Links
NOTE: I moved to NYC and closed up shop at Creative DC in November 2009. Check out my new blog about creative living, Tastee Pudding. (After all: In the search for creative life, the proof is in the Pudding.)
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Here are resources to help you tap into DC’s creative community, plus links to the websites of creative DC residents I know and admire.
Jump to:
Creative DC Groups + Orgs
Creative DC People
Creative DC Places
Plus: some of my favorite sites from beyond DC for art and inspiration
Creative DC Groups + Orgs
- Art DC
- Art Enables
- Artomatic
- Crafty Bastards
- CreativesDC
- DC Art Seen
- DC Comedy: 4 Now
- DC Craft Mafia
- DC Media Makers
- Girls Rock! DC
- SpeakeasyDC
- Ten Miles Square
- The Pink Line Project
- Washington Improv Theater
- Washington Independent Writers
Creative DC People
- Adrienne Moumin, photographer and mixed-media collage artist
- Aparna Nancherla, quirky-smart blogger and stand-up comedian
- Bridget Sue Lambert, whose painting I fell in love with
- Chris Bishop, a former co-worker who paints pretty girls and robots
- Erin Antognoli, who takes great Holga pics and has a cute dog
- Jordan, who decided to marry me
- Joy Haynes, neighbor, actress, producer
- J.T. Kirkland, who writes the blog Thinking About Art
- Katie Jett, who took pictures of my dog that I adore
- Kimberly Wilson, whose yoga studio and creative projects inspire me
- Mal Jones, a former co-worker and painter
- Phillipa Hughes, master of the quirky cultural event
- Rania Hassan, a crafty bastard whose aesthetic I dig (her “Roxy” print hangs in my bathroom)
- Sean Hennessey, her husband, who makes funky sculptures and faux finishes
- Seaton Smith, hilarious stand-up comedian
- Tinaseamonster, local artist and zombie promoter
Creative DC Places
- 87Florida
- Affinity Lab
- Black Cat
- Busboys and Poets
- Buy Indie
- DC Theaters
- DC Museums and Galleries
- Flashpoint DC
- HR-57
- Kramerbooks + Afterwords Cafe
- Politics and Prose Bookstore + Coffeehouse
- Sixth and I
- The Writer’s Center
- The 9:30 Club
- Tranquil Space Yoga
- Warehouse
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company