Torrents: New Links to Black Futures
NOVEMBER 14-17, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC
TORRENTS: New Links to Black Futures is an artist-led program exploring new territories in Black future-building through visual arts, technology, music, film, and performance.
THIS DC-BASED INTERDISCIPLINARY EVENT SERIES GATHERS ARTISTS, COLLECTORS, PROFESSORS, AND COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS TO PARTICIPATE IN A WEEK FILLED WITH ENGAGING EXPERIENCES.
Photo credit: Tim Johnson
2023/2024 CAPITAL ARTIST RESIDENT
Allana Clarke
SUMMER 2024
“I‘m incredibly thrilled to share in the mission of connectivity and community building through art. As an artist, the systems in which we often exist can feel exclusionary and siloed from our larger society. ”
“CulturalDC creates space for artists who work in unconventional ways to engage directly with audiences in a more collaborative and generative way. I could not be more excited to join this visionary organization as a resident artist.”
Metal and I, Want the Same Thing
MERCEDES
JUNE 26 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
HERON ALEXANDRIA
699 PRINCE STREET, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314
Visible from Washington Street 24/7
THROUGH KINETIC SCULPTURE, SOUND, AND PERFORMANCE, STEPHANIE MERCEDES CREATES RITUALS OF LIBERATION AND MOURNING. MERCEDES ASKS THE QUESTION: HOW IS MELTING DOWN AND TRANSFORMING WEAPONS A QUEER ACT? LIKE THE QUEER BODY, METAL IS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF SHAPESHIFTING. MERCEDES’ WORK MEDITATES ON QUEER VULNERABILITY AND MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION.
Details from I Hold You Close. Photo credit: Amir Pourmand
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Reclamando mi tiempo, reclamando Cuál es la Mía (Reclaiming my time, reclaiming what is mine)
By Amber Robles-Gordon
Project Development
Amber Robles-Gordon is a multimedia visual artist based in Washington, DC. Her creations are visual representations of her hybridism: a fusion of her gender, ethnicity, cultural, and social experiences. CulturalDC is supporting the development of the work and exhibition in Puerto Rico. The project will continue to unpack her maternal Puerto Rican heritage.
Learn Bomba, Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba Workshop
Led by Bomba Dance instructor, Isha M. Renta López & Multidisciplinary Artist and Student Collaborator, Amber Robles- Gordon
September 14, 4-5 PM
Dance Loft on 14
4618 14th St NW,
Washington, DC 20011
$20 Adults, $10 youth, Free 9 & under
Build your Collection and Support CulturalDC
Unique artworks now available on Artsy and on our website.
CulturalDC supports innovative artists across all disciplines and makes their work accessible to diverse audiences.
We provide unconventional space for relevant and challenging work essential to nurturing vibrant urban communities.
Mobile Arts Program
CulturalDC’s Mobile Arts Program breaks down the barriers to art often found in traditional presenting venues. We offer the ideal space for nationally and regionally prominent artists to engage with audiences in new, exciting ways. The Mobile Arts Program offers an artistic dialogue on national, local and grassroots levels.
Artspace Development
As part of our mission to make space for art, CulturalDC provides consulting services to research, design, and implement creative placemaking initiatives including art installations, artist housing, feasibility planning, creative space development, and public art.
Source
Source’s 150-seat black box is vital to the area’s small and medium-sized arts organizations because the space is intimate, flexible, and affordable. CulturalDC purchased the building in 2006 and Source now provides a classroom, rehearsal studio, and administrative space.
Programming Archives
Our long-standing commitment to the arts has led CulturalDC down many paths of arts engagement. View our archives to learn more about the reach of our programming over the years.