Alzaruba
Alzaruba is an internationally recognized, award winning visual and performing artist based in Baltimore, MD. His work, like his life, reflects a complex of multicultural influences, social and spiritual issues and our relationship to the environment, manifested through a series of large-scale public installations, as well as in sculpture, painting performance, video, printmaking and photograp...more
Becca and Cori Sue
Bitches who Brunch
Becca and Cori Sue are brunching their way around Washington, D.C. ... At least, that’s how it all started in March 2010. More than 200 brunches later, Bitches Who Brunch has become the website Washingtonians turn to when they want to know where to brunch—or what to wear and where to party. The Bitches provide their readers with fresh content every weekday, starting with Monday’s This...more
Fork + Canvas
Fork + Canvas is a DC arts and food blog started by just another worker in this city with idealistic hopes to make this world a better place. It’s easy to forget sometimes that DC is more than politics and politicos. To help keep some perspective, I started Fork + Canvas to document my arts and gastronomical adventures. While I have some knowledge of art (graduated with highest honors in art his...more
Illegal DC Graffiti
Armed with a pair of All-Star shoes, a pocket camera and a netbook, Illegal DC Graffiti treats the city as his own personal scavenger hunt, searching high and low, above and below for all of the DMV's illegal graffiti. Follow him on Tumblr: http://illegal-dc-graffiti.tumblr.com/, Add him as a contact on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/people/illegal-dc-graffiti/ , or follow him on Twitter: @...more
Jules
Dating the District
Jules is a regional native and DC interloper still fiercely vying for her place in the great rat race, and enjoying the adventure of it. She is multilingual, single, and in love with Washington. Currently, Jules is working on a dystopian novel, a few visual art projects, and her blog attempting to puzzle together what it is to be sassy, classy, and free in DC. More on her shenanigans: http://datin...more
Listen Local First
Listen Local First DC (LLF) is a local music initiative devoted to building awareness and creating opportunities for LOCAL MUSICIANS and venues in order to raise the profile of DC’s local music scene. LLF was born out of a collaborative effort with Think Local First DC and seeks to partner with local musicians, local arts organizations, local venues and locally owned businesses to create p...more
Pink Line Project
The Pink Line Project catalyzes the culturally curious to participate, innovate, engage, and conspire with passion, awesomeness, inspiration, generosity, and ingenuity.
Pleatherette
Pleatherette
Pleatherette provides creative style and fashion consulting services, from basic styling and editorial needs to fully–integrated, style-based marketing campaigns and experiential fashion projects. We started out as the Birds of a Pleather blog in 2010. What was at first a month-long fashion editorial project morphed into a broader discussion of style and its place in Washington, DC. In 2011, pe...more
ReadysetDC
The creative current running through Washington, DC is palpable. There is a cultural renaissance taking place in our city. A window of opportunity for urban design, art, music, fashion, photography, dining and everything in between. ReadysetDC will discover this movement. ReadysetDC will interview, blog about, document, photograph and capture this movement. We do this for the LOVE of DC, for th...more
The Washington Film Institute
The Washington Film Institute (WFI) was created to inspire audiences through film education and the cultivation of the cinematic arts. We do this by developing educational programs and programming film events throughout the year.
Dena Adams
Dena Adams spends her days digging through the dirty secrets of days gone by and her nights absorbed in the artistic world around her. She is a cultural vagabond with a severe case of knowing what she does and doesn't like.
Lisa Ager
Pink Line Project
Lisa is working on her M.A. in the Arts Management program at American University and is the Patron Services Coordinator at the Katzen Arts Center. Born and raised in the D.C. metro area, she has long been interested in everything arts and culture. Lisa received her B.A. in Art History and Archaeology from the University of Maryland and has been working in performance art venues since she was a ...more
John Anderson
John James Anderson is an interdisciplinary artist living in Washington. He has taught as an adjunct faculty member at American University, The George Washington University, George Mason University, The Corcoran College of Art and Design and Prince George's Community College. His work has received several grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Eames Armstrong
Eames Armstrong is a DC-based interdisciplinary artist, curator, and founder of Aether Art Projects. She programs Soapbox, a performance art series at Hillyer Art Space, and runs dcperformanceart.tumblr.com. Eames received her BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and currently works out of the 52 O Street Artist Studios.
