- Venue
- Artomatic, 55M Street SE
- Starts
- Friday, May 29, 2009
- Ends
- Sunday, July 5, 2009
- Address
- 55 M Street, S.E. (at the corner with Half Street) Washington, DC 20003 Metro stop: Green Line, Navy Yard, Ballpark exit
- Location
Artomatic is a month-long art festival in Washington DC that is free to the general public celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Monument Realty and the Capitol Riverfront BID have provided a brand-new 275,000 square foot building to host Artomatic, right next to the Nationals Stadium. The event features nine floors of visual and installation art, theater performances, dance and comedy, three music stages, street performances such as fire dancing and drum troupes, and a film screening theater. With four stages, four bars and a lounge on each floor, the 10th Anniversary Artomatic is bigger than ever. Thirty-eight artists, including blown-glass and warm-glass artists, 2-D artists, and two bands, have begun to arrive from Sunderland, England, a sister city of DC and the ancestral home of George Washington–giving Artomatic 2009 the largest number of international participants to date. This large “cultural delegation” from England grew out of a three-year relationship between Sunderland and DC of which Artomatic has become a part. 52,500 people attended Artomatic last year, and 70,000 are expected this year. Over 1,000 visual artists and 600 performing artists are exhibiting this year.
