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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE + STUDIOS
JOHN DREYFUSS World-renowned sculptor John Dreyfuss employs classical tools and techniques to create works in bronze, steel, iron, and composite materials at his studio in Union Market. Dreyfuss has exhibited extensively in the US and abroad. His work is grounded in the study of animal and architectural forms, with an emphasis on the refinement and adaptation of three-dimensional structures over time and space.
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MAGGIE MICHAELS Maggie Michael is a painter known for her original approach to abstract art. She was a resident artist in the Hirshhorn Museum and has also been awarded an Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian. Michael’s work is in international private and public collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the American University Museum.
DAN STEINHILBER Best known for his large, impactful installations comprised of mass-produced consumer items, Dan Steinhilber has exhibited in galleries, museums, sculpture parks, and not-for-profit spaces; and has been awarded artist grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and was awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. He created the “Water Bottle Chandelier” hanging in Union Market’s main entrance.
CREATIVE THEORY Visual content and marketing agency founded by professional photographers and digital strategists Tamon George + Gary Williams.
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YOKO ONO X HIRSHHORN X UNION MARKET
Yoko Ono’s mural on the Market’s 6th Street wall marks the inaugural piece in the Hirshhorn’s Art in the City project.
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PETER KRISKO The founder of Krsko Creative Group, a non-profit collective of artists, educators and visionaries that use art, science and technology to improve public spaces to with the goal of building healthy communities. Peter’s team created the zebra mural at the market in 2013.
INSTAGRAM #KINDCOMMENTS Union Market was chosen as one of five US sites for Instagram’s global #KindComments initiative intended to promote and foster positive engagement on and offline. Through street murals, KIPP High School students and Union Market District neighbors as well as local artists were invited to paint along.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Alongside First Lady Michelle Obama, the influential street artist known as Mr. Brainwash helped celebrate International Women’s Day with a series of massive murals on Union Market’s exterior which feature messages and iconic imagery.
THE WE LOVE YOU PROJECT Calling for 1,000+ Black males of all ages to sit for individual portraits, Bryon Summers’ The We Love You Project came to DC’s Union Market. Through photography, Summers documents and shares portraits of the Black boys and men in our communities, powerfully reassuring the positive roles they play. The images are displayed on the 6th Street wall of Union Market, as part of the Union Market Mural Project.
GOOGLE + CREATIVE THEORY MURAL The Google Humanity mural was created to help promote an exhibit highlighting 8 photographers tasked with capturing their own unique vision of humanity using the Google Pixel2. This vision was brought to life by Creative Theory. It was designed to stand the test of time beyond the exhibit. It’s a simple word that means a lot.
WE’RE GETTING LOUDER ’We’re getting louder,’ a mural by Amy Cavenaile and Annica Lydenberg, in conjunction with the Washington Post’s initiative that amplifies the voices of women. It celebrates the successes that have come from those women.
LATIN AMERICAN FEMALE IDENTITY MURAL SPONSORED BY INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Mariela Ajras is an internationally-acclaimed muralist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work focuses on the image of women, questions about femininity and collective memory. A psychologist as well as an artist, her background informs her art and teaching muralism workshops that use art as a tool for community intervention. Public Art Review’s latest edition has chosen her as one of the representatives of the female artists’ movement in South America.
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(RED) PAINT WALLS/ SAVE LIVES PROJECT An international initiative to raise awareness for the Global Fund’s 6th replenishment conference in Lyon in October, Union Market + Washington DC is one of 6 international cities to receive a mural to raise awareness around the Global Fund’s goals of raising $14 billion dollars to save 16 million lives. Other participating cities include Johannesburg, Paris, Brussels, London and New York. New York-based artist Bisco Smith painted the mural at 4th & Morse St NE.
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BROOKE BRONNER DC based artist, born in Brooklyn, raised in Asia, trained in business and rescued by painting. Bronner’s work is on display inside Union Market.
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CREATIVE TIME X DARIUS FRANK Washington, DC-based and Ward 5 resident, emerging artist Darius Frank’s first ever public art commission, Things I Love/d, featured an immersive multi-channel video installation exploring a changing DC through the stories of long-time residents.
TIME X JR A timely project from artist JR and Time Magazine, an interactive mural combining portraits of hundreds of individuals was presented to commemorate Time’s November 5th issue, titled Guns in America.
RESOURCE LIBRARY In partnership with Gensler, Gallaudet and the DCPL, the temporary installation at 4th x Neal served as a public space where design books and magazines could be accessed for free and diverse programming could ignite inclusive, cross-disciplinary conversations about the importance of design in our daily lives.
