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SUMMARY:Gallery Exhibit: "Feels Like Summer" - Yewande Kotun Davis (2025 Resident Artist)
DESCRIPTION:Feels Like Summer\n2025 CHAW Resident Artist – Yewande Kotun Davis \nJanuary 3rd – February 22nd\, 2025 \nCHAW Art Gallery \n  \nYewande will use her time as the 2025 CHAW Resident Artist to develop a new body of work\, titled “Feels Like Summer.” Inspired by the work of authors\, Nayyirah Waheed\, Tricia Hersey\, and EbonyJanice Moore\, among others\, this body of work will expand on Yewande’s social practice rooted in community care\, and is in many ways\, a response to the palpable collective grief and heaviness that has overtaken her and our daily lives. Through narrative portraiture\, contemporary still life-like imagery\, and curated micro-installations\, Yewande invites viewers to slow down\, embrace the lightness of summer as a feeling rather than a season\, and imagine a world where our bodies— her body— can finally embrace rest\, ease\, joy\, and play.  \n  \nBiography \nYewande is an American Nigerian visual artist\, curator\, and social practitioner using her creative practice as a means for community care. While her first career as a healthcare administrator lends to her expertise at the intersection of health and wellness and racial justice\, her Nigerian heritage and Southern upbringing lend to her love of storytelling. As such\, Yewande’s work celebrates\, reframes\, and even reimagines narratives that have been inadequately or falsely delivered in the past. Through direct social and community engagement\, which often informs her work\, Yewande typically centers the layered experiences of Black folks— most often women and children— highlighting joy\, resilience\, and shared humanity. Within her work\, Yewande marries first-hand narratives with vibrant colors\, reimagined yet familiar imagery\, and attention to naming in order to highlight our connectedness and drive meaningful dialogues that promote healing and redefine the human experience.
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SUMMARY:"Feels Like Summer" - Art Reception
DESCRIPTION:Art Reception for “Feels Like Summer”\nby Yewande Kotun Davis (2025 CHAW Resident Artist) \n  \n| Saturday February 15th\, 5:30pm-7:00pm\, in the Gallery \n| Free and Open to the public \n| Light refreshments provided. \n  \n| Biography: \nYewande is an American Nigerian visual artist\, curator\, and social practitioner using her creative practice as a means for community care. While her first career as a healthcare administrator lends to her expertise at the intersection of health and wellness and racial justice\, her Nigerian heritage and Southern upbringing lend to her love of storytelling. As such\, Yewande’s work celebrates\, reframes\, and even reimagines narratives that have been inadequately or falsely delivered in the past. Through direct social and community engagement\, which often informs her work\, Yewande typically centers the layered experiences of Black folks— most often women and children— highlighting joy\, resilience\, and shared humanity. Within her work\, Yewande marries first-hand narratives with vibrant colors\, reimagined yet familiar imagery\, and attention to naming in order to highlight our connectedness and drive meaningful dialogues that promote healing and redefine the human experience.  \n 
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SUMMARY:CHAW CLOSED - Presidents' Day
DESCRIPTION:CHAW will be closed on Monday February 17th in observance of Presidents’ Day. \nAll classes and lessons are canceled. We will reopen tomorrow\, Tuesday February 18th. \nNote: CHAW will be open in the evening for a staged reading in the Black Box Theater (at 6:30pm)
URL:https://chaw.org/event/chaw-closed-presidents-day-2/
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SUMMARY:Gallery Exhibit: Greg Skrtic Retrospective 1999-2024
DESCRIPTION:Greg Skrtic: Retrospective 1999-2024\nOn Display February 24th through March 22nd\, 2025\nCapitol Hill Arts Workshop \nArt Gallery \n545 7th St SE Washington DC 20003 \n\nReception: Saturday March 1st\, 2025\, 5:30pm-7:00pm \n\nNote from Greg: \nThe work included in this is indicative of my creative journey over the last 25 years. It represents a major shift in style\, color theory\, and thematic development. \nWhen I look at this volume of work\, I am reminded of a quote\, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Up until 1999 I was greatly influenced by Salvadore Dali and the Surrealists. During the late 1990’s\, while living in Lithuania\, I was also influenced by the Catholic church and Old World icons and altar pieces. “Ghosts of Infertility” documents our struggles to conceive a child and came at a time of scientific discovery and technological advancement. We successfully cloned the first sheep\, digital television promised a new way of seeing things\, LIFE ON MARS!!! And yet we continue to cling to our cultural heritage and superstitions in times of crisis. \nThe first few years of raising a child are some of the happiest\, most trying times of family life. The death of a child brings on the darkest\, most trying times of family life. “Mother and Child” from 2000\, and from 2000 – 2002 the first three of the “Muses” tryptic\, were some of the happiest times for our young family. When tragedy struck in spring 2002 my work took on a shift in thematic development\, exploring subjects like dreaming\, the after-life\, and alternate planes of existence. Then\, in 2020\, COVID happened\, which changed everything all over again. \nAs you view my artwork\, take the time to look deeper into the paintings in order to connect on a more visceral level with the images and your own family life experiences. I hope you enjoy my art and\, if you wish\, please leave your thoughts in a message in my guest book.
URL:https://chaw.org/event/gallery-exhibit-greg-skirtic-retrospective-1999-2024/
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