Join us and our neighborhood and creative partners for Art All Night, DC's free overnight arts festival on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 12-13! Our activiation celebrates the visual and performing arts, showcasing the diverse talents of our city’s creative community.
We're featuring Black Passion and other live art, in an interactive, immersive environment, including:
@Trei Ramsey, a self-taught multidisciplinary visual artist who works and lives in Washington D.C. He creates work that is described as powerful, colorful, and fun. Ramsey’s practice as an artist is inspired by his childhood obsession with Saturday morning cartoons, mythology, comic books, and western art history. Ramsey seeks to create a body of work that speaks to groups that are often ignored, by using the eclectic concepts he absorbed while growing up in America. To that end, Ramsey uses pop-art, surrealism, and cartooning to create work that looks or feels familiar but twists what is known to expose what is often hidden or purposefully relegated to obscurity: “it is like comfort food supplemented with essential vitamins, the equivalent of coating strong medicine with a chocolate shell.”
@artwithsummer_ 's artist statement is as follows: "Painting is about storytelling and to evoke a feeling. I use my paintbrush to create imagery that I hope captivates my audience. Painting is very therapeutic and gratifying for me. Nothing gives me more pleasure than taking a blank canvas and beautifying it in my own way. I enjoy the entire process from sketching to choosing the paints, brushes, canvas, then laying down the first stroke."
