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  • Lorraine O’Grady, Young Queens, 1980/94. Courtesy of the Lorraine O’Grady Trust and Mariane Ibrahim (Chicago, Paris, Mexico City) ©️ 2025 Lorraine O’Grady/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

    Ritual Across Time: Lorraine O’Grady’s Miscegenated Family Album and Egyptology

    November 12, 2025 Wednesday, November 12 12:30 - 2:00 PM Lucille M. and Richard F. X. Spagnuolo Gallery Light refreshments will be served.... Read more
  • Jordan Weber, Prototype for Poetry vs Rhetoric (Deep Roots urban farm), 2020-2021

    Lunch and Learn with Artist Jordan Weber

    October 28, 2025 Join us for a Lunch and Learn program featuring Jordan Weber discussing his sculpture-making process. Tuesday, October 28 | 12... Read more
  • From left to right: Jordan Weber, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Amani Morrison

    Art in Remediating Environmental, Social, and Health Injustices

    Panel discussion featuring Jordan Weber, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Dr. Amani Morrison October 27, 2025 Join Georgetown University Art Galleries for a panel discussion on the role of the humanities as a tool to address... Read more
  • Opening Reception: Fall 2025 Exhibitions

    Opening Reception: Fall 2025 Exhibitions

    McArthur Binion and Lorraine O'Grady September 19, 2025 Join us on Friday, September 19th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm to celebrate McArthur Binion: Notes on Form (Intimate Structures)... Read more
  • Images: Hung Liu, Happy and Gay: Boy With Kite (details), 2012. Oil on canvas with metal star. 60 x 48 x 2 in. Courtesy of Hung Liu Estate. Headshot courtesy of Sheldon Scott.

    Let’s sing, Let’s dance

    A Performance by Sheldon Scott April 9, 2025 Wednesday, April 9 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM Join Georgetown University Art Galleries for a special meditative performance by renowned... Read more
  • Great Women Writers

    Great Women Writers

    Bilingual Lightning Readings March 27, 2025 Thursday, March 27 | 6:15 - 8:00 PM In celebration of Women's History Month, Georgetown University Art Galleries will host... Read more
  • From left to right: Dr. Ying-chen Peng, Jeff Kelley, Dr. Mia Yinxing, Dr. Dorothy Moss.

    A Conversation on Hung Liu: Happy and Gay & Exhibition Catalogue Launch

    Featuring panelists Dr. Mia Yinxing Liu, Dr. Ying-chen Peng, and Jeff Kelley March 18, 2025 Moderated by Dr. Dorothy Moss Tuesday, March 18 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Join Georgetown University Art Galleries for a... Read more
  • Hung Liu, Street Library, 2013. Oil on canvas, wood shelf, and Chinese picture story books. 60 x 80 in. Courtesy of private collection.

    Spring 2025 Exhibitions Opening Reception

    January 17, 2025 Join Georgetown University Art Galleries on Friday, January 17th from 6-8 pm for an Opening Reception to celebrate our Spring... Read more
  • Cookbook Club at Bold Fork Books with Michael Rakowitz

    December 4, 2024 December 4, 2024 | 7:00 PM Bold Fork Books | 3064 Mt. Pleasant St. NW Join Bold Fork Books and... Read more
  • Fall 2024 Closing Reception with Michael Rakowitz

    In-Gallery Book Reading and Conversation with the Artist December 3, 2024 In-Gallery Book Reading and Conversation with the Artist December 3, 2024 | 6:00–8:00 PM de la Cruz Art Gallery Refreshments... Read more
  • Having It All; The Politics of Parenthood

    A Durational Performance by Emma Jaster November 14, 2024 November 14, 2024 | 12:00–2:00 PM Spagnuolo Gallery Presented in partnership with the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics at... Read more
  • We Should Talk: Around the Table

    Philippa Pham Hughes in collaboration with Thu Anh Nguyen September 27, 2024 As part of the social convenings for the Around the Table exhibition, social practice artist Philippa Pham Hughes has organized... Read more
  • 2024 Senior art majors exhibition opening reception

    2024 Senior art majors exhibition opening reception

    April 18, 2024 April 18, 2023 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. Join us for the opening of the 2024 Senior Art Majors Exhibition, celebrating... Read more
  • Great Women Writers

