Tuesday, Sept 29, 6:30 - 8:00pm

In the Dancer, Still Moving exhibition, Ekpuk returns to the figure that has watched over the corner of 14th and R Street, translating its bold silhouette into a serigraph print, alongside a series of smaller sculptures and works on paper that introduce audiences to the artist’s oeuvre. These pieces invite viewers into the lines, rhythms, and symbols that define Ekpuk’s practice, one rooted in the ancient Nigerian script Nsibidi and his decades-long exploration of reducing form into graphic, symbolic abstraction.

Thursday October 1 - Saturday, October 3

Millennium Arts Salon will be featured on a panel at the Aesthetic Inheritance: Art, Archive, and African American Life Symposium, October 1–3, presented by Bowie State University, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, and the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum. The October 3 panel, born from a proposal by curator and collector Lauren Davidson, explores how salons have advanced African American art since before the Harlem Renaissance, with MAS as a contemporary example. Joining Lauren are an artist, a curator, and MAS co-founders.

Now - October 4

With one exhibition, Helen C. Frederick commemorates two 10-year milestones. The first: Pyramid Atlantic’s 10th year in Hyattsville, the organization she founded in 1981. The second: the 10th anniversary of Reading Road Studio—a papermaking studio also founded by Frederick.

Featuring paper-cast life-size gold leaf doors, a translucent endangered species installation, printed Chinese papers, exquisite custom paper drawings, large scale pulp paintings, innovative artist books, and more, RUMINATIONS: Our Stories IN PAPER celebrates the possibilities of papermaking.

Thursday, October 15, 5:30pm

Black Artists of DC will present the D.C. premiere of The Bigger Picture: Visions of Ben Jones, a film by Souleyman Garcia, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library's Central Library, 5th floor Auditorium. A conversation with artist Ben Jones and director Souleyman Garcia will follow the screening.

Thursday, November 5

Join for the David C. Driskell Center's 25th Anniversary Symposium: over two days, scholars, artists, archivists, curators, and cultural leaders will come together to examine the role of institutional archives in preserving, interpreting, and advancing the histories of Black art. The symposium will explore how archives, collections, and museums shape cultural memory and challenges of collecting Black art today.

More details, including speakers and the full program, will be announced soon.

Now - November 21, 2026

Curated by Cheryl Edwards. This exhibition brings together works by veteran artists whose practices emerge from the enduring afterlives of military service. This exhibition examines memory, history, and the physical and psychological residues of war. In the context of the United States’ 250th anniversary, it reconsiders national narratives as contested and ongoing rather than resolved.

The exhibition explores moral injury, spatial coloniality, and resilience, and centers artists with Vietnam War service and those committed to the Veteran artists’ community, whose work adds context to the exhibit.