Ready to dive into the heart of Anacostia? 🎨✨ Art to Go-Go Issue 03 is officially here!
This year’s guide is a celebration of our 3rd anniversary and the incredible “Anacostia Experience.” We’re bringing you the ultimate roadmap to the Arts & Culture District—from hidden mural gems and soulful Go-Go history to the best burgers and brews in the neighborhood.
Inside this issue:
📍 Your updated map of the Anacostia business corridor
📸 A guide to the Art to Go-Go Mural Tour
🗓️ The full 2026 Event Calendar (don’t miss those Jazzy Sundays!)
🏆 Details on the upcoming Arts & Economic Impact Solutions Summit
✨ Spotlights on local favorites like Grounded Plant Shop and the Go-Go Museum & Café
Whether you’re a lifelong resident or a first-time visitor, this issue is your invitation to connect with the creativity and community that make our corridors truly special.
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to read the digital issue now!
#ArtToGoGo #AnacostiaBID #AnacostiaArts #DCArt #CommunityFirst #Issue03OutNow #ExperienceAnacostia
We loved hosting Holton-Arms 7th and 8th grade students in the Anacostia Arts & Culture District as part of their “minimester” on DC culture!
Students stepped outside the classroom for an immersive experience, including a vibrant mural tour led by Ashley Templeton (Art to Go-Go) alongside artist Eric B. Ricks. They also had the opportunity to connect with inspiring local business leaders like Ron Moten (Go-Go Museum & Café), Danuelle Doswell and Mignon Hemsley (Grounded), and wrapped up the day at the Capitol Hill Boys Club with Dietrich Williams and Mark Garrett, exploring an interactive mural.
We hope they had an unforgettable time discovering Anacostia’s rich culture, creativity, and community—and we look forward to welcoming them back again soon!
🎙️✨ Episode 3 - Walls Talk: 250 Years of Black Expression
🎧 Featuring: Aniekan Udoia and Eric B. Ricks
🎨 Aniekan Udofia reflects on the research behind his powerful portraits of historic Black icons like Frederick Douglass and Marvin Gaye—and how imagination and mythology in series like Return of the Shaolin Pencil elevate Black figures with strength, permanence, and presence in public space.
🔷 Eric B. Ricks shares how abstraction, symbolism, and geometric form allow him to tell layered cultural stories beyond traditional portraiture. He also offers insight into his upcoming Anacostia project at the 295 underpass and how embedding meaning into pattern and composition creates lasting impact.
Together, they explore what it means for their murals to become part of DC’s physical landscape—and potentially its historical fabric.
How does it feel to create work that may outlive you?
What will future generations take away 25, 50, or even 100 years from now?
And how does art not just preserve history—but actively shape it?
🎧 The walls are telling stories of power, legacy, and imagination. Head over to ARTTOGOGO.ORG to listen to the full podcast.
About this series: In honor of Black History Month and as we look ahead to America’s 250th anniversary, Walls Talk is a podcast conversation on how public art serves as a living archive of Black culture, resilience, and community memory. This series is a partnership between Art to Go-Go and MuralsDC.
#WallsTalk #BlackHistoryMonth #ArtToGoGo #MuralsDC #Anacostia #GoGo #DontMuteDC #BeatYaFeet #BlackExpression #DCArts
3:47 Jamelle Bouie
4:37 ABC7
6:38 Barbara Picci
7:16 MuralsDC
9:03 Phoenix Fine Arts
12:09 MuralsDC
13:43 Phoenix Fine Arts
14:18 Eric B. Ricks
16:40 Google Maps
18:19 Eric B. Ricks
19:53 MuralsDC
25:30 Ashley Templeton
The energy, precision and creativity in this Groove Junkies video show how youth carry joy into every style of dance, pushing culture forward while honoring the legacy passed down to them. Thank you @peterarizmendi for continuing to hand down tradition in our community and shaping the next generation of movement innovators. @shannalim_slimboogie thanks for making sure our youth dance community had time to shine in this series of dance performances from around the world and right in our back yard.
Join us on December 13 for Top Notch, small fry edition as part of the inaugural The Way You Move Festival. Get details, tickets and registration information at wblinc.org/thewayyoumove
#thewayyoumove #topnotch #smallfryedition #groovejunkies #dmvdance #danceculture #keepersofculture #streetdance #youthdance #freshestofalltime #justedeboutdc #wblinc
🎨✨ Two Muralists, Two Friends, One Incredible Collaboration ✨🎨
🌟Tim C, "Let Your Mind Take Flight"
🌟Eric B, "The Golden Rule 1.618"
📍 Savoy Elementary, 2400 Shannon Place SE, Washington, DC 20020
🎯 Best viewed from Howard Road SE, across from the Anacostia Metro Station!
The Anacostia Murals Project is a celebration of creativity and community, bringing together 12 talented artists to create 12 stunning murals in 2024. This collaboration between the Anacostia BID and MuralsDC highlights Historic Anacostia as DC's Official Arts & Culture District.
🎥 Video by @imixproduction
🫱🏽🫲🏾 Eric B. Ricks @versatilevice and Tim Cunningham @cunn1nghammer are working side by side at Savoy Elementary School as part of the 12 new murals in Anacosotia 👨🏾🎨👨🏽🎨 Tight friends already, they found this a special opportunity to create complimentary pieces that will actually thread together...We can't wait to see the final result!! 😎💙 #anacostia #artsandculture #murals #muralart #dcartist
“In changing the way we view our world, our world becomes a changed place” This mural was designed and painted by
Eric Brometheus
of Phoenix Fine Arts & Design
sign
[email protected]@versatilevice
Sponsored by: The Trinidad neighborhood
In celebration of Trinidad Avenue and this wonderful commemity.
Living In The Presence of Kings - This is the first music video that we made for the #siasmk project. Stef Is Dope shot and edited. Vice painted two portraits - one of Kelt, and another of Chuck Brown, which are seen throughout the video.
Full video featuring Sun La Rok and Princess Claiborne on YouTube.
