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 (2016)

Botanica Magnifica by Pam Rogers (2017)

Shadow and Light by Kate Fleming (2018)

Circle Story by Lenora Yerkes (2019)

Fever Dream by MK Bailey (2020)

Inversion/Submersion by Billy Friebele (2022)

Atelier Noir by Selena Jackson (2023)

Cotton Flower by Paula Mans (2024)

Feels Like Summer by Yewande Kotun Davis (2025)

In Plain Sight by Khadija Jahmila (2026)

To learn more:

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.

The CHAW Gallery presents:

Nature’s Gifts

Showing now – Friday, December 4, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7th, 5:30 – 7 pm

The Capitol Hill Art League closes out its 2026 Exhibition Season with a nod to the environment with the “Nature’s Gifts” Show. This multi media show includes photography, collage, painting and paper sculpture works. 

Please attend a reception on Saturday, November 7th from 5:30-7:00 PM at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, will open the show that runs until December 4 in the CHAW Gallery.

The Exhibit juror, Elizabeth Ashe will be on hand to announce the awards and discuss the art. She is a multidisciplinary sculptor who earned her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at MICA, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University. She has been awarded multiple grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) as well as other granting bodies, to support her studio practice and curatorial projects. She serves as Art Chair for the Board of Tenleytown Main Street, and a Grants Ambassador for DCCAH.

She is the Events Technician for the Katzen Arts Center at American University, and a teacher at US Arts Center. Ashe is also the founding Co-Director of Ashe & Norton, a display space gallery in Glover Park, DC.

One of the paintings on display at the show: LAST HIDING PLACE OF SNOW by Joshua Gorham