WSS Artist Faculty Spotlight

The Royal School of Needlework exhibit, Fragile Threads, will be on display at Bankside Gallery in London from 23 February to 7 March 2027 every day from 11am to 6pm and will include a variety of historical and contemporary embroideries and associated objects. Nature’s Fragile Threads will illustrate how embroidery has served as a witness to biodiversity and species loss over the course of centuries, and how embroiderers within the UK and outside of it have used nature to inspire, emote, reflect, and mourn. With embroidered objects spanning more than 300 years, multiple continents, and innumerable techniques and stitches, the exhibition will consider what in nature has been lost, what has been gained, and where we now stand.

Ashe & Norton, 2440 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, D.C. Open reception: Friday, Nov. 6th, 5-7pm For appointments, contact: Ashe.Norton@gmail.com or Rabohlander.art@gmail.com Building off of a skull painting that I couldn’t complete, I pledged to create a skull artwork each day, from Memorial Day through Labor Day. They were done on my back deck and in the living room, in a hotel bar in NYC, my studio, in bed, at my partner’s, my mom’s in Detroit and my brother’s house in North Carolina. There were two rules: No new materials, using only what was available in my studio, and each skull was to be completed in a single sitting. The skulls became a visual diary of a summer that unfolded neither as expected nor planned; at times painful, and also with moments of peace and joyfulness. For the first time, all 87 works can be experienced at once, forming a kaleidoscopic narrative and accounting of that time.

Opening Reception Saturday, October 3rd, 3-6pm 743 Maple Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90014 LAST CALL FOR AMERICA began as an open call centered on the American landscape, not simply as geography, but as image, mythology, and cultural construction. Artists were invited to consider the distance between the country we inhabit and the America that persists in the collective imagination. The postcard, the western, the highway, the national park, the endless horizon. A landscape made beautiful through representation even as the physical world beneath that representation is continually reorganized by industry, infrastructure, extraction, and capital. The original premise proposed that America increasingly relies on a dated image of itself, a mythology sustained through nostalgia built from ideas that no longer resemble reality. The landscape is both material territory and ideological surface, the ground on which ideas of abundance, industrial progress, ownership, freedom, violence,

Otis Street Arts Project 3706 Otis St Mt. Ranier, MD 20712 Group show, Build Erase, curated by Liz Ashe. To Build (grow) and Erase (remove) is the root of how artists make decisions, how land masses shift, how erosion works, how one function requires the push and pull from another. “Build/Erase” is based on monochromatic aesthetics and the processes of addition and subtraction. How are artists taking the basic tenets of creation and communication – addition and subtraction, bright and dark, legible and illegible – and creating within this limited but also expansive idea? How can artists take an elegant and minimalist approach, and make something that the viewer stops in their tracks to look at? Ritual activities start small, build, and then dissipate. Sometimes, they come back together in a new way. ​ Artists: Rachael Bohlander Ellen Cornett Ramin Etemadi-Bozorg Sarah J Hull Jonathan Ottke Lisa Rosenstein Esha Sadr Monica Stroik Ying Zhu

“America: The Innovation” examines innovation as a driving force in the United States, exploring technological breakthroughs, artistic movements and influential ideas across culture, education, science and society. Bringing together more than 30 artists from across the Northeast, it offers a fresh perspective on the American story through the lens of innovation and craft. Presented as part of the nation’s 250th-anniversary commemoration, the exhibition celebrates the spirit of creativity, ingenuity and progress that has shaped the American experience. Location: Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002, former Ann Taylor retail space on the mezzanine level

Thundershark Gallery is pleased to present: MONSTERS! a showcase of 25 DMV-area artists. We're super excited to gather these monsters together in one show. Works will be available for purchase. All sales go directly to the artists. Trei Ramsey 👁️ Tara Falk 👁️ Sarah Jamison 👁️ Salvador 👁️ Rachel Wallach 👁️ Mike O'Brien 👁️ Louis-Antoine Gilbert 👁️ Lindsay Gee 👁️ Leah Lewis 👁️ Laya Monarez 👁️ keyhansolo 👁️ Kelly Towles 👁️ Kaila Garcia 👁️ MelenPersen 👁️ Jaswant Pakki 👁️ E$ 👁️ Death by Narwhals 👁️ C.S. Corbin 👁️ Camila Leão 👁️ Bonner Sale 👁️ Ben Claassen III 👁️ Autumn Spears 👁️ Ashley Jaye Williams 👁️ Ant Honey 👁️ Andrew Cohen OPENING: Saturday, June 27 • 4 PM - 8 PM Thundershark Gallery 52 O St NW #202C Washington, DC 20001

The show features over 50 contemporary, pop-surrealist, and lowbrow artists from across the globe. Location: Brassworks Gallery, 3022 NE Glisan St., Portland OR 97232