We're throwing open our doors and letting in the warm winds of spring! Please join us on Saturday, April 12 from 5 - 7 p.m. for "SPRING THING," a special opening reception event:
- be among the first to see "Plural Forms," our new studio gallery show, guest-curated by Camille Brown, Associate Curator at The Phillips Collection
- get uplifted by dj princesstease, spinning records for your pleasure
- enjoy a special Lavender French 75 cocktail and light bites
- make a friendship bracelet for your bestie
- AND: get a free gift with every purchase
Show your support for artists with disabilities and help us party into the fairest season surrounded by our amazing community.
Art Enables is committed to providing access to everyone. If you require accommodation during your visit, please make a note in the RSVP or email us at info@art-enables.org.
Art Enables mission to amplify the creative careers of artists with disabilities is only possible because of the generous support of people like you! If you would like to support our work, please include a donation with your RSVP. A gift of any amount helps champion the work of our resident artists.
About "Plural Forms"
Repeated imagery—inspired by the everyday and using bold colors and geometric shapes—was first popularized during the boom of mass production in the late 1950s and ’60s. Guest curator Camille Brown, Associate Curator at The Phillips Collection, was drawn to the repeated imagery in the works chosen for “Plural Forms”
Through color, shape, or composition, many of the drawings and paintings feature modular and repeating elements to engage with natural and urban landscapes, nature, and portraiture. The use of repetition manifests in a variety of ways: densely patterned backgrounds, colorful windows on skyscrapers, and proliferations of flowers and abstract shapes that seem caught the act of multiplying. This collection nods to the aesthetic preoccupations of the included artists and presents a variety of potential paths of consideration, including the networks and patterns that underlie the natural world.
Camille Brown is an Associate Curator at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. Her research interests focus on the intersections of literature, race, gender, and sexuality in art of the African diaspora. Brown has co-curated exhibitions including the upcoming Essex Hemphill: Take care of your blessings (2025), Where We Meet: Selections from the Howard University Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection (2024), and Pour, Tear, Carve: Material Possibilities in the Collection (2023). Brown has coordinated exhibition’s including Lou Stovall: The Museum Workshop (2022), and the DC presentation of African Modernism in America, 1947–67 (2023). Brown has worked in the curatorial departments of the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She holds degrees from Loyola University in New Orleans and New York University.