ALL CITY SPREE

September 08, 2015

We spent the (unofficial) last few weeks of our Summer on an ALL CITY #aCreativeDC SPREE, spreading images from the feed across all four quadrants. Huge thanks to all ten of the photographers who were generous enough to grant permission for the project, and a round of applause to our special projects interns, Pammy and Sloane, for inspiring + heading up the spree.

Imagery credits belong to: @pootie_ting, @liftoffdays, @smoketoink, @tylrhufm, @jamey_warner, @brittelysedc, @lisetteirene, @sararassi, @sunnysidesdc, and @lukasanorth. And if you're up for a scavenger hunt, the posters live (or lived, as may well be the case) at and around: Union Market, Blind Whino, 9:30 Club, Looking Glass Lounge, Anacostia Arts Center, The Coupe, The Fridge, Wise Owl Club, and the Brookland/CUA Metro Stop.

We're looking forward to more-more-more in the way of taking the A Creative DC project offline and into real life, so in addition to our workshops/events/etc you can keep an eye on our feeds (Instagram! Twitter! THIS BLOG!) for more of the T A N G I B L E over the coming months. Thank you, as always, for following along!

THIS WEEK/NEXT WEEK

May 29, 2015

MAY'S #aCreativeDC THEME has been TRANSPORTATION, and we've rounded up some really incredible imagery (by Y-O-U) to go out with next week's Newsletter. Above, a skate + bike-filled set from DC-based photographer Cristian Zuniga. "I was born In Chile and lived there until I was 25. It was there I got my Bachelors in Art Direction and Photography. After that I start working for different companies, none close to the creative world, but I was able to travel. It was on one of those trips that I decided to move to the United States looking for a new adventure, 2 1/2 years ago. I was living in New York for a few months and I was working as a bike messenger so I started to take pictures at every race that I was able to assist. I moved to D.C. and it’s here that now I’m able to work as a photographer for local shops, shooting products, food, look books, etc." Follow Cristian on Instagram: @cristianzunigaphoto

ALL THE MUSIC: Jazz In The Garden is this evening + People's Champs play Tropicalia tonight; Saturday DAY = RCSC's Grilled Cheese Social; Sunday night sees YACHT ROCK and amazing cocktails at Spirits In Blue (or Pixies + Mynabirds at 9:30 Club). And all over the weekend? sweetlife, because KENDRICK.

AND A PLAYLIST: Smithsonian Folkways, the non-profit record label of the Smithsonian, just announced the first of their new, monthly, guest-curated playlist series. It's already a great listen.

SHOP TALK: Union Market is THE SPOT for the next few days: Northern Grade (ft. tons of local vendors) is at Dock 5 today thru Sunday, and Kit and Ace (coming soon to The Shay) is inside the Market proper with a pop-up studio of their super-softy tees (+ more) (also today thru Sunday).

THE SW QUADRANT: Swing through this weekend for the Art Whino-activated Market SW, just off the Waterfront Metro. Food trucks/flea market/live-painting/SUMMER LOVIN'. h/t @misschelove.

GOOD (FOOD) READS: Miriam's Kitchen was featured on Mashable, and at The Washington Post: Why Entrepreneurs are Suddenly Finding the Beauty in Ugly Produce.

OTHER STUFF: Durkl x 335MM are throwing a party at Maketto; you can go find a new doggie-friend at Salt & Sundry; there's a ton going on at the Anacostia Arts Center; WaPo is looking for a social media wiz; NEXT WEEK AT ARTISPHERE: Rania Hassan; big thanks to CultureScene for including us as an "INSTABEST;"
and awwww! KID ART GALORE this Saturday, courtesy Project Create DC.

THIS WEEK/NEXT WEEK

May 15, 2015

It's BIKE TO WORK DAY! In celebration, a few recent bike snaps from the #aCreativeDC feed. Thanks so much to @queengwenn, @dmanisphotos, @homme_DC, @coffeeneur, @explore_dc, and @jennrightmeow for tagging! PS - this month's newsletter theme is transportation, so keep the wheels + such imagery ~flowing~ #aCreativeDC

LIFE & BUSINESS. Small-batch D.C. picklers Gordy's were featured this week as part of Design*Sponge's Life & Business column – those are a good read in general (small biz insight and VERY relatable advice), and it's always so exciting to see the city repped nationally.

TONS TO DO on Saturday, re: arts + music + shopping and MORE: natural skincare collection Be Clean opens the doors to its brand new space, and also we keep seeing amazing kayak imagery in the feed and apparently they're only like fifteen bucks to rent and so maybe you will find us on the Potomac? See also: LAMB JAM. Saturday night options include the Shark Week album release show at Dance Loft on 14, and the Tailgate Reception for photographer Ann-Marie VanTassell's 'NASCAR' series at Pleasant Plains on Georgia Avenue.

ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON we're trying to get lazy and catch up on accumulated newspapers + magazine articles, but the annual open studios at The Jackson Art Center in Georgetown – 40+ artists working from what was formerly a historic DC public school at 30th and R – does sound kind of amazing. And for plan-ahead-purposes: BYT announced their Nat Geo After Hours event this week.

RE: THINGS TO READ WHILE CHILLING OUT: 5 Pointers for Starting Your Own Creative Agency and Amy Poehler Is Really Making Herself Uncomfortable, both at Fast Co.

L A S T L Y - a huge, huge thanks to everyone who came to our open house last night in Brookland! We met nearly 200 of you over the course of the night and we could not be happier to have put names + faces to Instagram handles, artwork, and imagery. This project would not exist without the incredibly diverse perspective that each and every one of Y O U lend to it, and last night's gathering felt like the DC that we know and that we love. While we're still a few months out from fully launching our IN REAL LIFE component of the project, we do plan on building offline even as we continue to grow and foster A Creative DC on this site and on Instagram. Thank you, so much, for helping us do just that.