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Creative Aging
Alexandria Adult Day Services Center is one of several partners for the Phillips’s Creative Aging program for older adults. Recently, participants there created a collaborative textile during a series of workshops that inspired reflective and imaginative storytelling. Inspired by two Phillips artworks—a Gee’s Bend quilt and Horace Pippin’s Domino Players—participants explored the theme of home and included scraps of fabric that held memories of a person, place, or time.
Teacher Programs
In an immersive one-week Summer Teacher Institute at The Phillips Collection, educators from across Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC, explored the collage works in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage. Participants created individual collages to reflect their identities and then combined them into a collective artwork. The participating teachers considered how collage can foster both student and teacher creativity.
Phillips Educators
A team of approximately 30 part-time Phillips Educators (PEs) lead and support school and adult tours, teacher programs, school partnerships, family programs, public programs, Creative Aging, programs at THEARC, special events, and more. Throughout the year, PEs participate in trainings to continually hone their skills in empowering learners, adapting teaching to multiple learning styles, and aligning teaching with museum education best practices.
School Partnerships
Through the Art Links School Partnership program, Grade 3 students created a vibrant mural at Janney Elementary School. Led by local artist Rose Jaffe, the students spent three months connecting art with community. This project began with a visit to the Phillips, where students explored symbols in art then sketched designs that celebrate their community. Jaffe combined their ideas into a mural design, which was brought to life during a community painting day.
Phillips@THEARC
Each month at Phillips@THEARC, Spinning a Yarn: Community Crochet Circle brings together visual art and textile craft through a workshop led by Dwayne Lawson-Brown. In March, guests reflected on the painting Three Masks by Susan Rothenberg. Phillips Educator Katya Forrest led a discussion about the artwork and Lawson-Brown talked about the symbolism behind the masks. New and seasoned crocheters work on their projects, all while talking and communing.
Public Programs
Every first Thursday, Phillips after 5 welcomes hundreds of guests for a dynamic evening of music, crafts, drinks, and more. In March 2025, the event celebrated techno music culture and electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk. Developed in collaboration with local artist, DJ, and music historian Adrian Loving, this special Phillips after 5 included techno trivia, a techno-makers workshop, and music from Kraftwerk coverband Computerworld and DJ Lola Villa.
