Join us for Third Thursday on October 16 in our gallery from 7pm to 8pm for a conversation with curator, strategist, educator, and CONFAB 2025 juror Ashleigh D. Coren as she reflects on the current exhibition. Ashleigh will give insight on how the works in CONFAB 2025 reflect both the vulnerability and imagination of today’s artists while capturing the tension of our current moment. She will also explore how themes of identity, environment, and history reveal the struggles, absurdities, and possibilities of finding meaning and hope in uncertain times. This event is free and open to the public.

About Ashleigh

Ashleigh D. Coren is a professor of Museum Studies at The George Washington University, as well as a Washington, D.C.–based curator and content strategist. She has held roles at the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, and the Smithsonian Office of Digital Transformation, and currently serves on the boar…