D.I.Y. in the District x Transformer

curated by Maps Glover

In conjunction with DC Zinefest, artists take over the MLK Library with affordable art for sale and creative programming.

In conjunction with the exhibition D.I.Y. in the District: Celebrating D.C.'s Artist-Run Spaces, join us for a day of artist-driven programming at the MLK Library curated by artist Maps Glover.

• On the first floor of the MLK Library, from 12am-5pm, join us for performances and affordable art for sale in the Great Hall celebrating the artist-centered nonprofit Transformer DC, including a discussion at 2pm and a durational performance by Maps Glover and Sifu Sun ongoing from 2-5 p.m. The People’s Archive will host an open house for the zine collection.
  
  
• On the fourth and fifth floors, from 11am-4pm, explore DC Zinefest, one-day independent event featuring dozens of vendors, designed to provide a space for zine-makers, self-published artists, and writers to share their work with each other and the Washington, D.C., community. 

Schedule of events:

(11:00 a.m. DC Zinefest starts, Floor 4 and 5 - visit event page for details)

12:00-4:00 pm Pop-Up Transformer FlatFile sale in the Great Hall

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Meet & Greet with Transformer: Chat with Transformer staff, see special video footage from the archives

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Durational Transformer performance, The Beaches that Bind featuring Maps Glover and Sifu Sun

About the collaborators:

Transformer is an artist-centered visual arts non-profit based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to connect, elevate, and serve a diversity of emerging visual artists & arts leaders through innovative platforms and partnerships within local, national and international contexts. 

Maps Glover is a multidisciplinary artist whose performances explore memory, ritual, and play as ways of reimagining Black experience. His work often uses endurance and gesture as tools for uncovering resilience, while transforming simple actions into
acts of choreography and meditation. Through installations, speculative storytelling, and interactive performance, Glover positions the body as an archive and a vessel of complexity, inviting audiences to witness both vulnerability and power in motion.

SIFU SUN is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is an intricate weave of sound, movement, and storytelling. As a vessel of ancestral creative force, SIFU channels histories, rituals, and re-imaginings into living art forms that transcend boundaries.
SIFU was. SIFU is. SIFU always will be

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