Anne Wilsey

SAAM's Luce Foundation Center is teaming up with DC local music podcast Hometown Sounds to bring you music and conversations from your favorite artists.

SAAM's Luce Foundation Center is teaming up with DC local music podcast Hometown Sounds to bring you music and conversations from your favorite artists.

SAAM's Luce Foundation Center is teaming up with DC local music podcast Hometown Sounds to bring you music and conversations from your favorite artists.

Noel Schroeder and Shady Rose, Co-Executive Directors of Girls Rock! DC, discuss their approach to collaborative creative experiences.

Producer Drew Dave discusses his approach to making beats and how working with one of his heroes changed his self-image.

Rosie Cima of Rosie Cima and What She Dreamed discusses her welcome to DC’s music community and her approach to keeping it real in front of an audience.

Night Train 357 describes the importance of organization in a creative life and teases his new independent martial arts film.

Bartees Strange warns us against creating musical silos and describes how DC’s rich legacy of Black musicianship shaped his goals and his worldview.

Wes Felton reminisces about his father, jazz legend Hilton Felton, and lets us in on how to freestyle like a pro.

The composer and instrumentalist shares her thoughts on music and the development of her craft.

Singer-songwriter, Jenna Camille, discusses how her creative motivations have evolved over the past year.

DC soulpunk band, Lightmare, discusses writing and recording an album during a pandemic with Hometown Sounds.

DC Instrumental Duo, Domingues and Kane, discusses soothing sounds and “magick” with Paul Vodra and Anthony Porecco of Hometown Sounds

DC dream pop band, Lavender, discusses writing songs and building friendships with DC's own Hometown Sounds

Electronic musician, Terracotta Blue talks inspiration and collaboration with Paul Vodra and Anthony Porecco of Hometown Sounds.

Sasha Snoad shares thoughts on making music and creative life in DC in a conversation hosted by Paul Vodra of Hometown Sounds.

For your viewing pleasure, a menu of tasty works of art from the Luce Foundation Center.

The Luce Foundation Center celebrates the art that we find in everyday life with Beyond the Studio Workshops. This new series will connect visitors with local professionals working in the arts and provide insight into the creative processes of local applied artists.

Gene Kloss felt that immersion in nature was essential to the production of art. Her paintings and etchings were directly informed by nature and she couldn't conceive of making art any other way. "An artist must keep in close contact with nature... in order to produce a significant body of work," she said, and she was prepared to live by her words.

Harold Weston once told Magazine of Art, "theories and explanations about paintings are... usually unsatisfactory." However, as an artist, I find artists' experiences inform and enrich the artworks they create. The time and place in which a work of art comes to be influences what it is and what it means. An explanation of why Weston decided to paint his Building the United Nations series—two paintings of which are on display in the Luce Foundation Center—is an important part of experiencing the work. The paintings' meticulous realism only tells half the story.