PAST: More Arts Events this Weekend - Guest Post from East City Art! SAT, May 5th - SUN, May 6th, Free

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Portraits, Lights and Dreams Edition

Saturday, May 5th

LUMEN8Anacostia Temporiums 

12:00pm - 5:00pm

The LUMEN8Anacostia Temporiums.  Participating venues include site specific installations, artwork and crafts all made by area artists and artisans.

The LUMEN8 Anacostia Temporiums 

between 2208 MLK AVE SE and 2208 Good Hope Rd

Metro: Anacostia

The Brentwood Arts Exchange at the Gateway Art Center 

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Free, Advance Registration Required - to register and use code SMARTlink #883815

Tosha Grantham, Philippa Hughes, Christina Marsh and John Yeh discuss what makes a portfolio great and not-so-great. Hear what makes them look twice or not at all, what they've seen that works, and where trends are going. Discussion to be moderated by Alonzo Davis.

Brentwood Arts Exchange

at Gateway Arts Center

3901 Rhode Island Avenue - Brentwood, MD

Metro: See metro for best bus access from metro

Sunday, May 6th

The Corner Store

5:00pm - 8:00pm

For more info, click here
The Corner Store presents beloved CHAW art instructor and figurative artist Ellen Cornett.  Cornett’s latest pastel series Fact from Fiction interpret dreams, fairytales and myth through archtypes as a means of explaining contemporary life.

The Corner Store 
900 South Carolina Avenue, SE
Metro: Eastern Market

Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art.  You can get more information about East City Art on Facebook  or follow them on Twitter.