Hello, ARLIS Mid! Here are some things to look forward to in the next month. As always, scroll to the end to make a friend.

Announcements/Reminders

• Join us in Richmond on August 14 for a tour of the VMFA Library & Archives as well as India’s Great Mughals: Art, Power, and Opulence. Bring a friend!

Chapter Achievements

• “Review: Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck” by Dani Brogdon (NMWA) (ARLIS/NA Reviews July 2026)
• “Review: Mixed Media: The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration” by Sarah Scarr (VCU) (ARLIS/NA Reviews July 2026)

Events

• New Jersey
  • August 1 Summer Celebration (free, Princeton)
  • August1 Lecture: “Raphael/Not Raphael” (free, PPL)
  • August 7 Pop-Up Talk: Curator Ronni Baer (free, Princeton)
  • August 9 Workshop: Zine Making as a Way of Life ($25, Princeton)
• Pennsylvania
  • August 12 Not Guilty! Frances Steloff & The Gotham Book Mart vs. The Society for the Suppression of Vice (free, Free Library of Philadelphia)
  • August 13 Frederic Church: Global Artist ($15, Woodmere)
  • August 15 Author Talk: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (free, Free Library of Philadelphia)
• Delaware
  • August 9 DelArt Film Society: Formative Films presents Rebel Without a Cause (1955) ($5, DelArt)
  • August 19 Off the Shelf: Botany in Design (free, Winterthur)
  • August 21 Library Talk: NASA Artists’ Cooperation Program: Eyewitnesses to the Space Race ($20, DelArt)
  • August 23 Old Town Outsiders: Cecilia Condit: Early Video Works (1981-96) (free, Delaware Libraries)
• Maryland
  • August 1 Sondheim 2026 Art Prize Finalists: Artist Talks (free, Walters)
  • August 14 Rare Book Open House: Decorative Arts (free, Pratt)
  • August 20 Photo Book Meet-Up (free, Pratt)
  • August 28 Ultra Naté’s Deep Sugar presents Transmutation Voyeur ($30, BMA)
• DC
  • August 1 Black Georgetown Community Study Day (free, DCPL)
  • August 5 Short Films Screening and Discussion with Tsedaye Makonnen (free, NMAA Africa)
  • August 7 AlUla and the Incense Road: An Ancient World in Dialogue (free, NMAA Asia)
  • August 8 Author Talk: Raymond Silverman and Neal Sobania with Daniel Berhanemeskel (free, NMAA Africa)
  • August 9 A Study in Form: Asawa, Noguchi & Frankenthaler (free, NPG)
  • August 12 DC Punk Archive 2026 Summer Rooftop Shows (free, DCPL)
  • August 19 New Theater on Classic Themes (free, DCPL)
  • August 21 Conservation Cart Talk | Protecting Art on Display (free, NMAA Asia)
  • August 26 American Quilts and Interwoven Traditions | Jennifer Swope ($22/$10, Hillwood/Virtual)
  • August 28 Documenting the Collection ($admission, Phillips)
• Virginia
  • August 1-2 Warriors in Bloom ($20, Agecroft)
  • August 2 History Speaks: Tales and Tradition – Jewish Folklore and Family Life ($10, Chrysler)
  • August 2 Tiffany Glass: Art, Innovation, and the Permanent Collection (free, Taubman)
  • August 8 Lit Crawl Richmond (free, multiple locations)
  • August 8 Culturescape Saturdays | Culture of the Revolutionary Era (free, LVA)
  • August 8 Visit the Vault ($admission+5, VMHC)
  • August 13 The Illustrious Life of an 18th Century House: Scotchtown Before, During, and After the Henrys ($10/$5, Wilton House/Virtual)
  • August 14 Chapter Tour of VMFA’s India’s Great Mughals: Art, Power, and Opulence (free, VMFA)
  • August 15 Woodwork at the Hermitage ($20, Hermitage)
  • August 15 Studio Ossidiana Artist Talk / Forced Resonance Performance (free, ICA)
  • August 20 Royals, Aristocrats, and World War I: Lecture by Dr. Nancy Parrish ($15, Agecroft)
• Virtual
  • August 11 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pin Zine Launch (free, Alice Paul Center)
  • August 20 Let’s Talk Art: Art in Costume (free, MFA Washington County)
  • August 31 D.C. Mondays: Anacostia Community Museum and America at 250 (free, GW)

Exhibitions

75th Anniversary: New Visions for the Permanent Collection (closes August 16, Taubman)
A Nation of Artists (PAFA)
A Museum in the Making (NMAA Asia)
A World in the Making: The Shakers (closes August 9, ICA Penn)
Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau (MFA Washington County)
Americana (Branch)
America’s Tapestry: 13 Colonies. 13 Stories. 1 Nation. (Muscarelle)
Art Quilters Celebrate Independence (closes August 29, Moore)
Big Things for Big Rooms (Hirshhorn)
Burnished: Pueblo Pottery at NMWA (NMWA)
Clay Has Memory: Creative Lineages from Africa (Princeton)
Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry from the Dallas Museum of Art (Chrysler)
Diasporacity (MLK Library)
District Vibes / American Pride: How D.C. Changed American Culture (DCPL)
Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture (closes August 9, Walters)
Fantastic Realities: Truth Stranger than Fiction (AVAM)
Fratino and Matisse: To See This Light Again (BMA)
Handwork at the Hermitage (Hermitage)
Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art (closes August 30, NMAA Africa)
India’s Great Mughals: Art, Power, and Opulence (closes August 23, VMFA)
Interwoven: A Tradition of Textiles (Hillwood)
Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together): Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert (Kluge-Ruhe)
Just Us (closes August 24, Barnes)
Living Indigenous (closes August 23, DelArt)
Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris (closes August 30, NGA)
Moses Williams: Cutter of Profiles and Quaker Silhouettes (Smith-Cadbury Mansion)
Nick Cave: Mammoth (SAAM)
The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today (closes August 30, NPG)
Reflections in Commemorative Glass: 250 Years of the American Spirit (Heritage Glass museum)
Revelation: A Journey into Abstraction (NMAAHC)
Show & Tell: The Making of Artist Books & Sketchbooks – A Solo Exhibition by Diane Podolsky (closes August 28, Pratt)
State Fairs: Growing American Craft (Renwick)
Treasures from the Family: The Gift of Betsy James Wyeth (Bradywine)
Tree Watching (Delaware Contemporary)
Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe (NMAI)
Weaving an Empire: Textiles of the Inka World (opens August 15, GW)
The Woodmere Annual: 83rd Juried Exhibition (Woodmere)
[Work] 2026 (closes August 16, VisArts)
Workshop of the World: Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia (PMA)

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Happy August!