Ben Azzara
Ben Azzara has been active in the DC music scene playing drums in a diverse array of homegrown projects, across multiple genres and for decades. He remembers the old days but is always optimistic about the future of music in the Washington DC metro region. He was an early innovator of websites for musicians and bands, having initially set up websites for the Black Cat, Fugazi among many others a...more
Lauren Basler
Lauren is a student at GW with a love for art, music, culture and maps. After stumbling upon The Pink Line Project, Lauren was inspired to get involved with her passions. She is thrilled to help The Pink Line Project catalyze the culturally curious and hopes to be a part of DC’s artistic revitalization. In addition to working for The Pink Line Project, Lauren is involved with All Things Go, a DC...more
Holly Bass
Holly Bass is a writer and performer. Her work has been presented at respected regional theaters and performance spaces such as the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum and the Experience Music Project. She studied modern dance (under Viola Farber) and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College before earning a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University. She curated the NYC H...more
Paulette Beete
Paulette Beete's poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Escape into Life, and Provincetown Arts. She is the author of the chapbooks Blues for a Pretty Girl (Finishing Line Press) and Voice Lessons (Plan B Press). She blogs occasionally at www.thehomebeete.com. Find her on Twitter as @mouthflowers.
Ally Behnke
Ally Behnke is a Washington, DC resident with lots of DC pride. When she is not focusing her grass roots career that merges real estate, art, and community she can be found attending cultural events. She lives to inspire and be inspired by those who amplify the more interesting and beautiful aspects of life and urban culture.
Caroline Bennett
Caroline majored in English at the College of William and Mary. This meant that, come graduation day, she had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. All she knew was that she wanted to have adventures and write about them, so she found herself in DC. This turned out to be perfect because here, new and exciting happenings (and people) pop up every day. Caroline loves art, theater, and fig...more
Miriam Berg
Miriam Berg is a writer and creative cat from Washington, D.C. Miriam has written on theater and fun things to do in D.C. (Washington City Paper); food (Bitches Who Brunch); yoga (Dupont Current Newspaper); psychology (Monitor on Psychology Magazine); and the environment (The Green Room and the Alliance to Save Energy). Miriam holds a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School ...more
Ellen Berlow
Freelance writer on art and travel features. Most recent magazine article on sculptor Anne Truitt's exhibit at the Hirshhorn. Active supporter of the Corcoran Gallery and Phillips. Collector of DC artists' work since the 60's.
Carole Bernard
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Carole Bernard started her career as a speechwriter for the Mayor Boston and after three years was promoted to the Deputy Director of the Mayor's Office of Business Services, where she helped local start-up businesses and addressed community concerns. She also served as the public information director for Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., a large...more
David Bonck
David does talent development. He lives in Dupont Circle.
Dan Brady
Barrelhouse
Dan Brady is the poetry editor of Barrelhouse. His own poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Big Lucks, BlazeVox, Circumference, Dark Sky Magazine, Gargoyle, IsReads, and Specs, among others.
Reuben Breslar
Reuben Breslar is a conceptual artist based in Virginia. His work addresses the transformational powers of art attached to memory, time, and experience. Recent projects include a year-long documentation of private sentiment recorded on copy paper and housed in seven 3” binders and social intervention projects that take place in the form of Happenings. Reuben’s portfolio includes painting, i...more
Anna Burden
Anna Burden is an artist from Baltimore and recent graduate of the University of Maryland – College Park. She graduated with a B.A. in Studio Art in 2012 with a concentration in drawing and painting. In addition to creating artwork, she has been involved with Terp Thon, being the Art Director for the organization focused on a Dance Marathon to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network i...more
Jon Caldwell
Jon Caldwell is a first year Doctor of Musical Arts student in Wind Conducting at the University of Michigan. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Maryland-College Park. Jon was ...more
Jackie Cantwell
Curating for a Cause
Born: December 11, 1986 Cantwell is a graduate from the Painting and Printmaking department at Virginia Commonwealth University. By blood she is a painter, but she explores several mediums including screen-printing and digital photography. She spent the last year working as the Art Director for the local non-profit Dreams for Kids planning arts fundraising events for them. She parlayed that...more
Jaime Carlson
When Jaime isn’t trying to figure out how to finance the nation’s clean energy future, she is likely digging into DC music underbelly and scouring the pages of pitchfork, last.fm and bestnewtracks for new and old music discoveries. Jaime is one of the original founders of Apertura Films, a Panamanian-based production company that produced TV series El Otro Lado (“The Other Side”), named ...more
Katlin Chadwick
Katlin is intent on combining her passion for the arts, her passion for writing, and her background in journalism. Originally from Virginia, she received her BA from the University of Virginia, where she studied English and studio art. She then continued on to the University of Missouri for her MA in print journalism (with a magazine writing focus specifically). She moved to DC last January where ...more
Tim Cone
Tim Cone grew up in New York City and now lives in Washington, D.C.. At a young age he accompanied his mother, an art critic, on visits to New York City’s contemporary art galleries. These visits sparked an interest, and he bought his first works of contemporary art as soon he could afford to – within a year of graduating from law school. He has continued collecting ever since. "Once, a wel...more
Brian Corrigan
Design-Thinkers, Inc.
