Artist Spotlight: @niahmutherawtalent ✨
“Niahmu Foggie-Brown, also known as Niahmu The Raw Talent, is a Washington, DC-based custom artist specializing in hand-painted shoes, apparel, and accessories. She transforms everyday items into one-of-a-kind wearable art using bold colors, detailed designs, and themes inspired by anime, pop culture, and street art.”
We’re excited to feature Niahmu’s work in Cartography of Self, a group exhibition exploring identity, creativity, visibility, and self-expression through the work of local artists.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, and celebrate in community. 💛
🗓 Sunday, May 17th
🕒 4PM-6PM, doors remain open later
📍 618 H st NW Washington DC
#CartographyOfSelf #WearableArt #DCArtists #DMVArtists
Artist Spotlight: @bree.mercado ✨
“Breanna Mercado is a local artist from the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ community. Through painting and mixed media, her work explores identity, womanhood, belonging, visibility, and emotional healing. Her practice often reflects on self-perception, resilience, and the tension between how we are seen by society and how we see ourselves.
Her work includes abstract figurative paintings, self-portraits, and immersive installations that invite reflection and connection. Through vivid color, symbolism, and layered storytelling, Mercado creates spaces where transformation, softness, and authenticity can exist simultaneously.”
We’re honored to feature Breanna’s work in Cartography of Self, a group exhibition exploring identity, memory, visibility, and becoming through the voices of local artists.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, and celebrate in community. 💛
🗓 Sunday, May 17th
🕒 4PM-6PM, doors remain open later
📍 618 H St NW, Washington DC
#CartographyOfSelf #QueerArt #BIPOCArtists #DMVArtists #ContemporaryArt ArtistSpotlight
Artist Spotlight: @deontaelite ✨
“Deonta Elite is an acclaimed artist originally from Washington, D.C. His career trajectory began in tattoo artistry and expanded to encompass murals, graphic design, and work as an art therapist. Today, Deonta is best known for his striking signature-style paintings, which have built a loyal and diverse following. His accomplishments include features in over 30 magazines, a notable showcase in New York City’s Times Square, and participation in exhibitions across Los Angeles, London, and Japan.”
We’re honored to feature Deonta’s work in Cartography of Self, a group exhibition exploring identity, memory, visibility, and selfhood through the voices of local artists.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, and celebrate in community. 💛
🗓 Sunday, May 17th
🕒 4PM-6PM programming, doors stay open later
📍 618 H St. NW, Washington DC
#CartographyOfSelf #DMVArtists #DCArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtistSpotlight
CALL FOR ART 🎨⚡️🏳️🌈
Vibrate Pride Closing Party is back on June 26 at Transmission DC — and we’re looking for artists, installation makers, live painters, performers, and creatives to be part of the night.
We’re seeking work that explores queer joy, identity, transformation, movement, connection, and liberation.
🗓 Event date: June 26
⏰ 9PM–3AM
📍 Transmission DC
✨ Artists receive guest +1 entry
📥 Submission deadline: June 6
Installation + breakdown will take place the same day. More details will be shared with selected artists closer to the event.
We especially encourage LGBTQ+, BIPOC, emerging, and multidisciplinary artists to apply 💫
Apply through the link in bio. 🔗🔗🔗 or comment PARTICIPATE and we will send you think link directly!
#DCArtists #QueerArt #CallForArt #DCPride #LGBTQArtists
Artist Spotlight: @anokhi.shah ✨
“Anokhi Shah is a self-taught, queer, Indian visual artist, curator, writer, and public defender from Apex, North Carolina. Her art challenges systems of oppression and advocates for change by showcasing the beauty, strength, and resilience of survivors of trauma and persecution. Anokhi draws inspiration from her work; traditional South Asian rangoli, mandala, and mehndi designs; and other artist-activists. She works in a wide spectrum of mediums, including pen and ink, acrylic and oil paint, paper, fabric, and embroidery. Her work has appeared throughout the DMV, including the Museum of the Palestinian People, Transmission DC, Artomatic, Studio Gallery, American University, Rhizome, Spark Social, Shop Made in DC, and Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center. In 2024 Anokhi founded Beauty Behind Bars, a collective of incarcerated and returning citizen visual artists and writers, for which she curates ongoing installations and pop-ups. She also helps lead the Watermelon Seeds Art Collective and Queer as Craft Club.”
We are honored to feature Anokhi’s work in Cartography of Self, a group exhibition exploring identity, memory, visibility, and selfhood through the voices of local artists.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, and celebrate in community. 💛
🗓 Sunday, May 17th
🕒 4PM-6PM programming, doors stay open later
📍 618 H St. NW, Washington DC
#CartographyOfSelf #DMVArtists #DCArt #QueerArtists
Artist Spotlight: Rebecca Justilien ✨
“Rebecca Justilien is an artist and storyteller from Miramar, Florida, whose work explores individuality, emotion, and the quiet power of being seen. Rooted in a lifelong love of sketching and painting, her creative journey began in childhood through imagined characters and deeply expressive worlds. In 2020, while living abroad, she discovered digital art and found a new medium through which to merge realism with imagination and emotion with symbolism.
Rebecca creates portrait-based works that invite viewers into the inner worlds of her subjects, often exploring themes of identity, vulnerability, and self-reflection. Her pieces are designed to hold attention long enough for something deeper to unfold, encouraging reflection, empathy, and emotional resonance.
