wellman will be participating in a Print Center (NYC) symposium centered on printmaker Khrishna Reddy on April 26. More information, including an RSVP link here. On April 27, Joyce will be conducting a printmaking workshop at the Robert Blackburn Workshop. Further information about the Robert Blackburn Workshop is available here. The online catalog contains work by Joyce, among many others.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery March 22 – April 25, Hidden Journeys into Nature featuring the work of Wesley Berg and Lindsay Mueller.
Addison/RipleyTrevor Young Radiant Detritus, until April 26.
Gallery Neptune & Brown Jowita Wyszomirka: Echoes of the Understory. On view through April 19.
Hemphill Leon Berkowitz and Wayson Jones, until April 26.
Morton Fine Art Krazy Season: New Oil Paintings by Vonn Cummings Sumner, until March 31.
Pyramid Atlantic Members Mashup, until April 20. WPC members whose works will be included in the show are Carlos Doria, Jenny Freestone, Janet Griffin, Pauline Jakobsberg, Susan Due Pearcy, Leslie Rose, Deborah Schindler, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Elzbieta Sikorska, Terry Svat, Ellen Winkler, Max-Karl Winkler, and Clare Winslow.
Washington Printmakers Gallery,Works by Susan Wooddell Campbell, until March 30.
Events and Exhibitions of Interest
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, Helen Frederick’s Reading Road Studio, and Pyramid Atlantic. More information and tickets here.
Capital Art Book Fair, April 5 – 6, Eastern Market. More information here.
Layered Lightnin, the Collaged Portraits of Michael B. Platt. Opening reception March 27, 6:30 – 7:30, Eaton Hotel, Washington, DC.
Elizabeth Catlett, A Black Revolutionary Artist, National Gallery of Art, until July 6.
Save the Date
April 24, 11:00 am, A tour of the exhibition The Print Generation at the National Museum of Asian Art.