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A HOME FOR THE ARTS IN A UNIQUE WASHINGTON HOUSE
Since its founding in 1916, the Arts Club of Washington has promoted and celebrated the visual, performing, and literary arts in the nation’s capital. Arts Club members come from a wide range of artistic disciplines and professional backgrounds, joined by their shared enjoyment and appreciation of the arts.
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The Arts Club of Washington has long held a distinctive profile among Washington’s clubs. Founded in 1916 by a group of prominent local artists and modeled on New York’s National Arts Club and the Chelsea Arts Club in London, the Arts Club was the very first in the city to have women in leadership roles and as members from its very start. Its arts-focused, innovative, and bohemian character provided a unique contrast to the city’s more traditional, all-male private clubs.
LEARN MOREThe Arts Club is both a private membership organization and a 501(c)3 nonprofit, and public programming spotlighting the full range of the arts is a significant part of the club’s activities. The club welcomes visitors to four gallery spaces; free weekly concerts; events focusing on writing, dance, and theatre; and studio classes in visual arts. Much of the public programming is free.
The club draws much of its character and tradition from its home, the center of which is an historic Federal-era mansion that once served as the residence of James Monroe—and for a time, as his official presidential residence.
The club’s mission also includes promoting the importance of historic preservation through the ongoing restoration and preservation of the club’s headquarters, which encompasses significant 19th-century structures designated as a National Historic Landmark (the James Monroe House) and on the National Register of Historic Places (the General Robert MacFeely House).
The creative and generous spirit of those founders endures in the warm, welcoming, and lively organization that is today’s Arts Club of Washington. We welcome people who engage in the arts (both professionally and for the love of it), or simply enjoy and support the arts, to consider the many benefits of membership and to join us as the Arts Club continues to make Washington history.
UPCOMING EVENTS
LITERATURE | Poetry Reading with Taylor Johnson | 31 May | 7:00 PM | LEARN MORECLOSE |
Event Overview:Poetry Reading with Taylor JohnsonTuesday, March 31, 2022, at 7:00pm OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - FREE A reception with refreshments will follow the program The Arts Club welcomes Taylor Johnson for a poetry reading. Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. He is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. Taylor is the inaugural 2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. Lauded as "one of the more important and nuanced writers to come out of DC," Johnson's poems showcase warmth and musicality, and a concern with multiple identities, as in the poem Aubade: There is much to do. The room is red because we are indecent. The light gives me up. I've made myself at home: I sit on your porch, watch -- the light leads the field past the dumpsters amber to green; all the wasps huddle in the weaker part of the rocking chair; briefly, I see my breath then I don't. I talk to my other love on the phone about certain sounds some birds make down here this early, not their particular music but their surety, how they seem to know only one song and to sing it to its bleating end: O to call your name only, to be that sure. Following the reading there will be an opportunity for questions and a reception. RSVP required Discounted parking (free for members with membership card) at 2001 Pennsylvania Ave. after 6 pm.
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DINNER | DINING | 01 Jun | 12:00 PM | LEARN MORECLOSE |
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DININGDinnerWednesday, June 1, 2022 Dinner seating - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm OPEN TO MEMBERS & GUESTS Dinner $50 per person Enjoy a gourmet meal in the beautiful renovated Arts Club dining rooms with a menu prepared by Chef Patrick, offering a selection of seasonal specialties served buffet style. Dinner price includes open bar and wine service, coffee & tea.
Dress Code: Business Casual
RSVP required no later than the previous day before by 8 pm Same day cancellations and no-shows are charged a 50% cancellation fee. *Carry-Out Order: call (202) 331-7282 or email dining@artsclubofwashington.org
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DINNER | DINING | 02 Jun | 12:00 PM | LEARN MORECLOSE |
Event Overview:DININGLunch & DinnerThursday, June 2, 2022 Lunch seating - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Dinner seating - 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm OPEN TO MEMBERS & GUESTS Lunch $30 per person Dinner $50 per person Enjoy a gourmet meal in the beautiful renovated Arts Club dining rooms with a menu prepared by Chef Patrick, offering a selection of seasonal specialties served buffet style. Lunch price includes non-alcoholic beverages, coffee & tea. Dinner price includes open bar and wine service, coffee & tea.
Dress Code: Business Casual
RSVP required no later than the previous day before by 8 pm Same day cancellations and no-shows are charged a 50% cancellation fee. *Carry-Out Order: call (202) 331-7282 or email dining@artsclubofwashington.org
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