Exhibition and Opening Reception: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here

Presenting Selections From: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016

January 18 - March 12
Opening Reception: January 23, 5-8 pm

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016 is a region-wide literary and cultural festival that takes its name from and examines Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, noted for its many bookstores and outdoor bookstalls where people have gathered for generations as a great humanitarian center.

Our exhibition presents over 100 prints, broadsides, and artists books that commemorate the 2007 bombing of Baghdad’s historic bookselling street and celebrates the free exchange of ideas.

Learn More at http://www.amsshdc2016.org

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016 is presented by
Brentwood Arts Exchange, Busboys and Poets, CulturalDC, George Mason University School of Art, George Mason University Fenwick Library, Provisions Library at George Mason University, Georgetown University, George Washington University / Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, McLean Project for the Arts, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Smithsonian American Art / Portrait Gallery Library, Split This Rock, Olly Olly, Northern Virginia Community College - Manassas Campus

Brentwood Arts Exchange

3901 Rhode Island Avenue

Brentwood, MD 20722

(301) 277-2863

http://www.mncppcapps.org/pgparks/art_events/exhibitions.aspx?q=brentwood