Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of "Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist" at the National Gallery of Art
2025-04-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | National Gallery of Art, East Building, 4th St and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20565, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist at the National Gallery of Art, led by Dr. Lynn K. Matheny, Deputy Head of Interpretation and Curator of Special Projects.

This retrospective exhibition showcases the enduring legacy of Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) as a visionary artist and an unwavering activist. As the most comprehensive presentation devoted to Catlett in the United States, it features more than 150 works, including well-known sculpture and prints, rare paintings and drawings, and important ephemera. The exhibition is co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and presented in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago.

One of the defining artists of the 20th century, Elizabeth Catlett addressed the injustices she witnessed and experienced through her bold prints and dynamic sculptures. In striving to make art for the people—from her roots in Washington, DC, Chicago, and New York to the remarkable body of work she made during some 60 years in Mexico—Catlett put social justice at the very center of her work. An avowed feminist, lifelong activist, and deft formalist, Catlett passionately addressed injustices such as class inequality, racial violence, and U.S. expansionism through her politically engaged art, injustices which continue to shape the world today.

“I have been, and am currently, and always hope to be a Black Revolutionary Artist and all that it implies.”– Elizabeth Catlett, 1970

Click here to read more about the exhibition and this visionary artist-activist.

Please review the National Gallery of Art’s accessibility page for available accommodations.

Program Admission:

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Member Guests – $20

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Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization. The National Gallery of Art does not charge an admission fee.

About Lynn K. Matheny

Dr. Lynn K. Matheny currently serves as Deputy Head of Interpretation and Curator of Special Projects at the National Gallery of Art. She has worked on a wide array of modern and contemporary art exhibitions, including Philip Guston Now; Afro-Atlantic Histories; Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950; and Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, among many others. She frequently collaborates with museums in the United States and abroad and is honored to help bring to the National Gallery Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist.

Image credits:Elizabeth Catlett, Gossip, 2005color digital and photo-lithograph on wove paperimage: 37.47 x 45.72 cm (14 3/4 x 18 in.)sheet: 59.69 x 60.96 cm (23 1/2 x 24 in.)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Lynn K. Matheny, courtesy of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, George Washington University.

Chicago, IL | ArtTable Brunch at EXPO Chicago
2025-04-25 09:30 - 11:00 | EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
Here at ArtTable, we love nothing more than a pre-art fair brunch. Join us at EXPO Chicago for drinks, bites, and networking before exploring the 2025 edition of the fair. We are excited to be joined by Kate Sierzputowski, Artistic Director of the fair!

EXPO CHICAGO Contemporary Art Fair showcases leading contemporary and modern art galleries each April at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, alongside a diverse and inventive program of talks, on-site installations, and public art initiatives. Inaugurated in 2012, EXPO CHICAGO draws upon the city’s robust history as a vibrant international cultural destination, while highlighting the region’s contemporary arts community. In 2023, EXPO CHICAGO was acquired by Frieze, the world’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art.

Please review EXPO Chicago’s accessibility page for available accommodations. Please email us at programs@arttable.org with any accommodation requests.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $50

Member Guests – $60

General Admission – $70

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All registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization.

Image credits:The scene at the 2023 edition of Expo Chicago, at Navy Pier.

Washington, D.C. | End-of-Year MeetAT at Irene and Richard Frary Gallery
2025-12-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Irene and Richard Frary gallery, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001, United States
Photo Credit: Sloane Prince/Johns Hopkins University.

You’re invited to our upcoming End-of-Year MeetAT networking event on December 18, graciously hosted by Caitlin Berry at the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery. Meet us at the gallery to take in their current exhibition, and then join us at the Good Company cafe for light refreshments while catching up with fellow ArtTable members and prospective members.

About the Irene and Richard Frary GalleryThe Irene and Richard Frary Gallery is the Hopkins Bloomberg Center’s free, public art gallery presenting rotating exhibitions drawn from the University’s collections and special exhibitions born out of partnerships with leading museums and collections. The 1,000-square-foot gallery designed by Rockwell Group brings new ideas and energy to Washington, D.C., enriching the cultural and intellectual offerings of the Center and dynamically reinforcing its mission as a place that convenes different artistic and ideological perspectives to support discovery, democracy, and global dialogue.About CeremonyDrawing on artist Lindsay Adams’ background in international studies and cultural anthropology, Ceremony explores the histories of Black movement, migration, and world-building. Guest curated by Claudia M. Watts, the exhibition places Adams’ new works in conversation with never-before-seen archival objects from the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries’ collection, including rare books and personal correspondence from Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker, and more.

Are you considering joining ArtTable and want to know more about who we are and what we do? This is a great opportunity for potential members to get to know us!

Admission:

FREE to ArtTable Members and their guests*

*Each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time. We encourage members to bring a member of the visual arts field who would enjoy this community engagement opportunity.

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Washington, DC | Artist Talk with Joan Danziger
2026-02-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Katzen Arts Center American University Museum, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20016, United States
Join ArtTable for an artist talk and exhibition walkthrough with Joan Danziger! Joan has two concurrent exhibitions on view at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.

