The Capitol Hill Art League (CHAL) opens its annual Open Call Art Exhibition on April 1st at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) located at 547 7th Street, S.E. Washington, DC, 20003.. The show will be on display in the CHAW Gallery, from April 1 to May 30, 2025.

There will be an opening reception from 5:30-7:00 pm, on Saturday, April 5, at CHAW, where juror Glenn Kessler will discuss the selected artist works and award cash prizes.

Glen Kessler is an internationally collected and awarded artist as well as the founder of The Compass Atelier in Rockville, MD, Compass Art Center in Kensington, MD, and inventor of The Painters Compass Color Wheel. He is a life-long teacher, having taught at Maryland Institute College of Art, George Washington University, George Mason University, and others. In 2013 he founded The Compass Atelier in order to teach a cohesive curriculum of artistic study of his own design.

This is the Art League’s annual Open Call show which seeks entries from artists throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area, West Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania . This year’s call has produced an impressive array of art interpreting the theme “Landscapes”.

In addition to viewing the art in person at the Arts Workshop, the art will be available online after April 1st on the Capitol Hill Art League website at: www.caphillartleague.org/landscapes2025