Contemporary Art & Culture
on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Exhibitions, events, workshops, talks, and more…
Exhibitions, events, workshops, talks, and more…
Punk music and culture emerged in the U.S. in the 1970s. The exhibition, HARD ART DC 1979, showcases the birth of DC’s punk scene and its global influence. It features photos by Lucian Perkins of five key DC shows during his Washington Post internship. Musician and writer Alec MacKaye, pictured in the photos, narrates his experience as a teen at these pivotal events.
October 10 - November 15th, 2025
Natural Growth Process features Maryland and DC artists in collage, painting, and mixed media, exploring beauty, endurance, wellness, myth, and time. It highlights themes like expanding a day, mythical ecosystems, and self-help aesthetics. Artists focus on materiality, abstraction vs. realism, and the balance between containment and continuity, engaging with materials, themselves, and viewers.
Join us for an artist talk with, Lely Constantinople, a Washington, DC photo-based artist, has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 20 years. Her work is in the Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and private collections. She is also a photo editor, archivist, and teacher.
Alec MacKaye is an American singer and musician best known as a member of the DC hardcore bands Untouchables, the Faith, Ignition and the Warmers. Today, he is vocalist in The Hammered Hulls, Chief Preparator at The Phillips Collection, and a writer graduating as a Lannan Fellow at Georgetown University in 2011. Followed by performances by Hammered Hulls as part of the HARD ART DC exhibition.
Join us for an artist talk with, Lucian Perkins, two-time Pulitzer winner and 27-year Washington Post photographer, covered major events in the U.S. and abroad, including Russia, the first Palestinian uprising, and wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He co-founded Moscow's InterFoto festival and published HARD ART DC 1979 and Runway Madness.
