Black History Month at First Friday ArtWalk Dupont Circle

The Church of Scientology, National Affairs Office is hosting a special exhibition for Black History Month by the Youth for Human Rights DC Chapter and Art Impact® International.

The show features seven artists with a variety of styles who will be at the exhibition in person to discuss their art. Come and meet the artists!

Bill Jones served in the Air Force as a Visual Artist in the roles of Graphic Designer, Medical Illustrator, and Graphics Instructor, blending creativity with technical precision. Now a proud Air Force veteran, he continues his artistic journey as a Multimedia Illustrator while building his company, ArtisticXpressions.co, to share his creative vision on a broader scale.

Brenda Chandler is a digital media artist who seizes the beauty in simple elements, texture, color, movement and form.

Adrienne Cook is a well-traveled photographer, across across the US, Italy and Egypt, who captures gorgeously fascinating images of the present moment. "Appreciate Your Surroundings" represents her body of work because that’s exactly what she does when creating her images.
Carolyn Goodridge, an encaustic artist whose work has been collected by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, shares an ancient artform with soulful and cosmological wax works painted on greenhouse-grade glass.

Sahr Songu Mbriwa is an internationally acclaimed Sierra Leone artist brings hyper-realistic oil paintings featured on CNN. He is Founder of Bondumani Art Gallery and Art school in his home country. He specializes in hyper realistic oil paintings. Extensively collected worldwide, Songu has been featured on CNN and many other local news channels. His paintings have been unveiled by the US Ambassador in Sierra Leone and the Sierra Leone ambassador in the United States.

E. L. Whitley brings surrealist paintings based on her dreams, visions and imagination–a chronicle of her life's journey.

Prelli Williams is a prominent multidisciplinary visual artist, arts educator, and community advocate.

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