This weekend, as I was browsing the Dog Days of Summer sidewalk sales along 14th Street, I met two groups that I thought would be of interest to Creative DC readers:

• Girls Rock! DC, a new organizaton that runs a rock-and-roll day camp for DC area girls; the inaugural session begins later this week. Mark your calendars: camp culminates with performances by the girls on Saturday, August 16 at the 9:30 Club, in the afternoon (I’ll post the exact time when I learn it).

• Policy Brand, a just-launched company that aspires to provide a range of creative services (including tshirt design) for businesses in the U Street/14th Street area.Yes, that mission description is a bit vague, but they won me over with the clever and well-designed tshirts they were selling off a card table – in the clever category, they had a shirt that played off the “Virginia is for lovers” design, but read, “Virginia is for commuters.” Zing!

  …Since sly hipster shirts are a dime a dozen these days, I’m most excited by the promise I saw in the really attractive designs of the other shirts, which emphasized striking visuals over ironic text; you can get a sense of the aesthetic by looking at the artwork by Policy founder, Billy Colbert, above, titled King of Pop.

  I asked Billy to keep me posted on Policy’s activities, and hope to have more concrete info to share in the weeks and months ahead.

These are the people in your neighborhood…

What other emerging groups and artists should I be writing about? Drop me a line!

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