FY 2026 Art Bank Program Finalist Exhibition
September 11 - December 12, 2025
Monday to Friday, 9 am - 6 pm
200 I (Eye) Street Gallery SE
Upcoming Artist Talks:
- Emerging Women Artists in the DMV
- Thursday, December 11, 2025
- 6 pm - 7:30 pm
- 200 I (Eye) Street Gallery SE
- Washington, DC 20003
- Emerging Women Artists in the DMV brings together a dynamic group of artists featured in DC Art Now 2025 for a conversation about building creative careers in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. This panel explores how women artists navigate visibility, community, and opportunity while shaping the future of the region’s arts ecosystem.
- Speakers: Autumn Spears, Holly Harris, Khin, and Vanessa Villarreal
- Moderator: Michelle May-Curry, Curator, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
- Open gallery time from 6:00-6:30, Artist talk will begin at 6:30 pm
In support of local visual artists and District art nonprofit organizations, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities acquires fine art from artists living and working across the metropolitan region. The ongoing and annual acquisition of art becomes a part of the Art Bank Collection and is then loaned to District Government agencies for display in public areas and offices of government buildings. The Art Bank Collection, which started in 1986, has over 3,000 artworks.
DC Art Now 2025 is an annual exhibition of selected work by finalists for the FY26 Art Bank Program grant. It features many of the most exciting emerging and established artists working in the DC metropolitan region today. Stop by our 200 I (Eye) Street, SE Gallery and see DC come to life through photography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, textiles, and more! The gallery is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, 9 am to 6:00 pm.
Installed in the gallery are the works of:
Adi Segal, Alanna Fields, Amanda Sauer, Andy Yoder, Ashley Brown, Autumn Spears, Bria Edwards, Cathy Abramson, Cianne Fragione, Connor Czora, Curtis Woody, Danielle Mysliwiec, Emon Surakitkoson, Eric Uhlir, Gayle Friedman, Hannah Atallah, Hedieh Ilchi, Holly Harris, Imar Hutchins, Janathel Shaw, Jermaine jET Carter, Joan Danziger, Judith Peck, Kanika Sircar, Karin Birch, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Kat Thompson, Khin, Kiara-Maribel Rivera, Korey Richardson, Larry W. Cook, Lex Marie, Life Pieces To Masterpieces, Lorenzo Cardim, Lynn Cazabon, Nando Álvarez, Luis Del Valle, Mark Kelner, Matthew Mann, Matthew Pinney, Mehmet Uskul, Michael A. Booker, Michael Crossett, Michael Janis, Mira Hecht, Monica Jahan Bose, Noel Kassewitz, Paloma Vianey, Prescott Moore Lassman, Rashin Kheiriyeh, Redeat Wondemu, Sanah Brown-Bowers, Sheila Blake, Toni Lane, Vanessa Villarreal, Wesley Clark, Xenia Gray, and Zofie King.
View all Art Bank finalist works here
Due to gallery capacity, the artworks installed in DC Art Now represent less than half of the finalist works being considered for permanent acquisition through the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities FY26 Art Bank Grant program. View an additional 65 works here by:
Abol Bahadori, Ada Pinkston, Adrienne Gaither, Alexandra Silverthorne, Amber Robles-Gordon, Andi Cullins, Anna U Davis, Ashley Jaye Williams, Bahar Yürükoğlu, Beatrice Hamblett Delmonte, Brian Michael Dunn, Caitlin Teal Price, Chawky Frenn, Chee Keong Kung, Cheryl D. Edwards, Darlene Taylor, Dean Kessmann, Delna Dastur, Elzbieta Sikorska, Etai Rogers-Fett, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Guayi Fernandez, Imani N. Shanklin Roberts, Jackie Braitman, James Stephen Terrell, Janis Goodman, Jay Durrah, Jeremiah Foxwell, Jessica Maria Hopkins, Joana Stillwell, Joanathan Bessaci, Joel Ulmer, John Ruppert, Jonathan Monaghan, Joshua Cogan, Judith Southerland, Julee Dickerson-Thompson, Julio Valdez, Karen Ruckman, Kyle Hackett, Lely Constantinople, Marcel Taylor, Maremi Andreozzi, Margaret Murphy, Marité Vidales, Mary Early, Mentwab Easwaran, Michèle Colburn, Mike Knox, Nakeya Cook, Natalie Cheung, Obiekwe Okolo, Patricia C. Goslee, Percy B. Martin, Pixie A. Alexander, Preston Sampson, Rachael Bohlander, Raymond Kaskey, Rosa Vera, Roxana Geffen, Stephen Estrada, Suzanne Arthur, Suzanne Yurdin, Tim Doud, Tim Tate, and Travon Greene.
Explore all works in our Art Bank collection through our eMuseum