Upcoming Events
Georgetown Spring Art Walk
Saturday, March 21, 2026
12pm-5pm
Join us for a celebration of spring, creativity and art at the Georgetown Spring Art Walk.
The event will feature over a dozen local venues showcasing a diverse range of artwork, including photography, paintings, sculptures, and mixed media pieces.
Throughout the day, you'll have the chance to meet and chat with the artists, learn about their inspirations and creative processes, and purchase unique pieces to add to your collection.
Past Events
2025
UnFoldingS
Enise Carr / Judy Greenberg / Sharapat Kessler / Julie Wolfe
May 3-23, 2025
Fridays and Saturdays / 12pm–6pm, and by appointment
Curated by Vesela Sretenović
Opening reception: May 3, 5–7pm
Artists Talks: May 10, 11 am – 1pm (Sharapat Kessler and Julie Wolfe)
Artists Talks: May 17, 11 am – 1pm (Enise Carr and Judy Greenberg)
Closing Reception: May 23, 6 – 8pm
The exhibition title, UnFoldingS, plays on dual meanings. Un-folding functions as an active verb, pointing to the physical and conceptual acts of bending, twisting, curving, collapsing, disassembling, constructing, and combining—practices that characterizes the creative process behind the works. In contrast, UnfoldingS as a noun refers to the visual presence of the works: richly layered, visually compelling forms that are either two-dimensional and painterly, or three-dimensional and sculptural. Conceptually and metaphorically, "unfoldings" evoke double signification—acts of revelation and concealment, opening and obscuring, disclosure and disguise.
As both verb and noun, the title UnFoldingS suggests a playful ambiguity at the heart of the exhibition. Whether through pulling loose pages from books (Julie Wolf), cutting, pasting, and layering (Sharapat Sarsenova Kessler); superimposing bits and pieces (Enise Caar); or collapsing and mixing found boxes (Judy A. Greenberg), each artist engages in a collage-based technique. They blend a wide range of materials—often disparate and unexpected—to create compositions that embrace intuition and unpredictability while blending poignancy with poetry.
Sharapat Sarsenova Kessler, Untitled (2025), Mix-media wall installation, dimension variable
For Kessler, collage—cutting and pasting disparate materials—offers a direct pathway to self-reflection and a means of reconnecting with her heritage, especially the quilt-making traditions of her childhood. Her work blurs the lines between the real and the surreal, the dreamy and the mundane, the conscious and the subconscious. Though deeply rooted in personal narrative, Kessler’s practice radiates a poetic, playful, and lighthearted sensibility that transcends autobiography. Her compositions draw from the realms of imagination, literature, history, and the rhythmic pulse of folklore—creating visual stories that feel both intimate and expansive.
Kessler is a multimedia artist who was born in Kazakhstan and grew up in its Central Asian nomadic culture. She currently resides and works in Washington, DC. Her work has been featured at Brookside Gardens, the Carl M. Freeman Foundation, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The DC Arts Center, The Women's Club of Chevy Chase, Washington Studio School, and Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery. Kessler work is in numerous private collections across the U.S., Europe, and Kazakhstan.
Judy Greenberg, Untitled Boxes and Collages (2024-25), Canson Art Board, dimensions variable
Greenberg works from intuition. She approaches her collages and box-constructions with no preconceptions. By cutting and pasting images and texts from newspapers and magazines mostly Art in America—she creates layered, whimsical compositions and sculptural constructions that recall early 20th-century Constructivism. Her early paintings, made in the late 1960 and 1970s, were grounded in the exploration of color and abstraction, influenced by both the Washington Color School and Philip Guston. After retiring in 2018, Greenberg returned to artmaking full-time, focusing entirely on collage, which offered her space to play with form and free association. Tearing pages apart only to reassemble them into new visual configurations—and letting the material guide her—proved liberating, both aesthetically and conceptually. Some of her collages incorporate elements of surrealism and cubism; others depict abstracted cityscapes or landscapes. Several carry a tone of political revolt in response to recent events, while others reflect themes of solitude and confusion. Her box-constructions—assemblages made from various cardboard boxes she’s collected—are similarly intuitive. By collapsing, folding, and unfolding them, she reimagines their forms as obscure, tower-like structures in a range of sizes.
