Inner Peace
Clara Young Kim, Julie Niskanen, Nina Muys

October 31 to November 24, 2024
Opening reception: Saturday, November 2, 2-5:00 pm
with artist talk at 3:00 pm: "mezzotint," Julie Niskanen
Artist demo: "monoprints," Nina Muys, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2-4:00 pm

Inner Peace – printmakers Nina Muys and Julie Niskanen, along with fine arts photographer Clara Young Kim, share a love of the natural world. Each in her own way, and in different media, finds a sense of tranquility and beauty in the subject matter, and also in the creative process.

View works from members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery.

View works from members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery.

View works from members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery.

Works by Members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 9, 2:00-4:00 pm

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape.

Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”

—Andrew Wyeth, American painter.

As we move toward winter, a certain quietude falls over us. It is time for contemplative thought and a different perspective. We dream and we reflect. Then, as the Solstice arrives, and days lengthen, a new vision begins. Sometimes it takes the eyes of an artist to usher us into this quieter world. We at Washington Printmakers Gallery offer up our visions of this introspective time as we invite you to celebrate this season and its sense of promise.

All Member Group Exhibition

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 5, 2:00-5:00 pm

August is a golden month. Many have left home and are exploring our country, whether in National Parks, at the seashore, or in other hidden corners of this nation. It is a time to reflect on the beauty and complexity of America. Woody Guthrie’s famous song, This Land is Your Land, speaks of this beauty with his iconic words, which Bruce Springsteen once said comprise “the greatest song ever written about America.” Our printmakers and photographers offer their views of Guthrie’s ballad, each from a personal perspective. This rich collection of images promises to make you reflect on our country’s glory as we look deeper into our souls."

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 1, 3-5pm

Variation: a different or distinct version

Join the associate member artists of the Washington Printmakers Gallery as they present Variations, an exploration of the printed arts: ink on paper from nine different points of view.

Members’ Exhibit

Gala Celebration for WPG’s New Location: Saturday, February 11, 4-8pm

It’s a new year, and we have a new gallery! 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese Horoscope of the Moon, and this animal is the luckiest in the 12-year cycle. Rabbit is a symbol of longevity, peace and prosperity. 2023 is predicted to be a year of hope. People born in the Year of the Rabbit are believed to be vigilant, witty, quick-minded and ingenious. We hope for the same with our new beginning at Washington Printmakers Gallery, now located at 1675 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, D.C.

Opening reception: Saturday, July 16 from 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Life is a constant flow. Water is the essential element that makes life flow. Without Water, there would be no life on earth. Water is the essence of life.

In this exhibition the artists of the WPG, through their printmaking, photography and digital art, depict their understanding of this theme in its external and internal form, in its symbolic and real form through their various interpretations of what this mighty element means to them.

Opening Reception: March 13th, 2-4pm (rescheduled due to inclement weather)

(Masks and vaccinations required)

The Washington Printmakers Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibit, Common Thread. Displaying from March 4th through 27th, eight members of the printmakers' gallery join together to display recent and choice work. Ranging from monoprints to digital works and photography to intaglio, the work is diverse and expansive. The gallery space will showcase an extensive variety of intent and ideas that will make visiting exciting as connections and juxtapositions appear and shift between works.

Harmony - 15 Interpretations describes our artists’ responses to the present disharmony, created by polarizing politics, the lingering pandemic, climate change challenges…and our response as we seek to achieve harmony in our own distinct ways.

Reception Postponed: Our previously advertised reception on January 15th is being postponed to a later date, still to be determined.

Opening Reception: July 31, 3-5pm | Etching demonstration presented by Nina Muys on Saturday, August 14, 2-3 pm

This exhibition showcases the diversity and uniqueness of each artist through their individual artistic expression. At the root, all artists share the same innate desire to express their creativity. Our individual journeys define how we branch out and create artworks through our unique experiences. Eclectic Expressions is a group show by the associate members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery displaying their unity in creativity through their varied eclectic expressions using the medium of printmaking and photography.

The term contexture signifies an interwoven mass, a fabric, a constructed and continuous text. In this group exhibition, WPG artists explore surfaces—both literal and metaphoric. Through tapestries of textures, layers of objects, strings of text, or examinations of course and polished visual conversations, artists weave together their ideas into the unified whole.

An exhibition which brings new vistas into printmaking and photography. Respecting centuries old techniques, we transform our work using 21st century methods.

This winter, the artists of Washington Printmakers Gallery explore this extraordinary color – how to use it, how to shape it, and how to interpret the many things the color red connotes.

Sea Change features guest artists as well as WPG printmakers and photographers, and focuses on climate change, and the present environment, whether political or sociological.

As one member said, ”While we do have to reinvent the logistics of visitors and safe procedures, we do not have to reinvent who we are. The ReEntry show will affirm that, while we may have been absent, we are back.”

Washington Printmakers Gallery offers visitors a chance to see differing visions in one exhibit with an entire gallery of “mini-solos” presented by eight different artists.

April is the perfect month for Natural Connection, an exhibit featuring work of two artists who share a deep sense of wonderment about the natural world, expressing it in different ways.

A pop-up exhibition by its founding members to commemorate those early years when 26 printmakers decided to join together to create their own gallery.

Every month, the work on our Members’ Wall changes. Here are some of the images for August, 2018.