Strathmore's New Nighttime Exhibit Honors Six Influential Artists

BETHESDA, MD — A campus-wide outdoor exhibition that can only be viewed at night is now open at Strathmore in North Bethesda.

Created by Australian artist Craig Walsh, "Monuments: Creative Forces" features moving, dimensional video portraits of six regional artists whose work and endeavors are impacting the community. Their faces are projected onto trees across Strathmore's 16-acre campus — and challenge the traditional concept of monuments.

"We're thrilled to be able to honor and celebrate the way these artists are impacting the community," Strathmore's artistic director, Joi Brown, said. "(T)he exhibition allows Strathmore to leverage our entire campus to create a comfortable and socially distant environment for the community to engage with and enjoy the arts during the ongoing pandemic."

The pay-what-you-can event is open every night through Sunday, Oct. 25. Click here to get tickets and to learn more.

The artists featured in the exhibit are:

• Be Steadwell
  • A musician, filmmaker, and storyteller whose work focuses on race and LGBTQ issues
• Daryl Davis
  • A musician who has performed with Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, B.B. King, and Elvis Presley's Jordanaires
  • More than 200 Ku Klux Klan members are said to have renounced their racist ideology after meeting Davis
• Terron Cooper Sorrells
  • A painter and printmaker whose work examines the history of slavery and its far-reaching impacts on the way minorities experience systemic bias
• Marjan Naderi
  • A 2020 DC Youth Poet Laureate and Muslim Afghan-American author whose work touches on cultural heritage, generational trauma, self-discovery, and feminism
• C. Brian Williams
  • The founder and executive director of Step Afrika!, a D.C.-based dance company focused on preserving culture, percussive dance traditions, and rituals
• Yoko K. Sen
  • An ambient electronic musician striving to "humanize the hospital experience by improving its sound"