Brian Corrigan is a design thinker, educator, strategist and all around fun fellow. He is the chief creative officer and founding member of Design-Thinkers, Inc. He loves typography, contemporary architecture, cool furniture, and big ideas.
Brian Corrigan
I believe in a future powered by the People's imagination. My work has been featured in PSFK, Cool Hunting, Dwell, Springwise and The Huffington Post.
Jay Curiel
Jay is a recent Master's of Arts Management graduate from George Mason University where she also received her B.A. in Art History. An avid participant in the arts Jay has been involved in the visual arts, theater, dance, and music all her life. She is excited to be a part of Pink Line Project and is looking forward to experiencing the latest arts events in DC.
Julia Dann
Born and raised within the DC Diamond, Julia Dann likes her hair short, her nails long, and her earrings large. Julia is an enthusiast of art across media as it intersects with youth movements and narratives. She received a B.A. in Sociology & Africana Studies from the College of Wooster, where her studies were concentrated on hip-hop, masculinity and contemporary youth consciousness. Having just ...more
Sarah David Heydemann
Sarah David Heydemann is a community organizer, writer and producer in Washington, DC. Her production credits include events of every type including but not limited to urban art showcases, concerts, charity fundraisers, academic panels and conferences not to mention awesome birthday parties. If she had a dream business card it would say, "cultural cartographer."
Sarah Deanehan
Originally from Albany, NY, Sarah attended college at the University of Wisconsin at Madison before moving to Washington DC in 2004. She earned a master's degree in Museum studies from the George Washington University, and has worked, volunteered and interned at a variety of museums across the city including the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the United States Holocaust M...more
Melinda Diachenko
Melinda Diachenko, Chief Orchestrator of Pink Line Project, is "by day" an innovative marketer who's built an extensive professional portfolio over the past 9 years. Focusing on digital media her expertise includes: design, online advertising, online experience, branding, sales, events and arts management. Sellable skills aside, her artistic base is in performance art, which has evolved from 15 ...more
Marcus Dowling
A native Washingtonian with a perpetually voracious appetite for music and popular culture, Marcus Dowling is one of Washington, DC's rising freelance journalists. Sitting comfortably at the confluence of the underground and mainstream, Marcus uses an evocative writing style to advocate for spotlight worthy ideas and sounds. With a present schedule that includes regular freelancing for his own ...more
Buck Downs
Buck Downs co-curates the In Your Ear poetry series at the D.C. Arts Center and is the Poetry Editor for Boog City, an arts and literature tabloid. His latest book of poems is Always Materialized.
Rachel Eisley
A Washington, DC native, Rachel Eisley is a photography and art teacher by day, and a galavanting photojournalist by night. Given her first 35mm camera at age 13 by her grandfather, Rachel hasn’t forgotten the lessons of film in a digital age: crop with the eye, apply minimal post production, and capture natural light. She especially enjoys shooting people doing what they love the most, and lov...more
Barbara Esstman
Barbara Esstman is the co-editor of A MORE PERFECT UNION (St. Martin’s) and the author of THE OTHER ANNA and NIGHT RIDE HOME, both published by Harcourt Brace, HarperCollins and numerous foreign presses. The novels were adapted for TV film by Hallmark Productions, and her short stories have been recognized by the Pushcarts and REDBOOK, among others. She teaches at The Writer's Center in Bethes...more
Justin Fair
Soulstrong Arts Blog
Justin Fair is a visual artist in the Baltimore-DC area, specializing in abstract dry media, focusing in themes such as structural and emotional space/depth in relation to nature and urban settings. A graduate of the University of Maryland–College Park with a double-degree in studio art and theatre, Mr. Fair works as the Economic Development Coordinator for the Hyattsville Community Development ...more
Beth Farnstrom
Beth graduated from Brown University with a BA in Art History and has been painting in oils, working internationally in editorial photography, drawing people's faces on the subway, and generally grubbing about in a variety of mediums (so to speak!) since graduation day. She has written and edited for a disorientingly wide variety of news, culture, and trade publications while maintaining a staunch...more
Emma Fisher
The Fridge DC
Emma Fisher is the Assistant Gallery Director at The Fridge DC gallery in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. She handles marketing, public and artist relations, strategic planning and development of the business. She is from Charleston, WV and graduated from West Virginia University. In August of 2012, Emma produced a five week arts festival named Fresh Produce that featured 60+...more
Jackie Fishman
Jackie Fishman is a communications veteran with a New York City heart who has made the Washington, DC area her adopted home. Medical and health care media relations and marketing paid the bills for years, now she is branching out and writing about food, travel, leisure, charity and sometimes medical research. She has a MA from American University and is an accredited public relations professional ...more
Joe Flood
Joe Flood is a writer and photographer from Washington, DC. Actively involved in the local film scene, he won the Film DC Screenplay Competition in 2006 and recently completed his first novel, Murder in Ocean Hall. He has his own blog at http://joeflood.com, where he writes about creativity and technology.
