Events

Talks and Tours

Throughout the year, gallery talks and guided tours are offered in conjunction with our monthly exhibitions.

Modern Movements Symposium

April 14, 2026

9:00 am

– 12:30 pm

Join International Arts & Artists (IA&A) and Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) for Modern Movements Symposium—a convening of emerging scholars exploring the transnational exchanges, cultural diplomacy, and artistic innovations that shaped Latin American and Caribbean modern and contemporary art. This symposium accompanies the DC-based exhibition Modern Movements: Selections of Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Art Museum of the Americas(April 4 through May 31, 2026) on view at IA&A at Hillyer in Washington, DC. Visit our website to learn more.

Selected Past Events

Inner Loop Ekphrastic Event

October 30, 2025

6:00 pm

– 8:00 pm

The Inner Loop Responds to three exhibitions curated by women and artists in the DMV area.

Join us for this special ekphrastic event, as nine writers from The Inner Loop community recite poetry and prose in response to three exhibitions curated by women and artists in the DMV area.

Écriture (Writing with the Body): Contemporary Korean Women’s Art, curated by Dr. Jung-Sil Lee and Dr. Koh Dong-Yeoh
Traces, curated by Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah
Landed, by Elizabeth Coffey

A bar and refreshments will be available during the event. The program is free to the public (a donation of $10 is suggested).

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Artist Talk with Elizabeth Coffey

October 19, 2025

1:00 pm

Our featured solo artist Elizabeth Coffey will lead an artist talk about her exhibition titled Landed. The exhibition features large scale portraits of women painted on repurposed lace curtains, which explore the tension between the seen and unseen layers of female identity.

Majlis and Conversation with Laila Abdul-Had Jadallah

October 16, 2025

6:15 pm

Curator Laila Abdul-Had Jadallah will facilitate a cultural majlis and conversation with a selection of artists who are featured in the exhibition titled Traces ( آثار ). Building on the Arabic meaning of the title, the speakers will talk about how their West Asian and North African roots inform their artistic practices in various ways, and about the historical ties of artists with connections to the region in Washington, D.C.

Curator Talk with Dr. Jung-Sil Lee

October 11, 2025

1:00 pm

Free to the public ($10 suggested donation)

Curator Dr. Jung-Sil Lee will continue the discussion about the topics covered in the exhibition Écriture (Writing) with the Body: Contemporary Korean Women’s Art by focusing specifically on the perspectives of local artists and diasporic issues in the exhibition who are based in Washington DC. Jean Kim, Minsun Oh Mun, and Hyun Jung Kim will present their works.

“Écriture (Writing) with the Body” Panel Discussion

October 4, 2025

1:00 pm

Free to the public ($10 suggested donation)

To celebrate the debut of Écriture (Writing) with the Body: Contemporary Korean Women’s Art, a selection of artists from Korea will be joined by the curators, Dr. Jung-Sil Lee and Dr. Koh Dong-Yeon, to discuss the general concept for the exhibition and their unique contributions to the subject. Artists from Korea, Jung Jungyeob, Ahn Okhyun, and Jaye Rhee will join to talk.