The Arts : Features

Issue Media Group publications such as Yonge Street in Toronto, High Ground in Memphis and Model D in Detroit cover "what's next" for urban centers. In this recurring feature, we highlight the top stories in urban innovation from all across our national network.

D.C.'s South Asian community finds its creative outlet through Subcontinental Drift, an open mic and visual arts group that has inspired Indian-Americans nationwide.

Go-go music isn't dead, but like the District that birthed it, it's evolving. Here's a look at D.C's beloved native art form.

All over the world, public art enlivens streetscapes, challenges assumptions, and adds color to our lives.

We asked three figures in the art scene to tell us their favorite works of public art in the District. Then, we hope you'll tell us ours.

Trash to treasure? Absolutely, and now the maxim practiced by artists and crafters everywhere is even creating green-collar jobs.

At this after-school arts program serving boys in Wards 7 and 8, the real masterpieces aren't the works on paper.

In D.C.'s smallest quadrant, an arts revolution is quietly taking place.

Art's not just "pretty stuff." The arts can revitalize local neighborhoods and struggling economies. Here's how this trend is playing out nationwide.

A $300,000 grant from ArtPlace America will fund a competition to design the next generation of playground for D.C. spaces, where off-the-shelf slides and swings give way to art like you can't imagine.

D.C. kids and teens are learning to unleash their inner Dres and Beyonces...at the library, of all places. No more shushing--bring on the beats.

This is the new way D.C. parties: think warehouses and parking lots, not swanky ballrooms. Savvy entrepreneurs are launching new businesses to take advantage of this shift in thinking, and in the meantime, activate underused spaces and neighborhoods.

Studio. Atlas. The Howard. And more. Theaters, which lure a combination of commercial and artistic interests to struggling areas, may be just what a neighborhood needs. 

Albus Cavus's Open Walls Project makes a vibrant case for the benefits of legal street art.

Local arts nonprofit Art Enables, which works with D.C. artists with intellectual or developmental disabilities, just celebrated its 11th anniversary. To celebrate, we put together our favorite pieces from some of Art Enables' artists.