Eliza French
Eliza grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. graduated from Duke University with a degree in Art History and French Studies. She moved to DC to work in media events and has continued to support the arts. She is an Arts and Entertainment contributor for the local blog Borderstan and a volunteer at The Phillips Collection. Follow her at @elizaenbref.
Haley Fults
DC continues to surprise me in new and exciting ways. Through organizations like the Pink Line Project, I get turned on to new performers and cultural centers in the city. There there is always the odd surprise I hear about through friends, new friends, or new friends on the Metro. Stay tuned for more surprises!
Raffaella Giampaolo
Originally from Philadelphia, PA Raffaella has been living in DC for three years as an undergrad at George Washington University studying Fine Arts. She has interned in New York City the past two summers for W Magazine's photo department and Seventeen Magazine's bookings department. Raffaella step foot into DC's art community in 2010 when interning for Worn Magazine, a DC-born publication intended...more
Chunky Glasses
Welcome to ChunkyGlasses.com. What are we? That’s a little unclear still, but I can tell you what we aim to be. Music is a part of everyone’s life. It is ingrained into each and every person that exists on the planet today. It’s part of you. It’s (definitely) part of me. It’s in our DNA. It’s always been this way and always will be, but these days it might have gotten a wee bit confusi...more
Rachel Gorman
Rachel Gorman is a DC-area native that moved back to her home turf after graduating from The College of William and Mary three years ago. An avid art enthusiast, Rachel works in Communications at the Committee for Economic Development by day, and soaks up all the art she can find by night.
Lauren Green
Lauren Green is a local DC dance blogger and freelance writer. She has written articles for Dance Studio Life, Dance Teacher ,and The Buffalo Spree magazines. She has also written dance reviews for the Buffalo News. Now emerging in the blog world, Lauren is developing her following in the DC dance scene. She hopes to spread the word about great local dance events, performances, reviews, and ed...more
Becca Gurganious
Becca has worked for the Pink Line Project since 2008 doing just about anything - hence how she got the title "Chief Organizer of Everything." She is also Marketing Manager for the Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Andrew Herndon
Andrew Herndon is an artist and poet, active in the DC arts community since 2004. He graduated from VCU in 2003 with a degree in sculpture, with an emphasis on digital media installation theory and performance. Andrew has been a display artist (full-time artist and carpenter) for the fashion and lifestyle retailer Urban Outfitters since 2007.
Tara Heuser
Tara Heuser was an art history major at the University of Virginia and used to manage an art and framing gallery in Old Town Alexandria. She currently works for an association and lives in Washington, DC.
Sam Hiersteiner
Sam’s Good Meats is on a quest to find the elusive balance between a love of a meat and cholesterol-induced spontaneous combustion. Butchering his way from farm to table. Curing and smoking his way through Charcutepalooza. Articulating his way through humane husbandry and slow food philosophy. Eating his way through anything that gets too near his mouth, particularly in DC. Twitter @SamsGoodMeat...more
Alli Houseworth
Alli Houseworth is the president and founder of Method 121, digital communications company that builds brands and audiences through carefully curated in-person and online engagement strategies. Prior to venturing out on her own, Alli was the Communications and Audience Development Director at theatreWashington where she executed the rebranding of the 27 year-old company (formerly known as The Hele...more
Philippa P.B. Hughes
The Pink Line Project
Philippa is a creative catalyst for the culturally curious.
Phil Hutinet
East City Art
Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art. Hutinet began East City Art in 2010 to document and promote the growing contemporary art movement in the eastern communities of Washington, DC. A DC Native, Hutinet holds undergraduate degrees in History and Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Simone Jacobson
Born in Phoenix, Arizona and nurtured in Washington, DC, Simone Jacobson is a performer and independent curator of artistic talent, projects and programs. She is founding co-director of Sulu DC, a monthly showcase of Asian and Pacific Islander American performing artists in Washington, DC. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Literature from the University of Maryland. Her writing h...more
Mercedes Jara
Mercedes is originally from Northern Virginia where she studied Visual Communication, Journalism and Graphic Arts at Marymount University in Arlington. As a full time staff writer for her student newspaper, her love of writing and photojournalism brought her to the Pink Line Project. She recently completed a successful internship with the DC Film Alliance where her passion for film and screenwriti...more
Kelsey King
Kelsey recently graduated from the George Washington University with a B.A. in Art History. Currently splitting her time between the Pink Line Project, the Karabakh Foundation and Project Day Eight, she has taken to calling herself "intern extraordinaire."