A native New Yorker, Greenberg studied Studio Art and Education at New York University. She moved to Washington, DC in 1975 and went on to become the Founding Director of The Kreeger Museum. From 1994 to 2017, she broadened the public’s understanding and appreciation of the arts, drawing directly on her background as a studio artist and educator. Her leadership shaped the museum’s exhibitions and programming, including the creation of The Kreeger Museum Sculpture Garden. Prior to her time at Kreeger, Greenberg was also the Founder and President of the Board of Directors of Rockville Arts Place (now VisArts). Throughout these years, she continued to make art—quietly. This exhibition marks the first public presentation of her work in Washington, DC.
Enise Carr, Tarp, detail (2023), Acrylic, felt, colored tape, tarp, 86.5 x 68”
Enise Carr’s Tarp is a large-scale painting, mixing acrylic, colored tape, felt, tarp. Here, through an elaborate gestural and abstract mark-making, the artist delves into his personal, political and spiritual values and beliefs. In his words, “Tarp is about revelation and how an artist acknowledges and follows the patterns in nature and life in practice. The result is a projection of the artist's higher self that imparts possibilities to the spectator.” Indeed, by fragmenting personal memory into a bold and expressive composition, Carr managed to create a multi-layered, collaged narrative that surpasses an individual history to create a universal connection through the language of abstraction.
Carr is best known for his abstract paintings that fully embrace the investigation of from and materiality. He has exhibited and lectured throughout the United States, and most recently had a solo exhibition at the University of the District of Columbia.
Carr earned his BFA in painting from the University of Oklahoma, and his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He has residencies at Brandywine Workshop and Archives and at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. This summer, he will attend the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Visiting Artist Residency in Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland. Carr lives and works in Washington, DC, where he moved in 2022 from Oklahoma to work with his former professor and mentor Sam Gilliam.
Julie Wolfe: The Beholder, 2024
Apophenia Press, PAN & The Dream
Wolfe’s Beholder is both an artist book and an installation. The work features loose pages taken from the book, installed in a seemingly random arrangement across a single wall, blurring the line between printed matter and spatial experience. In Beholder, Wolfe and PAN collaborated with a group of visual artists and writers to reimagine the Rococo era through a contemporary lens—exploring themes of excess, carelessness, political unrest, and growing economic inequality. The book’s contributors inhabit a choreographed interplay of voices—fictional, reflective, and surreal. These are figures who live and move within a constructed world, expressing the strange passion for self-escape that lies at the heart of the Rococo sensibility.
Wolfe is a DC-based, multimedia artist who moves freely across a wide arrange of materials and techniques. She is best known for her large abstract paintings, drawings on book pages and conceptual installations that uses color and light, exploring the external world around us and our interior lives. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally, including The American University Museum, The Allen Memorial Museum, The American University Museum and the libraries of The National Gallery of Art, The National Museum of Women in the Arts and The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art as well as the collections of Microsoft, Meta / Facebook and Capitol One.
Georgetown Main Street’s annual Spring Art Walk includes Book Hill galleries and a dozen participating shops, live music and special events.
At Klagsbrun Studios all three floors will be open, with wine and refreshments served in our back patio sculpture garden. Visit studios, meet the artists, discover and purchase.
Georgetown Spring Art Walk 2025
Saturday, March 22, 2026
12pm-5pm
Robin Bell: Embracing Imperfection
Robin Bell continues the creation of an immersive room at Klagsbrun Studios by expanding his series of 3D projected structures. The artwork challenges perfection by emphasizing imperfections in the printing process and magnifying nuances. Mistakes are transformed into essential elements that blend together to form a cohesive whole that represents the complexity of our shared lives.
Micheline Klagsbrun: Aspects of Memory
New mixed media work, sculpture, works on paper. Klagsbrun’s studio will also be open.
2024
Klagsbrun Studios is one of the stops on DO THE LOOP, a free afternoon of art including the Kreeger Museum, Dumbarton Oaks, the Jackson Art Center, Addison/Ripley Fine Arts and the A.U. Museum at the Katzen Art Center.
All admission fees are suspended and no tickets required.
For map and details: dotheloopdc.org
DO THE LOOP 2024!
Saturday, April 27th, 2024
11am-4pm
Robin Bell: Embracing Imperfection
Robin Bell is creating an immersive room at Klagsbrun Studios by expanding his series of 3D projected structures. The artwork challenges perfection by emphasizing imperfections in the printing process and magnifying nuances. Mistakes are transformed into essential elements that blend together to form a cohesive whole that represents the complexity of our shared lives.
