About Us

The Pink Line Project is a catalyst for the culturally curious.

We encourage emerging art collectors.

Pink Fans!

"The gallery was mobbed with lots of new faces, many of whom came out to Reston after seeing the show on your site." --Joanne B.

"Your new site is filling the biggest gap existing in the DC art scene for over a decade." --Kathryn C.

"There's no longer an excuse for not knowing what's on."  --Vivienne L.

"My sister just came back from NYC yesterday, where she was dancing ballet for the summer with the Alvin Ailey Ballet.  She described how everyone in NYC is involved in the art world in some way or the other, if not creating then at least observing and appreciating on almost a daily basis.  I think it’s really neat that your efforts are helping to expand the opportunities to do the same in WDC.  We can superimpose the creative/meaningful side on top of and beside the political/civic focus of DC, making it that much more of an enriching experience all around.  And you are at the vanguard of making that happen." --Mateo S.

"I am an art collector because of you." --Tiffany G.

Think Pink!

Pink is about how we exist in the world, with creativity, passion, inspiration, enthusiasm, generosity.  The Pink Line doesn't just go from point A to point B with a transfer point at Metro Center. The Pink Line connects it all together!

Who is Philippa?

Philippa P.B. Hughes, the Pink Line Project's Chief Creative Contrarian, was featured in The Washington Post  as one of "The Cultural Crowd's Refreshing Faces" who is "remaking the scene" in DC as a connector and gatekeeper.

"Neither artist nor gallerist, Hughes is a lawyer and lobbyist-turned-art-collector who has imbued Washington's art scene with a New York-style cool..."

What is a connector or gatekeeper?

"We do not make decisions about pieces of art or music to listen to or dresses to wear, based on how well they work. We buy these things because we like them...for some reason. And that reason is, very often, because it has been given value by experts - someone or some people or some organization or gallery or newspaper - that has the credibility to crown a dress, a painting, or a new music single with the approval and cachet that make it worth wearing, buying, or listening to. These people are the gatekeepers, the tastemakers, the "connectors." They tell us what is worth having, what has taste, in a seemingly arbitrary, symbolic, and status-driven economy"

--The Warhol Economy, by Elizabeth Currid

Philippa is committed to boosting the DC art scene. A sampling of activities:

• DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities - Commissioner.
• Flashpoint Gallery - Advisory Panel.
• Creative Communities Initiative Committee.
• Arlington Arts Center - Board and Catalyst Committee.
• Taffety Punk, an alternative theater company dedicated to making theater smart and affordable founded by DC actors - Board.
• Barrelhouse Magazine, an alternative literary magazine of pop flotsam and cultural jetsam founded by DC writers - Board.
• Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden - Annual Circle and Contemporary Acquisition Council.
• Art Table.

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