Orrin Konheim
Orrin Konheim is a freelance writer who grew up in Northern Virginia and knows the streets so well, that he often drives with his eyes closed. His DMV rap sheet is long but his publication record is even longer as he has written for several newspapers in the DC area including Washington City Paper, the Current, Metromix and NBC 4's DC Scene. He can be found on twitter at @okonh0wp.
Kristin Korolowicz
Kristin Korolowicz is an independent curator and writer. She holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts, and a BA in Art History from George Mason University. In 2009 she worked with Mark Dion and the Oakland Museum of California on research and preparations for the exhibition: "The Marvelous Museum: A Project by Mark Dion." Prior to relocating to the West Coast, she wa...more
Franny Kupersmith
The Pink Line Project
Anne L'Ecuyer
Anne L’Ecuyer is a writer and a consultant who stays closely connected to an international network of city leaders, cultural professionals, and individual artists. She is an expert in creative industries and cultural tourism, as well as the contributions of the arts toward educational, social, and environmental goals in communities throughout the United States. Anne previously served as Associa...more
Hannah Lardent
Hannah Lardent is a graduate of The George Washington University with a B.A. in Art History, magna cum laude. Hannah was born in Monterrey, California but spent her formative years living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She has been involved in the arts from a young age earning National recognition for her work in ceramics such as Gold Key and Silver Portfolio awards for the National Scholastic Art & Writin...more
Jacqueline Levine
Jacqueline Levine was born on August 30th, 1981 in Houston, TX to a Texan father and Lebanese mother. She started painting at 14. At 17 she was painting murals in the underground tunnels of downtown Houston. She graduated with an undergraduate degree from American University in 2004 and an MFA from George Washington University in 2010. Levine is deeply interested in creating an emotional and s...more
Liz Maestri
Liz’s writing has appeared in New York Moves magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and her blog, The Valley of the Shadow of Arts Death. Her plays include OWL MOON, SOMERSAULTING, FALLBEIL, CONDO CONDO CONDOLAND, and HOUSE BEAUTIFUL. She has worked extensively with E.M.P. Collective in Baltimore, DC-based Taffety Punk Theatre Company, and The Anthropologists in NYC. www.lizmaestri.com.
Michael Maizels
A PhD Candidate in the History of Art at the University of Virginia, Mike's research focuses on the emergence of postmodernity in the art and thought of the late 1960s and early 1970s. His other academic interests include the histories of science and subjectivity, as well as critical theory. He also enjoys running, yoga and photography. More of Mike's critical and curatorial projects are availabl...more
Isabel Manalo
The Studio Visit
Isabel Manalo grew up in Madison, WI after living in the Philippines, her country of origin, for three years. Her work is exhibited and collected nationally and internationally as well as throughout the Washington DC area. She received an MFA in Painting from Yale University a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She currently is a...more
Morgan Markey
Originally from Boston, MA I have been living in dc for four years as an undergrad at George Washington university studying art history. I have interned at local galleries and auction houses in the dc and Boston areas. I have always been interested in art and have taken art classes such as product design, painting and sculpture. Currently I am a student as well as an intern for Pink Line Project.
Lisa Markuson
Lisa is a Californian philanthropist currently based in a modestly-sized 100 year old mansion just off of the best street in the Capital of the Universe - Georgia Avenue. She writes poems poorly, paints pictures quickly and with poor attention to details, makes food and drink without recipes, and is always promoting something exciting and life-changing. She enjoys pickled herring.
