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Aaron Gallery
Founded in 1974 by Consuelo Aaron, Aaron Gallery is a contemporary art space presenting Abstract Expressionist painting and sculpture. It represents many local and international artists who range from emerging to mid career.

 
Adam Lister Gallery
Gallery provides the community with contemporary art exhibitions, educational programs, and a variety of art related activities and events.  With a focus on creating opportunities for emerging artists, the gallery aims to give local, national, and international artists exposure in the Northern Virginia area

 
Adams Davidson Galleries
American art of the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, with a special emphasis on important paintings, drawings and sculpture by American artists from the Revolution to the New Deal, from Gilbert Stuart to Edward Hopper

 
Adamson Gallery
A contemporary art gallery and fine art printing studio.

 
Alex Gallery
A commercial art gallery in Washington, D.C., featuring contemporary American and European painting, sculpture, and work on paper. The gallery represents artists who have exhibited abroad and sold at international auctions.

 
American Painting Fine Art
The gallery sells art that "not only has sound qualitative values, but that enriches life day in and day out, the kind of art that, like fine antiques and architecture, only grows more deeply appreciated over time. "

 
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery
The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery offers exhibitions and programs that enhance Jewish identity, examine issues of social importance and develop community.

 
Applegate Gallery
 The goal of the gallery is to carry mainly local artists and to offer a wide variety of styles and subjects

 
Arlington Arts Center
A private, nonprofit contemporary visual arts center dedicated to presenting and supporting new work by regional artists in the mid-Atlantic States.


 
Arts Club of Washington
Founded in 1916. the Arts Club of Washington is the oldest non-profit arts organization in the city. The mission of the Arts Club of Washington is to generate public appreciation for and participation in the arts in the Nation’s capital, through ongoing art exhibitions and other events.

 
The Art League
A multifaceted, nonprofit visual arts organization that meets its mission through its gallery, fine art school, art supply store, and arts-outreach programs.

 
ArtSpace Herndon
A community art gallery created and supported by art lovers in the greater Herndon area.


 
 Burton Marinkovich Fine Art
Art gallery in the Washington, D.C., area, featuring prints, drawings and paintings by modern and contemporary masters.

 
Capital Hill Arts Workshop
A community-based, not-for-profit organization founded in 1972 by Sally Crowell and other community members who were interested in sharing their artistic expertise with children and adults.

 
Carroll Square Gallery
Art gallery predominantly features contemporary art in quarterly rotating exhibitions

 
Center for Art Design and Visual Culture
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture began in 1989 as the Fine Arts Gallery of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The establishment of the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, founded in 2003, represented the culmination of a twelve-year effort to expand upon the gallery's original mission of presenting exhibitions and public programs. The Center has broadened the mandate of the Fine Arts Gallery to bring it into line with the wide-ranging, humanities-based mission of UMBC as a Research Institution and Honors University.

 
Gallery at Convergence
Convergence is supported by the Church at Convergence, a Christian church whose mission is to be a resource to the artists of the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area.

 
Curators Office
Curator's Office periodically invites a curator to display a tightly focused presentation of an artist or art collective's work. The invited curator provides an explanation for the selection and defines the cultural significance of that particular artist to contemporary art practice. From time to time, artists are invited to interpret the "office/micro-gallery space."

 
Discovery Galleries
 Specializes in finding emerging artists locally and internationally. Since 1994, the gallery has been exhibiting oil and acrylic paintings, limited edition prints, sculpture, and photography in addition to offering art books and custom framing.

 
District Fine Arts
The gallery emphasizes works by emerging and established artists through thematic exhibitions.

 
District of Columbia Arts Center
The District of Columbia Arts Center is a nonprofit organization located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. DCAC supports emerging artists who are trying to get a foothold in the public arena.

 
Flashpoint Gallery
Flashpoint is an arts space dedicated to nurturing and growing emerging artists and cultural organizations.

 
Foundry Gallery
Since 1971 Foundry Gallery has encouraged and promoted Washington, DC area artists. Begun by four students of Gene Davis, who shared studio space in the Duvall Foundry in Georgetown, Foundry offers an alternative gallery experience to artists. As an artist-run organization they exhibit a wide range of work and allow artists control over the exhibition and sale of their work.

