Art Therapy Prescription for a healthier, happier YOU!

Time to trade in your weekly therapy session for some local arts and culture events happening this weekend. Here at Pink Line HQ, we know that attending arts and culture events can improve your physical and mental health so we've specially selected weekend picks that are sure to get you out of the box, or should we say out of the cubicle, and feeling healthier and happier in no time.

Warning: The Pink Line Team can only help you so much without a full analysis of your condition. For more art therapy, please self medicate by checking out our calendar!

Art on the Rocks

Oct 24, 2012, 6:00pm - 9:00pm

The Art League has challenged six local mixologists from Bastille, Chadwick’s, Columbia Firehouse, the Light Horse Restaurant, Red Rocks Pizza Napoletana and Union Street Public House to each select a juried piece from our October “Color Sphere”...

All Our Noise Presents: Companion + America Hearts + Cigarette

Oct 24, 2012, 8:00pm - 11:59pm

Following the great success of our U Hall showcase with Mount Eerie & Secret Mountains last month, All Our Noise has decided to do it again! This time at Comet Ping Pong. Hope to see you there! http://www.allournoise.tv/ // COMPANION (NYC):..

The Ripple Effect: Currents of Socially Engaged Art

Oct 25, 2012, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Washington Project for the Arts and Art Museum of the Americas are pleased to announce The Ripple Effect: Currents of Socially Engaged Art, an exhibition of social practice, collaborative, and participatory work curated by Raquel de Anda. The...

LOW MOMENTS OPENING

Oct 25, 2012, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Low Moments is a showcase of artistic 'misses' presented in an effort to provide group therapy for artists in the Metropolitan Area. What better way to move on from painful moments than to share them with others and have a laugh? This light-hearted...

SOAPBOX: Xavier Valentine, Sarah Hill & Jessica Borusky, Creighton Baxter & Hayley Morgenstern

Oct 25, 2012, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

SOAPBOX is excited to present two Boston-based duos Creighton Baxter and Hayley Morgenston, and Sarah Hill and Jessica Borusky, and Baltimore/Providence Xavier Valentine for October's Soapbox. "Disidentification is..."making over"; it is the way a...

Projecto Correspondência

Oct 25, 2012, 7:00pm - 10:00pm

PROJECTO CORRESPONDENCIA Contemporary art from Portugal and Brazil featuring works from: Catarina Leitão (PT) Cristina Lamas (PT) José Lourenço (PT) Márcio Vilela (BR) Miguel Pacheco (PT) Sara & André (PT) Tatiana Macedo (PT) on view 10.25.2012...

theatreWashington's STAR Gala

Oct 26, 2012, 6:30pm

One spectacular evening of wining, dining, and great theatricality. On Friday evening October 26, at one of the most glamorous sites in Washington - the fabulous Four Seasons - a tradition continues with theatreWashington's 23rd Annual Gala to...

Art Maryland 2012

Oct 26, 2012, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Art Maryland 2012, a biennial, juried multi-media exhibit, opens October 26 at the Howard County Center for the Arts. The exhibit features work selected from nearly 470 entries submitted by 169 artists working in a wide variety of styles and mediums...

ShawnMikael(s) Back at Studio 1469: "All Treats, No Tricks!" with special guest Patrick Ganz

Oct 26, 2012, 8:30pm - 10:30pm

All Hallows Eve." "Dia de los Muertos." "'Quit-Stealing-My-Fucking-Charleston-Chews' Day." Whatever you call Halloween, it most certainly means one thing: your dad going through all the sweet, sweet loot you brazenly extorted from your neighbors and...

52 O Street: October Open Studios

Oct 27, 2012, 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Please join us for October Open Studios! We are opening up our doors at the 52 O Street Studios for a wonderful afternoon of great art in our unique creative spaces. Visitors will have the chance to meet the artists, purchase original works of art...

3rd Annual All New Cabaret Macabre

Oct 26, 2012, 8:00pm - Nov 11, 2012, 11:00pm

An all-new Cabaret Macabre inspired by Edward Gorey, Victorian nightmares, dangerous croquet, melodramatic music, and Gothic romance stitched together with Happenstance Theater's penchant for witty, visual, theatrical collage. This is the 3rd...

The Sultan’s Garden: The Blossoming of Ottoman Art

Sep 21, 2012 (All day) - Mar 10, 2013 (All day)

This September, The Textile Museum will open The Sultan’s Garden: The Blossoming of Ottoman Art (September 21, 2012–March 10, 2013). The exhibition and its accompanying catalog chronicles how one of the world’s most powerful empires adopted a...

Kanchan Balsé and Rachel Mijares Fick

Oct 20, 2012 (All day) - Nov 18, 2012 (All day)

Kanchan Balsé brings her complex narrative paintings to the solo space and Rachel Mijares Fick installs a photo series (and a video premiere) to the project room. Opening reception: Saturday, October 20, 6-9pm Show dates: October 20-November 18,...

Ai Weiwei: "According to What?"

Oct 7, 2012 (All day) - Feb 24, 2013 (All day)

Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. Beijing, 1957) is one of China’s most prolific and provocative artists. Throughout his career, he has offered insights into the interrelations between art, society, and individual experience and explored such universal topics...