Gateway Open Studios Tour

✨ TOMORROW ✨ Four towns. One creative community. @gatewayost invites you to celebrate the Gateway Arts District's creative economy from 12-5 p.m. on Saturday, May 9. Visit the studios of artists across four neighborhoods (Mount Rainier, Brentwood, North Brentwood and Hyattsville) at the 2026 Gateway Arts District Open Studios Tour (OST). @wildsidemediaco spoke with artists and leadership from @joesmovement in Mount Rainier, @materialthingsstudio in North Brentwood and @pyramidatlantic in Hyattsville about how Gateway OST creates meaningful visibility for artists and makers, and what makes @mygatewayarts such a deep and varied creative community. Visit gatewaycdc.org/ost2026 for more info about tomorrow, and please come out and support your local artists. We'll see you there ✨ #localart #localartists #supportlocal #supportlocalartists ••• interviewees: @bellydancerofcolor , @subsistenceslicker , @_francro_ + @_katiealdworth_

"I always enjoy the camaraderie generated when people see artwork up close," says mixed-media artist Sharon Robinson. "Art touches people in ways that go beyond words, and sometimes just watching the observing is as fulfilling as a conversation." Robinson is one of three local artists @wildsidemediaco spoke with about the 2026 Gateway Arts District Open Studios Tour (OST), one dynamic day where art studios and spaces in Maryland's Gateway Arts District (Mount Rainier, Brentwood, North Brentwood and Hyattsville) open their studio doors to the public for a behind-the-scenes-look at how and where their art is created. We also chatted with quiltmaker Megan Haidet and visual artist Rose Jaffe about @gatewayost this Saturday, May 9 from 12-5 p.m. and the contemporary arts space that connects them: @pyramidatlantic in Hyattsville, Md. Visit gatewaycdc.org/ost2026 to learn more about this Saturday's OST and check out pyramidatlanticartcenter.org for more on the arts center socializing in papermaking, printmaking and book arts. #localart #localartists #supportlocal #supportlocalartists ••• interviewees: @subsistenceslicker , @rose_inks + @therobinsonstudio 📷 of @subsistenceslicker taken by Erinn Shirley Photography

@wildsidemediaco caught up with @materialthingsstudio co-founders @_katiealdworth_ and @_francro_ , and artist @ceriann_price , about their participation in the 2026 Gateway Arts District Open Studios Tour (OST) next Saturday, May 9 from 12-5 p.m. in the Gateway Arts District’s four neighborhoods: Mount Rainier, Brentwood, North Brentwood and Hyattsville. We also picked their brains about why the North Brentwood, Maryland-based clay, wood and metal studio and educational space plays an integral role in the @mygatewayarts community. Check out what they had to say here, and stay tuned for snippets from our conversations with @pyramidatlantic and @joesmovement . Visit gatewaycdc.org/ost2026 to learn more about the @gatewayost on May 9 at various locations within the Gateway Arts District. Learn more about Material Things Studio at materialthingsstudio.com and make sure to visit them on the Gateway OST next weekend. #localart #localartists #supportlocal #supportlocalartists

What a great Open Studios day at @red_dirt_studio ! (2 of 2) 2 posts, because #toomanyphotos 📸Thanks to @sweetpotomacstudio for helping document 🎂Happy Birthday @hanhan.gk ❤️y’all xo

What a great Open Studios day at @red_dirt_studio ! (1 of 2) 2 posts, because #toomanyphotos 📸Thanks to @sweetpotomacstudio for helping document 🎂Happy Birthday @hanhan.gk ❤️y’all xo

Visited some of my favs at Gateway Open Studios yesterday ☀️☺️

Chill in our lounge while waiting for the shuttle bus today. Open Studios 12-5

Just getting this in before tomorrow becomes today! Hope you can make it! @otisstreetarts @gatewayost @podraskystudios

We are excited to host @carinito.mexicanbakery and their delicious baked goods for @gatewayost

yapsolutely stacked weekend — keep up, haters! 💋 swipe to see where to find me vs where to find my goods in the wild saturday, gateway open studios with @materialthingsclasses ! catch me irl at the student and teacher sale 12-5 @gatewayost @mygatewayarts also saturday, mom’s market at @domestiquewine I had so much fun making a lil curated batch of mom / wine themed cards, all one of one — snag em and check out the other sick offerings at the shop this whole weekend wine 🤝 moms 🤝 me and all weekend long, @wemakedc250 is officially open. thank you to the team at @shopmadeindc for the invitation to participate. this city is so important to me and dc history and legacies of community resistance are part of what gives me the courage to pursue my passions every day. my postcard kits are waiting for u at the dupont retail pop up 💌🤭 see y’all out there!!!

These are 15 of the ~75 handspun skeins I will be featuring at whatever type of weird thing I’m doing at @red_dirt_studio tomorrow for @gatewayost 😊

Open studios this Saturday! Hope to see you there. More info at gatewaycdc.org/ost2026 or message me for details! #gatewayost2026