CULTURAL DC PRESENTS JD DEARDOURFF Cultural DC’s SPACE4 Mobile Art Gallery set up residence on Neal Place at Union Market from January – February 2018 for DC Artist JD Deardourff’s exhibit Uncanny Fantastic.
SUPERFINE! ART FAIR Over one week, Superfine!, an art festival from NYC with shows in Miami and Los Angeles, presented over 300 visual artists from DC and beyond with the goal of creating an accessible art fair for all interested in art-- whether you’re a novice collector or have a museum with your name on it.
PRINKSHOP POP-UP Prinkshop, the cause-centric community that designs and makes T-shirts, notebooks, and totes emblazoned with graphics highlighting issues ranging from sex trafficking to education, homelessness, and marriage equality, launched a pop-up shop where customers can silk-screen their own pieces.
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HALCYON STAGE POP-UP Halcyon Stage Pop-Up was a series of free pop-up concerts designed to allow audiences to find beauty in unexpected places, activating Union Market and its surroundings with an artistic spirit and filling it with a sense of community.
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BY THE PEOPLE FESTIVAL Halcyon’s By the People festival is Washington’s new international arts and dialogue festival taking place in every quadrant of the city and focused on the themes of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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NO KINGS COLLECTIVE No Kings Collective (NKC) is a Washington D.C.- based agency composed of local artists Peter Franklin Chang & Brandon Hill. NKC serves a community of area artists, businesses and city organizations through social networking events, exhibits and special projects.
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On display at Lab1270, Hustle 2.0 celebrates the city’s artistic core, providing commentary on the current state of working artists. Featuring a design-oriented showcase of typography, 2D works, multimedia, sculpture and prints from a community of local working artists.
PREMIUM X NO KINGS COLLECTIVE Innovative menswear brand PREMIUM, in partnership with D.C.’s No Kings Collective, launched its pop-up retail experience inside the Union Market district’s Maurice Electrical warehouse.
MADE IN DC - MAKERS SUMMIT In partnership with Made in DC, the Maker Summit featured local and national panelists, speakers + leaders in the maker movement and creative economy in Washington, DC.
A CREATIVE DC Founded by artist Morgan H. West, A Creative DC celebrates and showcases creative life in Washington, DC
HANGING ON A LINE Curated by artist Tom Bunell, an adjunct faculty member at American University, Hanging on a Line consisted of works on paper by a wide variety of DC artists and students.
STREET MEET DC DC artists and photographers monthly meetup. #streetmeetdc
COTTON & REED While working as strategists for NASA, co-founders Reed Walker and Jordan Cotton discovered a shared passion for spirits and left their desk jobs to open Cotton & Reed. The distillery’s décor is a collage of salvaged materials and features an etched wood bar top designed by digital artist Cody Colthorp.
ALL THINGS GO FALL CLASSIC A two day music festival at Union Market featuring a selection of exciting and emerging artists
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SOFAR SOUNDS Secret pop-up concert in the Maurice Courtyard featuring Fruit Bats, Brushes, and LATO
UNION MARKET DRIVE-IN Free summer movie series featuring old + new film favorites
FILM PRODUCTION Union Market is a unique location for studios to set up shop when filming in DC.
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HBO (VEEP) Universal Studios (The Purge) Music Videos Sony PBS
CRAFTY BASTARDS An exhibition and sale of handmade goods from independent artists presented by the Washington City Paper.
PHILLIPS GALA CONTEMPORARIES BASH A night of celebrating the Phillips Collection, art, the annual gala + young contemporaries members.
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The Shovel Project turns the traditional ground breaking into something that reflects the individual spirit, the economic drive to launch businesses, and the community belief that we are building a neighborhood. It’s all about the people. Artists and community leaders designed the shovels.
BE HEARD A chance for our community to interact and share what makes them tick.
IN REAL LIFE BY DISTRICT DODGER A five day installation by visual artist District Dodger, “In Real Life” was a visual observation of the relationship between the digital and physical, exploring the paradox that both are conflicting realities in which we exist simultaneously. The installation included light design, paintings, projections and modern sculpture pieces.
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LET’S PLAY: AN INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION BY MAGGIE O’NEILL In “Let’s Play,” the first interactive exhibition by D.C. artist Maggie O’Neill, bingo is reimagined in part as a team effort. In each of the game’s three rounds, 75 participating players — chosen on a first- come, first-serve basis — will act as human game pieces, moving to their corresponding square on a life-sized bingo board when their letter and number is called by an emcee. “Bingo seems to be the universal game that every age can play together,” she says. “There is something very beautiful about that.”
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