Allison Marvin
Sightline
Allison Marvin is founder of the art consulting firm Sightline, started in 2004. She enjoys a strong, national network of top-notch artists, galleries and art spaces. Allison is based in Washington, D.C. and travels regularly to New York City, Miami, L.A., and other cities to take in major art shows, fairs and private collections. Allison organizes art events, such as open houses, meet-the-ar...more
Sarah Massey
Massey Media
Sarah Massey is a public relations expert who specializes in shifting the mass media conversation to include human rights, the arts, and socially responsible businesses. Sarah founded Massey Media in 2005 to build the progressive movement with creative and strategic communications. Over the last four years, Massey Media’s work has grown to include arts and business representation. Before laun...more
Kate Mattingly
Kate Mattingly teaches Dance History, Understanding the Dance and Pilates at George Washington University and George Mason University. From 2006 to 2009 she lived in Austria and was the dramaturge for SommerSzene, an international festival of contemporary performance in Salzburg. Prior to moving to Europe, she spent ten years writing about dance and artists for The New York Times, The Village Voic...more
Leslie Maxwell
Leslie is pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction writing at George Mason University. She wears a lot of yellow, drinks good coffee, and sings along to the radio. Leslie is originally from North Carolina and has worked in public relations and communications for the education industry, most recently at Duke University. She is also on a quest to find a really excellent vegetarian burrito in the D.C. ...more
Heather McCaw
Independent Artist
Heather McCaw is a painter currently working in Navarre, Florida. She has a degree in English literature from the Ohio State University and a master’s degree from the American University of Beirut, where she studied themes of gender, exile, and identity in contemporary Arab literature. She also studied art at the Columbus College of Art and Design and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. As...more
Jason McCool
Jason McCool comes from a long line of people who have been asked, “is that your real last name?” Originally from Brockton, MA, Jason holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (jazz trumpet) and the University of Maryland (historical musicology). Now a part of the vibrant theater community of Washington, DC, Jason’s recent work includes OMG, part of the 2010-2011 Mead Theatre Lab Progra...more
Alison McQuown
Alison is currently an undergrad at the George Washington University, majoring in both Art History and French Language and Literature. Although she has always had an interest in art, she never pursued it seriously until moving to DC from Newton, MA, and was thrilled to find a flourishing art scene here. She recently began interning for Philippa Hughes for the Pink Line Project, and internship th...more
Jenny Mullins
As a native Texan married into a traditional Indian family, Jenny Sidhu Mullins creates dense and meticulous watercolors as well as fully interactive sculptures that explore notions of American appropriation and Eastern exotification. Mullins is currently on a Fulbright to India, researching the effects and manifestation of spiritual tourism. To truly understand some of the issues surround...more
Diana Nash
dianadepeysternash@gmail.com
Diana is a native Washingtonian who recently returned to the District from Charleston, where she attended the College of Charleston, volunteered for the Spoleto Festival, and spent 2 years working for a division of OpenTable. While on the search for a new creative career in the ever-expanding social media industry, she hopes to get back into the DC scene by becoming involved with and blogging...more
Anne O'Rourke
Born in New York, Anne O'Rourke has lived in Dupont Circle for the past 30 years supporting and writing about the DC arts scene. With a background in nonprofit management and development, she's a freelance writer who specializes in arts, spirituality and personal development. She's worked with numerous publications and organizations in the US and Canada including Sojourners magazine and the Americ...more
Cecile Oreste
danceDC
Cecile Oreste is a public relations professional and performing arts enthusiast. A native of Massachusetts, she now lives in the District where she enjoys learning about the local dance community. Cecile is currently the Marketing and Public Relations Manager at Joy of Motion Dance Center, Treasurer of the Asian American Journalists Association – DC Chapter and a Board Member of Dana Tai Soon Bu...more
Josef Palermo
Pink Line Project
Josef Palermo is a cultural producer and arts organizer utilizing his professional background in community organizing to cultivate and activate creative communities in the District of Columbia and surrounding metropolitan area. Josef has been with Pink Line Project as its Chief Community Curator since the summer of 2011, producing arts and cultural events with a focus on the communities in which ...more
Mark Parascandola
Mark Parascandola is a photographer and lives in the U Street neighborhood of Washington DC. His portfolio includes images of abandoned architecture and uninhabited landscapes from Spain, South America, and the southwestern US. His work has been featured at the Nevin Kelly gallery and other venues around Washington DC and in Spain. He is a member of the Mid City Artists and serves on the Executive...more
Marisa Plumb
Marisa Plumb is a writer, although she has intermittently tried on catchier titles, such as “digital artist”. Accordingly, she creates fictional worlds that employ both traditional text and other media. These worlds misappropriate contemporary concepts to generate temporary and/or sardonic utopias. When this doesn’t seem to be working, she focuses on constructing pleasing sentences. Maris...more
dog & pony dc
dog & pony dc
dog & pony dc is a developing ensemble of artists that takes what we know—traditional forms and classical texts and narratives—and shakes up, reorganizes, and turns them upside down to create innovative performances that are contemporary and visceral. Our productions are fanciful and practical, designed to hit the gut and heart, but stay in the mind and soul for days. Our approach engages art...more
Tom Risen
Tom Risen, a native of the D.C. area, has blogged about the city's culture for AOL and has been published online at the Atlantic, ABC News, Government Executive, National Journal, Slate, and at newspapers in Maryland and California.
Daniel Rosenstein
Danspix Event Photography
Daniel is a Northern Virginia based event photographer that specializes in shooting sports, entertainment and food.
