More than forty works were selected for the exhibition representing the art of thirty-one artists from the David C. Driskell Center’s Permanent Collection. The works are on display along with accompanying letters both handwritten and typed. Emma Amos (1937-2020)

Phoebe Beasley, Robert Blackburn, Lillian Thomas Burwell, Milton Bowens, Elizabeth Catlett, EKO, Ed Clark, Allan Rohan Crite, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kevin Cole, Louis Delsarte, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Herbert Gentry, Robin Holder, Manuel Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, Samella Lewis, Delita Martin, Arcmanoro Niles, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Gordon Parks, Jefferson Pinder, Amber Robles-Gordon, Alison Saar, Augusta Savage, Frank Stewart, Renee Stout, Walter H. Williams, Richard Wyatt,

In DC, neighborhoods are facing an unprecedented amount of change in appearance, racial makeup, and social policies that runs counter to the once-prevalent idea of DC being “Chocolate City.” However, there are ways to balance change with paying respects to DC’s living history. The Nicholson Project, an artist residency that recently opened in Ward 7, hopes to demonstrate this change effectively with the inaugural resident artist Amber Robles-Gordon, who lives only eight minutes from the building. For me, it feels like a house turned into a relic, with its period-accurate rehab details; however, the Nicholson Project owners do not focus on the actual former owners, but highlight contemporary artists of color instead.

The David C. Driskell Center is proud to present its fall 2022 exhibition, Telling Our Story: Community Conversations with Our Artists, on view September 9 through December 2, 2022.

Amber Robles-Gordon’s Colorful Abstraction of Medical and Environmental Trauma at the Nicholson Project