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Media Credit: Sophia Young | Assistant Photo Editor Viewers of the National Aquariums Animal Care and Rescue Center virtual tour will get to meet Kai, the aquariums newest sea turtle. Culture By Abrigail Williams Apr 28, 2021 11:58 PM Take a much needed break from your finals preparation to appreciate some interactive events offered around the D.C. area this weekend. Discover local artists on a walk through Adams Morgan Friday, learn how the National Aquarium takes care of its sea creatures...

National Museum of Women in the Arts show features 30 photographs of girls and young women.

11 thursday Online: Great Lives Lecture Series: Mohandas K. Gandhi. Presented by Anand Rao. Zoom webinars open at 7:15 p.m. and the lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. Prerecorded lecture will be followed by live Q&A. umw.edu/greatlives. Spotsy “To Go” Restaurant Week. Order takeout, delivery or curbside pickup from a number of locally owned restaurants. Collect a stamp from five different spots to earn your chance to win prizes. Through March 14. More information, including a contest passport and ...

Celebrating one of the greatest women documentary photographers March 8, 2021 Mary Ellen Mark was a highly influential and respected photographer during her 50-year-plus working career, which spanned from the mid-1960s till her death in 2015. She was a pioneer in the art of empathy and embedding herself with her subjects – from poverty-stricken families in the US to prostitutes in the brothels of Bombay – while never judging her subjects, purely telling their stories with her amazing photog...

Mary Ellen Mark exhibition at National Museum of Women in the Arts explores girlhood Mary Ellen Mark, Falkland Road, Mumbai, India, 1978; Dye transfer print, 20 x 24 in.; NMWA, Gift of Jean Rossall; © Mary Ellen Mark/The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation. WASHINGTON, DC .-The National Museum of Women in the Arts opened Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood, a new exhibition of works by one of the most prolific documentary and portrait photographers of her generation. The exhibition features approximately 30 imag...

4 thursday Online: Great Lives Lecture Series: Zora Neale Hurston / Eudora Welty. Presented by Gary Richards. Zoom webinars open at 7:15 p.m. and the lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. Prerecorded lecture will be followed by live Q&A. umw.edu/greatlives. 5 friday Spotsy “To Go” Restaurant Week. Order takeout, delivery or curbside pickup from a number of locally owned restaurants. Collect a stamp from five different spots to earn your chance to win prizes. Through March 14. More information, includ...

A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career The late photographer, who left behind more than two million images, spent her life in search of the elusive iconic frame. Mary Ellen Mark, Photobooks - January 26, 2021 “Mary Ellen would never have made this book,” Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark’s husband and collaborator of more than thirty years, writes in an essay accompanying The Book of Everything, the three-volume collection of the photographer’s life’s wor...

On March 3, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) opens  Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood, a new exhibition of works by one of the most prolific documentary and portrait photographers of her generation. The exhibition features approximately 30 images that span Mary Ellen Mark’s 50-year-career, depicting girls and young women living in a variety of circumstances all over the globe.  Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood is open through July 11, 2021.  Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) is ...

Donors grateful to be part of toy fund tradition Many send notes of thanks along with their donations. By Staff ReportStaff report Share The Press Herald Toy Fund is used to getting thank you notes from parents who, with a little help, were able to bring joy to their children at the holidays. But this year there have also been many notes of thanks from donors. It seems people were craving the chance to help struggling neighbors this year, and grateful that this particular holiday tradition su...

Beyond Appearances Over the summers of 2001 and 2002, Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) brought a team of assistants and a large-format Polaroid camera to Twinsburg, Ohio, for the annual Twins Days Festival. The resulting series captures the physical similarity, and subtle differences, of identical twins. Cory Woodall, Assistant Curator at The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), explains: “Mark engaged the twins in conversation, getting to know them in the short time they had together during the pho...