
Events
Current/Upcoming
Collectors’ Night 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
6:00–9:30pm
Collectors’ Night 2025 will take place on Thursday, May 1st in Washington, DC, and we can’t wait! This annual party and benefit auction is not only an opportunity to celebrate with our community, but also provides essential support for the powerful, artist-driven contemporary art programs that WPA produces right here in DC.
Dr. Cresa Pugh in Conversation with 93 Fragments
Saturday, March 1, 2025
12–1:30pm EST
Delving into the tensions between cultural heritage as a site of dispossession and as a realm of possibility for reimagining sovereignty with Jessica Valoris
Past Events
Saturday, February 15
The Desert Was Future // The Past Will Rain
Thursday, October 24, 2024
The Fleeting Archive: Site-Specific Performance in DC
Thursday, September 26, 2024
2024 Wherewithal Research Presentations
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Letting Go, Holding Space, & Moving Through
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024
2024 Collectors’ Night Gala
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Currency: An Exchange of Artist Solidarity
Friday, November 17, 2023
meta-meta: Conversation with Colby Chamberlain
Thursday, November 2, 2023
meta-meta: Performance with Joshua Coyne
Thursday, October 26, 2023
meta-meta: Workshop with Some People Press
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Ama BE: Open House
Thursday, September 21, 2023
2023 Wherewithal Research Presentations
Saturday, September 9, 2023
2023-2024 WPA Season Kick-off & BBQ
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Ama BE: We (too) Grow On Water
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Destroy the World
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Queer Life Force: Breathwork + Embodiment Practices
Thursday, March 2, 2023
How to build a world (one kiki at a time)
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Abolition of Policing—A Critical Theory of Police Power
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Languaging the Apocalypse, Unlanguaging the World: Queer and Indigenous Poetics of Destruction and Survival
Friday, March 12, 2021
Radical Disobedience
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Moving Verse
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Exile and “Insile”: A Conversation with Leonardo Almao and Faride Mereb
Saturday, February 27, 2021
The Story Of A Horse That Was Quite Beautiful with Fabiola R. Delgado
Thursday, February 18, 2021
El Fondo Como Protagonista (The Background as Protaganist)
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Rise and Fall of a Gasoline-Driven Building (El Helicoide) with Henry Rueda
Friday, January 23, 2021
Virtual Arepera with Mercedes Golip
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Artist Talk with Akela Jaffi & Emily Ames
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Artist Talk with Vyette Tiya, and Theresa-Xuan & Antonius Bui
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Artist Talk with Jamie Garcia & Juliana Pongutá Forero
Thursday, September 3, 2020
“Any body Home?” A participatory talk by ethnomusicologist Tomie Hahn
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Film Screening: ‘Land of Friends’ by Carolina Caycedo
Thursday, February 27, 2020