Greg Roth
Greg Roth is a freelance communications professional who moonlights as host, director, and producer at ManontheStreetDC.com, a videoblog for the average person if there ever was one. His more “fun” credits include playing in the bands The Mean Ideas and Czars of Leisure, being pulled up on stage by Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze to play guitar, opening for the guy from Superdrag, stand-up comedy, i...more
Vishal Sandesara
Vishal Sandesara is a mild mannered strategy consultant by day and an aspiring comedian by night. Born and raised in California, he graduated from the University of California Davis and worked in the high tech startup industry for years. He later moved to the DC area to pursue happiness... and an MBA at Georgetown where he decided that his true calling is conversational comedy. While his days ar...more
Alessandra Schmidt
Zan is a Vassar student who has been happy to jump into DC's mix of creative art events and personas with the Pink Line Project. As a comparative religion and art history major, Zan is lover of all things innovative, adventurous, and creative. She especially enjoys eco-art, DIY events, and anything culinary.
Lisa Shapiro
DiningInDc.net
Lisa Shapiro, a native Washingtonian is the founder of Dining in DC, which she began in June 2007 to capture her dining experiences. Dining in DC strives to always be on top of what's new in the DC area restaurant scene with dining reviews, special seasonal roundups, personal recommendations via "Ask Lisa", tips for diners, news, and more. In addition, since 2009, Lisa serves as the DC Restaurant ...more
Rachel Shapiro
I graduated in 2011 from Virginia Tech. I double majored in communications and art history, and minored in classics. Currently, I work two part time jobs: I am a museum assistant at the Phillips Collection and I am also a web coordinator for a magazine publishing company.
SM Shrake
SM SHRAKE founded Story League in 2010 with Cathy Alter. The troupe's most recent (sold-out) story show was "Powers That Be" on July 6, and the next story show is Thursday, August 11, at Artisphere: a collaboration with New York City's The Story Collider called "The Politics of Science." Shrake, “the hardest-working man in the story business,” has appeared in 7 cities in his first year and a h...more
Bryana Siobhan
Emerging artist and budding writer, Bryana Siobhan has been working in mixed media for the past several years, and recently shifted her attention to performance art as her main form of expression. Incorporating sound, painting, sculpture and video into her performative works, Bryana looks to highlight the fragility and ephemerality of internal and external relationships, the psyche and social inte...more
Willona Sloan
Willona M. Sloan is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and editor. She has written articles for Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, Northern Virgina magazine, DC magazine, and the University of Virginia magazine. She runs DC Scorpiongirl (http://dcscorpiongirl.wordpress.com), which focuses on local art, music and fashion while also celebrating artists of color around the world.
Brendan L. Smith
BRENDAN L. SMITH Brendan L. Smith is a freelance journalist who has worked for newspapers, magazines, and websites across the country. He covers the D.C. art scene for DC magazine and the Pink Line Project. Brendan also is a mixed-media artist who shows work on political and social themes in galleries and exhibitions in the D.C. area. His unconventional paintings and sculpture offe...more
Justin Smith
The Parley
Justin Jacoby Smith is the Interactive Director of The Parley. He blogs about design, new media, and other awesome things at Eyes Open. You can follow him on Twitter via @hoosteen.
Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith is a regular contributor to the New American Paintings blog and DCist. He is also a resident artist at the Arlington Arts Center and a member of the DCAC artist collective Sparkplug. He was born and raised in Lima, Peru, and lives and works in Washington, DC.
Hometown Sounds
Hometown Sounds is a 24/7 Internet radio station playing only music made by people living in the DC area. The station plays six different groupings of music during the day: lounge, punk, rock, twang, dance and urban. Every weekday the website also features a DC music video. And once a week I make an hour long podcast of the DC music that's got me grooving.
Amy Souza
SPARK
Amy Souza is a freelance writer and the founder of SPARK, a quarterly creativity event in which artists, writers, and musicians use each other's work to prompt new work of their own.
Isabelle Spicer
Délit d’initié
Isabelle Spicer is a French visual artist and writer. She has lived in 6 countries and speaks 5 languages. A former management consultant, she started painting in Russia and is now living in Washington, DC. She is working on a series of paintings about her neighborhood, the U Street corridor, documenting its fast-paced changes. Her artworks can be found in private collections in Russia, France, Ge...more
Kris Stith
“Damn son, where’d ya find this?” a phrase that sums of most if not all encounters with Kris Stith. Hailing from the nation’s capitol, (Washington, D.C.) he is a fan of Art, Music, and Design. In his spare time, he enjoys drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, creative writing, audio production, and table tennis (Get at me bro…). Kris Stith is a part-time BAMF and full-time Sham...more
Christina Sturdivant
Christina is a Washington, DC native social entrepreneur, writer and lifestyle expert. She is the Executive Director of D.R.E.A.M. Life, Inc., a non-profit organization, which provides mentorship and resources to young, single mothers. She is also Co-Founder of CirKiss Life, LLC. a fashion and lifestyle consulting firm. Her passion in life is cultural exploration and sharing her experiences with...more
Gwydion Suilebhan
Gwydion Suilebhan, playwright, is the author of Buggy & Tyler, Reals, The Constellation, Cracked, The Faithkiller, Abstract Nude, Let X, The Treeehouse, and The Great Dismal. His plays have been commissioned, produced, workshopped, and read by the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Theater J, Source Theater Festival, Active Cultures, Rorschach Theatre, HotCity Theatre, Midtown International Theatre Festiva...more
Jennifer Tress
Jennifer Tress is the voice behind yourenotprettyenough.com. She recently completed her first memoir, a collection of hilarious and heartbreaking stories (the first chapter, "Sex Education" was recently published in the anthology "Tarnished: True Tales of Innocence Lost"), and is a popular local storyteller who performs many of the pieces from her book live on stage. She also writes commentary abo...more
John Ulaszek
John Ulaszek is a photographer, maker and engineer working in the Washington DC area, he has worked as a contributing editor and photographer for the last ten years working with variety of print and online publications. His fine art photography has been represented by Ten Miles Square and shown at Honfluer Gallery.