    Great Women Writers

    March 21, 2024 March 21, 2024 6:15 - 8:15 P.M. de la Cruz Art Gallery Great Women Writers is an evening of bilingual... Read more
  • Kara Walker, Tar pit, 2021. Graphite, watercolor, gouache, and sumi-e ink on paper. 22 1/2 x 30 inches. Private collection

    Kara Walker Exhibitions Closing Reception

    December 3, 2023 December 3, 2023 4:00-6:00 pm De la Cruz Art & Spagnuolo Art Galleries Join us for live performances to commemorate... Read more
  • Hiura Fernandes and Lili Nascimento, Aquela criança com AID$ (That Child with AID$), 2023. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Everyone I Know Is Sick

    Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick

    December 1, 2023 December 1, 2023 Virtual streaming The Georgetown University Art Galleries are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out)... Read more
  • Pictured: Kathryn Benjamin Golden, Ph.D (left) & Melanie White, Ph.D (right)

    Insurgent Black Ecologies: Woods, Water, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp

    November 8, 2023 November 8, 2023 5:30pm De la Cruz Art Gallery Join Dr. Kathryn Benjamin Golden in conversation with Dr. Melanie White.... Read more
  • Pictured: Frederick Murphy

    Identity, Trauma, and Reconciliation: A Conversation with Descendants.

    October 10, 2023 October 10, 2023 6:30 P.M. Maria & Alberto de La Cruz Art Gallery and virtual live-stream Join documentary filmmaker and... Read more
  • Georgetown Art All Night

    Georgetown Art All Night

    September 29, 2023 September 29, 2023 6:00 - 9:00 P.M. De la Cruz & Spagnuolo Art Galleries Experience a late night in the... Read more
  • Pictured: Dr. Katie Geha by Jason Thrasher

    Cookies with the Curator

    September 22, 2023 September 22, 2023 2:00 - 3:00 P.M. Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Experience a curator-led tour of... Read more
  • Kara Walker Exhibitions Opening Reception

    Kara Walker Exhibitions Opening Reception

    September 21, 2023 September 21, 2023 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. De la Cruz & Spagnuolo Art Galleries Join us to celebrate the opening... Read more
  • The Green Fuse: Heather Ackroyd

    The Green Fuse: Heather Ackroyd

    March 30, 2023 March 30, 2023 6:00 P.M. Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Artist-activists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey (British,... Read more
  • Great Women Writers

    Great Women Writers

    March 23, 2023 March 23, 2023 6:00 P.M. Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery In celebration of Women’s History Month, please... Read more
  • Elizabeth M Webb & Andrew Davenport

    Elizabeth M Webb & Andrew Davenport

    March 16, 2023 March 16, 2023 6:00 P.M. Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Join Spagnuolo Gallery exhibiting artist Webb and... Read more
  • Rebecca Rutstein

    Rebecca Rutstein

    March 2, 2023 March 2, 2023 6:00 P.M. Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Rebecca Rutstein works at the intersection of... Read more
  • Pictured: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.

    Baseera Khan and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

    February 8, 2023 February 8, 2023 4:30 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Join artist Baseera Khan and author Mecca... Read more
  • Baseera Khan: Opening Reception and Performance

    Baseera Khan: Opening Reception and Performance

    January 19, 2023 January 19, 2023 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Join us to celebrate the... Read more
  • Open Mic Night with Bossier

    Open Mic Night with Bossier

    December 8, 2022 December 8, 2022 7:30 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Join the student-run publication Bossier for their... Read more
  • Day With(out) Art 2022: Being & Belonging

    Day With(out) Art 2022: Being & Belonging

    December 1, 2022 December 1, 2022 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. Spagnuolo Art Gallery Georgetown and Visual AIDS invite you to join us... Read more
  • In Dialogue: Adéla Babanová and Milena Kalinovska

    In Dialogue: Adéla Babanová and Milena Kalinovska

    November 3, 2022 November 3, 2022 6:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Guest Curator Milena Kalinovska and Prague-based artist/filmmaker... Read more
  • Tania Bruguera & Fazal Sheikh in dialogue: Picturing Displacement

    Tania Bruguera & Fazal Sheikh in dialogue: Picturing Displacement

    October 27, 2022 October 27, 2022 3:30 P.M. Virtual Tania Bruguera is a politically-motivated performance artist; her work is rooted in an examination... Read more
  • Amanda Williams

    Amanda Williams

    October 20, 2022 October 20, 2022 6:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Join us for a lecture by this... Read more
  • Artist-led student tour with Mary Kelly

    Artist-led student tour with Mary Kelly

    September 23, 2022 September 23, 2022 2:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Legendary art educator Mary Kelly will host... Read more
  • Mary Kelly. Flashing Nipple Remix, 2005. 3 black and white transparencies in light boxes. Each 38 x 48 x 5 in. Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.