Micheline Klagsbrun: Aspects of Memory
New mixed media work, sculpture, works on paper. Klagsbrun’s studio will also be open.
In addition, the Tuesday Night Group will be welcoming visitors with an exhibition of recent drawings and paintings and two authors will be on hand to discuss and sign their new books.
Jaya Viswanathan: Baby Senses
Dr. Jaya Viswanathan, neuroscientist, engineer and artist, will be signing copies of her book "Baby Senses", a unique window into the marvels of sensory perception that appeals to children and curious adults alike, beautifully illustrated with her paintings.
Ken Grossinger: Art Works, How Organizers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together
With "Art Works", Ken Grossinger provides an inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change. The book will be available and Ken will be on hand to discuss and sign.
HOMAGE TO GUILLEN and HUGHES
February 17-March 23, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 17, 2024, from 1pm–4pm
This juried student photography exhibition is a visual exploration inspired by the work of poets Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen. Both authors were born in 1902 and their writings express the racial, class, and social injustice of the 1930s and 40s in the US and Cuba.
The haunting, mysterious, stark, yet melodious photographs resonate with the juxtaposition of the Blues and Son Cubano rhythm. All images in this exhibition were produced by the intermediate & advanced photography students from the University of the District of Columbia and the American University studying under Prof. Iwan Bagus.
Special thanks to David Ramirez Alvarez, Director of cultural Affairs to the Embassy of Cuba.
Photo: Tracy Connor: Sweat and Lash, black and white photograph
2023
Art All Night
Friday, September 29, 2023
6pm-10pm
Georgetown’s free annual arts festival brings together local artists and businesses as part of a city-wide Art All Night event. Make your way up Wisconsin Avenue, from N St to R St, for live music, art demonstrations, pop-up galleries, comedic film screenings, karaoke, family friendly activities, DIY crafts, and more.
Featuring
Micheline Klagsbrun: Recent work including Anchors of The Heart
Small mixed media works on paper and sculpture, evoking the memories and belongings we hold on to in times of transition.
https://www.studiogallerydc.com/browse-exhibitions/#/anchors-of-the-heart-catalogue
The Tuesday Night Group: Recent work
TNG is a fluctuating group of 10-20 members who meet every Tuesday Night to draw and paint from life. We represent a diverse range of styles and media. Selected work is always on view.
Jaya Viswanathan: Baby Senses
The book ‘Baby Senses: A Sensory Neuroscience Primer for All Ages’, will be on display and available for purchase, alongside the author’s original artwork. This art book for children introduces them and their adults to the wonder and beauty of sensory systems through illustration of baby animals’ “superpowers”. An original holiday gift!
babysensesbook.com
CAST IN SHADOW
With Beverly Ress + Andy Yoder + Micheline Klagsbrun
April 22-May 15, 2023
Opening Reception: April 22, 5pm-8pm
Opening Hours: Friday-Sunday, 11am-4pm and by appointment
Beverly Ress
Window
Color pencil on vellum
Andy Yoder
Pileup
Salvaged auto parts
(Photo by Ann Kim)
American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, The Kreeger Museum, Dumbarton Oaks, Jackson Art Center, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, and Klagsbrun Studios collaborate for Do The Loop, a free day of indoor and outdoor art programming complete with shuttle service provided between locations.
Stay up to date on the day’s events by visiting dotheloopdc.org and following @dotheloopdc
DO THE LOOP 2023
Saturday, April 22, 2023
11am-4pm
Several new galleries joined us for a highly successful Art Walk, bringing large groups of new visitors in the balmy sunshine.
Georgetown Spring Art Walk 2023
Saturday, March 18, 2023
11am-4pm
A corner of the Tuesday Night Group show
Micheline with visitors
2022
Vermeer and the Art of Love
November 20, 2022
5pm-7:30pm
Aneta Georgievska-Shine treated us to an illustrated presentation of her latest book, Vermeer and the Art of Love. Demand for seats was so high that we had to host a second session which was also filled. Vermeer and the Art of Love (Lund Humphries, 2022) was picked by Christie’s as one of the top ten art books published in 2022 and is available through online sellers including Blackwells, Amazon, AbeBooks, Biblio.