Spanning 60 years of imaginative artistry, The Magical World of Joan Danziger is the first career retrospective for Joan Danziger, who is actively producing art at the age of 91. Danziger has been a working artist since the 1960s. The retrospective traces her evolution from a surrealist painter to a multimedia artist who transforms her creations into three-dimensional sculptures. Over the decades, she evolved into a sculptor and glass artist who imbues her work with secret meanings from world religions, history and mythology.A major milestone in her career was transitioning from an artist who worked on canvas to a three-dimensional artist. In 2008, she added glass to her repertoire when she began her Beetles series. She enjoyed the results of working with glass so much that it led to two other series of glass sculptures of horses and her newest creation, ravens.

Ravens: Spirits of the Sky will transform the American University Museum’s Long Gallery into an aviary. Featuring never-before-exhibited artworks, the show is comprised entirely of 21 metal and glass raven sculptures inspired by the bird’s appearance in world mythology. Snow Crystal Raven references a Native American myth that expresses reverence and thankfulness to the Great Spirit. Smoky Raven demonstrates ‘lift’ in the bird’s preparation for flight. Colorful and predatory, Amethyst Raven with Frog depicts a raven gripping a frog in its beak. The iridescent violets and yellow glass contrast to express the struggle of life and death. The ravens are captured in various poses, including flight, with three of the sculptures suspended from the ceiling.

For more than 60 years, Washington, D.C.-based artist Joan Danziger has beguiled audiences with her artworks born of mythology, imagination and fantasy. As an artist, she has metamorphosized from a painter to a sculptor to a glass artist. Danziger began her career as a surrealist painter and the dramatic hues in her paintings fed directly into painted sculptures — from vivid, surreal flowers in vases resting on pigmented patterned, handwoven carpets to large colorful figures of acrobats and musicians, to brilliantly hued figures riding bicycles with parrots.Her public commissions can be seen along the Eastern Seaboard in Maryland, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. She has exhibited in museums from New York to California, and her work is included in the collections of museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.); New Orleans Museum of Art; National Sporting Library & Museum (Middleburg, Virginia); Grounds For Sculpture (Hamilton Township, New Jersey); Reading Public Museum (Reading, Pennsylvania); New Jersey State Museum (Trenton, New Jersey); Museum of Science & Industry (Jacksonville, Florida); and the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, California).

More information about accessibility at the Katzen Art Center can be found here.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

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Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of "Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris" at the National Gallery of Art
2026-02-25 15:00 - 16:00 | National Gallery of Art, West Building, 6th St and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC, District of Columbia, 20565, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris. The exhibition celebrates this pioneering American impressionist on the 100th anniversary of her death.

This special installation includes several of Cassatt’s beloved paintings alongside groundbreaking prints and drawings that are rarely on view.

Our tour will be led by Kimberly A. Jones, curator of nineteenth-century French paintings, department of French paintings; Rena Hoisington, curator and head, department of old master prints; Mary Morton, curator and head, department of French paintings; and Michelle Bird, curatorial associate, department of French paintings, all of the National Gallery of Art.

Learn more about accessibility at the National Gallery of Art here. For questions about access or to request accommodations please contact us at programs@arttable.org.

Program Admission:

General Admission – $25

ArtTable Members – $15

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All program registration fees go toward event expenses and administrative costs for the organization.

Images:

Mary Cassatt, Girl Arranging Her Hair, 1886, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.97

Mary Cassatt, Woman with a Sunflower, c. 1905, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.98

Washington, DC | Unboxing at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art with Christina Ayson-Plank and Jayna Josefson
2026-03-23 14:30 - 16:00 | The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, 750 9 th Street NW,, Washington, DC, Washington, DC
Join ArtTable at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art to discover collections that document the history of women in American visual arts. During this tour and presentation, attendees will learn about the lives and legacies of Toshiko Takaezu and Hung Liu through archival collections.

For more than 70 years, the Archives has provided researchers worldwide with access to the largest collection of primary source materials collected from artists, galleries, and other art world institutions and professionals. The Archives holds nearly 6,500 collections comprised of more than 30 million primary sources including correspondence, diaries, sketchbooks, photographic, audiovisual, and born-digital materials. As one of the oldest and most respected oral history collections in the world, the Archives’ Oral History Program has preserved the voices of the American art world in more than 2,600 interviews. Learn more about the Archives here.Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was a pioneering 20 th century ceramic artist known for her signature closed forms and installations. Born in Pepeekeo, Hawai‘i, Takaezu attended Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and taught for decades at Princeton University.

Hung Liu (1948–2021) was a groundbreaking painter whose works drew primarily from historical Chinese photographs of women and children. Born in Changchun, China, Liu studied under Allan Kaprow at the University of California, San Diego and taught for decades at Mills College.

Christina Ayson-Plank is the Asian Pacific American Collections Specialist at the Archives of American Art. She earned her Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jayna Josefson is a project archivist at the Archives of American Art with a focus on processing the papers of women artists. She earned her MA in Public History from Wright State University.

For questions about access or to request accommodations please contact us at programs@arttable.org.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

ArtTable Member Guests – $20

General Admission – $25

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Image: Evon Streetman. Toshiko Takaezu throwing a ceramic pot, 1974.Toshiko Takaezu papers, circa 1925-circa 2010. Archives of American Art, SmithsonianInstitution.