    Exhibition Opening Reception for Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future

    September 23, 2022 September 23, 2022 6:00 - 10:30 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Join us for the public... Read more
  • Toni-Lee Sangastiano, Ringmaster Iverson, 2021. Oil on aluminum panel, radiant light film, light-guiding acrylic, and LEDs. Laser cutter fabrication by Don Undeen at Maker Hub, Georgetown University. 19 x 19 3/8 x 1.5 in.

    Carnivalesque panel

    April 7, 2022 April 7, 2022 6:00 - 7:00 P.M. Zoom webinar Georgetown Professor Toni-Lee Sangastiano’s artwork makes visible the people and spaces... Read more
  • Courtesy of James June Schneider

    Film Screening & Public Dialogue. Punk the Capital

    April 3, 2022 April 3, 2022 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Watch rare footage from the... Read more
  • Exhibition curator and Georgetown professor Dr. Ian Bourland

    PUBLIC DIALOGUE: Ian Bourland on Rotimi Fani-Kayode

    March 31, 2022 March 31, 2022 6:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Join Georgetown University art history professor Dr.... Read more
  • Queer Student-Led Exhibition Tour

    Queer Student-Led Exhibition Tour

    March 25, 2022 March 25, 2022 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Join recent Georgetown U. alumnus... Read more
  • Spanish Language Exhibition Tour of Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth

    Spanish Language Exhibition Tour of Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth

    December 5, 2021 December 5, 2021 2:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Tour the exhibition Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth... Read more
  • Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE

    Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE

    December 1, 2021 December 1, 2021 Virtual In honor of late artist and Georgetown alumnus Rotimi Fani-Kayode (subject of our spring ’22 exhibition),... Read more
  • Teresita Fernández, Dark Earth. Photograph by Natalia Mantini. / Cecilia Vicuña, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

    Be Seen AND Heard - Conversations With American Women Artists: Teresita Fernández & Cecilia Vicuña

    November 11, 2021 November 11, 2021 6:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery On the occasion of the exhibition, Teresita... Read more
  • Cookies with the Curator

    Cookies with the Curator

    October 14, 2021 October 14, 2021 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Chat with our Founding Director/Chief... Read more
  • What does it mean to be American?

    What does it mean to be American?

    April 28, 2021 April 28, 2021 5:30 P.M. Looking for America brings people together from across the political spectrum and the country to... Read more
  • TRANSMISSIONS: video screening considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States

    TRANSMISSIONS: video screening considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States

    December 1, 2020 December 1, 2020 Virtual In honor of late artist and Georgetown alumnus Rotimi Fani-Kayode, the GU Art Galleries are proud... Read more
  • Plan Your Vote!

    Plan Your Vote!

    November 1, 2020 November 1, 2020 - November 3, 2020 We’re supporting PLAN YOUR VOTE, a 2020 artist initiative that harnesses the power... Read more
  • Public Dialogue Webinar: COVID-19's Impact on the Art World

    Public Dialogue Webinar: COVID-19's Impact on the Art World

    October 29, 2020 October 29, 2020 How has COVID-19 impacted the art world? Hear how a collector, curator, art dealer, and auction house... Read more
  • Chemi Rosado-Seijo and Ben Ashworth In Dialogue

    Chemi Rosado-Seijo and Ben Ashworth In Dialogue

    January 30, 2020 January 30, 2020 6:00 - 7:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Read more
  • Film Screening: Waste Land

    Film Screening: Waste Land

    December 4, 2019 December 4, 2019 6:30 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery See Lucy Walker’s award-winning documentary film about... Read more
  • Sculpture Workshop with Visiting Artist Chemi Rosado-Seijo

    Sculpture Workshop with Visiting Artist Chemi Rosado-Seijo

    November 14, 2019 November 14, 2019 6:00 - 7:30 P.M. Walsh Building room 295: 1221 36th St NW Puerto Rican artist Chemi Rosado-Seijo... Read more
  • Open House with Art-Making & Drop-In Tours

