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Monday, August 3, 2026
Two DC-based artists. One Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell and Maria Lana Queen create work that reaches Venice, the Phillips Collection, SCOPE Miami, and 1-54 Contemporary. On September 23, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Robin Givhan sits down with them to ask the questions that matter: What does it take to build a lasting career? How do you think about your work and your role in this moment? Who are you imagining when you make something this large, this consequential?
This is not biography. This is what the work and the moment demand.
Event Details Tuesday, September 23 | 6:30-7:30 PM
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
American Sign Language interpretation provided.
Artists Talk DC is presented by the Darryl Chappell Foundation in partnership with the National Museum of Women in the Arts, with support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Reception to follow at Eaton DC, 1201 K Street NW, celebrating the Darryl Chappell Foundation’s seventh anniversary.
Programs
Artist-in-Residence
Our artists-in-residence program provides time, space, resources, and mentorship for artists to pursue projects of their choosing while building community with fellow artists. We offer this support through a network of nonprofit partners who share our mission and align with our core values.
Artists Talk
Artists Talk Series are free and open to everyone. The Artists Talk Series are moderated and very interactive forums where artists highlight their experiences, lessons learned, works of art and share their aspirations. Plenty of time is also offered for questions from the public to artists regarding their journey and/or their latest works of art.
Empowering Afrodescendant Artists Through Professional Mentorship
Connect emerging Afrodescendant artists with experienced artists in our supportive six-month mentorship program. Through mutual agreement between mentor and mentee, we create meaningful partnerships that foster knowledge exchange, professional growth, and lasting connections within the artistic community. Mentors participate as paid professionals or volunteers.
Fund for Community Art
The Fund for Community Art is a program that provides financial resources directly to visual artists through the Foundation’s nonprofit partners across the United States and Puerto Rico for artists to work on public works of art within their local communities. Artists make their works of art accessible to the community by creating and producing art right where the community lives and works.
The program funds projects such as public murals, community public art displays – including photography, youth community projects involving artists and other local arts creative initiatives working directly with local visual artists.