APRIL 7, 2021 | 
Cicie Sattarnilasskorn, former Director of the James Renwick Alliance, will host a dynamic conversation featuring ​DC-artist Rania Hassan, who will discuss her exciting new work.

​Hassan is a past JRACraft Artomatic awardee who recently partnered with the Golden Triangle Arts District and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative to create a public sculpture pictured right.
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Rania Hassan creates site-specific installations that weave sculptural stories about our connections to time, place, and circumstance. The five main themes she works with embody ideas of community, synchronicity, identity, time, and memory. Her work is about levels of interconnectedness. From a single strand of thread, we are all connected.

Rania’s artwork is included in the permanent collections of the National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, MD), Amazon Web Services (Herndon, VA), and the District of Columbia’s Art Bank Collection (Washington, DC). Previous solo exhibitions include The Front (New Orleans, LA), Gormley Gallery (Baltimore, MD), and Artisphere (Rosslyn, VA). She has given presentations about her artwork at area Universities (George Mason University, 2014) and Museums (Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, 2019; Textile Museum, Washington, DC, 2012, 2015), and her work has been featured in publications including the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, and Vogue Knitting. In 2009 she received a Craft Award of Excellence from the James Renwick Alliance and has been awarded multiple Artist Fellowship Program Grant Awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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March 20 - 21, 2021 | 
The Distinguished Artist Series features textile artist, Bisa Butler

Gallery Visit:
Saturday, March 20 | 1 - 2:30pm
Virtual Zoom event
$25 members | $30 non-members
$85 for all 4 workshops, members only

***This workshop will be a review of four different fiber techniques with four artists of color led by Claire Oliver of Claire Oliver Gallery. (Bisa Butler will not be demonstrating.)

Free Lecture:
Sunday, March 21 | 2 - 3pm
Virtual Zoom event

MARCH 14, 2021 | 
Spend an hour immersed in the craftsmanship and design legacy of Detroit’s renowned Pewabic Pottery. Executive director Steve McBride and senior designer Genevieve Sylvia will take you behind-the-scenes for an insider’s look at this legendary institution, which has been handcrafting architectural tile since 1903. 

*All proceeds from this event support the James Renwick Alliance. 

March 8, 2021 | 
Meet the three Chrysalis Awardees of Excellence and hear them speak about their practice.  

​In response to the economic hardship in the arts caused by COVID, we have increased support for emerging artists through the 2020 annual Chrysalis Award. The James Renwick Alliance has granted $5,000 to the winner of the Chrysalis Awardee, three Awards of Excellence of $1000 each, five honorable mentions, and over 100 gift memberships to the Alliance for applicants.

Mar 7, 2021 |
See the “visual diary“ of Patti Warashina, the 2020 Smithsonian Craft Show Visionary Artist and the JRA’s 2014 Distinguished Educator.
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This journal was started at the beginning of 2020 (which Patti calls the “Year From Hell”).  They are drawings done on 8.5” x 11” sheets of paper documenting her thoughts about the pandemic, politics, natural disasters, and some personal matters. These 35 drawings are works in progress that serve as an intimate look into the thoughts of the artist. In addition you will see ceramic works created between 2018 and 2020, that are inspired by these drawings, speaking to the themes of national and international politics.

*All proceeds from this event support the James Renwick Alliance. 

Feb 28, 2021 | 
Meet 2020 JRA Chrysalis Awardee, Kate Roberts as she speaks about her innovative use of the ceramic medium in untraditional, delicate forms.

​After Kate speaks, ceramic artist and former DC resident, Ani Kasten will kick off the 2020/2021 Distinguished Artist Series with a free public lecture. 

Feb 27 - 28, 2021 | 
The first Distinguished Artist Series of the season features ceramicist Ani Kasten

Artist Workshop/Studio Visit:
Saturday, February 27 | 1 - 2:30pm
Virtual Zoom event
$25 members | $30 non-members
$85 for all 4 workshops, members only

Free Lecture:
Sunday, February 28 | 2 - 3:30pm
Virtual Zoom event