WSS is honored to welcome back Reem Bassous. Join us on July 10th for a free artist talk with the artist.

Join WSS, Friends of Peirce Mill, National Park Service and Rock Creek Conservancy for Create by the Creek: June 13 - 21, 2020.

About Karen Loehr Karen is a painter, graphic designer, a former member of our WSS atelier, and a current board member. As a practicing a...

If there are positives coming out of these difficult past few months, they have to do with both compassion and creativity. In the art wor...

Join WSS faculty Paul Pietsch at home as he demonstrates a watercolor composition.

Images by: Lois Dodd, Piet Mondrian, Wayne Thiebaud, Chardin. Can we challenge you to a month of drawing, painting, or collage from the s...

Learn how to do printmaking from home with WSS faculty member Brian Kelley. We'll be working with collagraphy, a media that you can make...

Get to Know WSS Faculty on our IGTV Channel We just launched our IGTV Channel and are highlighting our incredible faculty through artist ...

The Drama of Light and Value Contrast This is a good one to do at night. In very low light, and against a dark background if possible, s...

Longtime WSS faculty member Diane Wilson sent several videos that she discovered about Baroque era painter Michelangelo Caravaggio and sc...

This short film about masterful Costa Rican-Mexican sculptor Francisco Zuniga by Eric Minh Swenson is moving and informative.

Images (clockwise L to R): Image from the Elgin Marbles, Cardboard sculpture by Ken Kewley, sculpture by Lydia Ricci and sculpture by Ant...

Homer Yost is a figurative draftsman and sculptor. He received his undergraduate degree in humanities at Upsala College in East Orange, N...

Many of our fantastic models are doing clothed model sessions online. Go to #dcartmodelcollective to see what they are doing, or subscrib...

Many artists around the world who moved temporarily from spacious studios to corners of their homes are finding beauty in working small. ...

WSS student Naomi Karp has been inspired by poems published in the New York Times about coronavirus. She's been writing a poem a day in a...

Phenomenal DC-area painter and much loved WSS instructor, Erin Raedeke, recently had a show at Y-Art Gallery in Baltimore. The exhibition...

Sticking Together 1 We're all in this together, supporting each other and coming together in new and unprecedented ways. While we may fee...

Dance Yourself Clean Quarantine Playlist:  Dancing is so good for the spirit and the immune system, plus we all need our exercise right n...

Artists by nature are resourceful, resilient, and responsive. We are always seeking new problems to solve, asking new questions, using wh...