Block Watch is a participatory community art project meant to weave together imagery culled from archival photographs as well as the present physical landscape of Anacostia to create a playful, abstracted representation of the community, its history, and its future. The public is invited to embed their own words and images related to their personal experiences of the community into the work's three dimensional, collaged layers of drawings to create a tapestry of voices in vignettes throughout the bold, broad structural lines of the piece.” Stop by and take part in the opening ceremony for this unique interactive art project. Block Watch will be open to the public Wednesday-Friday from noon to 5pm, and on Saturdays, 10am to 5pm. Look for the Block Watch shipping container in the museum parking lot.

This project is a collaboration with CulturalDC and artist Amanda Burnham. CulturalDC presents cutting-edge artwork and emerging artists through a Mobile Art Gallery concept. Portable shipping containers are outfitted as multi-functional spaces for art which travel to various communities to allow participants to be both creative and civically engaged.