 
Foxhall Gallery
Gallery represents a collection of contemporary works of art, showing a wide variety of media and styles and focusing on fine, representational, original art. A full service gallery since 1976, Foxhall offers fine custom framing and design, museum conservation, restoration, hanging and installation.

 
Fraser Gallery
The Fraser Gallery was established in 1996 by Catriona Fraser, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. In 2002, Ms. Fraser opened a second, larger gallery in Bethesda, MD. In 2005, the Georgetown location was closed. The Fraser Gallery closed in April 2011.


 
The Fridge
Opened in September 2009, The Fridge DC is an art gallery, performance space, music venue and classroom located on Barracks Row in the historic Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. Their mission is to foster creativity and community dialogue by serving as a conduit for expression through the arts and providing exhibition space to emerging and established artists -  from exhibitions by well-known artists to shows by our DC youth, The Fridge is dedicated to making the arts accessible to everyone.

 
Gallery A
A membership gallery devoted to the works of emerging professional artists

 
Gallery 50
Gallery 50 opened its doors in 2007 and is part of the growing mid-Atlantic arts community. The gallery primarily represents emerging and mid-career regional artists. It holds a strong commitment to promoting young, emerging artists. During each exhibition the gallery focuses primarily on the work of one artist.  A selection of works by other represented artists is also on display.


 
Gallery 555
Gallery 555dc is committed to supporting Washington DC area artists who create original works of art.

 
Glenview Mansion Art Gallery
Art gallery located in the Glenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center Park

 
Gallery Plan b
Plan b refers to itself as a "grass roots kind of operation" with a mission to present an eclectic mix of artwork from established and emerging artists, cater to a diverse and growing audience of art buyers and offer a casual and comfortable gallery space.

 
Gateway Gallery
The Gateway Gallery and Gift Shop is a cooperative market place for area artists, with a wide variety of ceramics, jewelry, painting, glass, woodwork, and fiber works.

 
Govinda Gallery
Contemporary photography

 
Greater Reston Arts Center
Founded in 1974 by artists and art lovers as a source of cultural enrichment for the new town of Reston, Greater Reston Arts Center promotes involvement and excellence in contemporary visual arts. In pursuit of this mission, GRACE provides a year-round program of visual art exhibitions, education programs for all ages, and special events.

 
Guarisco Gallery
Guarisco Gallery currently holds an extensive inventory of exceptional quality original 19th and early 20th century European and American paintings, watercolors and sculpture.

 
Hamiltonian Gallery
Founded by Paul So, Hamiltonian provides programming that develops and advances the careers of emerging artists, and is anchored by a prominent exhibition space in the heart of the new contemporary art center in Washington DC.

 
  Hemphill Fine Arts
Hemphill  opened as a commercial gallery in September of 1993. The exhibition schedule features
contemporary art ranging in media from emerging to mid-career and established artists. In addition to these shows, the gallery mounts exhibitions of historically significant artwork and socially relevant subjects.


 
Honfleur Gallery
The gallery exhibits and represents both fine contemporary arts and artists, while also incorporating non-salable, socially-minded exhibitions and installations. Honfleur aims to provide better access to The Arts for residents "East of the Anacostia River," D.C.

 
IDB Cultural Center
One of the the Center's primary objectives is to  promote a better image of the IDB member countries, with emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean, through their cultural expressions.
The IDB Cultural Center Exhibitions are intended to stimulate dialogue and a greater knowledge of the culture of the Americas


 
International Visions Gallery
The mission of this gallery is to exhibit and promote multi-cultural original work by national and international artists

 
Jane Haslem Gallery

 
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery
The mission of the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery is to advance the understanding and utilization of the arts to unite, uplift, teach, build communities, transform lives, inspire and heal. Exhibitions focus on meaningful topics of individual, community, and global importance. Featured artists are selected based upon Smith Farm Center's belief that the arts educate, enlighten, awaken, empower, and bring hope and healing.  Invited curators bring in award-winning national and international artists.


 
Keck Center of the National Academies
Keck Center Lobby Installation

Larry Kirkland

Etched limestone and granite and bronze
2002

How does one convey, at the outset of the 21st century, the origins and evolution of human investigation of the world as well as the contributions to society made by the sciences, medicine and engineering? This was the task set for artist Larry Kirkland in developing the engraved murals for the lobby of the National Academies Building at 500 Fifth Street, NW in Washington, DC. This visual encyclopedia encompasses investigations past and present, and it includes phenomena from the microscopic to the cosmic.