Through striking visuals and layered storytelling, Rebecca aims to create art that feels both personal and universal — work that honors authenticity, celebrates diversity, and reminds viewers that art can serve as both mirror and bridge.”
We’re honored to feature Rebecca’s work in Cartography of Self, a group exhibition exploring identity, memory, visibility, and selfhood through the voices of contemporary artists.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, and celebrate in community. 💛
🗓 Sunday, May 17th 🕒 4PM-6PM programming, doors stay open later 📍 618 H St. NW, Washington DC
#CartographyOfSelf #ContemporaryArt #PortraitArt #ArtistSpotlight #DMVArtists
Artist Spotlight: Grigorii Kniagnitskii ✨
“Grigorii Kniagnitskii is an Arlington-based multidisciplinary artist and motion designer. Holding a degree in Physics, he bridges the gap between traditional and digital media by combining classical painting techniques with digital tools like Procreate and After Effects. Stylistically, his work leans toward classical ‘rubber hose’ animation and dark humor.
His prominent recent achievements include being named ‘Video of the Day’ by Motion Design Awards for his animation Dopamine Factory and receiving an Honorable Mention Award for his digital painting Smile Through the Chaos in 2026. An Elite Author on VideoHive and two-time AEBattle winner, Grigorii has produced animations for major international brands such as Samsung, Nestlé, and Durex. His art has been showcased globally, appearing on public screens in Athens and Times Square, as well as in physical galleries in London, New York, and Atlanta.
Grigorii’s practice continues to evolve through the interplay of high-energy motion and hand-crafted illustration.”
We’re excited to feature Grigorii’s work in Cartography of Self, a group exhibition exploring identity, memory, visibility, and selfhood through the work of contemporary artists.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, and celebrate in community. 💛
🗓 Sunday, May 17th
🕒 4PM-6PM programming, doors stay open later
📍 618 H St. NW, Washington DC
#CartographyOfSelf #DigitalArt #MotionDesign #ContemporaryArt #artistspotlight
Artist Spotlight: @remycrypt ✨
“Remy Crypt comes from a place of surrealistic dark fantasy where the ruins of old and ancient spirits contrast with a cyberpunk future. The pieces are meant to build a world and tell a story that has yet to be written in words, each piece leaving keys behind to unlock the next part of the mystery through a psychedelic world of cute creatures and eerie landscapes.”
We’re honored to feature Remy’s work in Cartography of Self, a group exhibition exploring identity, memory, visibility, and selfhood through immersive and imaginative artistic worlds.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, and celebrate in community. 💛
🗓 Sunday, May 17th
🕒 4PM-6PM programming, doors stay open later
📍 618 H St. NW, Washington DC
#CartographyOfSelf #DCArt #SurrealArt #DMVArtists #ArtistSpotlight
Artist Spotlight: @amandabrooke.arts ✨
“Amanda Brooke’s art is inspired by the idea of the mind as an ecosystem. From rainforest floors teeming with life to deep-seascapes that are at once serene and monster-haunted, her colorful paintings and illustrations make visible the creatures inhabiting the brain’s biome. What keeps our ecosystem in balance, even amid destruction? What undiscovered species yearn to speak their stories?
In addition to being a visual artist, Amanda is a poet, short fiction writer, and civil rights lawyer.”
We’re excited to feature Amanda’s work in Cartography of Self, a group exhibition exploring identity, memory, visibility, and the emotional landscapes that shape who we are.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, and celebrate in community. 💛
🗓 Sunday, May 17th
🕒 4PM-6PM programming, doors stay open later
📍 618 H St. NW, Washington DC
#CartographyOfSelf #DCArt #DMVArtists #ContemporaryArt #ArtistSpotlight
Artist Spotlight: Kathleen Regalado ✨
“Kathleen Regalado was born and raised in Virginia in 1999 in a Mexican-Guatemalan household. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from The University of Virginia in 2021. Her work explores identity, memory, and our built environment through a cultural and personal framework. Through her paintings, she travels into the past so we can understand the present and revolutionize our future.
As a first-generation American and first-generation university graduate, Regalado’s experience has been shaped by yearning for cultural and familial belonging. Her work aims to address an introverted experience shaped by a childhood spent in insular self-discovery. Through vivid color and unabashed expressionism, Regalado shows us another way to see our world.”
We’re honored to feature Kathleen’s work in Cartography of Self, a group exhibition exploring identity, memory, visibility, and selfhood through the voices of local artists.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, and celebrate in community. 💛
🗓 Sunday, May 17th!
🕒 4PM-6PM programming & doors will stay open later
📍 618 H st NW Washington DC
#CartographyOfSelf #DMVArtists #ContemporaryArt #ArtistSpotlight
📣📣📣YOU’RE INVITED!!!🎨🎨🎨
The CARTOGRAPHY OF SELF—a group exhibition exploring identity, memory, belonging, visibility, and the ways we come to understand ourselves through art.
Join us this Sunday for the opening reception and experience a collection of works by local artists, some refreshments from the Chinatown Gardens bar, electric vibes from @lava.radio ‘s @jett.dc__ & @kenlazee
Come celebrate with us, meet the artists, and be in community!!
🗓️ Sunday, May 17th
⏰ 4PM
📍618 H St NW Washington DC
Bring a friend. Stay awhile. We’d love to see you there!!!
