Current Exhibition

Opening Reception: Friday, August 13, 6pm
Exhibition Dates: August 13 ñ 25

Hosted by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, this exhibition presents some of the District's finest visual artists with the opportunity to display their work in hopes of being awarded the highly competitive Artist Fellowship grant for FY 2011 in the amount of $5,000 from the Commission. Each artist was asked to submit a piece that represents his or her body of work and individual artistic perspective. We are honored to work with the DCCAH to promote the broad scope of DC's cutting-edge art scene and to provide an opportunity for varied artistic voices to be viewed by the public.

Artworks are for sale through the artists, please see gallery director for artists' contact information.

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Now Showing in the Upstairs Gallery
Hiroshima Children’s Drawings: Finding Hope in War’s Aftermath
Presented by All Souls Church, Unitarian, with the National Cherry Blossom Festival 2010

Opening Reception: Saturday| April 3 |4-6PM
Featuring a traditional Japanese dance performance by the Shizumi Kodomo Dance Troupe (SKDT) in The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery and proceeding to the Upstairs Gallery for light snacks and refreshments.

Upstairs Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 11AM-5PM

In November 1946, then Senior Minister Rev. A. Powell Davies delivered the widely circulated sermon, Lest the Living Forget, denouncing a party at which military officers rejoiced over a cake shaped like the atomic cloud seen over Hiroshima.  The bold sermon text came to the attention of an aide to General MacArthur in Japan, Dr. Howard Bell, who wrote to Davies describing the plight of the 400 children at the Honkawa School, and asked about “the possibility of putting on a ‘desk cleaning project’ that would yield substantial numbers of pencil stubs, used erasers, Crayons and notebooks? Are war memories still too fresh?”  In response, the Children at All Souls Church, Unitarian collected over half-a-ton of school supplies and shipped it to the Honkawa and Fukouromachi Schools in Hiroshima and the nearby Ninoshima Orphanage.  Several months later, the children in Hiroshima sent back 48 watercolor and crayon drawings that reflected not the devastation of war, but vibrant depictions of the abundant life they hoped for.  Unlike other historical materials depicting the events of Hiroshima, the 18 exquisite and hopeful images on display tell the story of healing and reconciliation between once war-torn enemies.  Later this summer the collection will travel back to Hiroshima, where the original artists will be reunited with their childhood artworks after 62 years.

Above:  Takako-Nomura, Girl 9

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Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts is a Washington DC-based, non-denominational, 501(c)3 nonprofit. We welcome people of all races and religious traditions. Smith Farm Center has been awarded the Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation Virginia Kelly Award for Excellence in Cancer Survivorship in 1997 and 1998, the 2004 Innovations Award by the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center and has been designated as a Catalogue for Philanthropy Charity. Smith Farm Center provides scholarship assistance for our programs on a needs basis, whenever possible.