Rafael Enrique Valero
Rafael Valero is a journalist from Washington DC. He's written for National Journal, Mother Jones, and himself.
Jennifer Vinson
DC Setlist
We exist to discover and discuss all things MUSIC in DC and around the world! So get in the mix, join the conversation & help us build a community around the DC music scene.
Elizabeth Ward
Pink Line Project
Elizabeth is a graduate from the M.A. in Arts Management program at American University and a current employee at Americans for the Arts. Originally from Kansas, via Texas, Elizabeth has a background in the performing arts. She grew up with theatre, dance and music as her soul-enriching extra-curriculars, only to follow them more intently in college. She received her B.A. in Music and Communicatio...more
Brittany Watson
Brittany Watson grew up teething on the seaweed of Southern California while surrounded by a musician/artist family (minus a finance-minded father.) Her mom’s favorite quote was “a creative mess is better than tidy idleness” and so her childhood was spent creating art, music, and yes, lots of messes. Her dad thought she should study law while Mom thought she was better suited as an artist so...more
Gerald Watson
Art vs Commerce
A Creative Entrepreneur. Classic Album Cover Art Collector. AM Radio Tuner. Hip Hop Ambassador. Sneaker-Head. NO!SE MAKER. Consumer. Contributor. Graphic T-shirt Aficionado. Lifestyle Agent. CityLifer. Visit www.gmoney77.wordpress.com, www.mbilashaka.com/amradio, www.citylifecard.com for additional info.
What Weekly
Documenting the Baltimore Renaissance
Ellyn Weiss
Ellyn Weiss is a painter and printmaker, curator, blogger and teacher, with studios in Mt. Ranier, MD and Truro, MA. She is represented by the Nevin Kelly Gallery Gallery in Washington, DC, has had more than 20 solo show and has participated in numerous juried and group exhibitions. Her most recent solo show in the fall of 2009, was composed of paintings made entirely of tar. “Twelve Linear Feet...more
Stephanie Wesolowski
Since studying fine arts and digital photography in both Chicago and DC, Stephanie can usually be found with a camera glued to her face, or immersed in her most recent Photoshop project. She enjoys shooting high fashion, colorful lights, and urban decay. Some of her other hobbies include listening to large quantities of music, inventing new cocktails, and sampling exotic/unusual meats. You can che...more
Shawn Westfall
Shawn Westfall is DC-based writer whose work has been published in newspapers, literary journals and magazines. He’s also been the exclusive teacher of improvisational comedy at the DC Improv for more than eight years, teaching classes in beginning improv, advanced short-form and long-form improv, as well as improv workshops focusing on character, long form, and non-traditional improv techniques...more
Eve White
CityDance
Eve White grew up in Washington D.C. where she now lives. As the daughter of a newspaper journalist and a PR writer, she has always loved words. Eve loves telling stories visually and verbally. She has worked in e-commerce, as a merchandiser and stylist for Anthroplogie and as a blogger for Omoi, a Philadelphia boutique. She now studies development and marketing but still finds time to observe, br...more
Stephanie Williams
DC Music Download
D.C. Music Download is an online magazine that covers music in the Washington, D.C. area. We don’t merely cover bands, but our jobs are to curate and showcase the best local acts the city has to offer. Through in-depth interviews and reviews along with investigative features, our goal is to get people talking, listening, and exposed to great local music that otherwise might go underneath the rad...more
Boris Willis
Boris Willis Moves
Boris Willis is Chief Artistic Officer of Boris Willis Moves and an Assistant Professor of Dance and Computer Game Design at George Mason University. He has performed with Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange, Streb, Jacob’s Pillow’s Men Dancers, Theater of the First Amendment. Edgeworks Dance Theater, City Dance Ensemble and several other DC based companies and choreographers. His video work has been ha...more
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