 
Marin-Price Gallery
Contemporary art gallery

 
Marsha Mateyka Gallery
The Marsha Mateyka Gallery, established in 1983 in Washington, DC by Marsha Perry Mateyka, an art historian, exhibits contemporary art; exhibiting painting, sculpture, photography and works on paper. The gallery represents approximately 20 artists, including: Sam Gilliam, Nathan Oliveira, William T. Wiley and the Estate of Gene Davis.

 
McLean Project for The Arts
The mission of McLean Project for the Arts is to exhibit the work of emerging and established artists from the mid-Atlantic region; to promote public awareness and understanding of the concepts of contemporary art; and to offer instruction and education in the visual arts.

 
Montpelier Center
The Montpelier Center is a 501c3 non-profit organization, committed to providing educational opportunities, and encouraging participation in the arts and creative expression for all ages.

 
Orchard Gallery
Orchard Gallery features works of local, national and international artists who are exhibited every month. Featured artists represent a variety of media, styles and philosophies.

 
Reyes + Davis
The gallery represents emerging and mid-career artists working in different media.

 
The Soundry
The Soundry is a former auto body shop that has been converted into a public coffee shop, art gallery, and shared studio space for member artists and musicians.

 
Space 7:10
An organic art space exhibiting an evolving mix of local, outsider, visionary, and world cultural artwork.

 
Strathmore Fine Art
Throughout its several galleries on the first and second floors of the The Mansion at Strathmore, Strathmore offers art lovers an array of works in every medium by artists from the region, the nation, and around the world. In addition to mounting its own exhibitions, Strathmore collaborates with museums and other art institutions, such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Gallery, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

 
Studio Gallery
Studio Gallery showcases contemporary art in a variety of mediums, including painting, installation, sculpture, mixed media, and video. The gallery represents over 35 artists, both American and International, who live in the DC metropolitan area. The member artists exhibit in solo, duo, and group shows, as well as in special exhibitions at several local venues.

 
Studio H
Studio H exhibits emerging artists on the cusp of realizing major breakthroughs both in their individual work and in contributing to major contemporary artistic movements.

 
Target Gallery
The Target Gallery is the national exhibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The Target Gallery promotes high standards of art by continuously exploring new ideas through the visual media in a schedule of national and international exhibitions. The gallery hosts nine exhibits annually - some juried, some curated - featuring a variety of themes and artists. The exhibits are usually composed of artists outside of the Torpedo Factory and represent artistic views from across the nation and around the world.

 
Touchstone Gallery
Touchstone Gallery has been an artist-owned gallery since 1976. The gallery maintains an active membership of approximately 50 diverse artists.

 
Transformer Gallery
Transformer is a Washington, DC based 501 (c) 3 non-profit, artist-centered organization that connects and promotes emerging artists locally, nationally and internationally.

 
Vienna Arts Society
VAS has a co-op gallery and each exhibiting artists helps with the gallery operation as well as the Vienna Art Center where it holds workshops, exhibits art work and conduct art lessons for adults and children in the community. VAS has approximately 300 members and welcomes those interested in the various aspects of art

 
Vivid Solutions Gallery
 A photographic salon and the first certified Digigraphie Print lab in the United States.

 
Waddell Art Gallery
The mission of the gallery is to educate by providing regularly changing art exhibits with diversity in both media and content.

 
Washington Sculptors Group
The Washington Sculptors Group's mission is to promote an awareness and an understanding of sculpture and foster the exchange of ideas among sculptors, collectors, and the general public by organizing frequent events, including artists' panels, presentations, workshops, and social gatherings. WSG, singly and in cooperation with other organizations, plans, manages and promotes important curated exhibitions in galleries, museums and alternative spaces in the Washington area and beyond.

 
Washington School of Photography
WSP is a fully-equipped imagemaking center for photographers, digital media artists and filmmakers.

 
Waverly Street Gallery
Affordable contemporary and traditional art. Its juried members include painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers, potters, and jewelers. The gallery presents a new exhibition of these artists every month, with a reception on the second Friday to coincide with the Bethesda Art Walk

 
West Annapolis Art Works
 Local artists and groups exhibit their work

 



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