Becoming One in Eight
Tuesday, November 22-December 9, 2022
BECOMING 1 IN 8 is a colorful collection of ink and watercolor washes inspired by Julia Ames’ (@spoolia) personal cancer journey. She sells original watercolors, framed and unframed prints, and lovely notecards , and donates 50% of the proceeds to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation bcrf.org. We were thrilled to host an exhibition of this moving and powerful work.
Georgetown Art All Night
Friday, September 23, 2022
5:30pm-10:30pm
“Songs at Risk”, color pencil and watercolor on vellum
Georgetown Art All Night returns Friday, September 23 from 5:30-10:30pm along Wisconsin Avenue from N Street to R Street. We are excited to be a part of this FREE community event hosted by @georgetownmainst. Join us for music, art, hands-on activities, family friendly programming, and more.
At Klagsbrun Studios you can meet and mingle with the artists and get a glimpse behind the scenes. Exhibits include a sneak preview of work by Jaya Viswanathan, member of the Tuesday Night Group.
Visit @georgetownmainst for more details
2021
Hello! Opening Reception
Thursday, November 4, 2021
6:30pm-9pm
“Life has been altered by Covid 19. Museums were closed. Social distancing was imposed. Shops and stores were drastically hit. All these facts led the Washington Print Foundation to organize an outdoor art exhibit to bring art and joy to the community, to draw attention to the abundant shops, galleries and restaurants in Georgetown making it a preferred DC destination, and to bring back galleries and other sorts of entrepreneurs to our great community: Georgetown.”, Washington Print Foundation.
Tuesday Night Group artists provided artwork for 4 banners (8 images) located outside the Klagsbrun Studios building. This grouping of banners makes an important statement about joy. The Tuesday Night Group has survived for 37 years meeting weekly to draw and paint from life. The pandemic forced us into a new virtual format and we have grown and flourished as a group and as individual artists. Since its founding the group's motto has been "Have Faith in Magic": this grouping of selected images from the past year-and-a-half is a testament to the power of art to foster community, to comfort and heal, and to keep us going during the worst of times.
From the Washington Print Foundation:
“Twenty-two double sided banners feature artwork by a diverse group of DMV artists. Eighteen are placed on existing street poles and four are installed at the Book Hill Triangle in front of Klagsbrun Studios drawing visitors through the exhibit from both directions.
The public can select its favorite work and the two top choices will receive a monetary prize and a third artist will receive a non-remunerative honorable mention. In addition to ballots, which can be found in street signs along Wisconsin Ave, passers-by can vote by sending a photo of their favorite piece to washington.print1@gmail.com, and are encouraged to post their favorite artwork on social media and tag @WashingtonPrintmakers.
We have been working with local organizations, elected officials, and Georgetown Main Street. Our heartfelt thanks to them and our sponsors for their support, help, time, and for making this project possible.”
2019
Georgetown Fall Art Walk
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Fall is on its way, and we are excited to be participating, along with five more Book Hill Galleries along Wisconsin Avenue and 33 rd Street.
2018
Georgetown GLOW 5th Edition
December 1, 2018-January 6, 2019
The region's only curated exhibition of outdoor public light art installations.
We are proud to announce that our GLOW sculpture, Radiant Rainbow Racer, was so popular last December that we were invited to be an official participant in GLOW 2018 with a new and expanded project.
Our GLOW Planning Team, led by Light Art Guru Johnny Dukovich, swung into action and has already come up with some electrifying ideas.
Watch for our installation on all three street corners at Wisconsin Avenue, Reservoir Road and 33rd Street NW.
Rainbow Friends will officially light up November 30 and will be on display nightly from 5pm through January 6, 2019.
Visit www.georgetownglowdc.com for additional information, programming and tours.
GLOW All Night
December 7th 5-9 pm
Georgetown’s national retailers and small businesses alike will be open late, offering in-store promotions, pop-up events, collection launches, give-aways and more....
We will have open studios, exhibitions, wine and refreshments. Come join us!
Radiant Rainbow Runner
Photos of Radiant Rainbow Racer in Georgetown GLOW 2017.
Follow the Radiant Rainbow Racer on Instagram:@radiant_rainbow_racer
Article in Prince of Petworth:
https://www.popville.com/2017/12/meet-the-radiant-rainbow-racer/