ARTidotes Community-based Project

12/15/2025

See you tomorrow at the SHORTidotes short-film festival Capitol Hill Arts Workshop 5:30pm!

11/10/2025

Happy to announce ARTidotes 5th year anniversary! Stay tuned for awesome programming! Thanks ai much DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop Capitol Hill Community Foundation the force foundation Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center Mt Pleasant Public LibraryArt Museum of the Americas, and all the past and future collaborators!

12/14/2023

Join the conversation after the screenings with: Lisa Simms, director or the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Brittney Sankofa, independent, filmmaker and Salym Fayad, SHORTidotes curator.

10/30/2022

We gave some of the coloring books to kids that came to celebrate the Mt Pleasant LIbrary Day of the Dead celebration, kids were exited and enjoyed the party, the piñata and the coloring book!

06/28/2021

carmen_torres_17.12 CARMEN TORRES on Surrender for ARTidotes

"Everything speaks to me." Sometimes they are readings, people, images, concepts or objects, other times they are experiences or events that become the starting point of what my dialectic is, from which my creative projects emerge. I am interested in questioning, mainly, the imaginary of postmodern women based on my daily life as a testimony. Through the creative process, I put my personal ¨cosmology¨ to the test in a continuous de-construction and reconstruction. The formats or media that I select are clues or traces that summarize these mental tests. Each work has a unique landing that I associate, as I see fit with the material, the technique, the color, the sound, the form and the method that I think it is necessary to use. Many times they land in a single body movement that for me encompasses all of the above. Contemporary existentialism allows me to stress the body and mind as part of the process. I start from the premise that Art is a fertile field for self-management and a platform to actively participate in the world in general in a critical and purposeful way. I present the results of these intimate processes in a space that makes them legible and subjects them to interpretation, hoping that they will resonate in the other in one way or another.

06/26/2021

So much fun Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, come on over!

06/26/2021

We are back on the alley Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center Smith Center for Healing and the Arts with artists Heloisa Escudero come and join the performance to work with CHAMP!

06/25/2021

See you all tomorrow, clone yourself and meet us at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center, fun for all 12-3pm

06/15/2021

Check out Jake Reid creating our amazing ARTidotes t-shirts! Swing by the U St gallery on Saturday, June 26th between 12-4pm to grab yours before they're all gone!

I screened some t-shirts for ARTidotes this spring and filmed the process. While t-shirt machines are amazing, if you don't have the space or can't afford on...