– Opening Reception: Friday, March 18th, 7–9pm
– Special Benefit Event: Friday, April 29th, 7–9pm
– Artists’ Closing Reception: Friday, May 6th, 7–9pm
This inspiring initiative will feature the work of 125 artists, hand-selected by fifteen curators, to engage in a community dialogue on healing and transformation through the arts. The ceramic bowl was originally chosen as the fundamental element of the exhibition to symbolize creating a space where healing can take place—an idea at the heart of Smith Center’s work and mission.
The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery has been so proud of utilizing the bowl as the vessel for the past three years and we are just as proud to unveil a new vessel for 2016: The Cigar Box.
The definition of alchemy is to transform something toxic into an illuminated substance, which why we ask each artist to transform a cigar box by means of his or her own personal aesthetic and medium—taking a box that would be normally filled with a polarizing object as a cigar and creating an alchemical vessel, an original piece of artwork in order to benefit the Smith Center’s cancer support programs. We hope you will join our efforts in realizing this community-building art exhibition and benefit to support our important work with cancer patients, their caregivers, and veterans.
Featured Photos from the 2016 Alchemical Vessels Receptions
Initiative Details
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Friday, 11am–5pm; Saturday, 11am–3pm; and by appointment.
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery is located at 1632 U Street, in Northwest DC
Special thanks to our wine sponsor, Majestic Fine Wines: join us at the opening reception to sample fine wines. All of our specially featured Majestic Fine Wines are available for discount at Calvert Woodley!
Featured Curators Include: Holly Bass, Melissa Burley, Deirdre Darden, Phil Davis, Tim Davis, Jeremy Flick, Lisa Gold, Juanita Hardy, Cory Oberndorfer, Anthony Palliparambil, Laura Roulet, Nancy Sausser, Brooke Seidelmann, Jessica Stafford Davis, and Smith Center for Healing and the Arts.
Featured Artists Include: John M. Adams, Delé Akerejah, Najwa Al-Amin, Kwabena Ampofo-anti, Gwendolyn Aqui-Brooks, Eames Armstrong, Rush Baker, Cedric Baker,Marilyn Banner, Holly Bass, Joan Belmar, Leslie Berns, Kristina Bilonick, Julia Bloom, Kim Boggs, Monica Jahan Bose, Anne Bouie, Calder Brannock, Daniel T.Brooking, Patrick Burke, Melissa Burley, Patrick Burns, Adjoa J. Burrowes, Sharon Burton, Sabine Carlson, Mei Mei Chang,Gloria Chapa, Hsin-His Chen, Patterson Clark, Calvin Coleman, Joe Corcoran, Ellen Cornett, Sheila Crider, Elizabeth Crisman, David D’Orio, Joan Danziger, Deirdre Darden, Anna U Davis, Alonzo Davis, Tim Davis, Gregg Deal, JD Deardourff, Kate Deciccio, Elsabe Dixon, Nehemiah Dixon, III, Jim Doran, Spencer Dormizter, Cheryl Edwards, Dana Ellyn, Margo Elsayd, Rita Elsner, Dorothy Fall, Cianne Fragione, Emily Francisco, Jonathan French, Emily Fussner, Shaunte Gates, Bradley Gay, Jenne Glover, Peter Gordon, Adam Griffiths, Julie Guyot-Diangone, Rania Hassan, Jay Hendrick, Jeff Herrity, Francie Hester, Tom Hill, Jessica Maria Hopkins, Susan Hostetler, Aziza Claudia, Gibson Hunter, Gary Irby, Annette Isham, Barbara Januszkiewicz, Charles Jean-Pierre, Wayson R. Jones, Jenny Kanzler, Gloria C. Kirk, Micheline Klagsbrun, Yar Koporulin, Zofie Lang, Elaine Langerman, Khanh Le, Nate Lewis, Nathan Loda, Steve Loya, Laurel Lukaszewski, Dalya Luttwak, Janet Maher, J.W. Mahoney, Ulysses Marshall, Elizabeth Martin Brown, Antonio McAfee, Matthew McLaughlin, David Mordini, Carson Murdach, Diana N’Diaye, Cory Oberndorfer, Anthony Palliparambil Jr., John Paradiso, Michael Pierce, Michael Platt, Judith Pratt, Darien Reece, Alana Reeves, E. Brady Robinson, Robin Schaefer, Matt Sesow, Wendy Sittner, Casey Snyder, Judy Southerland, Pierre Sylvain, Diane Szczepaniak, Khalid Thompson, Andrea Uravitch, Gloria Valdes “Tarasca,” Jessica van Brakle, Sylvie van Helden, Jenny Walton, Ellyn Weiss, Alice Whealin, Rives Wiley, Omolara Williams McCallister, Jordann Wine, Naoko Wowsugi, Fabiola Yursin, Helen Zughaib, and more…
