The CHAW gallery features a range of professional and student artists in shows and residencies throughout the year. The gallery showcases work by community members, as well as established and emerging local visual artists. 

CHAW’s gallery is home to the Capitol Hill Art League, a consortium of emerging and professional artists who showcase, and sell member work, offer professional development and outside showing opportunities. 

GALLERY HOURS

Monday-Thursday: 10am-3pm

Monday-Thursday Evening Hours: 6pm-9pm

Friday: 10am-6pm

Saturday: 10am-3pm

CHAW is closed on Sundays, and on all Federal/DC holidays

THE CHAW GALLERY RESIDENCY PROGRAM IS MADE POSSIBLE BY TED COLTMAN IN MEMORY OF J. WADE CAREY

past residencies:

Pink Cycle- Life of a Fly by Carolina Mayorga

Botanica Magnifica by Pam Rogers

Shadow and Light by Kate Fleming

Circle Story by Lenora Yerkes

Fever Dream by MK Bailey

Inversion/Submersion by Billy Friebele

Atelier Noir by Selena Jackson

Cotton Flower by Paula Mans

Feels Like Summer by Yewande Kotun Davis

To learn more, visit our Gallery Artist Residency page.

The Capitol Hill Art League (CHAL) invites local artists of all mediums and levels to join our membership at: www.caphillartleague.org. Our season runs Jan 1st – Dec 31.

CHAL is a visual arts program of the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.

(above: “Windswept” – Acrylic painting by Michele Frantz)

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