Support Emerging Artists & Celebrate Contemporary Art in DC!

12th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party November 21, 2015 8-11pm American University's Katzen Arts Center Purchase Your Auction Tickets HERE while still available! Check out the fantastic profile of our Auction  in the November issue of DC Magazine! Many thanks to our friend   Shepard Fairey  for the inclusion of this gorgeous 1st edition piece in the Auction:  This New Wave is a Little Slick for My Taste, 2014,    silk screen, wood panel, 18"x24", 1/6 ____________________ Let's Drink a Dozen Roses Transformer's 5th Annual Storefront Exhibition November 7 - November 29, 2015 Presented in conjunction with Transformer's 12th Annual Silent Auction & Benefit Party, Transformer is pleased to present Let's Drink a Dozen Roses, a site-specific storefront installation by Parisian artist and Glassbox curator, Hélène Garcia.   Garcia is also guest curating a selection of her peer emerging Parisian artists' works in Transformer's 12th Annual Silent Auction & Benefit Party. Transformer's 5th Annual Storefront Exhibition, Let's  Drink  a  Dozen  Roses presents paper and printed images that create a set of volumes  and textures directly responding to the window space environment, while  echoing  the  function  and nature of  storefront  windows for  display  and public engagement. Click here for more information. Image credit: Hélène Garcia, Lets Drink A Dozen Roses, 2015 ____________________    FlatFile at Fringe October 1 - December 31, 2015 Logan Fringe Art Space 1358 Florida Ave NE Washington, DC  FlatFile at Fringe, a monthly rotating exhibition of 2D works from Transformer's FlatFile program October 1 -December 31, 2015 at the new Logan Fringe Arts Space, is a fantastic way to start or expand your art collection and build relationships with some of DC's best emerging visual artists. FlatFile works are available for purchase at FlatFile at Fringe, Transformer's online FlatFile Store, and at Transformer's 1404 P Street, NW location an on-going basis. FlatFile at Fringe  Event Thursday, December 3rd, 6:30 - 8:00 For more information, click here. Image banner credits: Big Daddy's Package, Cynthia Connolly; In with the Tide, Amy Bonne McCreesh;  Alchemy #32, Joan Belmar; Untitled (BOOK), Tang; Tiny Heads Present Themselves, Amy Hughes Braden, David, 2014, Hannah Spector t r a n s f o r m e r is a Washington, DC based 501 (c) 3 artist-centered non-profit visual arts organization, providing a consistent, supportive, and professional platform for emerging artists to explore and present experimental artistic concepts, build audiences for their work, and advance their careers. A catalyst and advocate for contemporary artists and emergent expression in the visual arts, Transformer connects and promotes emerging visual artists within regional, national and international contexts through exhibition and programs partnerships with artists, curators, commercial galleries, museums and other cultural institutions.  Transformer's 2015/16 Exhibition Series and programs are supported by: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The CrossCurrents Foundation, The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities/NEA, The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Bernstein Family Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts' Access to Artistic Excellence award,  The Robert Lehman Foundation, and The Visionary Friends of Transformer. t r a n s f o r m e r | 1404 P St NW  Washington  DC  20005 | 202.483.1102 | transformerdc.org