Common Thread is a solo exhibition featuring works created by artist Joy Nutt that showcase vibrant paintings patterned after traditional geometric quilts and elaborate collaged quilts. Joy's inspiration stems from a rich Trinidadian family tradition of quilting and sewing. Her work is also influenced by West African Ankara textiles. The artist aims for viewers to get lost in the complex layered paintings–returning to find a new perspective, ask questions, and leave with a sense of satisfaction after taking in color, pattern, and texture. Common Thread elevates the complexity of quilts and textiles and the fond memories that they evoke.

July 3 - August 1, 2026
Park View Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday | 10am- 6pm

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Common Thread is a solo exhibition featuring works created by artist Joy Nutt that showcase vibrant paintings patterned after traditional geometric quilts and elaborate collaged quilts. Joy's inspiration stems from a rich Trinidadian family tradition of quilting and sewing. Her work is also influenced by West African Ankara textiles. The artist aims for viewers to get lost in the complex layered paintings–returning to find a new perspective, ask questions, and leave with a sense of satisfaction after taking in color, pattern, and texture. Common Thread elevates the complexity of quilts and textiles and the fond memories that they evoke.

July 3 - August 1, 2026
Park View Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday | 10am- 6pm

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Common Thread is a solo exhibition featuring works created by artist Joy Nutt that showcase vibrant paintings patterned after traditional geometric quilts and elaborate collaged quilts. Joy's inspiration stems from a rich Trinidadian family tradition of quilting and sewing. Her work is also influenced by West African Ankara textiles. The artist aims for viewers to get lost in the complex layered paintings–returning to find a new perspective, ask questions, and leave with a sense of satisfaction after taking in color, pattern, and texture. Common Thread elevates the complexity of quilts and textiles and the fond memories that they evoke.

July 3 - August 1, 2026
Park View Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday | 10am- 6pm

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Join fused glass artists from the Art Glass Center at Glen Echo in the Popcorn Gallery to learn more about their group exhibition.

Visions and Voices 2026 is a group show featuring the Art Glass Center’s Resident Artists, Studio Artists, and Board Members. This exhibition highlights the variety and breadth of techniques practiced in kiln-formed glass in the studio and educates the general public on these techniques, as well as the work of the Art Glass Center.

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Meet Artist Leonard Jewler in the Stone Tower Gallery to learn more about his solo exhibition 1960s Washington: Turbulence and Community.

1960s Washington: Turbulence and Community showcases the work of photographer Leonard Jewler, capturing Washington D.C. during the late 1960s. This was a time of turbulence in the nation’s capital when there were frequent demonstrations in the streets. At the same time, residents went about their daily lives in the community. Fifteen photos are presented in three sets: the aftermath of the 1968 riots triggered by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the 1969 demonstration against the inauguration of Richard Nixon; and scenes of neighborhood life in the city in 1969. The photos were taken with a single-lens reflex film camera, and the negatives were converted to digital format.

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Yield 1 draws inspiration from the Taoist concept of yin, of yin-yang, which represents entropy, gloom, reflection, dampness, and vulnerability. Yield means to submit, also, to produce. These paintings float between expressive and illustrative. They’re similar to the way I record dreams in my journal: vivid cartoonish landscapes that are darkly euphemistic yet spiritually light. This show contemplates our place in nature, decouples darkness from evil, and challenges the artificiality of a society that rejects emotional depth. 

Join us for an opening reception during Art Walk in the Park.

August 7 - September 26
Park View Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday | 10am- 6pm

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The Stone Tower Gallery presents In Search of Lost Time, a group exhibition by artists Leslie King and Pat Scull.

Prior to entering the world of ceramic sculpture, Leslie King enjoyed a lifelong career working in the arts. After graduating from the University of Maryland in Theater, King worked as a puppeteer in New York City’s Central Park,  where she first developed her love of characters and their narratives.

The work in this exhibition consists of her figurative ceramic sculptures inspired from her memories, moments in time and retrospection of her varied creative life. While each piece is a narrative, the pieces featured in the exhibit combine King’s experience in theater and the mastery of the clay surface and form to represent character archetypes - the innocent, the villain, the hero, the everyman and the mentor.

As a child, Pat Scull lived near Glen Echo Park and remembers the thrill of the amusement park, the trolley, the wooden roller coaster, and the swimming pool. After visiting the park, both artists agreed it was wonderful to see the old buildings still intact. Scull is exhibiting her ceramic vessels that hold symbolic memories as she presents a variety of her playful though intricate pieces which range from her past to her present work.

Scull’s work comes from an iconography she has developed over the years, and her exploration of different media.  She is inspired by the people she meets and the stories they tell. With her ceramic sculpture she is attracted to abstraction and juxtaposing contrasting elements. She likes to wonder about how everything fits into the general cosmos, often paring abstracted telescopic imagery with the microscopic. 

Join us for an opening reception during Art Walk in the Park.

August 7 - September 27, 2026
Stone Tower Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday | 12pm - 6pm

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The Popcorn Gallery presents Natural Progressions. This exhibition features three established artists from the DMV region–Janet B. Waters, Nicole Fall, and Blake M. Conroy–who draw on imagery found in nature to express ideas about beauty, the human condition, and abstraction. Their individual art practices complement each other and showcase their varied artistic approaches to materials and practices in exploring nature.

Join us for an opening reception during Art Walk in the Park.

August 7 - September 27, 2026
Popcorn Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday | 12pm - 6pm

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Join us for a tour of On Behalf of New Myths / En Nombre de Nuevos Mitos, led by curator Fabiola R. Delgado, exploring artist Gerardo Camargo’s use of salvaged construction materials to foreground the often-unseen labor shaping our built environment. The tour will be followed by a conversation with the artist and curator.

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Get a head start on your holiday shopping list AND support artists in your community at Shop Arts Saturday! It's easy to forget, but individual artists and galleries are small businesses too! On Small Business Saturday this year, stop by the Park to support its resident artists, plus invited guest artists from throughout the DMV. 

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