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Opening Reception: Grounding Our Dreams, Dreaming New Ground

Art Enables at 25

Join us for an opening reception to celebrate the exhibit Grounding Our Dreams, Dreaming New Ground: Art Enables at 25, on view on the fifth floor of the MLK Library through January 18, 2027.

About the Exhibit: Grounding Our Dreams/Dreaming New Ground: Art Enables at 25

Art Enables supports the creative and professional growth of artists with disabilities. The organization is driven by the knowledge that Washington, D.C.’s relationship to the arts is made richer, more complex, and more urgent because artists with disabilities are here, creating. 

In 2026, Art Enables celebrates its 25th anniversary at the same time America celebrates its 250th. In this context, as D.C.’s only studio and gallery representing artists with disabilities, Art Enables is thrilled to present Grounding Our Dreams / Dreaming New Ground in collaboration with the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, an institution core to the city’s cultural identity.

The exhibition Grounding Our Dreams / Dreaming New Ground explores a dual reality: the grounded, lived experiences of individuals with disabilities in context with the drive to dream toward something new. These two concepts — the quotidian and the imagined, the what is and the what could be — exist together, often showing up explicitly in the artists’ bodies of work as various dualities. Past and future. Earth and sky. Confinement and expansiveness. Shadow and highlight.  

At this event, artists and representatives from Art Enables will gather for an informal tour and celebration of the new exhibit.
Light refreshments will be served.
This event, and the DC Public Library Art and Exhibits Program, are made possible in part with support from the DC Public Foundation.

For more information, please visit the exhibit website.

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