    Open House with Art-Making & Drop-In Tours

    November 8, 2019 November 8, 2019 2:00 - 6:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Engage with the current exhibition,... Read more
  • SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN JORDAN WITH AMMAR KHAMMASH

    SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN JORDAN WITH AMMAR KHAMMASH

    November 6, 2019 November 6, 2019 6:00- 7:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery A Public Dialogue on Sustainable Architecture... Read more
  • Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined Panel Discussion

    Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined Panel Discussion

    October 3, 2019 October 3, 2019 6:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Three exhibiting designers and the exhibition curator... Read more
  • Charlotte Kidger, Material Futures, 2018

    Opening Reception: Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined

    October 2, 2019 October 2, 2019 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery and Lucille M. & Richard... Read more
  • Salon Concert with Somi

    Salon Concert with Somi

    April 12, 2019 April 12, 2019 4:00 - 4:45 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery While in residence on Georgetown’s... Read more
  • Interactive Performance Art Event

    Interactive Performance Art Event

    April 11, 2019 April 11, 2019 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Sherrill Roland: The Jumpsuit Project... Read more
  • Interactive Performance Art Event

    Interactive Performance Art Event

    April 10, 2019 April 10, 2019 10:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Sherrill Roland: The Jumpsuit... Read more
  • Public Dialogue with Glenn Ligon and Steven Nelson

    Public Dialogue with Glenn Ligon and Steven Nelson

    April 1, 2019 April 1, 2019 6:30 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Hear internationally acclaimed artist Glenn Ligon in... Read more
  • Artist's Talk with Georgie Friedman

    Artist's Talk with Georgie Friedman

    February 26, 2019 February 26, 2019 Artist’s talk was followed by a reception in the Nora Cooney Marra Memorial Atrium of the Walsh... Read more
  • Public Dialogue with Artist Adrienne Gaither & Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins

    Public Dialogue with Artist Adrienne Gaither & Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins

    February 19, 2019 February 19, 2019 “ON DIGNITY: Policy & Art” Join us for the DC Inaugural event of the Women of Color... Read more
  • Film Screening: I Am Not Your Negro

    Film Screening: I Am Not Your Negro

    February 13, 2019 February 13, 2019 Raoul Peck’s experimental documentary film I Am Not Your Negro (2017) builds upon James Baldwin’s unfinished book,... Read more
  • Talk with Dr. Jennifer DeVere Brody

    Talk with Dr. Jennifer DeVere Brody

    January 28, 2019 January 28, 2019 “Free Form: Art, Activism and Racial Justice” Dr. Jennifer DeVere Brody is a Professor of Theater and... Read more
  • Public Opening Reception with Glenn Ligon

    Public Opening Reception with Glenn Ligon

    January 24, 2019 January 24, 2019 6:00 P.M. Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery Read more
  • Jake Blount in Concert

    Jake Blount in Concert

    November 8, 2018 November 8, 2018 Local fiddler, banjoist, singer, and scholar Jake Blount played tunes by Choctaw fiddler William H. Stepp and... Read more
  • Artist Talk with Beth Katleman

    Artist Talk with Beth Katleman

    October 16, 2018 October 16, 2018 Brooklyn-based artist Beth Katleman scours Ebay, flea markets, and specialty shops for mass-produced items she later casts... Read more
  • Public Dialogue with artist Jefferey Gibson

    Public Dialogue with artist Jefferey Gibson

    September 28, 2018 September 28, 2018 Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson appeared on stage with Paul Chaat Smith ̶ Comanche author, essayist, and Associate... Read more
  • Jeffery Gibson: Public Opening Reception and Performance

    Jeffery Gibson: Public Opening Reception and Performance

    September 27, 2018 September 27, 2018 The Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Jeffrey Gibson: DON’T MAKE ME OVER,... Read more
  • Interactive Performance Art Event

    Interactive Performance Art Event

    August 29, 2018 August 29, 2018 - August 30, 2018 Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market is based on a real flea market, where diverse... Read more
  • Public Dialogue with Wangechi Mutu

    Public Dialogue with Wangechi Mutu

    November 8, 2017 November 8, 2017 Dialogues on Being Human: The Intersections of Art, Health, and Dignity with Wangechi Mutu Read more

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