Artist-led Spaces of Dupont Circle with Natalie Campbell

The Phillips Collection’s Living Room is a series of intimate conversations featuring artists, authors, curators, collectors, and museum professionals. These programs offer rare opportunities to engage in discussions that connect the museum’s collection with broader dialogues.

Join Natalie Campbell from the DC Public Library Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Exhibitions team for a talk exploring the connections between the library’s new exhibition DIY in the District, The Phillips Collection, and the artistic ecosystem of artist-led spaces of Dupont Circle.

About Natalie Campbell

Natalie Campbell is a curator, exhibit developer, and part of the DC Public Library Exhibits team. Her passion is bringing art and history alive through compelling, accessible exhibitions and programs—inside and outside of gallery walls. She has consulted on art and exhibits at the DC Public Library since 2016, including the MLK Library’s permanent exhibit Up From the People. She has organized exhibitions at venues including the American University Museum (DC), the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (Asheville, NC), School 33 Art Center (Baltimore, MD), among others. She studied Art History at Hunter College CUNY and has taught at the Corcoran School of Arts + Design at George Washington University and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her latest project, DIY in the District: Celebrating DC’s Artist-Run Spaces, created in collaboration with Rhizome DC and other partners, draws on new oral histories of artist-run spaces in DC and is on view from October 4-December 7, 2025 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.

About DIY in the District at MLK Library

This exhibition celebrates key galleries and exhibition spaces in Washington, DC, from the 1970s to present day that represent the boundless creativity, resourcefulness, and experimentation of artists working in storefronts, row houses, converted offices, and other unlikely spaces in a federal city known for its national museums. Through key examples such as d.c. space (1977-1991) and Rhizome (2016-present) and others, this dynamic installation will highlight the vital role that non-mainstream art spaces play in the larger arts world and our city today. 

Accessibility Service

If you would like to request an accessibility service, please email reservations@phillipscollection.org in advance of your visit. Providing two weeks’ notice is recommended, though not required. Full efforts will be made to accommodate requests. For more information, please review our visitor guidelines.